Alexander Gray

Alexander Gray is Principal and Co-Founder of  Alexander Gray Associates, a New York Chelsea gallery and advisory firm that focuses on mid-career artists who emerged in the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. Prior to establishing the Gallery, Alexander Gray held numerous leadership positions in the arts, including Artadia: The Fund for Art and Dialogue; Artpace

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Gai Gherardi

Gai Gherardi is co-owner/designer of l.a. Eyeworks, founded in Los Angeles with Barbara McReynolds in 1979. Gherardi and McReynolds create signature collections of limited-edition eyewear that are distributed worldwide. A passionate fan of all of the arts, Gherardi has served frequently on arts/design juries, and lectured on l.a. Eyeworks’ unique approach to design and fashion.

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Linda Earle

Linda Earle is the Executive Director the New York Arts Program, an accredited off-campus study program for undergraduate and post-baccalaureate students in the visual, performing and media arts, writing and journalism. Before joining NYAP she served as the Executive Director of Program for the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, one of the nation’s leading

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Laura Donnelley

Laura Donnelley is the President of the Board of the Santa Monica Museum of Art and has served in this role since 2000. She is also Chairman of the Board of the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation in Chicago. Among their particular areas of interest are education for underserved adolescents and long range cross-cultural projects

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The Critical Needs Fund for Photographers with AIDS

The Critical Needs Fund for Photographers with AIDS In 1992, Art Matters and Photographers + Friends United Against AIDS initiated a collaborative effort, The Critical Needs Fund for Photographers with AIDS. Photographers + Friends and The Estate Project provided money from various fundraising activities and Art Matters publicized and administered the fellowships. By 1998, forty-five

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The Estate Project for Artists with AIDS

The Estate Project for Artists with AIDS In 1991, with the involvement of Art Matters, the Alliance for the Arts in New York City initiated the Estate Project for Artists with AIDS intending to develop a way of advising artists on estate planning, as well as providing strategic direction for the arts community in the

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The Art Matters Catalog

The Art Matters Catalog was initiated in 1994 to sustain and potentially expand the foundation’s grant-making activities. The catalogue was funded in its startup solely from Art Matters’ endowment with the goal of supporting artists in two ways: by advertising and selling the products of artists working in the marketplace, and by using profits to

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The Arts Forward Fund

The Arts Forward Fund In 1991, Art Matters was involved in the conceptualization of the Arts Forward Fund and subsequently provided programmatic administrative support for it. Thirty-six New York City funders cooperated in this effort to bolster self-sufficiency among struggling arts organizations, many of them focusing on new art and facing the decline of government

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Visual Aids

Visual Aids Founded in 1988 by arts professionals as a response to the effects of AIDS on the arts community and as a way of organizing artists, arts institutions, and arts audiences towards direct action, Visual AIDS has evolved into an arts organization with a two-pronged mission. 1.) Through the Frank Moore Archive Project, the

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National Campaign for Freedom of Expression

National Campaign for Freedom of Expression In 1990, Art Matters gave fellowships to Joy Silverman and Alexander Gray to start an advocacy effort representing artists whose rights and needs were not necessarily addressed by other art world organizations mobilizing against attacks on government funding. The National Campaign for Freedom of Expression (NCFE) was in active

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Cee Brown

Cee Brown The son of cattle ranchers in the Yakima Valley, WA, Cee moved to New York City in 1977 to take a position at The Museum of Modern Art, where he worked in the single contemporary program of the Museum called The Projects Program. After three years at MoMA, he became director of the

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Mary Livingston Beebe

Mary Livingston Beebe Since its inception in 1981, Mary Livingstone Beebe has been the Director of the Stuart Collection which is an on-going program commissioning outdoor sculpture for the 1200-acre campus at the University of California, San Diego. Major works have been completed by Terry Allen, Michael Asher, John Baldessari, Niki de Saint Phalle, Jackie Ferrara, Ian Hamilton

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Regine Basha

Regine Basha has worked as a curator, art writer and consultant since 1993. She has curated in non-profit spaces in Canada, the US and parts of Latin America and the Middle East, and has often initiated curatorial projects or collaboratives incorporating artists’ commissions in public spaces. Recently she was based in Austin, Texas where she

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