Angelica Semmelbauer

Angelica Semmelbauer is a private art advisor based in New York City, and founder of art advisory company Ellipsis Art, where she advises private clients on art acquisition and collection management. She also represents a roster of artists from her previous 15-year career as a gallerist. During her tenure as Director at Mimi Ferzt Gallery in New York (2005-2015), which specialized in Russian Non-Conformist and Contemporary Art, she organized important curatorial exhibitions for these artists, and placed many of them in important private and public art collections around the world, including the Guggenheim Museum, MOMA, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the State Tretyakov gallery, Moscow.

In her current private advisory role, she is most excited about creating direct connections between artists and collectors. She curates exhibitions, organizes events, including studio visits, and creates marketing campaigns to bring visibility to contemporary and mid-career artists.

Angelica serves as the Co-Chair of the Membership Committee for ArtTable’s New York Chapter, and as Communication Officer for the NYU Alumni Council, where she received her Master’s Degree in Visual Arts Administration (Class of 2004). When not busy with client work, Angelica also loves to travel and to practice yoga.

Lauren Jensen

Lauren Jensen serves as Chief Commercial Officer at ARtGlass, the leader in creating augmented experiences for the arts and culture. She has a passion for making the arts and augmented storytelling inclusive and accessible for all. She has worked with arts organizations across the world throughout her time in previous roles at Art Processors and Antenna International. Lauren specializes in human rights and cultural studies, graduating with dual degrees in International Affairs and Russian Language and Literature with a minor in Classical Studies from the University of Georgia. Lauren is based in Atlanta, GA, and serves as Co-Chair of the Metro Atlanta Chapter of ArtTable.

Nuria Richards

Nuria Richards is an arts professional who is passionate about art collections and the way they positively impact the market and philanthropy. She attended the Fine Arts School at the National University in Mexico City and holds an Art Business Graduate degree from Sotheby’s Institute of Art – Claremont Graduate University where she extended her academic interests to Economics, Cultural Studies, and Management of Corporate Collections.

After studying in New York and Los Angeles, Nuria relocated to Miami and worked in the gallery system holding the position of Executive Manager for Piero Atchugarry Gallery, and Director of Museum Relations for Ascaso Gallery. Around this period she became part of ArtTable Florida Chapter as Chair of Programming.

Nuria supports young and emerging artists through the curatorial project Clandestina and is the founder of RICHARDS & Co, an Art Management & Estate Planning Agency that evaluates and creates strategies for acquiring, selling, transferring, and donating art. She works, with families and individuals, designing the sale and acquisition of works by artists like Jean-Michel Basquiat, George Condo, Diego Rivera, Wifredo Lam, Joaquín Torres-García, Victor Vasarely, and Leonora Carrington. Her relationship with art and involvement with museums, galleries, artists, and collectors in the US and Mexico seeks to create cultural impact through the practice of art collecting.

Nuria’s goal is to generate strategies for collectors to successfully fulfill their art interests, while positively impacting the community. She has been a conduit between secondary and primary markets for a generation of artists and collectors that were caught in the middle of a rapidly changing art world.

Delphine Daniels

Delphine is an experienced business development professional with over 16 years of experience developing strategic relationships and driving organizational awareness and growth in the design and construction industry. In 2021, she joined Gilbane Building Company to support the company’s growing portfolio of cultural and institutional projects. In her new role, she works closely with
operations to enhance and expand client relationships, as well as gain market share in both public and private sectors. Prior to joining Gilbane, Delphine led business development and marketing efforts for two mid-size architecture firms, and, most recently, for a boutique-sized owner’s representative firm specializing in cultural and institutional work for mission-driven clients. Prior to joining the AEC industry, Delphine held positions at The Museum of Modern Art and The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

She holds an undergraduate degree in art and architectural history from the University of Washington, and a Master of Philosophy in contemporary art and architectural history from the City University of New York. Delphine is also active in many industry organizations including, the Urban Land Institute, Professional Women in Construction, Urban Design Forum and the American Institute of Architects (NY Chapter), where she is a member of the Cultural Facilities Committee.

Barbara Chamberlain

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.

Sharikay Sloboda, PHR

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.

julia elizabeth neal

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

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

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

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.

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