Jurors
Sean Ulmer
Sean Ulmer is the Curator of Collections and Exhibitions at the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art. Joining the staff of CRMA in the fall of 2005, he brings fifteen years of curatorial experience, including organizing over 100 exhibitions and numerous acquisitions.
He is also responsible for several exhibition catalogues, including "Uncommon Threads: Contemporary Artists and Clothing" (2001), "Nature Transformed: Wood Art from the Bohlen Collection" (2004), and "Betye Saar: Extending the Frozen Moment" (2005).
Prior to his position at CRMA, he was Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the University of Michigan Museum of Art from 2001 to 2005. Before that, he was at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, where he had a broad curatorial portfolio as Assistant Curator of Painting and Sculpture. His five years at Cornell were preceded by his position as Exhibitions Coordinator at The Ohio State University's Wexner Center for the Arts.
Ulmer received a B.A. in Art History from the University of Toledo/Toledo Museum of Art and a M.A. in Art History from The Ohio State University.