Name: Center for the Preservation of Artists' Legacies - Annual CPAL Conference
Start: 2025-06-02T09:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-06-04T16:00:00-04:00
Location: The Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation

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

The 3-day conference aims to confirm and address the mounting challenges facing visual artists’ legacies.
About this Event

DAY #1 – REPRESENT Explores how major private or institutional collections are constructed, and how caretakers manage the legacies of artists who have passed. How do collections reflect current views on the artistic canon, and which artists come to be represented? How do artworks enter collections and established archives?

Panel titles:
1) COLLECTORS AS CARETAKERS
2) ARTISTS ENTERING MUSEUM COLLECTIONS - Estate Executors and Museum Representatives
3) ACCESSING ESTABLISHED ARCHIVES - What is the Process?

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.

Panel titles:
1) PROBATE - Living Trusts
2) TAX AND INSURANCE BEST PRACTICES FOR ESTATE PLANNING - Nonprofit Options When the Tax Axe Falls
3) GIFTING/DONATING ART - Effect on Artists’ Market Value

DAY #3 - SUSTAIN Defines the importance of creating and maintaining practice through collective efforts. Platforms prominent artists’ individual approaches to legacy as well as the gallerist's role in sustaining these efforts.

Panel titles:
1) ARTIST APPROACH TO LEGACY STRATEGIES
2) ARTIST COLLECTIVES - Formation And Legacy
3) GALLERISTS SUSTAINING LEGACIES

PARTICIPANTS:

SUSAN REYNOLDS, Executive Director, The Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation; FRANCIS GREENBURGER, Founder and Co-Curator, Art Omi Pavilions @ Chatham; BETH RUDIN DEWOODY, The Bunker; TERRIE SULTAN, Independent Curator, Cultural Consultant, and Founding Principal Museum Strategist for Art Museum Strategies @ Hudson Ferris; CORINNE ERNI, Chief Curator, The Parrish Museum; SHIRA BACKER, Curator, The Jewish Museum; SUSANNA V. TEMKIN, Chief Curator, El Museo del Barrio; NICHOLAS MARTIN, Curator for the Arts & Humanities at NYU Special Collections; CAMERON STERLING, Content Consultant for Visual Artists (Archivist - Ellen Graham, Richard Avedon, Hiro); MARY ENGEL, Founder/Director APAG, Director, Orkin/Engel Film and Photo Archive; CARYN KEPPLER, Esq., Principal, Offit Kurman; MEGAN FOX KELLY, Megan Fox Kelly Art Advisory, Certified AAA Appraiser, APAA; SARAH KIRK HANLEY, Certified AAA Appraiser; ANN-MARIE RICHARD, Director, Sotheby’s Institute of Art; MICHAEL BORGER, Associate, Moritt Hock & Hamroff LLP; SAUL OSTROW, Consultant to the Bobby Anspach Studios Foundation; AMELIA BRANKOV, Brankov PLLC NYC Arts and Media Law Firm; ISAAC ALPERT, Director of Estates, PPOW; KENTA MURAKAMI, Director, Ortuzar Projects; SUR RODNEY SUR, Writer, curator, archivist co-executor of the Geoffrey Hendricks Estate; LESLEY DILL, multimedia artist; DONNA DENNIS, sculptor, installation artist; FRED TOMASELLI, multimedia painter; MARTHA WILSON, Artist and Founding Director Emerita of Franklin Furnace Archive, Inc.; JACK WATERS, ABC No Rio; CHARLES YUEN, Co-Founder, Godzilla; DORSEY WAXTER, Van Doren Waxter; CHRISTINE BERRY, Berry Campbell Gallery; TED BERGER, Arts activist, Co-Creator of Cultural Council Foundation's Artists Project, Executive Director Emeritus, NYFA, Director of NYCreates; MONIKA FABIJANSKA, Independent Art Historian, Curator, and Appraiser; and more…