Industry Leaders from a Wide Range of Creative Fields Join Arts Board
The Art Directors Club (ADC), the first global creative collective of its kind and longest standing organization championing the visual arts, today announced six incoming members to its Board of Directors.
The six incoming board members are:
• Sergio Alcocer, President and CCO, LatinWorks
• Samantha DiGennaro, CEO/Founder, DiGennaro Communications
• Amani Duncan, VP Brand Marketing, C.F. Martin & Co.
• Greg Hahn, ECD, EVP, BBDO NYC
• Philippe Meunier, Creative Chief and Senior Partner, Sid Lee
• Nick Parrish, Editorial Director, Americas, Contagious Magazine
ADC Board of Directors will work with ADC Executive Director Ignacio Oreamuno to move the Club forward and represent its membership. The Board meets four times a year to hear and provide counsel to Oreamuno’s vision and strategy.
“The new ADC Board of Directors is stronger than ever before because the membership and the Board all agreed to move forward in growing a multidisciplinary board, said Oreamuno. “Instead of being composed of strictly advertising and design professionals, like in the past, we have now opened the door to music industry leaders, publications, public relations, talent leaders and more, who are better suited to directing, adapting and expanding the direction of the Club in the future.”
With the addition of the six new members, The ADC Board of Directors now totals 18 of the creative industry’s most brilliant and influential people, including: Benjamin Palmer, President of the Board and cofounder/CEO of The Barbarian Group; Anthony Rhodes, Executive Vice President at SVA; Brian Collins, Chairman and Chief Creative Officer at COLLINS; Steve Smith, Partner at Stephen M. Smith & Co.; Ann Harakawa, Principal/Creative Director at Two Twelve Associates; Scott Belsky, CEO and Founder of Behance LLC; Rei Inamoto, Chief Creative Officer at AKQA; Nicole Jacek, Creative Director at karlssonwiler; Rick Kurnit, Partner at Frankfurt, Kurnit, Klein & Selz; Alessandra Lariu, Co-founder of SheSays; Dany Lennon, Owner/President of The Creative Register Inc.; Noreen Morioka, Partner at AdamsMorioka; and Robert Wong, Executive Creative Director at Google Creative Lab.
The board’s varied expertise ensures that ADC’s leadership is representative of its membership, and they contribute their wisdom, resources and networks in the effort to bring ADC into a new generation; one that values human connections and networking, useful, interesting content and helpful professional resources and benefits.
About the Art Directors Club
Founded in 1920, the Art Directors Club is the premier organization for leaders in visual communication, boasting one of the most concentrated groups of creative talent in the world. A not-for-profit membership organization, the ADC’s mission is to Connect creative professionals around the globe, while simultaneously Provoking and Elevating world-changing ideas. The ADC provides a forum for creatives of all levels in Advertising, Design, Interactive Media and Communications to explore the direction of these rapidly converging industries.
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“Ǝvolution” Comes Full Circle At The Chelsea Film Festival
The Chelsea Film Festival, running from October 16th through October 20th, 2024, at Regal Cinemas here in Union Square, is set to host the East Coast premiere of Ǝvolution, a thought-provoking experimental micro-short film that proves big ideas can come in small packages and in perfect circles.
In just 1 minute 16 seconds, this cinematic gem by Award-Winning Director Romina Schwedler, with original music by Argentine Composer Ignacio Montoya Carlotto, explores a cycle as old as time: life leads to progress, progress leads to destruction, and destruction, well, leads back to life. But is this vicious circle unbreakable? Ǝvolution suggests the answer is yes, unless we decide to open our eyes.
Inspired by the overwhelming number of recent events that threaten human existence, Ǝvolution, possibly the shortest film in this 12th edition of the festival, plays out entirely through the symbolism of circles, cleverly illustrating —in the blink of an eye— the repeating patterns of history, and confronting viewers with the uncomfortable truth that our so-called “progress” may, in fact, be guiding us to our own ruin.Premiering at the Regal 14 Union Square, New York City, on October 18, 2024, at 11 a.m., Romina Schwedler's micro-short, featuring Leah Young with cinematography by Alan J. Carmona, will be sure to spark conversations longer than the film itself! Forcing viewers to reconsider the true meaning of evolution, not just as a biological process, but as a reflection of our collective journey as humans.
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