Colleagues & Friends: Maria Nevelson and Rosina Rubin

Colleagues & Friends returns in person this month! Join us at Salmagundi Club for a conversation with Maria Nevelson, Founder of the , and Rosina Rubin, Founder of , as they discuss their experience establishing and leading non-profit vs. for-profit artist estates.

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Members - free | Non-members - $5

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Maria Nevelson established the Louise Nevelson Foundation in 2005 with a mission to celebrate the life and work of her grandmother and to educate others about the pioneering twentieth- century sculptor whose abstracted constructions of assembled wooden objects and Cor-Ten steel shapes changed perceptions and found her a place in American art history. In 2022, the foundation organized a sixty-work Collateral Exhibition of Nevelson’s art for the 59th Venice Biennale. Maria received a Bachelor of Arts in Art History from George Washington University in Washington, DC and along with her studies archived and curated The Museum of Temporary Art’s mail art collection and interned at the Smithsonian’s African Art Museum. Upon graduation, she was the assistant director at Eric Makler Gallery and Lawrence Oliver Gallery, and later the director at Galerie Nadeau. Maria was Chair of the Board at Nexus Foundation for Today’s Art, Philadelphia’s first artist cooperative. And her Louise Nevelson oral history, “The Welders of Lippincott”, was donated to the Archives of American Art. Nevelson LLC was established by Maria Nevelson in 1988 and she created interiors for senior living facilities, residences, and her yacht design was on CNN TV’s “Style with Elsa Klensch”. As a “sculptor of space”, Maria was the interior designer for Wesley Wei’s AIA Gold Award winning residence just outside Philadelphia. A sculptor in her own right, Maria created abstract assemblages from found wooden objects. She had numerous art gallery exhibits and her works are in over 50 collections, notably the permanent New Hall Art Collection at the University of Cambridge. Nevelson LLC has added licensing of Louise Nevelson works to their services and recently collaborated with CELINE, the Paris fashion house, on a long pendant necklace reminiscent of Louise Nevelson’s own jewelry designs. Maria reached a personal goal with 1000Museums providing art museum shops with prints and postcards furthering the Louise Nevelson Foundation’s mission to educate.

Rosina Rubin divides her professional time between the business world and the arts. As CFO of Attitude New York chauffeured transportation since 1990, she helped grow a struggling small business into a successful enterprise which has endured three re-starts (9-11, the Great Recession, and the COVID pandemic). In 1999, Rosina founded Atelier Anna Walinska, to catalogue and exhibit the work of her late aunt, painter Anna Walinska (1906-1997), committed to bringing Walinska’s work to a new audience. She has curated a number of exhibitions in the U.S. and one in the Czech Republic, and placed Walinska’s work in significant public collections, including most recently, New York’s Jewish Museum, the Denver Art Museum, the Baltimore Museum of Art and the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C. She also worked with the Smithsonian Archives of American Art to assemble Walinska’s papers and other biographical material for digitizing, to enable full online access for researchers. The papers and ephemera of the Guild Art Gallery, which Walinska founded in 1935 and where she gave Arshile Gorky his first NYC solo exhibition, will be digitized this year. Prior to entering the entrepreneurial arena, Rosina spent six years in corporate communications at NBC and several years as a freelance writer and photographer. Rosina is a 1976 graduate of Brandeis University. In her spare time, she has worked on Democratic political campaigns on the Federal, State and Local levels. In 2008, she was an elected delegate to the Democratic National Convention, representing Hillary Clinton. She sits on the Board of the Manhattan Chamber of Commerce and is a long-time member of POWarts.

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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Salmagundi Club, 47 5th Avenue, New York, United States