Juror:
Marti Deppa Kirkpatrick
has 20 years of experience working with artists and the public
presenting all manner of art exhibitions. From the early 1990’s and into
2001 she served in the volunteer positions of Treasurer, Show Chair and
finally President of the League of Reston Artists in Reston, Virginia.
She was a member of the initial
Visual Arts Advisory Panel for the Lorton Arts Foundation’s
transformation of the old DC Correctional Facility at Lorton, Virginia
into the Workhouse Arts Center. Ms. Kirkpatrick then came on staff
February 2007 as Studio Manager, facilitating the rental of studios
through the jury process as well as laying the groundwork for the
Workhouse Artists Association. She is currently the Exhibition
Coordinator at the Workhouse, handling all aspects of exhibitions in the
main gallery building, Gallery W16, including acting as curator/juror
for a number of Workhouse exhibits and community outreach high school
art competitions.
Ms. Kirkpatrick is also a visual artist in
her own right, painting in her home studio in Dickerson, Maryland. Working in
both oil, and mixed media her abstracts and nudes have won numerous awards and
have been shown extensively in the Washington DC metro area.
Catalog of Art Accepted into FCCA's "Forms In Motion" 2010