Arts in the Square, a juried Fine Arts festival featuring some of the best national and regional artists selling their original artwork, announce the Jury Panel. Arts in the Square requires the support of city, education, business and the arts community to flourish. This perfect combination is reflected in the jury panel that will select the Best of Show and winner in each category. The following individuals bring with their investment of time and resources, their full support to Arts in the Square.

James Few, a native Atlantan, has thirty years of dedication to the arts community, gracing his viewers with elegant clay sculptures and pottery. James has exhibited and sold his work in galleries and major events locally and nationally, often winning “Best-of-Show” and the accolades of art critics for print and news media.

Helen Blythe-Hart, inventor of the acclaimed Heat Zone Soldering Method, has been practicing her metal artistry for over 35 years and teaching students for 20 years both at University and Community levels. She has won numerous national awards as well as her work has been collected internationally.

Since retiring in 2006 after more than 30 years as an exhibiting photographer in the art festival circuit, Les Slesnick has since juried, judged, and/or consulted more than two dozen art fairs and competitions around the country. He is the recipient of many national and international awards, most notably the International Grand Prize winner in a 2000 competition that attracted more than 40,000 photographs from 17,000-‐plus photographers in 164 countries, including four Pulitzer PrizeTM winners.

Jeb Matulich is a Frisco artist and teacher that enjoys being involved in the local art scene. Jeb has taught in Frisco ISD since 2000, and currently teaches Art 1 at Frisco Liberty High School. Jeb also is a practicing artist that creates one of a kind Texana artwork.

Richard Oldham took up the craft of Stained Glass while a graduate student at UNT and in 1986 he purchased a retail Stained Glass Shop in Denton Texas. He began his career in education in 1990 as an art teacher in Frisco and served the ISD as an Assistant Principal for 16 years. Currently he serves the Frisco ISD as the Assistant Director of Fine Arts.

The event will be held March 23-24 from 11:00 am to 6:00 pm each day and is presented by Frisco Square Property Owners Association in cooperation with SoDeVis – Society for the Development of the Visual Arts and the Collin County Songwriters Association.

For more information, please visit www.friscosquare.com/AITS.

Story courtesy of Arts in the Square