FITCHBURG -- The work of five Fitchburg State College photography students was included in a recent exhibit at the Photographic Resource Center at Boston University.

The students were featured as part of the annual 2008 Student Exhibition. Representing Fitchburg State are senior Ashley Brito with her photo "Ayer High," senior Brittany Durgin with her work "Chili Fest," Lauren Davieau with "Yvonne," junior Kiel Szivos with his photo "Corn Field, Templeton," and senior Stephanie Vieira with "Krakow, Poland."

The annual event is a showcase of academic diversity among the center's 17 institutional-member schools, which includes Fitchburg State, Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University, Boston University, Endicott College, Emerson College, Hallmark Institute of Photography, Massachusetts College of Art, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Newbury College, New England Institute of Art, New England School of Photography, Northeastern University, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Simmons College, University of Massachusetts at Lowell and Wellesley College.

Many transitions at the tops of arts groups

Gary Graffman literally grew up at the Curtis Institute of Music, first walking through the doors as a 7-year-old piano protege. He became the school's director in 1986, but well into his second decade felt that was enough. As he told the school, "I thought after all this time maybe they wanted a fresh face." Now they have it. In 2006, after ensuring that Curtis would remain tuition-free under its new director, Roberto Diaz, the 77-year-old Graffman left for his New York home near Carnegie Hall. The passing of the baton at the Curtis is part of an unprecedented shift in the Philadelphia region, where the leadership of many of the largest arts and culture groups has changed hands in the last several years. The departures include Peter B. Lane, who spearheaded the Mann Center's expansion (and left for the Bethel Woods arts center in New York), and Janice C.

'Soccer Sam' Named Rhinos VP

Rochester's most enthusiastic soccer fan, who showed an interest in buying the Rochester Rhinos, will now have a seat in the club's front office.

Sam Fantauzzo, known to many as "Soccer Sam," is the club's new Vice President of Marketing and Business Development.

Earlier this year, Fantauzzo was one of the parties interested in buying the financially struggling franchise. Utica area banker Rob Clark bought the Rhinos last week and named Fantauzzo to his new position on Mar. 28.

“I love this sport, and we came so close to losing this team," said Fantauzzo. "I just felt I have to do everything in my power to help. I met with Mr. Ford and Mr. Clark. They were nice enough to give me an amazing opportunity," said Fantauzzo. “I'm going to run with it, and I'm going to try get as many old friends involved that own businesses and people that haven't been here to PAETEC to witness a fantastic facility and come down here to enjoy soccer."

The Rhinos home opener at PAETEC Park is Saturday, May 17.

Leonardo at the movies

For five centuries Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper has stood majestically still on the walls of a Milanese friary's dining hall, the only disturbance the slow flaking of its priceless paint.Now British filmmaker Peter Greenaway has been granted permission to wheel in projectors and bring to life the hidden stories he sees in the wall painting.Greenaway (65) announced last month that he is planning to use dramatic lighting, projections and recordings of actors' voices to transform the 9m-wide depiction of the moment Christ announced that one apostle would betray him into something close to a film.Instead of capturing just one moment, as Da Vinci did, Greenaway will turn The Last Supper into a narrative that stretches from Christ's birth to his crucifixion, with voice given to each disciple's thoughts.Unsurprisingly for a film director who served up a dead man at a different kind of dinner party in his 1989 film The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover, Greenaway is courting fresh controversy when his project goes on show in April and May.

Saturday's Agenda, March 29

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And the Women Gather Literary Jazz Brunch: A panel discussion with several authors, including Lee Thomas, author of Turning White, Maria Elena Salinas, author of I am My Father's Daughter, and Teresa Rodriguez, author of Daughters of Juarez: A True Story Serial Murders South of the Border.