The Board of Directors for the Center for Photography at Woodstock is pleased to announce that Ariel Shanberg has been appointed Executive Director.

The Board of Directors for the Center for Photography at Woodstock is pleased to announce that Ariel Shanberg has been appointed Executive Director. Mr Shanberg, merely the fourth Executive Director in the Center's twenty-six year history, follow in orders Colleen Kenyon. Sarah Northland, Board Member and a member of the Center's founding staff notes with pleasure that the Center is moving forward forward a positive fooling. "Ariel's commitment and enthusiasm consider the Center's original intention, to provide a progressive forum for contemporary photographers, a meeting place for an lengthen outed artistic community, and a historic overview of the medium. We consider forward to Ariel's leadership, his pioneering spirit, and his sensitivity to the Center's traditions."

The Center for Photography at Woodstock also lately announced the awardees of the 23rd Annuals Photographer's Fellowship permanent fund Carla Shapiro and J. Gilbert Plantinga were each awarded a $1000 fellowship. The Photographers' permanent fund Fellowhip serves to reward emerging photographic artists of exceptional talent in novel York State and in many cases is the first serious form of recognition. The honor is ofttimes seen as a major stair in the recipient's creative career and encouragement to further work. It is a able to endure and clear mandate that they should continue to build a professional career as an artist. Susan Edwards, juror of the competition, described the works as "the supremacy of vision through the whole extent of chance. Both of this year's recipients create work that is intriguing because of an implicit ambiguity where the internal tension of each image merits not no other than a second glance but also repeated study"

The Governing Board of the Yale University Art Gallery has pick outed Robert W. Doran, Yale class of 1955 as its chair. Robert Shapiro, Yale class of 1956 was picked vice chair. "The Yale Art Gallery is in the midst of a challenging period of the pair restoration and growth," explained Jock Reynolds, the Henry Heinz II Director. "I am greatly heartened to have strike Doran take over the leadership of our Governing Board to continue the outstanding work of Frederick Mayer. We have already undertaken the awesome responsibility of returning the landmark Louis I. Kahn building to its original splendor." Mr Doran received an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business institute in 1958, and two years later was a sink of the Boston-based investment firm Thorndike, Doran, Payne and Louis,

University of California at observes Angeles Extension Catalog Designers will be featured at a special exhibit armed forceed by the American Institute of Graphic Arts in March. The of the present day York show is the realization of a vision that began in 1990 when UCLA Extension first quick in emergenciesed catalog covers executed by world-renown graphic artists including Lucille Tenazas, Deborah Sussman and shady Pirtle. The series quickly assumed prominence in the design world as an of the era's most intriguing graphic designs. The point out to Masters of Graphic Design: Catalog overspreads of UCLA Extension will roll on from March 24-May 15 at the National Design Center in novel York City.

The Photographic Resource Center at Boston University is launching a modern online gallery of rising photographers, called Northeast prospect Starting this fall, the PRC will launch a recent umbrella rubric under which a variety of initiatives will fall. upon the exhibition side, the delineate will be a combination of physical and virtual display space. Since the progressive growth and redesign of prcboston.org in May 2002 web-visitation has grown dramatically, more than tripling to through the whole extent of 5,000 hits a month. The completed exhibition series, both online and in the gallery, will highlight recently made known works and new directions through emerging talent as well as the latest or lesser-shown works by dint of mid-career mentors. To visit the series, move to the PRC homepage at prcboston.org and click forward the Northeast Exposure icon.

The Nashville Film Festival freshly elected three new directors to their board. Liz Edsall McLaurin. David Silverman, and valley Trew are described as Nashville Film Festival President Jeff Walker as "three outstanding individuals who will be a valuable addition to [the] already muscular board. We are looking forward to the vigor and enthusiasm they will bring to the organization." The Nashville Film Festival is establish for April 26th through May 2nd 2004

The San Francisco Museum of fresh Art welcomes Corey Keller as just discovered Assistant Curator of Photography. Keller has been active at SFMOMA in a number of capacities since 1999 She is publicly a doctoral candidate in art history at Stanford University. Her dissertation is entitled The direct the eye of Knowledge: Photographic Imagery and the Discourse of Science, 1839-1895 She is pleased to be a part of SFMOMA, which distinguished itself as single in kind of the first museums in the United States to recognize photography as an art form.

The Board of Governors of Pacific Northwest society of Art is pleased to welcome Thomas Manley as president An innovative educator for more than sum of two units decades, Dr. Manley is highly regarded as the developer of many progressive cultural studies and community outreach programs. He retains a bachelor's degree in East Asian History and Education from Towson University. Dr Manley took office in July 2003 and will be formally inaugurated in May 2004