2027 ARTIST MARKET JURY BIOS

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Daniel White

Daniel White is director of the Paul R. Jones Museum and The University of Alabama Gallery.

He received the MFA in ceramics at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) and the BFA in ceramics from the University of Montevallo. Before coming to Tuscaloosa, he was the museum director at Mason-Scharfenstein Museum of Art at Piedmont University in Demorest, Georgia, and from 2006-2012, a museum preparator at the Birmingham Museum of Art. White’s teaching experience at Athens State University, University of Montevallo and RIT spans courses from ceramics and two- and three-dimensional design, to professional practices and the senior capstone seminar.

White is the author of numerous catalog essays, including for the artist monograph, Threads and Layers: Sara Garden Armstrong. He wrote the introduction and is the original editor for the volume Grandeur of the Everyday: The Paintings of Dale Kennington (UA Press 2017). In addition to working in ceramics, he is a noted figurative painter and his artwork can be found in private collections across the United States.

Lynne Petek

Lynne Petek, a native of Georgia, spent 15 years as director of Raiford Gallery in Roswell Georgia. Her excellence in curating collections and exhibitions helped Raiford Gallery rank in the Top 100 Galleries in the United States.

Judie B. Railford

Judie B. Railford became a full-time gold/silversmith in 1970. She has taught metal smithing, the business of art, juried and judged art shows. In 1966 she opened Railford Gallery representing 400 artists, a venture that has taught her how to be a situational extrovert.

She continues working 60 hours a week in her absurdly equipped studio, listening to audio books, playing with her ridiculously expensive toys and dodging the wet tongues of the dogs who rescued her. https://www.raifordgallery.com/

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Judith Csiky

Judith Csiky was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1942. Judith, her parents and two brothers immigrated to São Paulo, Brazil in 1945. In 1958 the family moved to Atlanta, Ga. After finishing North Fulton High School, she attended Georgia State University, graduating with a BFA in drawing and painting in 1968.

Judith has been active in the Atlanta arts scene ever since. She counts among her influences many teachers and colleagues including Joseph Perrin, Joe Almyda, Jim Sutton and Ben Shute, all artists who started in Atlanta but had a huge impact on the art world at large.

Married to goldsmith and sculptor William Lamm, the two worked and showed from their studio/home in Atlanta until William’s death in 2013. Judith continues to work in a variety of media, including fiber and collage, but the main body of her work consists of oil on canvas and pencil on paper. She also has black belts in both judo and aikido. Visit her website at  csikystudio.com.

Susan J. “Sue” Ross

After retiring from the City of Atlanta after 36 years, Susan J. “Sue” Ross now pursues her passion for documentary and fine art photography full-time as the PhotoGriot, Atlanta’s photo-cultural historian.

Sue managed the City’s Small Business Development Program, while serving as the unofficial city photographer over the administrations of the first six African-American Mayors. She is a founding member of Sistagraphy: the collective of African-American Women Photographers.

Sue has exhibited her photography widely since 1985 with Zone III, Sistagraphy, African-Americans for the Arts (A-AFTA) , the Atlanta Photography Group and many others. Her photo of Atlanta’s African-American Presidential Medal Honorees was the cover photo for Trendsetters to Trendsetters magazine. Her iconic photo SHEROES was featured in the FOR THE PEOPLE photo-mural exhibit along Auburn Avenue.

In 2024, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution honored Sue with a feature article & video during Black History Month. She was inducted into the 2024 Class of The Historymakers and received the Presidential Lifetime Achievement Award for her artistic excellence and community service. She has been honored as one of 6 Atlanta Icons in MARRYAM MOMA’s public art installation ICONoclasts on Auburn Avenue.

Recently Sue’s work is featured in the 25th Anniversary edition of Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers 1840 to the Present and in the accompanying exhibit at NYU “Reflections in Black: A Reframing.” In 2025, she received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Upper Circle Artist Collektive.

Currently Sue’s work can be seen at the Sun Gallery ATL and at tfe City Hall Blimpies. Sue’s permanent exhibit on civil rights leaders – Stayed On Freedom – can be seen at the Georgia Stand-Up Movement Center.

Geo Sipp

Geo Sipp is the Director of the School of Art and Design at Kennesaw State University. KSU continues to grow by offering students a rigorous fine arts education as well as applied design programs, including Graphic Communications, a BAT in Apparel Textiles Technology, a BFA in Digital Animation and concentration areas of study in Illustration as well as Sequential Art.

Sipp is an artist and illustrator who has worked for top international advertising agencies and clients, and his work has been published by many of the leading newspapers, magazines and book publishers in the United States and abroad. Geo’s research and scholarship on sequential art have appeared in numerous national and international peer-reviewed publications and has resulted in international speaking engagements and exhibitions. His current work is primarily intended for inclusion in a graphic novel entitled Wolves in the City, which has the French-Algerian War as its subject.

His work has been exhibited at the Adam Baumgold Gallery in New York, Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art, Weinberger Fine Arts in Kansas City, the Algerian Cultural Ministry in Algiers, Algeria,  Clemson University, International Print Center, New York, McClung Museum at the University of Tennessee, Sharjah Museum of Art in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, Tuskegee Institute in Tuskegee, Alabama, Vero Beach Museum of Art, Vero Beach, Florida and the Zuckerman Museum of Art at Kennesaw State University.

His work has also been exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions across the United States as well as in Algeria, Belgium, China, England, France, Spain, and Tunisia. He has lectured and given workshops at many universities including: the University of Kansas, Dartmouth College, École de Recherche Graphique Brussels, Institut St. Luc Brussels (ESA St. Luc), University of London, London College of Communications, and the University of London-Paris.

Sipp is a recipient of the Missouri Governor’s Award for Excellence in Education. His artistic awards include numerous gold and silver ADDY’s for his work in the field of Illustration.