Executive Director
@ PHOTOGRAPHIC CENTER NORTHWEST (PCNW)
/ Based in Seattle, Washington
Terry Novak joined Photographic Center Northwest (PCNW) in 2012 and has occupied numerous roles, culminating in her recent appointment as Executive Director. She has focused her professional efforts on fundraising and leveraging...
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Terry Novak joined Photographic Center Northwest (PCNW) in 2012 and has occupied numerous roles, culminating in her recent appointment as Executive Director. She has focused her professional efforts on fundraising and leveraging resources to foster sustainability for PCNW and the photographic arts in the Pacific Northwest.
Novak has been a reviewer at PhotoAlliance in San Francisco and PhotoPlus in New York and co-juried the 2019 Pacific Northwest Viewing Drawers at Blue Sky Gallery in Portland, OR. She is co-chair of the Capitol Hill Arts District, leading advocacy and policy around creation and preservation of affordable spaces and resources for artists and arts organizations; she is also a member of the Fundraising for the Arts Task Force and served as a grant panelist for The Washington State Arts Commission.
Novak received her BFA in photography from Columbia College Chicago and has an affinity for color analog and alternative processes. She holds an MFA in Arts Administration from Seattle University.