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Carlos Basualdo
Curator of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art; adjunct professor, Universitá degli Studi, Venice, Italy (2004–present); 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.
Senior Counsel in the Finance Practice at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, Philadelphia; general counsel, Philadelphia Museum of Art. Boards: 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, Merce Cunningham Dance Company, and Philadelphia Dance Projects. Leeway Foundation Grant for Excellence (1999).
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.
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; director of Raw Vision magazine; trustee of the 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 Heckler
Twenty 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
Interim Director of the Independence Seaport Museum. Board member: Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial; The Fairmount Park Art Association, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Margaret Z. Robson
Member of the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities, recently appointed to the Museum of New Mexico Board of Regents; also appointed for a three-year term to the Defense Department Advisory Committee on Women in the Services; serves on the Board of Directors of the Vice President’s Residence Foundation and the American Folk Art Museum, New York.
Joan Waricha
CEO and Chairman, Parachute Properties, New York, the most successful independent producer of children’s books and one of the top woman-owned businesses in the United States.
Jeffrey Wolf
President, Breakaway Films, New York. Feature Film Editor: COMEBACK
(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). Director/Producer/Writer of full-length documentaries including
JAMES CASTLE: PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST (FSTAART 2008).
Board of Advisors
Brooke Anderson
Director & Curator, Contemporary Center, American Folk Art Museum, New York
Annie Carlano
Senior Curator, Museum of International Folk Art, Santa Fe
Shari Cavin & Randall Morris
Cavin-Morris Gallery, New York
Joyce Cohen
Professor of Art History, Simmons College, Boston
Jacqueline Crist
J Crist Gallery, Boise, Idaho
Carl Hammer
Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago
Nathaniel Kahn
Filmmaker, Philadelphia
Phyllis Kind
Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York
Joseph Lewis
Dean, School of Art & Design, Alfred University, Alfred, New York
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
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