Claudia Saimbert investigates issues surrounding being a young Haitian-American woman. Inspired by a desire to prove to herself that black women are beautiful, she embarked on the series "Daughters of Eve". She worked with seven young women of African American descent and varying skin tones who had been told that they don't represent ideal beauty for various reasons. The resulting portraits are raw, honest, and ultimately, beautiful.
Saimbert is currently a senior photography major at Montserrat College of Art (Beverly, MA). She is Creative Director of COPY magazine, a venue for showcasing new or unrecognized artists of all varieties. She has been selected for several juried student exhibitions, including the Copley Society of Art (Boston, MA) and the College Art Association's Regional BFA Exhibition at the 808 Gallery (Boston, MA).
Stan Trecker was Director of the PRC from 1980 until 1991, when he accepted a position as President of the Art Institute of Boston (Boston, MA). During his time at the PRC, Trecker oversaw the first Leopold Godowsky Jr., Color Photography Awards, the first live photographic auction and Mother's Day portrait event as well as the center's ten-year anniversary. Perhaps most importantly, he administered a successful $350,000 capital campaign to renovate the basement of 602 Commonwealth Avenue, increasing the PRC's facilities over four-fold and instituting, for the first time, an exhibition space.
Trecker holds a MFA in photography and printmaking from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, IL) and a MBA from Indiana University (Bloomington, IN). After the PRC, he served as President of AIB and in 2003 became the president of Montserrat College of Art (Beverly, MA), a post he holds today.
