New York, NY - [February 12, 2013] The International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA) announces the election of Paula McCarthy Panczenko, Executive Director of Tandem Press, to Board President. Ms. Panczenko was elected to the IFPDA Board of Directors in 2002 and has served as its Executive Vice President and co-chair of the Membership Committee. She is a co-founder of the IFPDA's INK Miami Art Fair, a salon-style fair, now in its eighth year, with a focus on works on paper during Art Basel Miami Beach. In speaking of her new role, Panczenko states, "My goals will focus on the expansion of our base of young collectors and the increase and development of our international membership and their audiences."

Panczenko heads Tandem Press, a member of the IFPDA since 1991 and one of the leading fine art publishers in the United States. Under her direction, Tandem has established a reputation for innovative achievements in printmaking, and has published notable projects with internationally renowned artists such as Judy Pfaff, Suzanne Caporael, Robert Cottingham, Nicola López, and Sean Scully, among others.  In addition to their current twenty-five year retrospective at the Chazen Museum of Art, Tandem Press editions were recently featured in American Printmaking Now at the National Art Museum of China, Bejing. Tandem Press exhibits annually in the IFPDA Print Fair and INK Miami Art Fair, Expo Chicago, and for many consecutive years, at Art Chicago. In 2007, Tandem exhibited a unique artist installation by Nicola López, the IFPDA Print Fair's first ever site-specific installation.

Panczenko was born in Ireland where she received a BA degree in Art History and Archaeology and continued her studies at the Universita degli Studi di Firenze, Italy. She was appointed visual arts officer at the Arts Council of Ireland, where she organized national and international touring exhibitions and was curator of the Arts Council collection. In 1980, she founded Ireland America Arts Exchange Inc., which was designed to promote exchange between visual artists in the United States and Ireland. In 1985, the Exchange organized Divisions, Crossroads, Turns of the Mind - Some New Irish Art, an exhibition curated by Lucy Lippard at The Williams College Museum of Art. This groundbreaking exhibition introduced a new generation of young Irish artists to an American audience and broke new ground by exhibiting artists from Ireland and Northern Ireland together for the first time. During this time, Panczenko continued to champion Irish artists by organizing touring exhibitions and establishing a studio program for Irish artists at PS1. In 1985, she moved to Wisconsin to join the Wisconsin Arts Board as Grants Coordinator and Deputy Director. Since joining Tandem Press in 1989, she has served on the boards of the Madison Commission for the Arts, the Friends of the UW Libraries and as a mentor in the Chancellor's Scholarship Program for Minority Students. She is currently the Curator of Exhibitions at the Dane County Regional Airport in association with the staff of Tandem Press. She continues to lecture frequently on contemporary art.

Panczenko will head a board that includes four newly elected directors, Margo Dolan (Dolan/Maxwell, Philadelphia), Marjorie Devon (Tamarind Institute, Albuquerque), Bernard Derroitte (Armstrong Fine Art, Chicago) and Richard Baiano (Childs Gallery, Boston). They join a Board of member volunteers that reflects the full spectrum of expertise and geographic diversity embodied in the Association's membership. Currently serving on the Board are Carolyn M. Staley (Seattle), Emmanuel Benador (New York), David Cleaton-Roberts (Alan Cristea Gallery, London), Barbara Krakow (Boston), Armin Kunz (C.G. Boerner, New York), Lesley Hill (Hill-Stone, Inc., New York), Betsy Senior (Senior & Shopmaker Gallery, New York), Joni Moisant Weyl (Gemini G.E.L., New York), Mary Ryan (New York) and Eva-Maria Worthington (Worthington Gallery, Chicago).