Jurors chosen for 33rd annual New Smyrna Beach IMAGES festival

Photos by Sandi Carroll. Josh Garrick, left, and Qurentia Throm, right, have been chosen as jurors for the 33rd annual IMAGES: A Festival of the Arts, which will be held Jan. 31 and Feb. 1 in downtown New Smyrna Beach.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Atlantic Center for the Arts announces that Josh Garrick and Qurentia Throm have been selected as the jurors for the 33rd annual IMAGES: A Festival of the Arts, which will be held Jan. 31 and Feb. 1 in downtown New Smyrna Beach.

Josh Garrick is a writer, educator, photographer, and fine art curator. He is a curator and media representative for Millenia Fine Art in Orlando, a member of the Curatorial Council for the Museum of Florida Art, and is the arts columnist for the newly re-designed Orlando Home & Leisure Magazine. Garrick's photography has been featured in Where Magazine, U&lc, the New York Post, Popular Photography, BOCA Magazine, Photography New York, How Magazine, the Star Ledger, Photo District News, Photo Design, the Chronicle of Higher Education, the cover of Gallery Guide NYC, numerous Greek publications, and in Olympic Airways publications.

Garrick has exhibited his photography in New York City at the Helio Gallery and the Bibro Gallery in SoHo and in Central Florida at Comma Gallery (where he recently won the "Harmon Photo People's Choice Award"), at the Grand Bohemian Gallery, and Hedgecross Gallery.

Florida artist Qurentia Throm has gained recognition for her large, mixed media paintings that express the use of pattern and decoration, found throughout art history. The recurring motif is the flower, a universal image found in temple mosaics in India, tribal tattoos in Africa, Medieval armor, stitchery and women's work in laces and quilts, to name but a few examples. From these sources the paintings emerge as layered, colorful, textured and patterned abstractions reflecting but a subtle note of the naturalistic flower from which the idea originated. The interest in pattern and the decorative has been developed further with the inclusion in her body of work, the design and fabrication of jewelry using beads from travels to India, Thailand, Mexico and Nepal.

Throm holds a bachelor's degree in art and art history from Shorter College and a master's degree in art from Florida State University where she did post graduate work. Que, as she is known to her friends, has exhibited extensively throughout the United States and abroad. Her work is included in public and corporate collections. After 37 years as an arts educator and arts administrator, Throm retired from higher education and returned to the practice of art. During her tenure in education she was extensively involved in the visual arts community serving on boards of numerous organizations both locally and regionally. She was invited to participate in the Fulbright Study Abroad Program in India and was an Arts Administration Fellow at the National Endowment for the Arts. Throm and her husband, also and artist, reside half the year in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.

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The 33rd annual juried IMAGES: A Festival of the Arts will take place Jan. 31 and Feb. 1, in picturesque Riverside Park, along Riverside Drive and Canal Street (up to Sams Avenue), in downtown New Smyrna Beach. For more information about IMAGES, please contact 386-423-4733, or email images@imagesartfestival.org.