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About Our Judges
Dolores
Coe
Dolores Coe
is a Visual Artist whose
own work reflects her
interest in expanding
and exploring
possibilities at the
intersection of painting
and photography.
She has long been
engaged in working with
a range of photographic
processes in both
teaching and
professional work.
Coe received her MFA
from the University of South Florida in 1989.
She was on the
Faculty of the Ringling
School of Art and Design
from 1991 until 2005
where she was Director
of the CORE Studio
Program for a period and
taught a variety of
courses spanning
traditional, time based
and digital media.
She resigned her
teaching position to
pursue studio work full
time.
Her work has been widely
exhibited in gallery and
museum solo and group
exhibitions and is
collected in a number of
private and
public collections,
including those of
General Telephone, IBM,
NCNB, Barnett Bank,
Florida National Bank,
Southern Bell, Smith and
Nephew, the State of
Florida, Tampa General
Hospital and the
University of South
Florida.
She lives and maintains
her studio on the Little
Manatee River.
(www.dolorescoe.com)
Carolyn
Kossar
Carolyn
Kossar is
currently
the Gallery
Coordinator
at
Hillsborough
Community College’s Ybor Campus
Art Gallery.
She moved to Tampa in April 2000. Her past arts
administration
experience
includes
Membership
Director and
Operations
Manager at
ArtServe in
Fort
Lauderdale;
and several
years
experience,
beginning in
1988, at the
Art and
Culture
Center of
Hollywood,
Florida,
holding
positions as
Administrative
Assistant,
Facility
Manager and
Art School
Director.
She
holds a BLS
Degree in
Humanities
from Barry University
in
Miami.
Actively
seeking to
keep abreast
with new
trends in
the arts,
she has
attended
conferences
in Arts
Management
sponsored by
the
University
of
Massachusetts,
Amherst,
and Visual
Arts and The
Law seminars
sponsored by
CLE
International
in Santa Fe and Taos,
New Mexico.
As a
fiber artist
and
photographer,
Ms. Kossar
has attended
the
University
of
Massachusetts,
Parsons
School of
Design at
Lake Placid, New York and the Penland
School in North Carolina.
She
is a member
of the
Florida
Tropical
Weaver’s
Guild, the
Surface
Design Guild
of Tampa Bay
and was a
member of
the host
committee
for the
Handweaver’s
Guild of
America’s
Convergence
2008 world
fiber
conference
in
Tampa.
She is
responsible
for the
operation,
exhibition
and
educational
programming
of HCC’s
Ybor Campus Art Gallery, ensuring and expanding
high-quality
programs and
collaborations.
In September
2003 she was
named “Best
Gallery
Director” by
the
Weekly
Planet
newspaper’s
“Best of the
Bay 2003”
reader’s
poll.
Ms.
Kossar also
acts as
administrative
assistant
director for
the HCC Ybor
Festival of
the Moving
Image.
Suzanne
Williamson
Suzanne
Williamson, a
photographer, is a
native of
Connecticut
and lives in
New York City
and Tampa. She studied photography at the
State University of New
York, College at
Purchase and the
International
Center for Photography in New York City. She
has received several
fellowships to the
pre-eminent artist
colonies, MacDowell and
Yaddo, and served on the
Board of The MacDowell
Colony.
Williamson is currently
Director of the 2009
Self Employment in the
Arts Conference, a
regional artist-led
event held at The
University of Tampa.
The SEA Conference
assists emerging and
successful artists by
presenting
entrepreneurial
strategies and
networking
opportunities.
Previously Williamson
managed photography
galleries and
collections in
New York City,
and is proud to have
been the Head of
Research for “Here is New York”, the
award-winning 9/11
non-profit photo project
book. Formerly she
was the Photo Editor of
ARTnews magazine from
2004-2008, having
previously worked at The
New Yorker and Newsweek
magazines.
Williamson received an
award for her pictures
of a Midwest drought,
published in
Ohio
magazine. Her
photographs, made
primarily in black &
white, are in museum and
private collections, and
have been published in
American Archaeology,
Harpers,
Ohio
Magazine and Texas Monthly.
Presently, Suzanne
Williamson is working on
Sacred Land, a series of images from the Florida landscape, which
still retain traces of
the native historic and
prehistoric.
Another recent project,
entitled
Shelter, includes
photographs of rock
shelters and the
surrounding habitats in
the northeastern United States,
which were used as homes
by prehistoric hunters.
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