As a recently elected Trustee of the Chautauqua Institution, a 130-year-old Western New York cultural center with a nine-week summer season, I look forward to helping maintain the momentum the Visual Arts have gained here in the last several years. While President of the Chautauqua Center for the Visual Arts (fondly known as the CCVA), I spent a great deal of time working on the merger of the major exhibition space on the Chautauqua grounds with the Chautauqua School of Art.... a collaboration that now finds the merged entities working together under the auspices of the Institution. The New CCVA brings artists, teachers, students and lecturers to its School and Galleries from all over the country, kicking off each season with a juried National Exhibition of American Art.

A "Street Scenes" party at the CCVA.