Perhaps you have heard of juried art exhibitions, but what about jurors' art exhibitions?
Anne Reed's sterling Deliberations -- the home of Blawg Review #127, which was among Decs&Excs' nominees for 2007 Blawg Review of the Year -- is devoted to the care and feeding of juries and jurors. Anne recognizes that while jurors are often treated as fungible cogs in the rickety gearbox of justice, they are also Real Live Humans with histories, hopes, dreams and talents. As a token of that recognition, Anne hosts
"Deliberations' own gallery of art done by actual jurors while on actual jury duty."
Rights to most of the work on display in the Gallery have been reserved by the artists, so I won't reproduce any exemplars here. Go, ramble the virtual corridors and see for yourselves.
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Link to the Gallery via the invaluable arts blog, C-MONSTER.net.
Photo: "Jury Duty Waiting Lounge," by Flickr user sgarcia, used under Creative Commons license. Unless I miss my guess, the lounge depicted is in the Stanley Mosk Courthouse in downtown Los Angeles. The clock on the wall shows 4:30 p.m. fast appoaching, so these Real Live Human Jurors were nearing the end of their suffering on our behalf. Thank them, won't you?
"Sterling"! What a wonderful compliment. Thanks so much and glad you like the juror art; it's been a lot of fun to put it together.
Posted by: Anne Reed | January 10, 2009 at 05:15 PM