Question 1

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CHAIR
Melanie Meggs // is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice engages with feminist epistemologies by positioning lived experience as knowledge and examining how narratives are formed and shared through visual culture. Working across painting, photography, printmaking, and mixed media installation, she creates work that maps the emotional labour of becoming, exploring how women build themselves from within. As Co-Founder of The Pictorial Foundation and Creative Director of The Pictorial List, Melanie leads artist-focused initiatives that support equitable access to creative opportunity. Working between Australia and New York, she wants to advance transnational exchange that enables artist mobility, cross-cultural collaboration, research development, and sustainable professional growth within the arts.

VICE CHAIR
Karen Ghostlaw // is an international award-winning artist whose practice is based on collaboration, connection, and sustained engagement with people and place. She approaches photography as a relational process grounded in dialogue and shared experience. A BFA graduate of Pratt Institute with concentrations in photography, printmaking, and bookbinding, she investigates the relationship between image, environment, and perception through long-term projects that engage with urban reflectivity and spatial interaction. Her ongoing series in New York and abroad examines how surfaces, movement, and structure form layered fields of visual information. As Co-Founder of The Pictorial Foundation and Editorial Director of The Pictorial List magazine, she extends her practice by facilitating platforms for artist development, publication, and international collaboration, building networks that connect creative communities across cultural contexts.

SECRETARY
Michael Pomarico // is an architect with over 40 years of professional practice in the planning, design and construction of hospitals and healthcare facilities.  In 1992, he founded Pomarico Design Studio Architecture, PLLC, a firm committed to improving patient outcomes through the creation of exceptional healthcare environments.  In 2004, he established HealthRisk Technologies, Inc. to address life safety and risk management in healthcare facilities.  Michael brings his extensive business leadership and problem-solving expertise to the Pictorial Foundation.

Question 2

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As a not-for-profit, the Pictorial Foundation will need a team of dedicated volunteers to help us to keep our doors open each day. If you would like to join the Pictorial Foundation Volunteer Program, we are looking for people with a range of backgrounds and skills, a shared commitment to the arts and our organization and a desire to help us carry out our day-to-day activities.

© Installation view of Foundations of Practice Exhibition (2026). Photo: Karen Ghostlaw

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