Staff - The Center for Photography at Woodstock



MISSION		HISTORY
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 education are made possible. -approved by the Board of Directors, May 2007		coming soon
STAFF
Executive Director - Ariel Shanberg Appointed 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 A River Runs Through Me. as well as at other venues including Light Factory, the Philadelphia Photo Arts Center, and an upcoming exhibition at the Miss Porters' School in February 2010. He has served as a panelist for 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, 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. He holds a BFA in painting from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University in 1997. CONTACT
Education Coordinator - Lindsay A. Stern CPW recently welcomed Lindsay Stern as CPW's Education Coordinator in April 2010. In her role as Education Coordinator, Stern 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. 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 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 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 Digital Lab Manager - Phil Mansfield At CPW since spring 2008, Phil Mansfield oversees the Digital Kitchen. A professional photographer and digital imaging instructor Phil's work appears regularly in The New York Times as well as publications like Psychology Today, Vogue Living and Scholastic Magazine. As Digital Lab Manager, Mansfield oversees classes, weekend workshops, seminars and other offerings served up in at CPW Digital Kitchen as well as teaching classes himself at CPW and at Ulster Community College in Stone Ridge, NY. CONTACT
BOARD
Board of Directors Howard Greenberg - Founder W. M. Hunt Arie Kopelman Kitty McCullough David Maloney Doug Menuez Roger Ricco Nina Schultz-Terner Ariel Shanberg Gerald Slota Jeff Slutsky Lynn Slutsky	Advisory Board Koan-Jeff Baysa Gloria Nimetz Bumstead Philip Cavanaugh Darren Ching Brian Clamp Daniel Cooney Julie Galant Alexander Gray Doug James David Karp Ellen K. Levy Yossi Milo	Jeff Milstein Sarah Morthland Alison Nordström Robert Peacock Miriam Romais Ernestine Ruben Kathleen Ruiz Neil Trager Judy Upjohn Rick Wester.