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Juror:  N. Elizabeth Schlatter is Deputy Director and Curator of Exhibitions at the University of Richmond Museums, Virginia.  She received her B.A. in art history from Southwestern University in Texas, and her M.A. in art history from George Washington University.  She has curated more than 20 exhibitions, including recent exhibitions of art by Carl Chiarenza, Andreas Feininger, Hans Friedrich Grohs, Sue Johnson, and Fiona Ross, and the traveling exhibition "LEADED: the Materiality and Metamorphosis of Graphite."  As an independent curator and writer, she has organized exhibitions for contemporary art spaces in the mid-Atlantic region, and has authored several articles and essays for Focus and Photovision magazines, the National Women in the Arts Bulletin, and the American National Biography (Oxford University Press), among others.  She is also author of Museum Careers: A Practical Guide for Novices and Students (Left Coast Press, Inc) and the on-line publication Become an Art Curator (fabjob.com).  Prior to working at the University of Richmond she was an exhibitions project director for the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES) in Washington, D.C.  VMFA Exchange Workshop handout