Juror 

Thomas Sturgill is a conceptually driven interdisciplinary artist and educator. He was born and raised in Pound, Virginia, a small company town whose heyday had long passed. Sturgill earned his undergraduate degree in sculpture from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, in 2002, and went on to receive an MFA in Interdisciplinary Art from Carnegie Mellon University in 2006. His work has been shown both nationally and internationally, and he creates both solo and collaborative projects. Sturgill is a founding member of the artist collective Pulled Resources. In his personal practice, he has been exploring object and human relationships, creating surprising and sometimes confusing experiences that reflect his everyday entanglement with things. He currently lives and works in Nashville, Tennessee, where he serves as Assistant Professor of Sculpture and Chair of Fine Arts at the Watkins College of Art at Belmont University.