2025 CPAL Conference

Day 2 - PRESERVE

Provides a basis for the specific methodologies behind the protection of estates: preservation of artwork and archives ensures that an artist’s legacy persists. Featured topics include legal, financial, accounting, and insurance issues, as well as appraisal, gifting/donation best practices.

Doors open 8:45am (Continental Breakfast)

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 Development - Joy Glidden, Founder and Executive Director, Center for the Preservation of Artists’ Legacies, CPAL

9:35am - 11:05am PROBATE - LIVING TRUSTS

Moderator: Caryn Keppler, Esq., Principal, Offit Kurman

  • Sarah Kirk Hanley, AAA Certified Appraiser

  • Ann-Marie Richard, Director, Sotheby’s Institute of Art

  • Agustin Diez Fischer, Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA)

11:15am - 12:45pm LEGAL, FINANCIAL, LOGISTIC STRATEGIES FOR ESTATE PLANNING

Moderator: Carol Steinberg, Esq., Attorney and Professor, School of Visual Arts

  • Michael Borger, Esq., Borger Law, P.C.

  • Saul Ostrow, Consultant to the Bobby Anspach Studios Foundation

  • Susan Brundage, Brundage Art Advisors LLC, AAA Certified Appraiser

12:50pm - 1:50pm LIGHT LUNCH served /PRESENTATION - Robin Cembalest, Robin Cembalest Editorial Strategies. Using Instagram to promote artists’ legacies. 

1:50pm - 3:20pm GIFTING/DONATING ART - Effect on artists’ market value

Moderator: Amelia Brankov, Brankov PLLC NYC Arts and Media Law Firm

  • Isaac Alpert, Director of Estates, PPOW

  • Robert Wainstein, Co-Founder & CEO Museum Exchange

  • Sozita Goudouna, Ph.D - Curator, Director of Raymond Pettibon Studio

3:25pm - 3:40pm TESTIMONIAL Sur Rodney Sur, Writer, Curator, Archivist, Co-Executor of the Geoffrey Hendricks Estate

3:45pm - 4:00pm CLOSING REMARKS Joy Glidden

  • No backpacks please!