Our Jury Process

 Joy Pinkerton joins us from Orlando, Florida, where she recently retired after a long career in the legal field. She and her husband John are longtime seasonal residents of Waupaca, spending time at their lake cottage every year for decades.
Avid art collectors and supporters of the arts, Joy and John travel widely and enjoy discovering creative work wherever they go. We are pleased to welcome Joy as a juror for the Stevens Point Festival of the Arts.

Megan Woodard Johnson is a mixed media artist living and creating in West Bend, Wisconsin. Johnson received a formal education in Graphic Design and Fine Art Printmaking from Shepherd University in West Virginia, earning her BFA in 1996. 20 years ago she shifted to mixed media painting and has never looked back. Johnson spent her formative years moving around the country, before relocating to Wisconsin and gradually putting down roots. She leads a rich, if ordinary, life focused on noticing moments and making connections, filtering all of these gathered experiences into the layers that build up her paintings.

Johnson has shown steadily in group and solo exhibitions and completed multiple artist residencies. Her work hangs in private and corporate collections across and beyond the United States and has been represented in multiple US galleries. Johnson has juried and curated

shows and exhibitions, and built connections with artists around the globe by offering courses, coaching and small group mentorships.

Josie Osborne is a visual artist and Senior Lecturer in Art and Design at UW-Milwaukee, Peck School of the Arts. She also curates and co-curates exhibitions including Quiet at

Walkers Point Center for the Arts, Marks and Conversions: The Graphic Work of Judy Pfaff and Squeak Carnwath, at Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design recently co-curated Miller and Shellabarger: Hiding in the Light and Inova Gallery and more recently at Jazz Gallery Center for the Arts. She is engaged in the Milwaukee Arts Community,

serving on boards and advisory committees for Arts non-profits including 12 years on the City of Milwaukee Arts Board.

In recent years her art activism has increased as well. She is a member of the activist artist group Art Build Workers, using art to partner with and support social justice-oriented organizations and causes.