That<\/b> <\/b>Pieridis Foundation issued this morning, December 29, 2023, an announcement on the appointment of Dr. Elena Stylianou to the position of Director of<\/b> NiMAC.<\/b><\/p>\n
The Pieridis Foundation announces that from January 1, 2024, Dr. Elena Stylianou will be the new Director of the Nicosia Municipal Arts Center, Collaboration: Pieridis Foundation [NiMAC]. In this position, Dr. Stylianou will provide leadership, inspiration and strategic direction for the Center and ensure that the Center achieves its short and long term goals of artistic excellence, financial sustainability and community engagement. As Director she will be responsible for all aspects of the NiMAC portfolio. These include artistic, operational, educational and community planning, financial management, staff development and fundraising.<\/p>\n
The resume of the new director<\/p>\n
Dr. Stylianou has extensive experience in various fields of culture and is Associate Professor of Art and Art History at the European University of Cyprus. He researches, writes and curates at the intersections of photography history and theory, modern and contemporary art, critical theory and museum and curatorial practices. He has curated a series of art exhibitions in Cyprus, the last one entitled "In the Sea of the Setting Sun: Photographic Practices and the Archive", which was presented at the State Gallery of Contemporary Art-SPEL. Her work has been published in scholarly journals and collective volumes and she is co-editor of Contemporary Art<\/i> from<\/i> Cyprus: Politics, Identit<\/i> ies<\/i> and Culture<\/i> s<\/i> Across Borders<\/i> (Bloomsbury, Spring 2021), Ar<\/i> (<\/i> t<\/i> )<\/i> chaeology<\/i> :<\/i> Intersections<\/i> <\/i>of<\/i> <\/i>Photography<\/i> <\/i>and<\/i> <\/i>Archeology<\/i> (IAPT Press, 2019) and Museums<\/i> <\/i>and<\/i> <\/i>Photography<\/i> :<\/i> Displaying<\/i> <\/i>Death<\/i> (Routledge, 2018).<\/p>\n
Dr. Stylianou received her PhD from Columbia University, Teachers College NY, with an emphasis in contemporary art, and is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including a Getty-CAA Fellowship, a Fulbright Fellowship, and an ArtTable Fellowship in the Department of Curators of the Museum of Arts & Design in New York. She previously held a postdoctoral position at UCL London studying the intersections of contemporary art, museums and technology and has worked as the first coordinator of the Museum of the City of New York's Saturday Academy in New York, serving underprivileged youth through of the museum's educational programs. She is the lead researcher and coordinator of several EU-funded projects related to the arts and cultural heritage, she is one of the national experts representing Cyprus in the EU initiative Accessible EU, with the aim, among other things, of promoting accessibility for all in cultural heritage, and is one of the founding members and current president of the International Organization of Photography and Theory [IAPT].<\/p>\n
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The fact described in the text is that Dr. Elena Stylianou has been appointed as the Director of NiMAC (Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre) by the Pierides Foundation, starting from January 1, 2024. She will be responsible for the artistic, operational, educational, and community programming aspects of NiMAC, as well as financial management, staff development, and resource mobilization. Dr. Stylianou has extensive experience in various fields of culture and is currently an Associate Professor of Art and Art History at the European University Cyprus. She holds a doctoral degree from Columbia University, Teachers College NY, with a focus on contemporary art. She has curated several art exhibitions and her work has been published in scientific journals and books. She has also received numerous awards and scholarships, including the Getty-CAA scholarship, Fulbright scholarship, and ArtTable scholarship. She has previously held postdoctoral positions at UCL in London and worked as the first coordinator of the Saturday Academy at the Museum of the City of New York. She is currently involved in several EU-funded projects related to arts and cultural heritage and represents Cyprus in the EU Accessible EU initiative. She is also a founding member and current president of the International Association of Photography and Theory (IAPT).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":908,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[3,25,187],"class_list":["post-907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cyprus","tag-cyprus","tag-i-iyiiii-i-news","tag-international"],"acf":{"keyphrase":"","keywords":"","sourceimg":"","country-category":""},"yoast_head":"\n