2025 Arts Festival Judges

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Sara Garzón, PhD, is Associate Curator of Contemporary Art at the Harn Museum of Art. Sara specializes in contemporary Latin American art focusing specifically on issues relating to critical ecologies, temporality, and Indigenous new media art. 

Currently, Sara is also serving as Associate Curator of the II Bienal das Amazônias in Brazil, and prior to that was curator at Canal Projects and the Jane and Morgan Whitney Curatorial Fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. As researcher and curator Sara has organized exhibitions internationally and in the US, led new commissions, and has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals, art magazines, and exhibition catalogs. In addition to independent art consulting, Robin also serves as Creative Director of NativeHouse Studios, focused on preserving the legacy of ambitious interior designers who are pushing the envelope in the industry with art advising, photographic assets, and publishing direction. 

Cartherine Bergmann was Curatorial Director of the Dunedin Fine Art Center from 2000-2025 where she curated over 400 exhibitions during her 25-year tenure.

Bergmann is also an award-winning artist whose works were selected for the first UnderCurrent/Overview at the Tampa Museum of Art and included in exhibitions at the Ft.Lauderdale Museum of Art, Orlando Museum of Art, Deland Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg, Brevard Museum of Art and the Leepa-Rattner

Museum in Tarpon Springs. 

Her art is held in numerous private and permanent collections. She holds a BFA in Painting and Printmaking from Florida State University.