Andrea Pollan, Executive Director of the Curator's Office in Washington D.C, has worked in visual fine arts for more than twenty-three years following training as an art historian at Yale University. Pollan brings to Art Melt her experience in organizing more than 125 exhibitions of contemporary art for museums and galleries in her region and nationally. Pollan enjoys serving on many arts-related boards and was a recipient of an Arts Administration Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Denny Mecham, Executive Director of the Ohr-O'Keefe Museum of Art in Biloxi, Mississippi, has been a leader in the arts through instruction and as curator for more than thirty-five years. Mecham holds a Masters in Art in Photography and Graphic Design from the College of New Rochelle and a Masters in Art in Ceramics from Eastern Michigan University. Mecham has been the recipient of several curatorial National Endowment for the Arts grants.
Paul Dean, Associate Professor at the LSU School of Art since 1998, will be joining Pollan and Mecham as jurors for the 2010 Art Melt. Prior to his current position, Dean served as an Assistant Professor at the LSU School of Art and at Southwest Missouri State University's Department of Art and Design. Dean earned his bachelor of arts in Radio, Television and Motion Pictures from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and his Master's in Graphic Design from North Carolina State University. His work has been displayed in group and solo exhibitions nationwide, and has been published many times. Dean has received numerous awards over the past decade.
