2024 CPAL Conference

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 - Joyce Pomeroy Schwartz,   Public Art Consultant, Curator, and Author of The Private Eye in Public Art

3:45pm - 4:00pm Closing Remarks – Joy Glidden, Founding Director, CPAL