Juror: Jolene Powell

Jolene Powell is a McCoy Professor of Art, and Director of Gallery 310 at Marietta College in Marietta, Ohio. She is an established artist with an extensive exhibition record and is currently represented by Brandt Gallery in Columbus, Ohio. In 2021, Jolene received Marietta College’s Innovative Teaching Award, in 2018, the Edward G. Harness Outstanding Educator Award, and in 2007 the school’s highest honor, the McCoy Teaching Excellence Professorship. 

As well as an artist-educator, in her role as Director of Gallery 310, her mission is to work with a variety of campus and community entities to create a space for current and relevant conversations in exhibitions such as “I Embody…”  The exhibition title, and concept, stems from Adrian Piper’s 1975 piece, “I Embody Everything You Most Hate and Fear;” “People of a Darker Hue,” by MacArthur Fellow, Carrie Mae Weems, and “Privilege Audit.” 

She has an MFA is from Boston University and a Diversity and Inclusion certificate from Cornell University. In 2023 she served as a juror for the Ohio Arts Council’s Biennial Exhibition at Riffe Gallery, in Columbus, OH, and in 2020 she was featured on the podcast, I Like Your Work. Her exhibitions include Weather Flux, at Reservoir Art Space in Ridgewood NY; Landscapes: Plein Air to Abstraction, Art Access Gallery, Columbus, OH; Natural Expressions, Riffe Gallery, Columbus, OH; Landscape Real and Imagined, Site: Brooklyn Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, and Melange Abstract Invitational, There’s No Place Like Home, Peaks and Pinnacles all at Brandt Gallery, and an upcoming exhibition All Ohio, opening April 26, 2025 at Riffe Gallery.

www.jolenepowell.com

Instagram: @JolenePowellArt