Notes From The Field - Brief Article

The International Center of Photography in New York City has announced the public phase of its $11 million Capital Campaign to fund the center's move from its historic location on Fifth Avenue to a larger building at its midtown site at 43rd St. The expansion will enable more exhibitions, events and educational programs.

The expanded galleries are scheduled to re-open in the fall of 2000 and the school and administrative offices will be ready by September 2001. For information call (212) 860-1777 or visit www.icp.org.... The Museum of Photographic Arts (MoPA) in San Diego has appointed its first film curator, Chicago-based educator, historian and filmmaker Scott Marks. Marks's duties will include the management and programming of a new state-of-the-art 238-seat theater at MoPA. The theater is named in honor of Joan and Irwin Jacobs, who donated $1 million to help fund the renovation and expansion of MoPA's existing space to four times its former capacity. The theater will host all genres of film and video wor k--domestic and foreign, historic and contemporary, fiction and documentary, and adult and children's--as well as provide a venue for festivals, lectures, visiting artists and industry professionals and other special events. This new position as film curator in a photography museum is only the second of its kind--the first being at the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film in Rochester, NY....The editors of the much-missed High Performance Magazine, Linda Frye Burnham and Steven Durland, are now producing APINews, a newsletter focusing on community-based art, which includes extensive news, commentary and a variety of resources/links to related sites of interest. APINews is being produced in both print and in an on-line form that can be found at www.communityarts.net/api....The Society for Contemporary Photography (SCP) has chosen Kathy Aron as its first Director. SCP, located in Kansas City, MO, is a non-profit organization that was formerly managed by volunteer members and a small staff of part-time employees. Aron's duties will include primary curatorial responsibilities and general oversight of SCP's activities, which include educational and exhibition programming, audience development and fundraising. Aron most recently served as Vice President of Exhibitions on the Board of Directors for the SCP.