Jastrab AnnAnn M. Jastrab is the executive director of the Center for Photographic Arts in Carmel, California. She received a BA in English Literature and a BA in Studio Art from Hartwick College before completing her MFA in photography at the Savannah Cllege of Art and Design in 1995. After graduation, she joined the resident faculty at the Maine Photographic Workshops and taught there for nearly a decade in both their year-round program and their intensive summer workshops. After living and working in Sweden, India, Australia and a number of places in between including Manhattan, Ann eventually moved to Los Angeles where she printed for the Motion Picture Academy (while still driving back to Maine every summer to teach photography). She worked as the gallery director at the RayKo Photo Center for 10 years until their closure, where she curated many exhibitions, while also jurying, curating, and organizing numerous exhibitions for other national and international venues outside of the San Francisco Bay Area. While being a champion of artists, she also created a thriving artist-in-residence program at RayKo where recent residents Kathya Marie Landeros, Meghann Riepenhoff, Carlos Javier Ortiz, and McNair Evans all received Guggenheim Fellowships. Prior to taking the position of executive director of CPA, Ann also worked as the gallery manager at Scott Nichols Gallery in San Francisco. Read More Read Less