JUNE 1 - 3, 2026
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JUNE 1 - 3, 2026 .
OBJECTIVES
Panelists tackle the core question of intent in legacy planning, examining how priorities are identified and goals take shape. They explore how these objectives are translated into enduring impact, ensuring that an artist’s work maintains visibility and continues to resonate across generations.
ACTIONS
An exploration of key tools for safeguarding artistic legacies, ranging from legal frameworks and tax structures to estate appraisals. Through case studies, audiences gain insight into how legacy ambitions are formed in practice, with decisions grounded in sound long-term planning.
OUTCOMES
Panels focus on measurable results, emerging technologies, and the tracking of ongoing progress, highlighting long-term considerations that allow legacies to endure. Participants explore how stewardship can be sustained over time, shaping forms of influence across academia, the market, and collections.
JOY GLIDDEN, Executive Director and Founder, Center for the Preservation of Artists’ Legacies, CPAL; SUSAN REYNOLDS, Executive Director The Milton Resnick Pat Passlof Foundation; ALYSSA NITCHUN; Executive Director, Leslie Lohman Museum of Art; FRANCIS J. GREENBURGER, Founder & Co-Executive Director, Art Omi Pavilions@ Chatham; SHAMIM M. MOMIN, Director and Chief Curator of The Bronx Museum of the Arts; JACOB PROCTOR, Gilbert and Ann Kinney New York Collector, Smithsonian Institution's Archives of American Art; SUSAN J. COOKE, Former Associate Director, The David Smith Estate; Catalogue Raisonné Scholars Association; ANTON SHERIN, Associate Archivist for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Library and Archive- Director of Programming - Archivists Round Table of Metropolitan New York, Inc. (A.R.T.); SUZAAN BOETTGER, Art Historian and Critic; SUSAN BRUNDAGE, Brundage Art Advisors LLC; DR EILEEN COSTELLO, Ellsworth Kelly Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Reliefs, and Sculpture; CHRISTINA J. HUNTER Ph.D., Executive Director, Nancy Graves Foundation; DIEDRA HARRIS-KELLEY, Co-Director of the Romare Bearden Foundation; FRANCINE SNYDER, Director of Archives & Digital at the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation; AGUSTÍN DÍEZ FISCHER, Senior Manager of Research and Archives, Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA); DIYA VIJ, Commissioner, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs; JANE HAIT, Chair & Founder, Center for Art Research Alliance, (CARA); JUDITH WALLACE, Carter Ledyard & Milburn LLP; SARAH KIRK HANLEY, AAA Certified Appraiser; JULIA K. GLEICH, Founding Partner, Artist Estate Studio, LLC; CARYN KEPPLER, Principal, Offit Kurman, LLP, ALEX LEE, Alpha fly; MICHAEL BORGER, ESQ., Borger Law, PC; DEBORAH SPANIERMAN, Deborah Gerstler Spanierman & Associates, Inc; SUR RODNEY (SUR), Writer, Curator, Archivist, Co-Executor, Geoffrey Hendrick Estate; ISSAC ALPERT, Director of Estates P.P.O.W., ZAK FREELAND, Book Specialist, J.N. Herlin; AMELIA K. BRANKOV; Brankov PLLC, NYC Arts and Media Law Firm; THOMAS MADDREY, CEO, American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP); CAMERON STERLING, Archive Manager, Ellen Graham Foundation, Consultant; AMY MYERS, Artist, Barbara Daves Gallery; KENTA MURAKAMI, Director, Ortuzar; MICHAEL & SUSAN HORT, Art Collectors, Founder, Rema Hort Mann Foundation; CHRISTINE MACK, Mack Art Foundation; KRISTEN HILEMAN, Independent Curator, Educator, and Founder, Kristen Hileman Art Advisory; STAMATINA GREGORY, Head Curator / Director of Exhibitions and Collections; MIRANDA SAMUELS, Associate Director, CPAL, LAUREN SHADFORD, Executive Director, Voices in Contemporary Art (VoCA), SARAH DZIEDZIC, Oral Historian, Helen Frankenthaler Foundation; DARIA DOROSH, Artist, A.I.R. Oral History; DEENA ENGELS, Professor Emerita, Department of Computer Science, NYU; REBECCA CLEMAN, Executive Director, Electronic Arts Intermix; JESSICA SEIGEL, Director at Judy Seigel Estate; ELIZABETH GORAYEB, The Wildenstein Plattner Institute; BRIAN BLOCK Artist, plus more!
With great appreciation to:
The Francis Greenburger Charitable Fund
The John Kalafatis & Maria Pierrakeas Living Trust
