We are very honored to have the opportunity to work with Cheri Hoffman and Fr. Terrence E. Dempsey, S.J. as our exhibit Jurors for " Symbolic." Artist Cheri Hoffman lives & works in St. Louis. She holds a BA in Psychology from the University of Denver and studied painting at Washington University School of Fine Art. Her mixed media artworks have been exhibited and collected regionally & nationally. And Fr. Terrence E. Dempsey, S.J., is the founding Director of the Museum of Contemporary Religious Art (MOCRA) at Saint Louis University. MOCRA is the world's first contemporary interfaith art museum. Fr. Dempsey received his doctoral degree in art history and religion from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California, in conjunction with the University of California at Berkeley. His dissertation topic was the "Re-emergence of Spiritual and Religious concerns in American Art of the 1980s," and he continues his research in this area, now focusing on global artists of the present day who have incorporated the religious and spiritual dimensions in their work. During his studies in Berkeley, he curated exhibitions for the Graduate Theological Union, the most important of which was " Christo and Peter Selz: The Running Fence Revisited" in 1988. Christo, Jeanne-Claude Christo, and Peter Selz attended the opening of this exhibition. Overall, Fr. Dempsey has curated over 80 art exhibitions, including nearly 50 at the Museum of Contemporary Religious Art. In addition to his responsibilities as director and curator at MOCRA, Fr. Dempsey has been part of the art history faculty at Saint Louis University since 1990. He is first holder of the May O'Rourke May Endowed Chair in Art History and Religion, a position he has held since 1995.