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Leonardo Electronic Directory
Sara Diamond
| Sara Diamond, President OCAD 100 McCaul Street Toronto, Ontario Canada M5T 1W1 Email: sdiamond@ocad.on.ca Web site: http://www.ocad.on.ca |
Sara Diamond was born in 1954 in New York City. She later moved to Canada with her family, and has lived in Western Canada or the Western USA since 1978. She has been active as a video curator, cultural critic and television/video producer, and has provided instruction in video production and theory at art centres and colleges. She has served on the boards of the Satellite Video Exchange Society, Vancouver Art Gallery, FUSE Magazine, and the IMAGES Festival. Diamond's video art and broadcast works have been exhibited and screened in Europe, England, Mexico, the Pacific Rim, the United States, and Canada. She has served as an advisor to the Honourable Sheila Copps, Heritage Canada in the development of new media policy for Canada and currently sits on the Cultural Industries SAGIT, advising DFAIT on trade policy and culture. She is a member of the Alberta ICT Implementation consultancy, reporting to Minister Lorne Taylor. Diamond led Media and Visual Arts at the Banff Centre from l994-2005 after successfully restructuring the Television and Video Program. She then took over leadership of an amalgamated Media and Visual Arts program that linked six programs and the Gallery as well as research and technical services. Her job as Artistic Director was to develop all program areas, provide leadership to two other senior directors and collaborate with the director of media services, and direct a second layer of management who produce the New Media Institute and Co-Production areas. In 2005, Diamond relocated to Toronto, Canada, to serve as the President of the Ontario College of Art & Design (OCAD), Canada's largest art and design university, founded in 1876. |
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