Photo museum names director

Deborah Klochko, a veteran arts administrator in the San Francisco Bay Area, has been named director of the Museum of Photographic Arts.

She becomes only the second director in the San Diego museum’s 23-year history, replacing founding director Arthur Ollman, who left in April. He had announced last October that he wanted to pursue other challenges.

For the last five years, Klochko has served as director of Visual Literacy Inc., a private consulting business promoting understanding of photography. Before that, she spent 10 years as director of the Friends of Photography at the Ansel Adams Center in San Francisco, and seven years at the California Museum of Photography at UC Riverside.