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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