2026 Annual CPAL Conference

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Thank you for joining us for the 2026 CPAL Conference on June 1-3!

With great appreciation to:

The Francis Greenburger Charitable Fund

The John Kalafatis & Maria Pierrakeas Living Trust

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!