The Center for Photographic Art is proud to announce the selection of Ms. Nicole Garzino as our new Executive Director. A dedicated photographer and photography enthusiast, Nicole has over ten years experience in arts management, including appointments as the Director of Development for both the Monterey Museum of Art and the Barrington Stage Company in Massachusetts. She has also served as the Executive Director of the Dorchester Center for the Arts and County Arts Council in Maryland. Nicole has a particular love for community-focused arts organizations. She has served as a board member and volunteer committee member for the Storefront Artist Project for the City of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, the Cultural Advisory Board, and the Berkshire Arts Kitchen. Garzino received her masters degree in arts administration from Goucher College. She relocated her family back to her native state of California in 2010, and has since been active in the local community, currently volunteering with the Arts Habitat and serving on the Board of the Junior League for Monterey County.

I haven’t received any images from the many photographers who were at the opening reception of the 2012 Juried Exhibition. In the meantime, you’ll have to make do with a few I snapped.

Richard Cannon, pictured an hour before the reception started and before he changed into his more formal clothing:

It wasn’t too crowded for the first half-hour:

But after that, we had a lot of people in a small gallery. It was great:

The prize-winning entries of the 2012 Juried Exhibition were announced on Saturday, January 21.

First prize, $1000, goes to Sara Friedlander, for Gehry/Disney/Spring:

Second prize, $500, to Martha Casanave for this cyanotype, C54_2007:

Third prize, $250, to Saelon Renkes, for Walls of Pergamon:

Stevenson photography students visit the CPA gallery to see the Uelsmann exhibition

Photography instructor Cole Thompson brought his students to the CPA gallery on December 8th. The students thoroughly enjoyed viewing the work of Jerry Uelsmann and discussion of the work was lively. Uelsmann’s references in his images to other photographers and artists as well as to other works of art was often pointed to by the students and by Thompson. Thompson shared his own person experience of meeting Uelsmann some thirty plus years ago and described how that meeting influenced his own work and his life. This is the second exhibition at the CPA gallery these same students have come to see. We look forward to sharing more with them in 2012.