Kyle Crossland, our Fine Arts Judge, is a graduate of Kansas City Art Institute and has also studied with several prominent ceramists. He recently received an Artistic Renewal Fellowship from the Indiana Arts Council. He is currently the Ceramics Studio Technician at the Indianapolis Art Center. He has taught at the Art Center for over 12 years. He also has his own studio, Crossland Crafts.

Dallas Evans, our Naturalist Judge, is the Educator/Curator of Natural Science at The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis. He has been the science curator at the museum for nearly 15 years where his work entails participating in the development of new exhibits, research, maintaining the museum’s natural history collections and searching for new specimens for the museum. He has worked as the lead curator on such exhibits as Dinosphere, Bones and ScienceWorks. Dallas has made recent presentations for the Indiana Society of Professional Geologists, the Indiana Paleontological Society, and the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology. In 2005 he was also awarded a certificate of merit from the Indiana Society of Professional Geologists for his contributions to science education.