Pete Guither
Pete Guither has been a Blue Whiskey Independent Film Festival judge since 2011. He is a retired assistant dean of the College of Fine Arts at Illinois State University, where he taught arts management, theatre photography, computer graphic design, and entrepreneurship. Pete is the founding artistic director of the performance art company The Living Canvas. He has worked in business and in government, on Broadway, as a Fuller Brush salesman, and as a traveling lounge musician. Pete is a theatre photographer, a fine art photographer, a piano player, a drug policy expert, a foodie, and hosts New York theatre tours for students and retirees. He has a Master of Fine Arts in performing arts management from Brooklyn College and a degree in theatre from Cornell College.