By Elin Spring My first meeting with Nancy Kathryn Burns, Worcester Art Museum Stoddard Associate Curator of Prints, Drawings and Photographs, was a happy accident. She was leading some visitors through an exhibit I had driven from Boston to see and I quietly latched onto the group. Before long, I couldn’t...
By Elin Spring A modern Renaissance woman, Julie Grahame juggles a career as photography consultant, curator, reviewer, writer and speaker. Publisher of the online photography magazine aCurator.com, she is senior representative for the Estate of Yousuf Karsh, and currently sits on the Board of the American...
By Elin Spring For some years, I have admired the innovative ways that the Addison Gallery of American Art at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts curates and exhibits their impressive photographic holdings. Whether exclusively photographic or multi-media, drawn from their archives or visiting...
I had been admiring Jennifer Shaw’s dreamy, visceral photographs for some time when I heard the news: she would be the 2018 Juror for the Somerville Toy Camera Festival (STCF), my favorite September event! An avid photographic experimenter and compelling visual storyteller based in New Orleans, Shaw...
Richard McCabe wears many hats: recently published fine art photographer, Curator of Photography at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans and now, celebrity Guest Juror for the Griffin Museum of Photography’s 24th Annual Juried Exhibition! I caught up with the talented Mr. McCabe as he blew...
In late 2015, Sarah Kennel came aboard as The Byrne Family Curator of Photography at the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) in Salem, Massachusetts. She is co-curator of this summer’s blockbuster Sally Mann exhibit, “A Thousand Crossings”, along with her former boss at the National Gallery...
In the world of theatre, a “triple threat” is a performer who can act, sing and dance. In the world of photography, a “triple threat” is Kat Kiernan, photographer, writer/editor and curator. As someone who understands the field from so many angles, I was delighted when I heard that Panopticon...
Anne Havinga, Estrellita and Yousuf Karsh Senior Curator of Photographs at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is at the reins of this eminent institution’s newly independent Department of Photography, directing a full range of exhibitions, acquisitions, programs, and activities. As a nearly 30-year veteran...
Francine Weiss is well-known and loved by the Boston photography community. In her new position as Senior Curator at the Newport Art Museum in Rhode Island, she is expanding the role of photography as she reshapes the museum’s mission in one of the most popular tourist destinations in New England....
Hamidah is in the house! The juror for Griffin Museum of Photography’s 23rd Juried Show – on view through September 1st, 2017 – is Hamidah Glasgow, Executive Director and Curator at The Center for Fine Art Photography in Fort Collins, Colorado since 2009. I thought this would be the perfect...
