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 learning 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 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
Development Director - Barbara Mansfield The allure of Woodstock drew Babs from New York City—where she was Director of Individual Giving for the International Center for Photography—and she relocated with her family during the summer of 2006. Since then, Babs has served as a consultant to several local nonprofits and arts organizations, as well as volunteering for the Central Catskills Collaborative, the Onteora Central School District’s Arts Task Force and Health and Wellness Committees, and the Ashokan Center. Her husband and CPW's Digital Lab Manager, Phil Mansfield, “certainly got me interested in photography;” says Mansfield, “but the attention CPW gives to new works and the evolution of photography education is what keeps me utterly fascinated.” 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 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. 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 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 Ben Fink Howard Greenberg - Founder, Chair W. M. Hunt, Vice-Chair Arie Kopelman. Treasurer Kitty McCullough, Secretary David Maloney Roger Ricco Jed Root Ariel Shanberg Gerald Slota Randy West Andy Young	Advisory Board Koan-Jeff Baysa Gloria Nimetz Bumstead Philip Cavanaugh Darren Ching Brian Clamp Daniel Cooney Julie Galant Doug James David Karp Ellen K. Levy Yossi Milo	Jeff Milstein Doug Menuez Sarah Morthland Alison Nordström Robert Peacock Miriam Romais Ernestine Ruben Kathleen Ruiz Neil Trager Judy Upjohn Rick Wester