• Americans for the Arts, Washington, D.C., the leading nonprofit organization for advancing the arts in America, has selected Salt Lake City arts administrator Nancy Boskoff to join its board. Boskoff, executive director of the Salt Lake City Arts Council, has a degree in secondary education. She has worked as an arts management consultant, hosted a weekly radio show, and served as speaker, panelist and committee member for agencies and programs around the country.

• The Finch Lane Gallery announces that applications are available for visual artists who would like their work considered for exhibition in the gallery, November 2006 through October 2007. Completed applications, accompanied with 10 images of the artist's work on either CD or slides, must be hand delivered or postmarked by Monday, March 13. For more information call 596-5000. Applications are available at www.slcgov.com/arts/cfe.htm.

• The University of Utah English department and the Salt Lake City Arts Council will present another of its "Guest Writers Series" programs, with a reading by fiction writer and art/cultural critic Dave Hickey. The event will be Thursday at 7 p.m. at the Salt Lake City Main Library auditorium (210 E. 400 South). Hickey is widely considered one of the most renowned and influential art critics and is a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship. He has served as a visiting professor at numerous institutions and editor and contributing editor to dozens of national magazines. This free event is open to the public.

• The University of Utah College of Architecture and Planning will host another lecture on Thursday at 5:30 p.m. in the FAMB, Room 101. The lecture, "Structure and Meaning in Human Settlements," will be given by Tony Atkin, who holds a degree in anthropology and a master's of architecture. The free event is open to the public. For information visit www.arch.utah.edu.

• The Utah Cultural Celebration Center seeks volunteers to act as docents, greeters, tour guides and general facilities support for Arnold Friberg's "The Ten Commandments" exhibit that runs from March 18-May 26. Flexible volunteer shifts are available. Training will be provided. For more information, contact Susan Klinker at 965-5101 or sklinker@wvc-ut.gov.