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

The three-day 2026 Annual CPAL Conference, OBJECTIVES - ACTIONS - OUTCOMES will take place June 1–3, 2026, at The Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation (87 Eldridge Street, NY 10002) in the NYC- LES, and hosted online via Zoom.

DAY #1 - OBJECTIVES

Panelists tackle the core question of intent in legacy planning, examining how priorities are identified and goals take shape. They explore how these objectives are translated into enduring impact, ensuring that an artist’s work maintains visibility and continues to resonate across generations.

DAY #2 - ACTIONS

An exploration of key tools for safeguarding artistic legacies, ranging from legal frameworks and tax structures to estate appraisals. Through case studies, audiences gain insight into how legacy ambitions are formed in practice, with decisions grounded in sound long-term planning.

DAY #3. - OUTCOMES

Focuses on measurable results, emerging technologies, and the tracking of ongoing progress, highlighting long-term considerations that allow legacies to endure. Participants explore how stewardship can be sustained over time, shaping forms of influence across academia, the market, and collections.

JOY GLIDDEN, Executive Director and Founder, Center for the Preservation of Artists’ Legacies, CPAL; SUSAN REYNOLDS, Executive Director The Milton Resnick Pat Passlof Foundation; ALYSSA NITCHUN; Executive Director, Leslie Lohman Museum of Art; FRANCIS J. GREENBURGER, Founder & Co-Executive Director, Art Omi Pavilions @ Chatham; SHAMIM M. MOMIN, Director and Chief Curator of The Bronx Museum of the Arts; JACOB PROCTOR, Gilbert and Ann Kinney New York Collector, Smithsonian Institution's Archives of American Art; SUSAN J. COOKE, Former Associate Director, The David Smith Estate; Catalogue Raisonné Scholars Association; ANTON SHERIN, Associate Archivist for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Library and Archive- Director of Programming - Archivists Round Table of Metropolitan New York, Inc. (A.R.T.); SUZAAN BOETTGER, Art Historian and Critic; SUSAN BRUNDAGE, Brundage Art Advisors LLC; DR EILEEN COSTELLO, Ellsworth Kelly Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Reliefs, and Sculpture; CHRISTINA J. HUNTER Ph.D., Executive Director, Nancy Graves Foundation; DIEDRA HARRIS-KELLEY, Co-Director of the Romare Bearden Foundation; FRANCINE SNYDER, Director of Archives & Digital at the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation; AGUSTÍN DÍEZ FISCHER, Senior Manager of Research and Archives, Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA); DIYA VIJ, Commissioner, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs; JANE HAIT, Founder and Board Chair, Center for Art, Research and Alliances (CARA); JUDITH WALLACE, Carter Ledyard & Milburn LLP; SARAH KIRK HANLEY, AAA Certified Appraiser; JULIA K. GLEICH, Founding Partner, Artist Estate Studio, LLC; CARYN KEPPLER, Principal, Offit Kurman, LLP, ALEX LEE, Alpha fly; PAULA BALDONI, Director of River House Arts, serves as the Foundation's Executive Director; MICHAEL BORGER, ESQ., Borger Law, PC; DEBORAH SPANIERMAN, Deborah Gerstler Spanierman & Associates, Inc; SUR RODNEY (SUR), Writer, Curator, Archivist, Co-Executor, Geoffrey Hendrick Estate; ISSAC ALPERT, Director of Estates P.P.O.W., ZAK FREELAND, Archivist, curator, appraiser at J.N Herlin, Inc.; AMELIA K. BRANKOV; Brankov PLLC, NYC Arts and Media Law Firm; THOMAS MADDREY, CEO, American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP); CAMERON STERLING, Archive Manager, Ellen Graham Foundation, Consultant; AMY MYERS, Artist, Barbara Daves Gallery; KENTA MURAKAMI, Director, Ortuzar; MICHAEL & SUSAN HORT, Art Collectors, Founder, Rema Hort Mann Foundation; CHRISTINE MACK, Mack Art Foundation; KRISTEN HILEMAN, Independent Curator and Educator, Yale, Baltimore Museum; STAMATINA GREGORY, Head Curator / Director of Exhibitions and Collections; MIRANDA SAMUELS, Associate Director, CPAL, LAUREN SHADFORD, Executive Director, Voices in Contemporary Art (VoCA), SARAH DZIEDZIC, Oral Historian, Helen Frankenthaler Foundation; DARIA DOROSH, Artist, A.I.R. Oral History; DEENA ENGEL, Professor Emerita, Department of Computer Science, NYU; REBECCA CLEMAN, Executive Director, Electronic Arts Intermix; JESSICA SEIGEL, Director at Judy Seigel Estate; ELIZABETH GORAYEB, The Wildenstein Plattner Institute; BRIAN BLOCK Artist, plus more!

Info: Panelists tackle the core question of intent in legacy planning, examining how priorities are identified and goals take shape. They explore how these objectives are translated into enduring impact, ensuring that an artist’s work maintains visibility and continues to resonate across generations.

Info: Welcome & Introduction - SUSAN REYNOLDS, Executive Director, The Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation

Info: CPAL Conference Opening Remarks - JOY GLIDDEN, Founding Director, Center for the Preservation of Artists’ Legacies, CPAL

Info: Keynote Speaker: ALYSSA NITCHUN; Executive Director Leslie Lohman Museum of Art

Info: Moderator; JOY GLIDDEN, Executive Director and Founder, CPAL

Panelists: FRANCIS J. GREENBURGER, Founder and Co-Executive Director, Art Omi Pavilions; Founder, Time Equities; SHAMIM M. MOMIN, Director and Chief Curator, The Bronx Museum of the Arts; JACOB PROCTOR, Gilbert and Ann Kinney New York Collector at the Smithsonian Institution's Archives of American Art.

Info: Moderator; SUSAN J. COOKE - Board Member, Catalogue Raisonné Scholars Association, former Associate Director of The David Smith Estate.

Panelists: ANTON SHERIN Associate Archivist for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Library and Archive

Director of Programming - Archivists Round Table (A.R.T.), SUZAAN BOETTGER, Art Historian and Critic; SUSAN BRUNDAGE, Partner, Brundage Art Advisors LLC; EILEEN COSTELLO, Ellsworth Kelly Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Reliefs, and Sculpture Ellsworth Kelly Foundation

Info: Moderator: CHRISTINA R. HUNTER, Ph.D., Executive Director, The Nancy Graves Foundation

DIEDRA HARRIS-KELLEY, Co-Director of the Romare Bearden Foundation; FRANCINE SNYDER, Director of Archives & Digital at the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation; AGUSTÍN DÍEZ FISCHER, Senior Manager of Research and Archives, Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA)

Info: JOY GLIDDEN - Executive Director and Founder CPAL

Info: An exploration of key tools for safeguarding artistic legacies, ranging from legal frameworks and tax structures to estate appraisals. Through case studies, audiences gain insight into how legacy ambitions are formed in practice, with decisions grounded in sound long-term planni

Info: DIYA VIJ, Commissioner, NYC DCLA and JANE HAIT, Founder and Board Chair, Center for Art, Research and Alliances (CARA)

Info: Moderator: SUSAN REYNOLDS, Executive Director, The Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation
JUDITH WALLACE, Carter Ledyard & Milburn LLP; JULIA K. GLEICHE, Founding Partner, Artist Estate Studio, LLC; SARAH KIRK HANLEY, AAA Certified Appraiser

Info: Moderator: CARYN KEPLER, Principal at Offit Kurman, LLP; ALEX LEE, Founder of AlphaFly.co; PAULA BALDONI, Director of River House Arts, serves as the Foundation's Executive Director.

Info: “Lunch with a Lawyer: MICHAEL BORGER (30 minutes)

Info: Moderator: DEBORAH SPANIERMAN, Deborah Gerstler Spanierman & Associates, Inc;

SUR RODNEY (SUR), Archivist, Co-Executor of the Geoffrey Hendricks Estate; ZAK VREELAND, Book Specialist, J.N.Herlin; ISAAC ALPERT, Director of Estates, P.P.O.W

Info: Moderator: AMELIA BRANKOV, Brankov PLLC NYC Arts and Media Law Firm
THOMAS MADDREY, CEO, American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP); CAMERON STERLING, Archive Manager, Ellen Graham Foundation; Consultant.

Info: Moderator: Joy Glidden Executive Director and Founder, Center for the Preservation of Artists’ Legacies (CPAL)

Artists - AMY MYERS - RAY SMITH

Info: Panels focus on measurable results, emerging technologies, and the tracking of ongoing progress, highlighting long-term considerations that allow legacies to endure. Participants explore how stewardship can be sustained over time, shaping forms of influence across academia, the market, and collections.

Info: Susan Reynolds, Executive Director, The Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation

Info: About CPAL- new location/ artist in-take - Q & A with JOY GLIDDEN, Executive Director and Founder, Center for the Preservation of Artists’ Legacies (CPAL)

Info: Looking Back Looking Forward - How Contemporary Collections Preserve Memory and Shape Legacies
Moderator: KENTA MURAKAMI, Director, Ortuzar
MICHAEL and SUSAN HORT, The Rema Hort Mann Foundation; CHRISTINE MACK, Mack Art Foundation; KRISTEN HILEMAN, Independent Curator and Educator, Yale, Baltimore Museum; STAMATINA GREGORY, Head Curator / Director of Exhibitions and Collections, Leslie Lohman Museum of Art

Info: Moderator: MIRANDA SAMUELS, Associate Director
DARIA DOROSH - Artist, A.I.R. Oral History Project; LAUREN SHADFORD, Executive Director, Voices in Contemporary Art, (VoCA); SARAH DZIEDZIC, Oral Historian, Helen Frankenthaler Foundation

Info: Moderator: DEENA ENGEL, Professor Emerita, Department of Computer Science, NYU
REBECCA CLEMAN, Electronic Arts Intermix; JESSICA SEIGEL, Director at Judy Seigel Estate; ELIZABETH GORAYEB, The Wildenstein Plattner Institute

Info: JOY GLIDDEN, Executive Director
and Founder, Center for the Preservation of Artists’ Legacies (CPAL)

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