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About the Jurors...

Richard Fielden has been an art director and/or illustrator for numerous corporations... including Tenneco corporate communications, Medical World News magazine, Foleys, Palais Royale; Dillards, Frost Brothers, Joseph Magnin. His public sculpture commissions include Anne Wilford Memorial Park Sculpture; The Gift, Memorial Herman Hospital Downtown; Baseball (With Broken Pavement and Water Spray) at Minute Maid Park; Colombe d’Or (The Golden Bird) at Colombe d’Or restaurant; Big Foot Wallace Boots on Post Oak Blvd.; and Tree of Life at Texas Children’s Hospital.

Bridgette Mongeon has worked in the creative industry for over 20 years. She is a painter (watercolor) but is known for her sculptures of entertainers such as BB King, Willie Nelson, and Bin Monroe, as well as her numerous commissions of children. Recent commissions include Nolan Ryan’s grandson and negotiating a Houston Music Hall of Fame. She has been featured both nationally and internationally for her work. Bridgette enjoys encouraging others to achieve their artistic goals and does so through her workshops, lectures and articles that she has written. She has been a contributing writer with several books and is presently working on her first solo book about creating posthumous sculpture entitled, Bringing to Life the Spirit of the deceased - A Sculptors Journey. www.creativesculpture.com

Ben Woitena has a B.F.A. from the University of Texas at Austin, and an M.F.A. from the University of Southern California. From 1971 through 1998 he was head of sculpture at the Glassell School of Art, part of The Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Texas. During his tenure he was responsible for teaching classes in modeling from the figure, bronze casting, welding, and carving in wood and stone. He exhibits regionally and nationally, competes in public art commissions, and accepts private commissions in a variety of media.