Wayne McCall,
Juror for the 2016 Photography Show
Wayne McCall has been a practicing artist/photographer living and working in Santa Barbara for the past forty-seven years. He has been involved with several arts organizations, including: Santa Barbra Museum of Art, Contemporary Arts Forum (now MCA), Santa Barbara Photography Gallery, and the Visible Light Gallery. His work has been published in many books, including “Santa Barbara Architecture”, “Mud, Space and Spirit”, “Rescued Buildings”, as well as numerous magazines.
Angela Allen,
Juror for the 2014 Photography Show
Angela Allen has a bachelor of arts (BA) from Northwestern University in Art Theory and Practice and a Masters of Education (MEd) in art from Temple University’s Tyler School of Art. She has taught in Camden City School District (Camden, NJ) for eleven years. In 2011, Ms. Allen co-wrote the art curriculum for pre-kindergarten through eighth grades for Camden City School District. Ms. Allen has taught workshops for children and adults at the African American Museum in Philadelphia, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Spiral Q Puppet Theater. She exhibits her work in the greater Philadelphia area and enjoys exploring art with her boundlessly creative seven-year-old daughter.
Joyce Wilson,
Juror for the 2013 Photography Show
Photographer Joyce Wilson served on the faculty at Brooks Institute from 2000 to 2006 and continues to guest lecture and as adjunct faculty teaches the popular Beyond Portraiture class. Her remarkable career spans half a century, and although laurels keep landing in Joyce’s corner, it is her work that speaks volumes, telling three stories of a distinguished career.
In l961, she photographed children in a local Santa house, and during film delivery to the studio, realized her earlier art training could be useful. She was soon oil painting photographic portraits for local photographers, but felt the portraits of children were contrived and ordinary. She purchased a Rollicord, and enrolled in an evening photography class. After practice and experimenting with her family as subjects, and honing her darkroom skills, Joyce announced to her friends that she was in business. A workshop with the legendary pictorialist Adolf “Papa” Fassbender in l965, gave her insight into the aesthetics of photography, and her small portrait studio was growing. When her husband died in 1970, she convinced her banker to give her a year to make her business profitable. Joyce put her passion for art on hold for the next 20 years in order to work commercially and raise her three children.
Her business thrived with portrait and commercial assignments, and intertwined was a full schedule of lectures and teaching throughout the world. Joyce has been featured since 1990 as a member of the Fuji Talent Team, and is in demand to share her knowledge and experience. Her images have appeared in advertising usage by Fuji Film, PrudentialInsurance, Kodak, Mamiya America, and the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra.
By 1987, Joyce had remarried, the children were out of the nest, but her busy schedule left little time to create the art that she visualized. She was frustrated and had “hit the wall” creativily. She began experimenting with an old 35mm camera and high-speed film photographing nudes and women with their babies, and the rest is history. She found her passion, and for the past 25 years, Joyce has become known primarily as a fine art photographer and educator. Rarely do you find a talent who can consistently produce images with creativity and imagination, and who also possesses a magical ability to share. After more than 45 years, Joyce’s work is fresher and stronger than ever…for her, rebirth is continuous if you open your heart to it, and with your imagination anything is possible.
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Dr. Douglas Hersh,
Juror for the 2011 Photography Show
Dean of Educational Programs at Santa Barbara City College, Dr. Douglas Hersh oversees a number of programs including the School of Media Arts, Distance Education, Exhibit and Display Design and Classroom Technology. Prior to acting as Dean at SBCC, Dr. Hersh was Dean for the International Academy of Film and Television. Doug has a background in film and television, having worked as a cinematographer, director and producer for television commercials and documentary films. After triple-majoring at Yale University, Doug was a roustabout and roughneck on an offshore oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. He also earned a masters and doctoral degree in education and has developed several technical innovations for higher education including the open-source human presence learning environment built on a basic Moodle engine that has been profiled in USA Today, Inside Higher Ed, TechEDge and other leading publications. An avid sailor, hang gliding pilot, woodworker and horticulturist, Doug’s true passion is invention.