2011 Judges


Judges for the 2011 DeLand Fall Festival of the Arts are Susan Molenhauer and Rob Nydorf.

Susan Moldenhauer is a curator, museum director, fine art photographer and arts administrator.  She has served as executive director of Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA and has served since 1991 in numerous curatorial and programming positions for the University of Wyoming Art Museum in Laramie, Wyoming before becoming director & chief curator in 2002.  Moldenhauer has curated over 200 exhibitions since 1993 with a special interest and emphasis on sculpture.  Moldenhauer is a practicing artist working in black and white photography for over twenty years with a focus on the landscape of the American West as inspiration.  She has exhibited widely and is represented by Braham Contemporary Art, Toronto.  Moldenhauer received an MFA in photography from Penn State University (1982) and a BFA in printmaking/drawing from Northern Illinois University (1972).  She has minors in Film History and Art History.  She is a member of the American Association of Museums (AAM), and is the Mountain Plains Regional Representative for the Association of Academic Museums and Galleries (AAMG).

 

 

Roy Nydorf is an award-winning carver, printmaker, painter and draftsman. He has exhibited nationally and internationally, and is represented in numerous public collections, including the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. The son of artist parents, he was born and raised in Port Washington, New York. He attended the Art Students League of New York, and State University of New York at Albany; received his Bachelor of Arts from State University of New York at Brockport; and earned a Master of Fine Arts with honors from Yale University. Roy is a drummer who loves blues and jazz, a year-round organic gardener, and he is painstakingly restoring a mid-19th century farmhouse. He has taught art at Guilford College in Greensboro, North Carolina since 1978.