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MEET THE JURY

A panel of community members and designers with a strong civic inclination have come together to review “Where We Connect.” Judith Aronson, Janet Echelman, David Gamble, Audrey O’Hagan, Ken Shulman and Dennis McNamara will share their experience and expertise on the tour of the Common Build projects. Read more about the jury bios below.

Judith Aronson has been teaching graphic design at Simmons for nine years and has been a practicing designer and photographer for more than twenty-five years. Prior to Simmons she taught for six years at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design and the New England School of Art and Design at Suffolk. Earlier in her career she worked in Washington, DC in the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department and was a city planner in New York City where she worked in East Harlem as a VISTA Volunteer and later for the Environmental Protection Administration. Aronson holds a BA in American Studies from the University of Michigan and a MA in City Planning and an MA in Fine Art, Graphic Design, from Yale University.

Janet Echelman is an artist who reshapes urban airspace with monumental fluidly-moving sculpture that is choreographed by nature. “My sculpture thrives in the context of the city, interacting with people in the course of their daily lives. I make living, breathing pieces that respond to the forces of nature — wind, light, water.” The artist premiers Water Sky Garden at the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Winter Games located at the Richmond Olympic Oval. She recently completed the new 145-foot-tall civic icon for Phoenix, Arizona, Her Secret is Patience. Her sculpture, She Changes, a 160-foot-tall waterfront netted wind sculpture suspended above a 3-lane highway roundabout in Portugal, was called “one of the truly significant public artworks in recent years” by Sculpture magazine. After graduating from Harvard College in 1987 with Highest Honors in Visual Studies, she received graduate degrees in Painting and in Psychology. From 1988-1993, Janet lived as an artist on Bali, Indonesia, before moving her studio to New York City. In 2007, she moved to Brookline, Massachusetts to begin the Loeb Fellowship at Harvard University GSD.

David Gamble is principal of Gamble Associates. He holds a Bachelor of Architecture Degree from Kent State University and a Master of Architecture Degree in Urban Design, with Distinction, from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD). Before founding Gamble Associates, David was a Senior Associate at Chan Krieger Sieniewicz, a nationally-recognized Architecture, Urban Design and Planning firm based in Cambridge, MA. In this capacity, he led urban design projects in many cities, including Boston, Buffalo, Dallas, Knoxville, Oklahoma City, Syracuse and Tampa. David is currently a Lecturer at Northeastern University’s School of Architecture in Boston where he teaches in the undergraduate curriculum. He is President of the Board of Directors of the Community Design Resource Center-Boston (CDRC-Boston). The CDRC-Boston provides pro-bono design assistance to non-profit organizations and communities in need. In this role, he has led and participated in multiple community outreach activities in Boston and the region. David was a recipient of the National 2008 Young Architects Award by the American Institute of Architects.

Audrey O’Hagan is an award-winning registered architect with over 25 years of experience in the United States and Great Britain. In 2006 she was selected as one of the top 10 architects/interior designers in New England by Women’s Business Boston. Prior to founding Audrey O’Hagan Architects, LLC, O’Hagan was a principal with KlingStubbins, and an associate principal with The Stubbins Associates. O’Hagan’s work has been published in Architectural Record, Interior Design Magazine, BusinessWeek, R&D Magazine, Laboratory Design News, and the Boston Globe. She has received numerous awards for her work, most recently a 2006 BusinessWeek/Architectural Record Award for Design Excellence. Audrey O’Hagan received her Bachelor of Architecture and Bachelor of Environmental Design degrees from the University of Kansas School of Architecture and Urban Design and is a member of the American Institutes of Architects. In addition to leading the firm, she serves on the Executive Committee and Board of Directors for the Boston Society of Architects and is a frequent speaker and guest critic.

Ken Shulman has worked as a freelance journalist and writer for more than 25 years and is a frequent contributor to WBUR, Metropolis Magazine, the Associated Press and the New York Times, among other publications. He has traveled the world covering a wide range of topics from art, art restoration and design to sports and politics. In a recent radio piece, “Boston By Design” for WBUR, Shulman analyzes the urban fabric as he interviews leading design professionals and the city’s stakeholders. Ken Shulman received his bachelor in English Literature from Middlebury College in Vermont and earned a Master in Public Administration from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

Dennis McNamara has worked for the Federal Reserve Bank in the Interior and Graphic Design Department for over 20 years. He brings to the panel, not only his experienced architectural and design background, but lends the vantage point of a someone intimately familiar with the neighborhood and immediate site.