Anne B Ayres

Anne B. Ayres, associate curator of exhibitions and collections at the Newport Harbor Art Museum, will be named today as director of the Otis/Parsons Art Institute Exhibitions Center. She succeeds Al Nodal, who recently became director of the Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans. Nodal says he will return to Los Angeles one week a month to continue his other job as chief planner of the MacArthur Park Public Art Program, a revitalization project sponsored in part by Otis/Parsons.

With a doctorate in art history, 20 years of experience as a teacher, curator and administrator and a list of two dozen exhibitions she has organized--including "Karen Carson: But Enough About Me," currently at Otis College of Art and Design, where she directs the gallery--Anne Ayres might appear to have followed a straight and narrow path to a challenging career. But her resume doesn't tell the full story. Furthermore, Ayres isn't nuts about the C-word.

With a doctorate in art history, 20 years of experience as a teacher, curator and administrator and a list of two dozen exhibitions she has organized--including "Karen Carson: But Enough About Me," currently at Otis College of Art and Design, where she directs the gallery--Anne Ayres might appear to have followed a straight and narrow path to a challenging career. But her resume doesn't tell the full story. Furthermore, Ayres isn't nuts about the C-word.

Anne B. Ayres, associate curator of exhibitions and collections at the Newport Harbor Art Museum, will be named today as director of the Otis/Parsons Art Institute Exhibitions Center. She succeeds Al Nodal, who recently became director of the Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans. Nodal says he will return to Los Angeles one week a month to continue his other job as chief planner of the MacArthur Park Public Art Program, a revitalization project sponsored in part by Otis/Parsons.