The South Arkansas Arts Center is pleased to announce the selection of Taylor Jasper, of The Momentary in Bentonville, Arkansas, as juror for this year’s Annual Juried Art Competition to be held July 6-29, 2022. 

Taylor Jasper is the Curatorial Associate at The Momentary: a contemporary art satellite space to Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas. In her role, she curates artist-driven projects in the Momentary’s galleries and auxiliary spaces, multidisciplinary projects in collaboration with the Performing Arts team, and a process-driven residency program that emphasizes the research and development of creative work.

Before her time at the Momentary, Jasper most recently served as a Curatorial Research Assistant in the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, where she worked on the major traveling exhibition The Dirty South: The Southern Impulse in Visual, Material, and Sonic Culture, currently on view at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. Jasper received her BA in Africana Studies and Art History from The College of William & Mary, and is originally from Richmond, Virginia

The Juried Art Competition, is SAAC’s annual competition juried by nationally and internationally recognized art professionals and is open to all artists across the nation, age 18 and up, who work in two-dimensional and three-dimensional fine arts media, including photography and computer generated work.

Click Here to go to the 2022 Annual Juried Art Competition Page