2027 Jurors
PATRICK BENESH-LIU is Co-editor of Ornament Magazine, a publication begun in 1974 covering the world of personal adornment. He has written over a hundred articles since 2006 and served as an award juror for the 2022 Smithsonian Craft Show, and on the selection committee for the Society of North American Goldsmith’s 2025 Impact Awards. This year, he serves along with his father as juror for Craftforms 2026.
BRUCE HELANDER is an accomplished artist, writer and critic. He received a BFA and MFA in painting from the Rhode Island School of Design, where he later served as the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs. He has studied at Yale University and Harvard and is a former White House Fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts. He recently received the First Annual Professional Achievement in the Arts Award from Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary and is a member of the Florida Artists Hall of Fame. Helander is a past recipient of the South Florida Cultural Consortium’s award for Professional Achievement in the Arts and has won four separate grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts. His work is represented in over fifty permanent public collections, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, as well as the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. As a critic, he regularly writes for numerous publications such as The Huffington Post, Sculpture magazine, Art Hivemagazine and One Art Nation, among others, and has contributed collage illustrations to The New Yorker magazine. He is a seasoned juror and curator of museum exhibitions and serves on the board of the Center for Creative Education.
BETH C. MCLAUGHLIN is the Artistic Director and Chief Curator at Fuller Craft Museum, where she has led the exhibitions and collections program since 2014. With nearly 30 years of experience in the museum field, she has curated more than 60 national and international exhibitions, overseen the accession of over 1,500 objects into the museum’s permanent collection, and served as a juror and panelist for organizations including the American Craft Council and the Smithsonian Institution. McLaughlin is committed to advancing contemporary craft through exhibitions, scholarship, and community-centered dialogue.