2025 CPAL Conference

Day 1 - REPRESENT

Explores how major private or institutional collections are constructed, and how caretakers manage the legacies of artists who have passed. How do collections reflect current views on the artistic canon, and which artists come to be represented? How do artworks enter collections and established archives?

Doors open 8:45am 

All panels include a 15minute Q & A at the end

9:00am-9:10am Welcome & Introduction – Susan Reynolds, Executive Director, The Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation

9:10am- 9:30am CPAL Conference Opening Remarks - Joy Glidden, Founder and Executive Director, Center for the Preservation of Artists’ Legacies

9:35am- 9:50am Keynote Address

10:00am-11:30am - COLLECTORS AS CARETAKERS

Moderator: Joy Glidden, Founding Director, Center for the Preservation of Artists’ Legacies

  • Francis Greenburger, Founder and Co-Executive Director, Art Omi Pavilions @ Chatham

  • Beth Rudin DeWoody, Collector, Curator, and Founder of The Bunker Artspace, West Palm Beach

  • Sue Stoffel, Private and Corporate Collection Management & Services


11:40am -1:10pm - ARTISTS ENTERING MUSEUM COLLECTIONS - Estate Executors and Museum Representatives

Moderator: Terrie Sultan, Independent Curator, Cultural Consultant, and founding Principal Museum Strategist for Art Museum Strategies @ Hudson Ferris

  • Corinne Erni, Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Chief Curator of Art and Education, Deputy Director of Curatorial Affairs, Parrish Museum

  • Shira Backer, Leon Levy Associate Curator at The Jewish Museum

  • Susanna V. Temkin Ph.D., Interim Chief Curator, El Museo del Barrio

1:10pm-2:10pm - Lunch


2:10pm -3:40pm - ACCESSING ESTABLISHED ARCHIVES  - What is the Process?

Moderator: Nicholas Martin, Curator for the Arts & Humanities at NYU Special Collections

  • Cameron Sterling, Content Consultant for Visual Artists, (Archivist for Ellen Graham, Richard Avedon, Hiro)

  • Mary Engel, Founder/Director APAG, Director, Orkin/Engel Film and Photo Archive

  • Lisa Darms, Executive Director, Hauser & Wirth Institution

3:45pm – 4:00pm A FEMINIST LEGACY JOURNEY Ferris Olin and Judith Brodsky in conversation 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, in conversation with Judith Brodsky, Artist, feminist scholar, activist, professor, administrator and founder of Brodsky Print Center

4:05pm – 4:15pm       Closing Remarks – Joy Glidden, Founding Director, CPAL

No backpacks please!