Join us for the 2024 CPAL Conference on June 3rd-5th!
Media Sponsor:
With great appreciation to The Francis Greenburger Charitable Fund.
With great appreciation to The John Kalafatis & Maria Pierrakeas Living Trust.
2024 CPAL Conference
Location - The Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation
87 Eldridge Street, New York, NY 10002
DAY #1 – THE ARTWORKS Deals with the complex challenges—both tangible and intangible—of housing and ownership of artworks from a legacy management perspective. Proposes strategies for locating and optimizing the storage of artworks, handling copyright with other legal issues, and the specific treatment of artworks across multiple mediums.
Doors open 8:45am
All panels include a 15-minute Q & A at the end.
9:00am – 9:10am Welcome & Introduction – Susan Reynolds, Executive Director, The Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation
9:15am – 9:30am CPAL Conference Opening Remarks - Joy Glidden, Founding Director, Center for the Preservation of Artists’ Legacies
9:35am – 9:50am KEYNOTE SPEAKER – Phong Bui, Artist, Writer, Independent Curator. Co-Founder and Artistic Director of The Brooklyn Rail
10:00am – 11:30am Physical Storage – The Elephant in the Room - You can’t keep it all!
Moderator: Joy Glidden, Founding Director, Center for the Preservation of Artists’ Legacies
Francis Greenburger, Founder and Co-Curator, Art Omi Pavilions @ Chatham
Cameron Sterling, Content Advisor for Individuals and Organizations, Living Photographic LLC
Lia Gangitano, Executive Director, Participant Inc.
Alice Aycock, Artist, Sculptor
11:40am – 1:10pm Digitization Storage - Database Systems and Vintage Mediums
Moderator: Nicholas Martin, Curator for the Arts & Humanities at NYU Special Collections
Katie Carey, Head of Growth, Artwork Archives
Mary Engel, Founder/Director APAG - Director, Orkin/Engel Film and Photo Archive
Carol Parkinson, Executive Director, Harvestworks
1:10pm – 2:10pm Lunch Presentation - Katie Carey, Head of Growth, Artwork Archives
2:10pm – 3:40pm Transfer of Ownership - Copyrights, and Appraisal
Moderator: Amelia Brankov, Brankov PLLC NYC Arts and Media Law Firm
Sarah Kirk Hanley, Independent Curator, Critic, and Expert Appraiser, Robert Kipniss Legacy Project
Katarina Feder, VP Business Development Artists Rights Society / Co-founder Arsnl Art
Saul Ostrow, Consultant to the Bobby Anspach Studios Foundation
3:45pm – 4:00pm Testimonial - Magda Salvesen, Executive Director, Jon Schueler Foundation
4:05pm – 4:15pm Closing Remarks – Joy Glidden, Founding Director, CPAL
DAY #2 - THE ARCHIVES Surveys and assesses current institutional art archive systems while investigating how contemporary artists can best access available resources and how materials are treated over time. Explores the rapidly increasing pace of archive expansions with best management practices.
Doors open 8:45am
All panels include a 15-minute Q & A at the end.
9:00am – 9:10am Welcome & Introduction – Susan Reynolds, Executive Director, The Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation
9:15am – 9:30am CPAL Conference summary CPAL progress - Joy Glidden, Founding Director, Center for the Preservation of Artists’ Legacies
9:35am – 11:05am Institutional and Private Archives
Moderator: Dan Cameron, Independent Curator
Brittany Webb, Ph.D., Evelyn and Will Kaplan Curator of Twentieth Century Art and the John Rhoden Collection, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
Charlotta Kotik, Curator, formerly curator of Contemporary Art, Brooklyn Museum
Kyle Croft, Executive Director, Visual AIDS
Kenta Murakami, Director, Ortuzar Projects
11:15am – 12:45pm Inclusionary Practices - Accessibility & Considerations for Best Practices
Moderator: Ferris Olin, Ph.D., Founder of Institute for Women and Art, Margery Somers Foster Center: A Resource Center and Digital Archive on Women, Scholarship and Leadership at Rutgers University.
Nicholas Martin, Curator for the Arts & Humanities at NYU Special Collections
Sur Rodney Sur, Writer, curator, archivist co-executor of the Geoffrey Hendricks Estate
Heather Gendron, Director, Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library, Yale University
12:50pm – 1:45pm Lunch
1:50pm – 3:20pm Artist-Constructed Archives – Case Studies
Moderator: Monika Fabijanska, Independent Art Historian, Curator, and Appraiser
Martha Wilson, Artist and Founding Director Emerita of Franklin Furnace Archive, Inc.
Rena Segal, President of the George and Helen Segal Foundation (Artist, daughter of George Segal)
Essye Klempner, Director of Programs & Partnerships EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop
3:25pm - 3:40pm Testimonial - TBA
3:45pm - 4:00pm Closing Remarks – Joy Glidden, Founding Director, CPAL
DAY #3 - THE ASSETS Examines artists' assets, what is accumulated over time, and the redirection of these assets towards legacy. Beyond artworks and archives, how do foundations, family members, dealers, and lawyers address the entirety of an artist’s output and assets in order to develop and continue the legacy?
Doors open 8:45am
All panels include a 15-minute Q & A at the end.
9:00am – 9:10am Welcome & Introduction – Susan Reynolds, Executive Director, The Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation
9:15am – 9:30am CPAL Conference Summary – Future Forward - Joy Glidden, Founding Director, CPAL
9:35am – 11:05am The Critical Year - When the Tax Axe Falls
Moderator – Amelia Brankov, Brankov PLLC NYC Arts and Media Law Firm
Christopher Wise, Vice President, Fine Art, Risk Strategies
Caryn B. Keppler, Esq., Partner, Pierro, Connor & Strauss, LLC
Sarah Kirk-Hanley, Independent Curator, Critic, and Expert Appraiser, Robert Kipniss Legacy Project
11:15am – 12:45pm Executors of Estates; Family members and Outside Experts
Moderator – Susan Reynolds, Executive Director, The Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation
Maggie Wright, Director, The Easton Foundation
John Crawford, Manager of Ralston Crawford Estate
Diedra Harris-Kelley, Co-Director, Romare Bearden Foundation
12:50pm – 1:50pm Lunch - Presentation
2:00pm – 3:30pm Strategies for Managing Assets, Legacy, and Succession.
Moderator – Christina Hunter, Ph.D. Executive Director, Nancy Graves Foundation
Christopher Wise, Vice President, Fine Art, Risk Strategies
Lissa McClure, Executive Director, Woodman Family Foundation
Susan Fisher, Director, Kaish Family Art Project
3:35pm – 3:50pm Testimonial - Conference Round-Up –Ted Berger, Arts activist, Co-Creator of Cultural Council Foundation's Artists Project, Executive Director Emeritus, NYFA, and Director of NYCreates & Monika Fabijanska, Independent Art Historian, Curator, and Appraiser
3:55pm – 4:10pm Closing Remarks – Joy Glidden, Founding Director, CPAL