Board of Trustees

Carlos Basualdo

Curator of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art; adjunct professor, Universitá degli Studi, Venice, Italy (2004–present); curator, “Bruce Nauman,“ American Pavilion, Venice Biennale (2009); curator, “The Structure of Survival,” Venice Biennale (2003); co-curator, Documenta 11, Kassel, Germany (2002); chief curator of exhibitions, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio (2000–02).

Alice O. Beamesderfer

Associate Director for Collections and Project Support, Philadelphia Museum of Art. Board member: Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial.

Lawrence H. Berger, Esq.

General Counsel, Philadelphia Museum of Art; formerly Senior Counsel in the Finance Practice at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, Philadelphia. Board member: Vice Chairman and Director, U.S. Lacrosse, Inc.; Trustee, Naomi Wood Collection at Fairmount Park's Woodford Mansion.

Jill Bonovitz

Artist. Founder: The Clay Studio, Philadelphia. Board member: Fabric Workshop and Museum, and Merce Cunningham Dance Company. Leeway Foundation Grant for Excellence (1999). Secretary, Board of Trustees, Foundation for Self-Taught American Artists.

Sheldon M. Bonovitz, Esq.

Chairman Emeritus of Duane Morris LLP. Board of Directors: Philadelphia Orchestra, Comcast Corporation, and eResearch Technology, Inc. Trustee of the Dolfinger-McMahon Charitable Trust and the Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Foundation; serves on the Boards of Trustees of the Barnes Foundation, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Free Library of Philadelphia Foundation, and the Curtis Institute of Music. Chairman, Board of Trustees, Philadelphia's Children First Fund; President and Treasurer, Board of Trustees, Foundation for Self-Taught American Artists.

Samuel Farber

Founder of COPCO (1960), OXO International (1990), Wovo (2001). Lectures on design at Harvard, MIT, Carnegie Mellon. Director of the Corporate Design Foundation; board of directors, Raw Vision magazine; trustee, American Folk Art Museum, New York. Awards: International Housewares Association Humanitarian of the Year (2006), Brooklyn Museum of Art's MODERNISM Design Award for Lifetime Achievement (2004), Industrial Designers Association of America Personal Recognition (2003).

Audrey B. Heckler

20 years experience in management and maintenance of real estate properties; president of Gray Block Corporation (1986–2001), a commercial real estate business. Founding member of National Council of the American Folk Art Museum, New York.

Theodore T. Newbold

Board member: Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial; The Fairmount Park Art Association, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Jeffrey Wolf

President, Breakaway Films, New York. Feature Film Editor: Vanishing on 7th Street (2010); The Longshots (2008), First Sunday (2008), Holes (2003); John Waters's films A Dirty Shame (2004), Cecil B. Demented (2000); Ted Demme's films Life (1999), Monument Ave. (1998), Beautiful Girls (1996), and The Ref (1994.) Other films include: Madeline (1998), Billy Madison (1995), Andre's Mother (1990). Documentary films: director-producer James Castle: Portrait of an Artist (FSTAART 2008); collaborating director Sonabai: Another Way of Seeing (2009). Vice President, Board of Trustees, Foundation for Self-Taught American Artists.

Board of Advisors

Susan Baerwald

Just Folk, Summerland, CA

Shari Cavin & Randall Morris

Cavin-Morris Gallery, New York

Joyce Cohen

Professor of Art History, Simmons College, Boston

Susan Mitchell Crawley

Curator of Folk Art, High Museum of Art, Atlanta

Jacqueline Crist

J Crist Gallery, Boise, Idaho

David Ebony

Managing Editor, Art in America, New York

Bonnie Grossman

The Ames Gallery, Berkeley, CA

Carl Hammer

Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago

Anthony Jannelli

Cinematographer, and Head of Studies, Graduate Film & Television, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University

Diane Karp

Executive Director, Santa Fe Art Institute

Phyllis Kind

Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York, retired

Joseph Lewis

Dean, Claire Trevor School of the Arts, University of California, Irvine

Elsa Longhauser

Director, Santa Monica Museum of Art

John Ollman

Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia

Paul Pincus

Officer for Planning and Special Projects, Philadelphia Museum of Art

Christine Poggi

Professor, History of Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

Colin Rhodes

Dean, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney

Roger Ricco & Frank Maresca

Ricco/Maresca Gallery, New York

Luise Ross

Luise Ross Gallery, New York

Leslie Umberger

Senior Curator, Exhibitions & Collections, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin

Katharine Wodell

Design Director, Art in America, New York


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