University Galleries Curator as LA Artcore Photographic Competition Juror

Michele Cairella Fillmore

Michele Cairella Fillmore has been the Curator of the W. Keith and Janet Kellogg University Art Gallery and Don. B. Huntley Gallery, at Cal Poly Pomona for the past 6 years, programming up to ten exhibitions per year, and as the Curator/Collections Manager of College of Environmental Design Collections overseeing eight University Permanent Collections. Concurrently, she is also an independent Art Consultant and Fine Arts Appraiser.

Prior to this, she was the Art Collection Manager of MOLAA | Museum of Latin American Art, working as a junior curator in the Curatorial Department and managing collections of over 1000 works of art. Several years prior, she was also the Gallery Director/Art History Instructor at Fullerton College where she organized and curated dozens of art exhibitions while also managing the college’s permanent collection. She has spent over 14 years as an Art Consultant, Independent Curator, and Fine Arts Appraiser and manager of her own arts consultation network known as caire/LArts. She has also been a Public Relations Liaison and Art Researcher for SCAPE | Southern California Art Projects and Exhibitions, a contemporary art gallery in Corona del Mar.

Cairella Fillmore first began her career in Arts Administration, starting as an intern at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, Italy, and became trained in Art Collections Management as the Assistant to the Art Collections Manager and Murals Coordinator at the Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department.

Cairella Fillmore's MFA project exhibition, Recasting the Past: Beneath the Hollywood Tinsel, featured prominent contemporary artists from the 1990s and 2000s who examined the role of Hollywood in contemporary culture. The exhibition received positive acclaim in the local press, including the Los Angeles Times and Orange County Register.

Penny Wolin

Penny Wolin is the recipient of multiple grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Her work is held by such institutions as the Smithsonian Institution, the New York Public Library, The Layton Collection held at the Milwaukee Art Museum and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. Her solo exhibitions include those at the Smithsonian Museum of American History, the Ucross Foundation and the National Museum of American Jewish History. Group shows include the Barnsdall Municipal Gallery, Eitlejorg Museum and LACMA.

Wolin trained in photography at ArtCenter College of Design, visual anthropology
at UCLA Department of Anthropology and was awarded a directing fellowship to the American Film Institute. She has created insightful portraiture for national magazines and corporations, including LIFE, Vanity Fair, Playboy and the Walt Disney Corporation.

Wolin is the author of the books and exhibitions, The Jews of Wyoming: Fringe of the Diaspora, and Descendants of Light: American Photographers of Jewish Ancestry. These works are critically considered to be unique contributions to our understanding of American Jewish culture.

Wolin currently serves as an adjunct professor at ArtCenter College of Design, teaching photography to undergraduate graphic designers as well as a graduate seminar class in visual literacy. As needed, she teaches a private master’s class to staff members of advertising agencies and corporations wishing to better use photography in their communications.

Terry Sutherland

Terry Sutherland is a native of Southern California and has practiced Commercial and Fine Art Photography for 45 years. Terry first attended California State University Northridge, focusing on three-dimensional design and furniture design. In 1968, he received a scholarship to Art Center College of Design. He received his BFA in Photography from Art Center in 1973. While a student at Art Center, Terry participated in several Ansel Adams Workshops in Yosemite and Carmel. Those seminars afforded him the opportunity to work directly with Ansel Adams and other noteworthy fine art photographers, and to benefit from their critiques of his work.

As the sole proprietor of Sutherland Photo Design for over 40 years, Terry achieved national and international recognition for his product and industrial design photography for clients such as Hewlett-Packard, Seiko, Sony, Atlantic Richfield, Disney, and USC. He also created images for successful wineries, including Caymus Vineyards, Chateau Montelena and Clos du Val.

Terry has taught Advanced Lighting Techniques at Otis-Parsons Art Institute and was a regular Guest Lecturer at Brooks Institute of Photography and Art Center College in the Integrated Studies Program. In addition, he has produced an extensive portfolio of fine art images, which he exhibits around the greater Los Angeles area. Focusing on details often overlooked at first glance, Terry’s luminous images express his positive perception of the world and reflect his passion for the elements of light, color, texture, and design.