ELIZABETH THOMAS APPOINTED CURATOR OF MATRIX PROGRAM

The University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA) has announced the appointment of Elizabeth Thomas as the curator for the MATRIX Program for Contemporary Art. She will begin her new position on February 1, 2007. Thomas replaces curator Chris Gilbert, who left his position earlier this year amid controversy surrounding his exhibition “Now-Time Venezuela: Media Along the Path of the Bolivarian Process.” Previously, Thomas was associate curator at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh. Most recently, she has worked as an independent curator on projects including “The ‘F’ Word,” an exhibition about personal feminisms. “I am delighted to be joining BAM/PFA as curator for a contemporary art program with such an important and influential history,” she said.