Jurors 2026
Glenna Jennings - Artist/Educator
(Dayton, OH) – Glenna Jennings is an artist and educator whose work spans photography, curating, and socially engaged art. As Associate Professor of Photography and Social Practice at the University of Dayton, she co-founded Desert Kitchen Collective, a cross-disciplinary coalition for creative action around food justice. Jennings holds an MFA from the University of California San Diego, along with degrees in Spanish, English, and Photography. Her work has been recognized through multiple Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Awards, a Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Award, a Montgomery County Food Champion Award, and project grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. Her ongoing series At Table was featured in the 2025 World Food Photography Awards in London, England, and The Price of Eggs, a multimedia collaboration with Jalisa Robinson, is on view at moCa Cleveland in 2026. Jennings’ work is held in the collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, AMNUA Museum China, the Center for Photography at Woodstock, the Roger Glass Center for the Arts, and other public and private holdings. She remains deeply indebted to collaborators far and wide in her ongoing efforts to imagine more just and resilient ways of living through the collective work and purposeful play of artmaking.
Pratibha Devi Dola Rashad
Actress/Singer/Mentor
(Sicily, Italy) – Born in New York and a graduate of the California Institute of the Arts. Dola is a four-time Tony nominated actress, director and singer-songwriter She recently directed and produced her debut Visual EP entitled “Space Daughter” and currently lives in Sicily. Through her work as an artist and alchemical astrologer, Dola seeks to serve as a bridge-builder between the cosmos, the natural world and human beings from all cultures and walks of life.
You can also visit her website https://earthwalkalchemy.com/ and read a more extensive bio to learn more about Dola and her dynamic journey.
Ed Dixon - Gallerists
(Dayton, OH) – Ed Dixon is a native Daytonian and opened the Edward A. Dixon Gallery in the Fall of 2017 in Downtown Dayton, Ohio. After years of involvement in the music, film and fashion industry, Ed decided to turn his attention to his passion for visual art and began the curation of artwork from artists on a world-wide scale. He has curated and hosted multiple shows at the gallery and exhibited at Artexpo New York (2024). Artists who have exhibited at the gallery include Sabrina Terence, Cedric Michael Cox, Marilynn Page, Cynthia Kukla, Erica Arndts and the late, legendary Beatles animator Ron Campbell. Exhibition themes at the gallery have included We’re Doing It ALL Wrong® and JOY (That’s Just What I needed). He also served on panels for exhibitions and artist grants such as Art of Soul! Juried Art Show presented by NAAMCC , the Ohio Art League Fall Show and the Culture Works Special Projects Grant.
Ed spends much of his time promoting the visual arts, he serves on the Dayton Art Institute Collections Committee, the Executive Committee for the Dayton Sister City Committee and serves in an advisory role for the Dayton Emerging Fashion Incubator.
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