Should You Serve on an Art Jury?

Part 3 of our series on art competitions

Henri Gervex The Jury for Painting, Salon des Artistes Français, 1885

In a letter to the director of the Carnegie Institute Museum of Art, Mary Cassatt (1844-1926) declined to be a juror for their annual exhibition. Here's why:

"In regard to jurys of artists, I have never served because I could never reconcile it to my conscience to be the means of shutti…