Vero Beach gallery owner Susie Wilber, left, with fellow judges of the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s annual Craft Show: (clockwise from top left) Bruce Helander, a studio artist from West Palm Beach; Karen Lorene, owner of the Facere Jewelry Art Gallery in Seattle; Elisabeth Agro, the Philadelphia Museum’s associate curator of Modern & Contemporary Decorative Art, and Albert LeCoff, executive director of the Wood Turning Center in Philadelphia.
When was the last time someone asked you for your advice about something? Maybe it was about where you take your car for an oil change, or who you think is going to win the play-offs; whether your brother-in-law should invest in that start-up chickweed farm, or if your niece should marry the pretzel-maker’s apprentice she met in Belize last summer? Now, think of how many times your considered opinion on these matters has been cast by the wayside like a soda can from a speeding car.
While it is every red-blooded American’s right to fantasize about judging the Oscars, sitting on the Pulitzer Prize board or scoring the National Ice Dancing Championships, few of us will ever be asked to assess Greatness. Imagine the lucky person, then, whose opinion is so highly valued that she is given round-trip airfare to a major U.S. city, accommodation in a fine hotel and the respectful attention of a roomful of cognoscenti.
Now think of Susie Wilber, the owner and director of the Laughing Dog Gallery in Vero Beach, as being just such a person. Earlier this year she was plucked from her beachside shop on Cardinal Drive and flown to Pennsylvania to jury the premier exhibition for American craft artists, the Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show.
Read the entire article in the September 2009 issue
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