Please join the Photographic Resource Center for 3 special events during April, May and June. These events are open to a limited number of people on a first come, first served basis. Space is limited for each of these events, so please call 617.975.0600 to reserve your place today.

You can purchase the three “Behind the Scenes” events as a package for $300 per person or you can purchase the individual events at the event price listed below.

The first “Behind the Scenes” Event
Lecture and Private Dinner Reception with Tina Barney
Thursday, April 17th, 2008
Lecture at 7pm with dinner to directly follow
The Photographic Resource Center at Boston University
832 Commonwealth Ave
Boston, MA 02215
Enjoy a private dinner reception with one of America’s most influential and respected photographers. The event will take place on Thursday, April 17 and directly follow her lecture. Limit for this event is 20 people. The price of the event is $125 per person. RSVP by April 7th.

The second “Behind the Scenes” Event
Photography at the Fogg Art Museum
Saturday, May 10, 2008 at 11am
Fogg Art Museum
32 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Harvard University’s Fogg Art Museum will be closing for renovations on June 30, so take advantage of this opportunity to view selections from the Fogg Art Museum’s photography collection in the Agnes Mongan Center for the Study Prints, Drawings, and Photographs. The event time will be on Saturday, May 10 from 11-12 with a talk by the Richard L. Menschel Curator of Photography, Deborah Martin Kao. Following the tour, join us at a special restaurant for lunch. The price of the event is $125 per person. Limit for this event is 15 people. RSVP by May 5th.

The third “Behind the Scenes” Event
A Private Collection Becomes Public
ISM.
Thursday, June 12, 2008 at 6:30
745 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02116
ISM, a travel and leisure marketing company, is allowing a limited number of visitors to view their never-seen-before corporate collection.Guests will enjoy a guided tour with ISM’s President and CEO, Gary Leopold and enjoy cocktails and hors d’oeuvres on its roof-deck, with a spectacular view of the Back Bay. Gary has been an avid collector of photography and a member of the PRC Board of Directors. The price of the event is $100 per person. Event time will be Thursday, June 12 from 6:30 to 8:30pm. RSVP by May 31st.

We’ve got a big week coming up, with some tough choices to make on Thursday. Of course, we hope you choose Arno Rafael Minkkinen’s first public lecture in Boston at the PRC. Don’t forget the leap year, one extra day of February for your enjoyment, and First Fridays deferred a week to March 7th.

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26

Rhode Island School of Design. Visualizing Black Culture. Lecture by Dr. Deborah Willis, Chair of Photography and Imaging Department at NYU Tisch School of the Arts: 7 pm. RISD Auditorium, 17 Canal Street, Providence, Rhode Island 02906. 401.454.6500. www.risd.edu

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28

Photographic Resource Center. Arno Rafael Minkkinen: unplugged, as always. 7pm, BU’s Photonics Center, Auditorium 206, 8 St. Mary’s Street, Boston, MA. 617-975-0600. www.prcboston.org $10 Members/$15 Non-Members/$5 Full-time Students/Free for Students of Institutional Members. [meetup]

Foster Gallery, Museum of Fine Arts Boston. SMFA Traveling Scholars. Artists’ talk by Bill Durgin, Mathew Clay Freeman and Elizabeth H. Wallace: 11 am. Avenue of the Arts, 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02115. 617-267-9300. www.mfa.org

Harvard University Art Museums. Moyra Davey: Two or Three Things I know about Her. Lecture by Catherine Lord: 6 p.m. Carpenter Center Auditorium. 24 Quincy Street. Opening Night: 7 pm. Fogg Art Museum, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA. www.artmuseums.harvard.edu

Griffin Museum. Photographs of Immigrant Station on Ellis Island from the Social Museum of Harvard University. Gallery talk by Beth Pugliano: 7 pm. 67 Shore Road, Winchester MA 01890. 781-729-1158. www.griffinmuseum.org

We hope to see you at as many of these great events as possible!