The Santa Fe University of Art and Design has named Mary Anne Redding as their new photography department chair.

Redding, who is a leading photography educator, writer and curator, has previous taught at Arizona State University and New Mexico State University. She also formerly served as the curator of photography for the Palace of the Governors/New Mexico History Museum.

Her most recent exhibitions include Contemplative Landscape at the New Mexico History Museum (2011–2012) and A Passionate Light: The Polaroids of H. Joe Waldrum at the Albuquerque Museum of Art and History and the New Mexico History Museum (2011).

Past-chair David Scheinbaum will continue working with the university as an artist in residence, and leading the first annual Artists for Positive Social Change series for the 2011–2012 academic year.