Board welcomes new chair, new directors

Under the leadership of Chairman and President Merton Flemings, the Silk Road Project Board of Directors has provided invaluable guidance to the organization. Merton’s successor is Judy Goldberg, who assumed her duties in February 2006. We are grateful that Merton will continue on as vice president, and we thank him for his insight, his intelligence, and his steady hand during this transformational time.

We offer Judy a warm welcome. An active leader and supporter of the Project since she joined the Board in April 2004, Judy is a pianist, chamber musician, teacher, and coach, and has headed several not-for-profit boards, including a long tenure as chair of Young Audiences of Massachusetts, an organization that helps young people discover the excitement of live artistic performances.

The Silk Road Project also welcomes three new Board members to its internationally renowned roster:

Dr. Roger Mandle is president of the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD).  He came to RISD from the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., where he served as deputy director from 1988 to 1993.  Prior to working at the National Gallery, Roger was the director of the Toledo Museum of Art, and from 1967 to 1974, he served as associate director of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.

Dr. Mahrukh Tarapor is the associate director for exhibitions of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.  Prior to working at the Metropolitan Museum, she was head of gallery education at the Asia Society, and in 1983, she joined the Met as a research assistant in the Department of Islamic Art.

Dr. Maria Tatar is the John L. Loeb Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University.  Tatar earned her master’s and doctoral degrees from Princeton University. Her teaching and research interests include the folklore of Weimar Germany; German romanticism; children’s literature; Brothers Grimm; fairy tales; and the cultural impact of mesmerist theories and practices of 19th and 20th century literature.

— Laura Freid

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