Founded in 1977, the Center for Photography at Woodstock is a not-for-profit 501(c)3 artist-centered organization dedicated to supporting artists working in photography and related media and engaging audiences through opportunities in which creation, discovery, and learning are made possible.
-approved by the Board of Directors, May
2007
Executive Director - Ariel ShanbergAppointed executive director in fall 2003, Ariel Shanberg has been at CPW since 1999 when he joined as an Arts Administration intern. As the fourth executive director in the organization's history, Shanberg sets and oversees the CPW's artistic mission and creative offerings, working with the staff and Board to ensure its historic & continued excellence.
Shanberg serves as editor of CPW's PQ and has curated many exhibitions at CPW, most recently CAMP: Visting Day. as well as at other venues including Light Factory, the Philadelphia Photo Arts Center, the Islip Art Museum, the Dorsky Museum, and an 2011 members exhibition at the Houston Center for Photography. He has served as a panelist for the 2011 New York Photo Festival Awards, the National Endowment for the Arts, Media Alliance's Media Action Grant, Light Works' Regional Photographers' Grant, and a reviewer at both regional & national SPE conferences, FotoFest, Portfolio Review Russia, and Rhubarb Rhubarb as well as an invited speaker at Bucknell, Syracuse, and Rutgers Universities.
He has contributed essays on the works of various photographers for monographs and such publications as Contact Sheet, European Photography, and Nueva Luz. Additionally he sits on the Advisory Board of En Foco and was the 2007 Conference Chair for SPE's joint regional Mid-Atlantic & Northeast conference held in November 2007 at Woodstock. In 1997 he received his BFA cum laude in Painting from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. CONTACT
Program Associate - Akemi Hiatt
Akemi Hiatt joined the staff as CPW’s program associate in October of 2009.
She works to implement CPW’s year-round program offerings, including
exhibitions, artists workspace residencies, workshops, lectures,
publication, fellowships, services for artists, and more. She has reviewed portfolios at such events as ICP Career Day, Society for Photographic Education National & Regional Conferences, and the New England Portfolio Reviews organized by Griffin Museum and the PRC.
She graduated with a BA in Photography from New York University in May of 2009, where she tailored her curriculum around media studies, journalism and the visual arts within the Gallatin School of Individualized Study. Her studies involved a four-month residency in the West African nation of Ghana, where she produced a documentary about the ongoing struggles of former child soldiers of the Liberian Civil War. Hiatt has previously worked as a photojournalist at The Honolulu Advertiser, a daily newspaper, and interned as a gallery associate at Higher Pictures (New York, NY). CONTACT
Education Coordinator - Lindsay
A. Stern
CPW welcomed Lindsay Stern as
CPW's Education Coordinator in April 2010. In her role as Education
Coordinator, she oversees
CPW’s year-round educational programs including coordinating and serving as the
on-site manager of the annual Woodstock
Photography Workshops & Lecture
Series, overseeing CPW's outreach, and interpretive offerings, including artist lecture
series, panel discussions, interpretive programming for exhibitions, and
more.
Prior to joining the staff of CPW, Lindsay
served as the Arts Curator for the National Network of Depression Centers,
organizing the traveling exhibit Vital ART and has previously
worked on exhibitions and public programs for the Warren Robbins Gallery
at the University of Michigan, the Nassau County Museum of Art in Roslyn
Harbor, and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. Lindsay Stern is herself
a mixed media artist. She received her MFA and Graduate Certificate in
Museum Studies from the University of Michigan (2009), and a BFA,
concentration in Photography, from the New York State College of Ceramics
at Alfred University (2004). Lindsay has shown her prints, photographs,
and collages throughout the United States. In 2011 she was selected to particpate in NYFA's MARK program.
Development Associate - Megan Sauve
Megan Sauve joined the CPW staff in May of 2012. As Development Associate, she is responsible for cultivating and maintaining relationships with CPW’s donors and members. She works closely with Executive Director Ariel Shanberg and CPW’s Board of Directors, Advisory Board, and sub-committees in order to continually strengthen and broaden the reach of CPW’s mission. Megan is also the CPW database management and organizer extraordinaire!
Prior to joining CPW, Megan was an Intern at the Women’s Studio Workshop in Rosendale where she continues to teach ceramics classes to this day. From 2009-2011, Megan was involved with the South Side Community Art Center (SSCAC), which is the oldest African American arts center in the country and is located in Chicago, IL. She was the Program Coordinator for the SSCAC’s After School Arts Education Program but previously had played several different roles at SSCAC including Arts Instructor, Administrative Intern, and also managed restoration projects for the SSCAC art archive room and Gallery Too space. Megan received her BFA in Ceramics from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2008. CONTACT
Operations Manager - Lawrence P. Lewis
Lawrence Lewis is CPW's administrator and Woodstock Photography Workshop registrar.
A member of CPW's staff since 1992, Lewis is a past recipient of
the CPW's Photography Fellowship Fund. He creates moving, evocative portraits of families with an
8x10 view camera. He is an Adjunct Professor of Photography at Marist College in
Poughkeepsie, New York. CONTACT
Board of Directors
Clinton Cargill
Cynthia Cohen
Ben Fink
Howard Greenberg - Founder, Chair
W. M. Hunt, Vice-Chair
Arie Kopelman. Treasurer
Elena Paul
Jed Root
Stan Sagner
Ariel Shanberg
Andy Young, Secretary
Advisory Board
Koan-Jeff Baysa
Gloria Nimetz Bumstead
Philip Cavanaugh
Darren Ching
Brian Clamp
Julie Galant
William Hannigan
Doug James
David Karp
Susana Tourella Leval
Ellen K. Levy
David Maloney
Yossi Milo
Jeff Milstein
Doug Menuez
Sarah Morthland
Alison Nordström
Robert Peacock
Roger Ricco
Miriam Romais
Ernestine Ruben
Kathleen Ruiz
Gerald Slota
Neil Trager
Judy Upjohn
Rick Wester