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