2026 Conference Participants


Day 1: Objectives

Executive Director and Founder, Center for the Preservation of Artists’ Legacies, CPAL

Joy Glidden

Susan Reynolds

Executive Director, The Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation

Former Associate Director, The David Smith Estate; Catalogue Raisonné Scholars Association

Susan J. Cooke

Anton Sherin

Associate Archivist, Guggenheim New York

Suzaan Boettger

Art Historian and Critic

Susan Brundage

Brundage Art Advisors LLC

Ellsworth Kelly Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Reliefs, and Sculpture

Christina Hunter

Executive Director, Nancy Graves Foundation

Senior Manager of Research and Archives at the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA)

Agustin Diez Fischer

Amy Myers

Artist, Barbara Daves Gallery

Ray Smith

Contemporary Artist

Founder & Co-Executive Director, Art Omi Pavilions@ Chatham

Executive Director, Leslie Lohman Museum of Art;

Alyssa Nitchun

Francis J. Greenburger

Gilbert and Ann Kinney New York Collector, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution

Shamin M. Momin

Director and Chief Curator, The Bronx Museum of the Arts

Jacob Proctor

Dr. Eileen Costello,

Director of Archives at the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation

Diedra Harris-Kelley

Co-Director of the Romare Bearden Foundation

Francine Snyder

Day 2: Actions

Executive Director and Founder, Center for the Preservation of Artists’ Legacies, CPAL

Joy Glidden

Diya Vij

Commissioner, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs

Founder and Board Chair, Center for Art, Research and Alliances (CARA)

Jane Halt

Susan Reynolds

Executive Director, The Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation

Partner, Chair of the Art Law Practice, at Carter Ledyard & Milburn LLP

Judith Wallace

Julia K. Gleich

Founding Partner, Artist Estate Studio, LLC

Sarah Kirk Hanley

Independent Curator, Critic, and AAA Certified Appraiser

Caryn Kepler

Principal at Offit Kurman, LLP

Co-founder of alphafly.co, creative director

Alex Lee

Paula Baldoni

Executive Director, The Bobby Anspach Studios Foundation (BASF)

Deborah Gerstler Spanierman & Associates, Inc;

Michael Borger

 ESQ., Borger Law, PC

Deborah Gerstler Spanierman

Writer, Curator, Archivist, Co-Executor of the Geoffrey Hendricks Estate

Sur Rodney Sur

Zak Vreeland

Archivist, Curator, Book Specialist, J.N.Herlin

CEO, American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP)

Thomas Maddrey

Cameron Sterling

  Archive Manager, Ellen Graham Foundation, Consultant

Amelia K. Brankov

Isaac Alpert

Director of Estates, PPOW

Brankov PLLC, NYC Arts and Media Law Firm

Day 3: Outcomes

Christine Mack

Independent Curator and Educator;

Kristen Hileman

Founder of Mack Art Foundation

Head Curator and Director of Exhibitions and Collections, Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art.

Stamatina Gregory

Miranda Samuels

Associate Director, Center for the Preservation of Artists’ Legacies (CPAL)

Elizabeth Gorayeb

The Wildenstein Plattner Institute

Brian Block

Artist

Executive Director and Founder, Center for the Preservation of Artists’ Legacies, CPAL

Susan Reynolds

Executive Director, The Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation

Joy Glidden

Susan and Michael Hort

Kenta Murakami

Director, Ortuzar

 Art Collectors

Executive Director, Voices in Contemporary Art, (VoCA)

Daria Dorosh

Artist, Educator and Activist

Lauren Shadford

Clinical Professor Emerita, Department of Computer Science Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences New York University

Sarah Dziedzic

Oral Historian, Helen Frankenthaler Foundation

Deena Engel

Journalism Faculty, NYU; Director of Judy Seigel Estate

Rebecca Cleman

Executive Director, Electronic Arts Intermix;

Jessical Seigel