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Laura is a credentialed art market expert. She offers clients a global perspective developed during two decades building trusted relationships across four continents. Previously, Laura led US Art & Finance for Deloitte, the world’s largest business consulting firm, serving blue-chip auction houses, collectors, galleries, governments, museums, and financial institutions. Earlier in her career, Laura served Democrat and Republican Administrations in a number of international-facing roles, including as head of intelligence for the FBI Art Crime Team. Laura holds an MA in Art Business from Sotheby’s Institute of Art and an MA in International Affairs from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. She is Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (USPAP) compliant through March 2023.

Barbara joined AIG Private Client Group in 2008 and became a Director of Art Collection Management in 2010. She has more than 25 years of registration/collections management experience in private, public, university, and corporate collections and museums, and with art libraries and archives. She began her career at a contemporary art gallery in New York City after which she was assistant curator of The FORBES Magazine Collection. Before coming to AIG, Barbara was the registrar at the Appleton Museum of Art in Ocala, Florida. Today at AIG she provides collection management, risk management and loss prevention services, and claims assistance for private collections policyholders in the Southeastern, Central and Midwestern U.S. Barbara is a member of the Executive Board of the Friends of the Uffizi Gallery, a member of the Board of Directors for the Association of Registrars and Collections Specialists (ARCS), and a member of ArtTable Florida Chapter leadership. Barbara holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Art History and Psychology with a minor in painting from Smith College, and a Masters in Museum Studies from Johns Hopkins University where she now teaches the first course in private collectors, collections, and museums.

Based in South Florida and a ‘sunshine state’ native, Sharikay leads Art Peritus’s business development in multi-state territory as Southeast Regional Director. Additionally, she leads the firm’s organizational development as the head of Human Resources.

With a decade long career at Christie’s Auction House, both in Chicago and New York, she is experienced in working closely with private clients, insurance professionals, attorneys, private banks, and wealth managers on the valuation of fine and decorative art, jewelry, watches, wine, and other tangible personal property including general contents of an estate. Sharikay facilitates appraisals for the purposes of insurance coverage, claims and litigation, estate planning and estate tax, family division, charitable giving, art leasing and using art as loan collateral and is a veteran at managing the complexities of art installation and logistics on behalf of clients.

A life-long passion for the arts, and cultural diversity, also led Sharikay to spend 15 years abroad. She lived and worked in the UK, Europe, Africa, Central America, and Southeast Asia in multiple industry segments that in addition to fine art included business & project management, human resources, marketing, education, wellness, and luxury hospitality. A chapter full of experience and global exposure that allows her to bring a unique perspective and talent to our team, and a level of service, sensitivity, professionalism, and discretion to our clients.

Sharikay holds a BA in the History of Art & Archaeology from Florida State University, studied Human Resource Management at Cornell University, is a recognized Professional in Human Resources (PHR), a member of ArtTable, the Palm Beach Chamber of Commerce, the Palm Beach Estate Planning Council and is compliant in the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (USPAP) through August 2023.

Gabrielle Das received a BA in Art and Media Studies from Pitzer College in 2017 with a focus on woodworking. She is a passionate advocate for bringing art to underserved communities with a particular interest in teaching skills that serve both practical and artistic applications such as carpentry, ceramics, and metal casting. In 2016, Gabrielle traveled to Mexico City to help teach sculpture classes at El Faro Tlahuac resulting in the installation of an aluminum-relief, 3-tier, self-irrigating garden wall titled 7 Barrios alongside 16 local students and two other instructors. Following this, Gabrielle became a lead fabricator for Lost Spirits Distillery’s whimsical micro-amusement tasting experience, which won “World’s Best Distillery Tour” in 2019 from Drinks International. During the pandemic, Gabrielle worked as a Teaching Assistant at Pitzer College, guiding two virtual sections of “Sustainable Sculpture: Crafting Care, Curiosity, and Community” under Professor Sarah Gilbert. Gabrielle hopes to continue to educate and serve communities in need as ArtTable’s Administrator.

gdas@arttable.org

A specialist in modern and contemporary art in the United States, neal’s research focuses on conceptual and performance-based practices by Black artists engaging politics of identity and (trans)nationalism since the “post-war” era. Her dissertation project, “Who Taught You to Think (Like That): Benjamin Patterson’s Conceptual Aesthetic,” historicizes the artist’s persistent practice of deconstructing sociocultural perceptions and value systems. As a PHD candidate in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Texas at Austin, her dissertation is supported by its College of Fine Arts, the German-American Fulbright Commission, the Getty Research Institute, and the Terra Foundation for American Art. Neal has contributed to publications including Suzanne Jackson: Five Decades, Texte zur Kunst; Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, among others. She is also the consultant to the Estate of Benjamin Patterson and author of its first medium-specific volume of estate works to be published this fall in Hamburg. This fall, neal will join Spelman College as a visiting professor.

Waduda Muhammad is a visual Arts Administrator in Atlanta GA. She received her Master’s of Science degree in Arts Administration from Drexel University in Pennsylvania and received her Bachelors of Arts degree in Art History from Georgia State University. She is the former Interim Director of the Ernest G. Welch School of Art & Design Gallery at Georgia State University (2008-2010). Since then, she has contracted with numerous arts organizations throughout Atlanta, GA such as Pearl Goose Creatives LLC, Georgia Arts Network, Creative Currents LLC, Spelman College Museum of Fine Arts on a variety of art exhibitions, community arts festivals, art beautification and mural projects to name a few. She completed her graduate internship at South Arts as Assistant to the Director of the Performing Arts Exchange. Some of her accomplishments include co-curating several international exhibitions, Disobedience Archives, Texts Marks and Meanings, brining artists from Spain, China and Japan to Atlanta and cataloging the lifetime works of artist Charles Nelson Jr. She curated several exhibitions, The Ageless Art of Fashion 2009, The Art of Noise 2011, Feast Your Eyes 2012, co-organized the Roots and More: African & African American Artistic Legacies Art History Symposium 2009, has written the introduction to I Remember an artist catalog 2008, CENCIA Center for Collaborative International Arts catalog 2010 and served as a juror (photography) at the Washington Post in DC for the Justice & Human Rights Expedition Presentations 2015. Her most notable accomplishment 2016 – 2018 is as the recipient of a $100,000 grant from Kaiser Permanente on an initiative with the Atlanta Beltline Inc. As part of a team, Muhammad spearheaded a walking tour of Public art under the auspice of her business Dennis Ayres Fine Arts LLC.

Nisa Floyd is an arts administrator, educator, and program development manager from Brooklyn, New York. After receiving her BA in English from Georgia State University, Nisa went on to work in the education sector where she immersed herself in program development to create social emotional curriculum for elementary students. Nisa served as the Program Coordinator at Atlanta Contemporary, where she managed the Studio Artist Program; the public programming, internal events, and outreach initiatives. Currently, Nisa is the founder and CEO of Art Makes – an educational zine with a companion art kit that is distributed across metro Atlanta to individuals of all ages. Art Makes partners include: Meals on Wheels of Atlanta, Raising Expectations, Westside Future Fund and Paint Love. Nisa received the 30 Under 30 award from the Atlanta chapter of Young Nonprofit Professionals Network in 2020.

Dr. Patricia Marroquin Norby (Purépecha) is an accomplished scholar who has worked her entire professional life to integrate Native American artists and scholars into mainstream venues. With over thirty years of experience working in the Native American and Indigenous art fields, she is a gifted public speaker, writer, and scholar. She is extraordinarily knowledgeable about Native art history and has lived and worked most of her life in urban settings, where she has worked to bridge American Indian artistic experiences and expressions to museum-going communities at major institutions including The Met, The Newberry Library, The Field Museum as a trustee, and the National Museum of the American Indian. Her desire to challenge commonly held ideas about Native peoples and art brought her work to the attention of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she was recently appointed to the role of Associate Curator of Native American Art. She is the first Indigenous person to assume this role in the museum’s history. In addition to her work in museums, she is a trained fine artist.

Suhaly Bautista-Carolina is the Senior Managing Educator of Audience Development and Engagement at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Prior to her position at the Met, Suhaly held roles at the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute (CCCADI), Creative Time, and Brooklyn Museum and has worked in various capacities with organizations including The Laundromat Project, ArtBuilt, and ArtChangeUS. She has curated exhibitions and public programs in collaboration with Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership, Art Connects New York (ACNY), FOKUS, and NYC Salt and is one of 50 field leaders profiled in Jasmin Hernandez’ 2021 book, “We Are Here: Visionaries of Color Transforming the Art World.”

Her herbalism practice, as Moon Mother Apothecary, has been featured in The New York Times, Oprah Magazine, and People en Español among others. Suhaly has presented her work as an arts educator and community organizer at conferences around the world including MuseumNext, ArtPrize, Open Engagement, Culture Push, The New York City Arts in Education Roundtable, and POW Arts (Professional Organization of Women in the Arts). She is a Weeksville Heritage Center Ambassador, a founding member of the arts collective, present futures, a member of Black Women Artists for Black Lives Matter, and founder of BlackMagic Afrofuturism Book Club.

Suhaly was recently named a 2021 Women inPower Fellow with the 92Y Belfer Center for Innovation and Social Impact and is a member of the inaugural class of NYFA’s Incubator for Executive Leaders of Color. She earned her BA and MPA from New York University and lives in her native city of New York.

Bahia Ramos has been director of arts at The Wallace Foundation since 2018. She leads the team responsible for the strategy and implementation of the foundation’s work in areas including investments in arts institutions and promoting arts education for young people. Before arriving at Wallace, Ramos served as program director of the arts for the Knight Foundation, where she led the organization’s strategy for a $35 million annual investment in arts funding across the country. In that role, she built national partnerships and initiatives with organizations such as ArtPlace and Sundance, and worked on the local level to bring more high-quality arts experiences to diverse audiences and neighborhoods. Previously at Knight, Ramos had served as director/community foundations, managing a $140 million investment in community foundations in 26 cities supporting local civic innovation and community vibrancy. Ramos has given presentations on a wide range of topics at forums across the country, including Grantmakers in the Arts, the Arts & Business Council of New York, the Alliance of Artist Communities, and Black Portraitures IV. Ramos received her undergraduate degree in history from Williams College, and a Master of Public Administration from Baruch College’s Marxe School of Public and International Affairs, where she was a member of the Pi Alpha Alpha Honors Society and a National Urban Fellow. She also serves on the board of Prospect Park Alliance.