Center for the Preservation of Artists' Legacies - Annual CPAL Conference

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.

Panel titles:
1) Physical Storage – The Elephant in the Room (You can't keep it all!)
2) Digitization Storage - Database Systems and Vintage Mediums
3) Transfer of Ownership - Copyrights, and Appraisal

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.

Panel titles:
1) Institutional and Private Archives (Explores the rapidly increasing pace of archive expansions with best management practices as it pertains to space, inclusion practice, institutional capacity – size and storage).
2) Inclusionary Practices - Accessibility & Considerations for Best Practices (Revising parameters for current historical records considering the mounting numbers of artists, collections, and content.)
3) Artist-Constructed Archives – Case Studies

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?

Panel titles:
1) The Critical Year - When the Tax Axe Falls
2) Executors of Estates; Family Members and Outside Experts
3) Strategies for Managing Assets, Legacy, and Succession.

PARTICIPANTS:

PHONG BUI, Co-Founder and Artistic Director of The Brooklyn Rail; THEODORE S. BERGER (TED), Arts activist, Co-Creator of Cultural Council Foundation's Artists Project, Executive Director Emeritus, NYFA, and Director of NYCreates; HEATHER GENDRON, Director of Yale's Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library; FERRIS OLIN, Founder of The Margery Somers Foster Center at Rutgers University; MONIKA FABIJANSKA, Art Historian, Contemporary Art Curator and Art Appraiser; DAN CAMERON, NYC-based Independent Curator of Contemporary Art; FRANCIS GREENBURGER, Founder and Co-Curator, Art Omi Pavilions @ Chatham; SUR RODNEY SUR, Writer, curator, archivist co-executor of the Geoffrey Hendricks Estate; MARTHA WILSON, Founding Director of Franklin Furnace Archive; SARAH KIRK HANLEY, Independent Curator, Critic, and Expert Appraiser, Robert Kipniss Legacy Project; AMELIA BRANKOV, Brankov PLLC NYC Arts and Media Law Firm; CHARLOTTA KOTIK, Independent Curator, former Senior Curator of Contemporary Art, Brooklyn Museum; KATIE CAREY, Head of Growth, Artwork Archives; SUSAN REYNOLDS, Executive Director, Milton Resnick & Pat Passlof Foundation; JOY GLIDDEN - Founding Director, Center for the Preservation of Artists’ Legacies; KYLE CROFT, Executive Director, Visual AIDS; CHRISTINA HUNTER, Ph.D., Executive Director, Nancy Graves Foundation; CAMERON STERLING, Archive Manager (Ellen Graham), Living Photographic; RENA SEGAL, Artist, Daughter, Executor of The George and Helen Segal Foundation; MAGDA SALVESEN, Principal, Jon Schueler Estate; CAROL PARKINSON, Executive Director of Harvestworks; ESSYE KLEMPNER, Director of Programs, Robert Blackburn Archives; JAZMINE CATASÚS, Artistic Director, Master Printer, Robert Blackburn Archives; CHRISTOPHER WISE, Vice President, Risk Strategies; NICHOLAS MARTIN, Curator for the Arts & Humanities at NYU Special Collections; BRITTANY WEBB, Ph.D., Evelyn and Will Kaplan Curator of Twentieth-Century Art and the John Rhoden Collection, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts; SAUL OSTROW, Consultant to the Bobby Anspach Studios Foundation; CARYN KEPPLER, Esq., Partner, Pierro, Connor & Strauss, LLC; KENTA MURAKAMI, Director, Ortuzar Projects; MARY ENGEL, Orkin/Engel Film and Photo Archives, APAG American Photography Archives Group; MAGGIE WRIGHT, Executive Director of the Louise Bourgeois Foundation; and more...

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