Each year, this student exhibition is juried and judged by an artist or curator who is not affiliated with UT. This year’s judge is Jessica Todd, a Tampa-based gallery director, curator, writer and artist originally from Northern Virginia. Todd has worked with several arts organizations since moving to Tampa in 2020, including Tempus Projects, Artspace Tampa Initiative, Crab Devil and the Morean Arts Center. She is passionate about building the creative infrastructures that support artists and studying and addressing issues of equity, access and inclusion in the arts. In October 2022, Todd opened Parachute Gallery — first an exhibition space for national artists, and now a boutique gallery representing local artists — in Tampa’s Ybor City.