A lecture by Elizabeth F. Spungen, Executive Director of The Print Center in Philadelphia: Nonprofit Fundraising and Philanthropy in the U.S., and a Brief History of The Print Center of Philadelphia
 
Synopsis: the guest will introduce The Print Center, which is the oldest organization in the US dedicated to the printed image (printmaking and photography) as it approaches its Centennial year in 2015. She will then discuss the organization's approach to raising financial support. Since the fundraising environment in Lithuania, as well as all of Europe is changing, and she will give an overview of strategies for fundraising which are common in the US, along with a specific view of how she raises the funds to support The Print Center.

Entrance to the lecture is free of charge. The partner of the event is the Embassy of the USA in Lithuania.
 
Liz Spungen has been the Executive Director of The Print Center in Philadelphia since 2006. She received both a BA and MA in the History of Art from the University of Pennsylvania and has spent her entire career working with the visual arts in Philadelphia.
 
Her tenure at The Print Center has been marked by programmatic and administrative accomplishments. She has developed numerous major individual and institutional gifts, among them the largest gift ever received by The Print Center naming the Jensen Bryan Curatorial Chair, as well as awards from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, William Penn Foundation, Pew Center for Arts and Heritage and the National Endowment for the Arts. She established fiscal and personnel stability for the organization, expanded the size of the staff, developed a publication program, improved the facility upgrades and reestablished The Print Center's position as an artist's advocate. She often serves as a panelist, guest juror and visiting critic for regional and national organizations, government agencies and universities. Her curatorial efforts have included Black Pulse: Doug + Mike Starn (2007); Nakazora: space between sky and earth: Masao Yamamoto (2008); the retrospective exhibition Silver Mine: Robert Asman (2011-2012); and Matt Neff: Second Sight (2014). Recent publications include The Picture that Remains by Will Brown and Thomas Devaney (2013) and To See God Not the Devil's Insides by Doug and Mike Starn (2007).
 
Spungen has served as a panelist for the Philadelphia Cultural Fund and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, and on The Photo Review Long Range Planning Committee, Advisory Board at the Arcadia University Art Gallery and Board of Directors of the Chester Springs Studio. She often serves as a panelist, guest speaker, portfolio reviewer and visiting critic for regional and national organizations and universities and has juried exhibitions for the Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO; the Atlanta Photography Group, Atlanta, GA and the William Paterson University Gallery, Wayne, NJ.
 
Spungen has been on the curatorial staff at the Institute of Contemporary Art, The Fabric Workshop & Museum and Bryn Mawr College. From 2002 - 2006 she headed Liz F. Spungen Fine Art, specializing in works on paper from the greater Philadelphia region.