Virtual | AT CONNECT: Klaudia Ofwona Draber

Image: Klaudia Ofwona Draber
12 PM EDT/ 11 AM CDT/ 9 AM PDT

This event will take place as a live conversation! Registration is open to members only. Suggested donation of $15.00. We hope to see you there!

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The AT CONNECT program series presents intimate online discussions open to members nationally across chapters. Originally designed to further encourage one-to-one networking amongst its members in DC, CONNECT transitioned to a virtual lunch hour conversation series designed to allow members to ask questions outside their day-to-day areas of expertise.

This week we’ll hear from Klaudia Ofwona Draber is the Executive Director and Curator at ​​KODA, on residency building and supporting the work of artists. KODA’s focus is on supporting the professional and artistic growth of mid-career artists, who create conceptual and social justice related work.

Klaudia Ofwona Draber is the Executive Director and Curator at ​​KODA​—a NYC-based social practice nonprofit, an artist residency for mid-career artists. She’s also the founder of Ofwona Foundation, building schools in Africa. Previously she managed $2-20 million capital investment projects in Africa, governed a $3.2 billion strategic portfolio and managed art CSR projects at UBS, and consulted strategy and technology for the British Council Arts—including writing and implementation of the program management policy and standards for a $50 million global portfolio of Visual Arts, Theater, Music, Dance, Fashion and Design, Film and Creative Economic projects and programs. Klaudia trained and mentored over 100 project managers and executives, in best practices in Project Management. Some of the artists she worked with include Terence Koh, Tahir Carl Karmali, Lina Puerta, Hidemi Takagi, or Kenseth Armstead. She completed MA in Art Business at the Sotheby’s Institute of Art New York, where she returns regularly as a guest speaker, and MSc in Economics at the Warsaw School of Economics, with a focus on the art market. Klaudia serves on the Membership Committee of ArtTable.

AT CONNECT | Building AWARE with Camille Morineau

Image: Camille Morineau, credit: Photo Valerie Archeno

In response to our current state of distance, ArtTable is shifting programming online where we can. This event will take place as a live conversation! Registration is open to members only. Suggested donation of $15.00. We hope to see you there!

How to take part:

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  2. Following registration you will receive call-in information in the form of a ZOOM link
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  4. For further instruction on how to use Zoom, see here.

ArtTable is expanding its CONNECT program to intimate online discussions open to members nationally across chapters. Originally designed to further encourage one-to-one networking amongst its members in DC, CONNECT transitioned to a virtual lunch hour conversation series designed to allow members to ask questions outside their day-to-day areas of expertise.

This week we’ll hear from Camille Morineau, Director and Co-Founder of AWARE: Archives of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions, on building AWARE.

Based in Paris, AWARE is a French non-profit organization dedicated to the creation, indexation and distribution of information on women artists of the 20th century. This year, The Armory Show in New York partnered with AWARE on a new juried award to recognize the best booth dedicated to a solo presentation of a female artist, awarding $10,000 to the artist or her estate.

With degrees from both the École normale supérieure and the Institut national du patrimoine, Camille Morineau has worked for twenty years in public cultural institutions in France, including ten years as curator of the contemporary collections at the musée national d’Art moderne – Centre Georges-Pompidou (Paris). She has curated numerous exhibitions there, including Yves Klein (2006), Gerhard Richter (2012), Roy Lichtenstein (2013), and the site elles@centrepompidou (2009-2011) dedicated solely to female artists from the collections of the musée national d’Art moderne.

She has also curated several exhibitions as a free-lance curator, including Niki de Saint Phalle at RMN – Grand Palais (Paris, 2014) and Guggenheim Bilbao (2016), Ceramix. From Rodin to Schütte, about the use of ceramics by artists of the 20th and 21st century, at Bonnefanten Museum Maastricht (2015) and La maison rouge, Fondation Antoine de Galbert, with Manufacture de Sèvres (Paris, 2016). From 2016 to October 2019, she has been the director of exhibitions and collections at Monnaie de Paris, where she has curated the following exhibitions: Women House, also shown at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington (2017-2018), Floor-naments, an exhibition marking the 40th anniversary of the Centre Pompidou (2017), Subodh Gupta (2018), Thomas Schütte (2019), Kiki Smith (2019-2020).

AT CONNECT | Bernadine Bröcker Wieder

How to take part!

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  4. For further instruction on how to use Zoom, see here.

ArtTable CONNECT virtual lunch breaks

ArtTable is expanding its CONNECT program to intimate online discussions open to members nationally across chapters. Originally designed to further encourage one-to-one networking amongst its members in DC, CONNECT transitioned to a virtual lunch hour conversation series designed to allow members to ask questions outside their day-to-day areas of expertise.

During this session we will hear from Bernadine Bröcker Wieder is CEO and founder of Vastari Group, on the evolution of technology for the art market, and how “Web 3.0” will change the art world at the core, especially in light of recent times with COVID-19 business interruption.

Bernadine Bröcker Wieder is CEO and founder of Vastari Group, an online marketplace securely connecting private collectors of art, exhibition producers, venues and museums for exhibition loans and tours. She was a founding member of the team at Trinity House gallery on Maddox Street in London, has worked to represent illustrators at Traffic Creative Management agency and facilitated museum exhibition design at Ralph Appelbaum Associates in New York.

Bernadine is a member of the Professional Advisors to the International Art Market, the Association of Women in the Arts and the Worshipful Company of Arts Scholars. Bernadine holds a Master’s degree in History of Art and Art-World Practice from Christie’s Education/The University of Glasgow and a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts/Illustration from Parsons School of Design, New York.

She is a young ambassador to the Museum of London, an advisor to We Are Museums, Cromwell Place, Artnome, the Christie’s Employers Advisory Group and a mentor at the Founder Institute. In 2018 she was selected for Apollo Magazine’s 40 under 40 Europe, and Bernadine and co-founder Francesca Polo were shortlisted for the Natwest Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2017.

Bernadine is a proponent of technological innovation for the art world, and in July 2018, Vastari helped co-organise the first Christie’s Art+Tech Summit in London, focussing on blockchain technology and the first Future of the Art Market Unconference at Somerset House in London in 2019.

AT CONNECT | Dana Prussian

How to take part!

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  3. Before joining a Zoom meeting on a computer or mobile device, you can download the Zoom app from the Download Center and select the “Zoom Client for Meetings” option. Alternatively, you will be prompted to download and install Zoom when you click a join link.
  4. For further instruction on how to use Zoom, see here.

ArtTable CONNECT virtual lunch breaks

ArtTable is expanding its CONNECT program to intimate online discussions open to members nationally across chapters. Originally designed to further encourage one-to-one networking amongst its members in DC, CONNECT transitioned to a virtual lunch hour conversation series designed to allow members to ask questions outside their day-to-day areas of expertise.

During this session we will hear from Dana Prussian, Vice President, Art Services Specialist at Bank of America Private Bank on Art Market Trends in the Age of COVID-19.

Dana Prussian is Vice President, Art Services Specialist at Bank of America Private Bank, based in New York City. In this role, Dana helps drive the bank’s art opportunities across all divisions nationally, with a specific focus on Central South, South Atlantic, and Southeast divisions. She works directly with art collecting clients and prospects to meet their needs through art lending, consignment, wealth planning, and philanthropy.

Dana joined U.S. Trust in January 2019 from Bessemer Trust where she was a Client Advisor for three years. At Bessemer, Dana helped cultivate a book of clients and advised them on a wide array of services, including investment management, trust and estate planning, real estate, and art services. Prior to Bessemer, Dana began her career at Christie’s before going on to Barclays.

She earned a duel Bachelor of Arts in Art History and Political Science from Barnard College, Columbia University

Thank you to the DC Chapter Executive Committee for organizing this event. 

Virtual | AT CONNECT: Pauline Willis

Image: Pauline Willis, Director and CEO of the American Federation of Arts (AFA).

How to take part!

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  2. Following registration you will receive call-in information in the form of a ZOOM link
  3. Before joining a Zoom meeting on a computer or mobile device, you can download the Zoom app from the Download Center and select the “Zoom Client for Meetings” option. Alternatively, you will be prompted to download and install Zoom when you click a join link.
  4. For further instruction on how to use Zoom, see here.

ArtTable CONNECT virtual lunch breaks

ArtTable is expanding its CONNECT program to intimate online discussions open to members nationally across chapters. Originally designed to further encourage one-to-one networking amongst its members in DC, CONNECT transitioned to a virtual lunch hour conversation series designed to allow members to ask questions outside their day-to-day areas of expertise.

During this session we will hear from Pauline Willis, Director and CEO of the American Federation of Arts (AFA).

Pauline Willis has been the Director and CEO of the American Federation of Arts (AFA) since 2012, a century-old, not-for-profit organization that develops, raises money, and handles all logistics to tour top quality exhibitions to museum across America. Ms. Willis previously served as the organization’s Deputy Director and Chief Operating Officer. 

Under her leadership, the AFA’s exhibition program has been reinvigorated and traveling exhibitions increased from two to more than twenty. Working with the board of trustees and a strengthened staff, she also developed innovative programs relating to museum exhibitions and collaborations, expanded the organization’s membership program, and raised funds to enable these endeavors. 

A curatorial research program developed by Ms. Willis created new partnerships with museums internationally. One, the China Initiatives Program of 2013, fostered cultural exchange with Chinese museums, resulting in the US-China Museum Summit, co-organized with the Asia Society, which brought together over thirty American and twenty Chinese museum directors for presentations and discussions in New York City. In 2018, Ms. Willis oversaw the AFA partnering with the Italian arts organization LoveItaly, and is currently spearheading a cultural exchange of prized Italian collections with U.S. museums.   

Recognizing important issues shared by museums nationwide, Ms. Willis established ArtViews, a panel discussion series for graduate school students and museum professionals to explore and address current concerns among museums and other arts organizations. 

Also under her leadership, the AFA assumed responsibility for administering the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation that oversees a biennial competition and confers thirty $20,000 grants to artists who work in varied media.

Pauline Willis holds a Master’s Degree in Public Administration from Baruch College, City University of New York, and in 2019 she attended the Getty Leadership Institute at Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California. She is a board member of ArtTable, a national organization for professional women in the arts, and a board member of the Art Bridges Foundation. She readily embraces diversity through her exposure to varied cultural environments and extensive travel.

AT CONNECT | Hillary Burchfield

Image: Hillary Burchfield

In response to our current state of distance, ArtTable is shifting programming online where we can. This event will take place as a live conversation! Registration is open to members only. Suggested donation of $15.00. We hope to see you there!

How to take part!

  1. Click here to Register for this event
  2. Following registration you will receive call-in information in the form of a ZOOM link
  3. Before joining a Zoom meeting on a computer or mobile device, you can download the Zoom app from the Download Center and select the “Zoom Client for Meetings” option. Alternatively, you will be prompted to download and install Zoom when you click a join link.
  4. For further instruction on how to use Zoom, see here.

ArtTable is expanding its CONNECT program to intimate online discussions open to members nationally across chapters. Originally designed to further encourage one-to-one networking amongst its members in DC, CONNECT transitioned to a virtual lunch hour conversation series designed to allow members to ask questions outside their day-to-day areas of expertise.

During this session we will hear from Hillary Burchfield, founder of Hillary Burchfield, LLC, on her experience starting up on her own and building her business. Topics included:

– Getting the nuts & bolts in place: transitioning a side hustle to a full-time position
– Evaluating your positioning, professional experience, and timing in the art world
– Knowing when the timing is right – the “galvanizing moment”
– Advice on leveraging your network to grow your business quickly
– Thinking currently and pivoting as needed
– Starting a business in the current climate – how to prepare for a launch, survival and success in a post-quarantine art world

Hillary Burchfield, LLC is a New York-based fine arts executive search and talent acquisition firm. Hillary received her BA from Vanderbilt University, and her MA in Art Business from Sotheby’s Institute of Art. She gained professional experience throughout her career at prominent international galleries, auction houses, art advisories, and other arts organizations, before launching Hillary Burchfield, LLC. Hillary has cultivated close relationships with galleries, museums, auction houses, artist estates, artist studios, and non-profit organizations, and works to connect these organizations with qualified candidates to build their teams and enhance their businesses. With a personal understanding of the challenges in navigating a career change in the art world, Hillary is dedicated to consulting candidates openly and honestly, and providing the most thorough networking opportunities for each candidate with a commitment to meeting their professional goals.

Thank you to Concetta Duncan, for moving the CONNECT program online and to Jacqueline Towers-Perkins for organizing.

AT CONNECT | Laura Bardier

Image: Laura Bardier

In response to our current state of distance, ArtTable is shifting programming online where we can. This event will take place as a live conversation! Registration is open to members only. Suggested donation of $15.00. We hope to see you there!

How to take part!

  1. Register here!
  2. Following registration you will receive call-in information in the form of a ZOOM link
  3. Before joining a Zoom meeting on a computer or mobile device, you can download the Zoom app from the Download Center and select the “Zoom Client for Meetings” option. Alternatively, you will be prompted to download and install Zoom when you click a join link.
  4. For further instruction on how to use Zoom, see here.

ArtTable CONNECT virtual lunch breaks

ArtTable is expanding its CONNECT program to intimate online discussions open to members nationally across chapters. Originally designed to further encourage one-to-one networking amongst its members in DC, CONNECT transitioned to a virtual lunch hour conversation series designed to allow members to ask questions outside their day-to-day areas of expertise.

During this session we will hear from Laura Bardier, Executive Director of the James Howell Foundation (New York) and Founding Director of ESTE ARTE Art Fair (Punta del Este). 

Laura Bardier (1976, Montevideo) is Executive Director of the James Howell Foundation (New York) and Founding Director of ESTE ARTE Art Fair (Punta del Este). 

In 2002 she collaborates with the Municipality of Naples, to create the first contemporary art center of the city: PAN. From 2004 to 2008, she served as curator at PAN, where she oversaw the exhibitions programming and initiated the museum’s media art collection. 

From 2008 to 2010, she was the collection manager for the J.P. Carroll Private Collection (New York / London).  From 2010 to 2014, she was the collection manager for the well-respected collector and philanthropist Estrellita B. Brodsky.

In 2015, she founded ESTE ARTE, the International Art Fair in Uruguay. The fair is brought forth by my commitment and passion for the arts and making it accessible to the widest audience possible. Its goal is the professionalization of the visual arts in the region and the advancement of private and public collections. Presenting 140 international exhibitors, throughout the first six editions the fair has welcomed 25,000 visitors, among the most renowned international collectors and art supporters. Laura Bardier shaped and led the organization’s strategy to grow relationships with private and public donors, collectors, and art dealers to implement the most international art fair in South America. 

In 2017, she was appointed to create the James Howell Foundation in New York, for which she is now Executive Director. As an artist-endowed foundation, the James Howell Foundation supports education programs, exhibitions, and scholarships. 

She has written on contemporary art in publications such as Domus Magazine, Arte al Día, Review, Infonegocios and has curated several exhibitions including Robots, Los Impolíticos, and Richard Garet: Espacios no-Euclídeos, and The Birdwatchers. She has also organized international conferences including1st Forum on Documentation, 2nd Forum on New Media Art, and Art and the New Media Art series for the MoMA-PS1 radio at the 52nd Venice Biennale. 

She is member of the National Committee of Visual Arts of Uruguay, and has been a jury in several awards, such as the Cezanne Prize of the French Embassy in Uruguay and the Parsons School of Design. Laura Bardier received her master’s degree in Curatorial Studies, focusing in new media, from the Donau Universität, Austria.

AT CONNECT | Caryn Keppler

Image: Caryn Keppler

In response to our current state of distance, ArtTable is shifting programming online where we can. This event will take place as a live conversation! Registration is open to members only. Suggested donation of $15.00. We hope to see you there!

How to take part!

  1. Click here to Register for this event
  2. Following registration you will receive call-in information in the form of a ZOOM link
  3. Before joining a Zoom meeting on a computer or mobile device, you can download the Zoom app from the Download Center and select the “Zoom Client for Meetings” option. Alternatively, you will be prompted to download and install Zoom when you click a join link.
  4. For further instruction on how to use Zoom, see here.

ArtTable CONNECT virtual lunch breaks

ArtTable is expanding its CONNECT program to intimate online discussions open to members nationally across chapters. Originally designed to further encourage one-to-one networking amongst its members in DC, CONNECT transitioned to a virtual lunch hour conversation series designed to allow members to ask questions outside their day-to-day areas of expertise.

During this session we will hear from Caryn b. Keppler, partner at Putney Law, on estate planning.

CARYN B. KEPPLER has extensive experience in all aspects of estate, gift and charitable planning for foreign and domestic individuals, artists and collectors, conventional and alternative families, as well as business succession and continuity planning. Caryn’s areas of focus also include representing individuals regarding prenuptial, post-nuptial and domestic partnership agreements and assisting families in planning for their disabled children. She has represented artists’ foundations, both fiduciaries and beneficiaries in the administration of domestic estates and trusts, as well as estates and trusts having contacts in international jurisdictions, and in litigation with the Internal Revenue Service and in the Surrogate’s Courts. Prior to entering private practice, Caryn was an attorney with the Internal Revenue Service.

Ms. Keppler is certified as an Estate Planning Law Specialist* by the Estate Law Specialist Board, Inc., an organization accredited by the American Bar Association and affiliated with the National Association of Estate Planners and Councils. Caryn is one of a select number of Estate Planning Law Specialists practicing in New York and New Jersey.

Ms. Keppler is a Director and former Secretary / Treasurer of the Estate Law Specialist Board Inc. and a member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (“STEP”) New York, the American Bar Association’s Section of Real Property, Trusts and Estate Law, Income and Transfer Tax Planning Group, the New York State Bar Association Trusts and Estates Section, the New York State Bar Association Entertainment, Arts, the New York City Bar Association’s Art Law Committee and Sports Law Section and the UJA – Federation of New York Lawyers Division, Trusts and Estate Group. She is also a member of the New York State Bar Association’s Committee on LGBT People and the Law and ArtTable, an association of professionals who advise fine artists. She is a member of the Estate Planning Council of New York City, a past president of the Rockland County Estate Planning Council and a former member of the Westchester County Estate Planning Council.

Thank you to Concetta Duncan, for moving the CONNECT program online and to Katherine Wilson-Milne for organizing. 

VIRTUAL | ATCONNECT with Roberta Bantel

Image: Roberta Bantel

In response to our current state of distance, ArtTable is shifting programming online where we can. This event will take place as a live conversation! Registration is open to members only. Suggested donation of $15.00. We hope to see you there!

How to take part!

  1. Click here to Register for this event
  2. Following registration you will receive call-in information in the form of a ZOOM link
  3. Before joining a Zoom meeting on a computer or mobile device, you can download the Zoom app from the Download Center and select the “Zoom Client for Meetings” option. Alternatively, you will be prompted to download and install Zoom when you click a join link.
  4. For further instruction on how to use Zoom, see here.

ArtTable CONNECT virtual lunch breaks

This April, ArtTable is expanding its CONNECT program to intimate online discussions open to members nationally across chapters. Originally designed to further encourage one-to-one networking amongst its members in DC, CONNECT is transitioning to a virtual lunch hour conversation series designed to allow members to ask questions outside their day-to-day areas of expertise.

Join us for these “Ask Me Anything” session via Zoom to take advantage of learning more about different sectors of the art world while respecting social distancing.

During this virtual lunch hour we will hear from Roberta Bantel on leadership development.

Roberta is a leadership coach and a former marketing executive with wide experience in the communication and advertising industry and in Leadership Development. Roberta informally began coaching and guiding her own staff and direct reports, while running Omnicom’s subsidiary, TBWA, in Berlin, Germany. Through this experience, she found her true passion and has dedicated the last ten years to developing and focusing exclusively on coaching. In 2008, Roberta founded Roberta Bantel & Friends LLC, a Leadership Coaching Company with clients in Asia, Europe, USA and South America. Her passion and main focus is coaching across cultural and geographical borders and supporting women in developing as leaders.

Holding a BA in Social Communication from the Catholic University of Santos, Brazil and is a certified coach through The Leadership Coaching Program of Georgetown University, Washington, DC.

In addition to her Leadership Development and Coaching Company, Roberta is the Associate Director for the Leadership Coaching Program at Georgetown University.

This program is hosted by Concetta Duncan, Maria Sancho-Arroyo and Caitlin Berry

VIRTUAL | ATCONNECT with Alexa Kaye

Image: Alexa Kaye

In response to our current state of distance, ArtTable is shifting programming online where we can. This event will take place as a live conversation! Registration is open to members only. Suggested donation of $15.00. We hope to see you there!

How to take part!

  1. Click here to Register for this event
  2. Following registration you will receive call-in information in the form of a ZOOM link
  3. Before joining a Zoom meeting on a computer or mobile device, you can download the Zoom app from the Download Center and select the “Zoom Client for Meetings” option. Alternatively, you will be prompted to download and install Zoom when you click a join link.
  4. For further instruction on how to use Zoom, see here.

ArtTable CONNECT virtual lunch breaks

This April, ArtTable is expanding its CONNECT program to intimate online discussions open to members nationally across chapters. Originally designed to further encourage one-to-one networking amongst its members in DC, CONNECT is transitioning to a virtual lunch hour conversation series designed to allow members to ask questions outside their day-to-day areas of expertise.

Join us for these “Ask Me Anything” session via Zoom to take advantage of learning more about different sectors of the art world while respecting social distancing.

During this virtual lunch hour we will hear from Alexa Kaye on tips on development and fundraising for institutions large and small.

Alexa Kaye is a fundraiser for cultural institutions and recently became the Development Director at Washington Project for the Arts. Prior to that, Alexa worked in Individual Giving at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy. She holds BAs in Psychology and Art History from Tufts University, and an MA in Visual Arts Administration from New York University. Alexa grew up in the Washington, DC area and is passionate about supporting the creative community in this city. She currently lives in Northeast DC with her husband and two little budding artists.

This program is hosted by Concetta Duncan, Maria Sancho-Arroyo, Alexa Kaye and Caitlin Berry
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