Lorne E. Render
Lorne Render is the director of the
Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art. Kansas State University in Manhattan,
KS.
Prior to coming to Kansas State University
he served as Executive Director of the C.M. Russell Museum in Great Falls,
MT. Before that he served in various capacities in Canada at the Royal
Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario and at the Glenbow Museum in Calgary,
Alberta. He has written numerous articles, prefaces and forwards for several
publications and is active in various museum organizations.
Render is a graduate of the School of
Architecture and Allied Arts, University of Oregon, where he earned both a
B. A. and his M. A. in Art History. He and his wife now reside in
Manhattan, Kansas.
LAURA ZITO
Laura Zito graduated from Harvard
University's Visual and Environmental Studies Department with a summa cum
laude thesis in photographic printing. She is the first American and the
first Woman to win the Grand Prize in the Nikon Contest. Her many awards
include the Purchase Prize for the permanent collection in "Art of the State
2002" at the Pennsylvania State Museum in Harrisburg, as well as First Prize
in Photography, the 2002 Purchase Prize for the Michener Museum in the
Artsbridge Exhibit , the First Prize for the Body of Work at the 2002 Cape
May Art Show , the first medal for photography ever awarded in this show,
Best in Show in "Art Show at the Dog Show" and Purchase Prize for the Museum
of the Dog in St. Louis, First Place for the Body of Work at the 2003 Rose
Tree Park Art Show, the Photography Prize at the Woodmere Art Museum, the
Color Photography Prize at the Westmoreland Art Nationals, and a Third Prize
from Yvette Lee of the Whitney Museum.
Ms. Zito has been published in Camera Arts,
the Photo Review, Darkroom Photography, FotoMundo, the L.A.Times Magazine,
Harvard Magazine, Natural History, Time, Newsweek, People, Ritz-Carlton
Hotels Magazine, and has an article with photos in the summer '03 issue of
"Cultural Survival Quarterly," and in an upcoming issue of Granta. Ms.
Zito's photos have graced the covers and inside pages of books such as
Curtin and London's "A Guide to Great Pictures," and Wayland's "Bedouin -
Nomads of the Desert." Ms. Zito curated groups shows at Fotoforum, her
photography gallery at 47th and Fifth, NYC, for several years, as well as a
group show for the Museo de Arte Moderno in Buenos Aires: "Fotoforum - 25
New York Photographers." She has exhibited extensively internationally, in
NYC, Buenos Aires, Tel Aviv and Ireland.
