1. Anthony Bannon was born on December 6,1943 and is an arts administrator in Western New York.
15 Facts About Anthony Bannon
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Anthony Bannon served as the director of the George Eastman Museum from 1996 to 2012 as well as the executive director of the Burchfield Penney Art Center at Buffalo State College.
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Anthony Bannon studied biology at St Bonaventure University, earning a bachelor's degree in 1964.
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Anthony Bannon earned a master's degree in English, with a concentration in criticism and film in the Center for Media Study, from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1976.
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Anthony Bannon's thesis was titled Robert Longo: A Practice of Art.
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Anthony Bannon Served as Director of the George Eastman Museum from 1996 to 2012.
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Anthony Bannon has thus far been the longest-standing director of the museum.
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Anthony Bannon began his career as a journalist, working from 1966 to 1985 for The Buffalo News, a metropolitan daily with a peak circulation of more than 400,000.
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Anthony Bannon initially served as a theater and dance critic, and was a critic fellow at the Eugene O'Neill Memorial Theater Foundation and the American Dance Congress in 1969.
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Anthony Bannon later served as the newspaper's film, video, and architecture critic, finally concentrating on the fine and camera arts from 1977 through 1985.
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Anthony Bannon served as director of the Burchfield-Penney Art Center, which is dedicated to the work and archives of Charles Burchfield, an American watercolorist.
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Anthony Bannon additionally held the position of the college's assistant vice president and director for cultural affairs from 1994 to 1996.
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The objective of the office, established by Anthony Bannon, was to develop and sponsor collaborations across disciplines, often with organizations and individuals off campus, and to develop associations for the Foreign Exchange Program.
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Anthony Bannon's teaching experience has included adjunct positions at Sierra Nevada College in Nevada; State University of New York College at Buffalo; Empire State College in Buffalo; and Rochester Institute of Technology.
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Anthony Bannon was born in Hanover, New Hampshire, where his father, Dr Robert Anthony Bannon, was a professor of physiological optics and a member of the Dartmouth Eye Institute, and his mother, Frances, was a nurse at Hitchcock Memorial Hospital.