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On October 3, 2015, AEFI presented an invitational, small group session for Bay Area artists interested in philanthropy and planning for their life’s work. Artists’ Conversation: The Bay Area drew on the findings of AEFI’s National Study of Artist-Endowed Foundations to promote awareness of the ways artists may determine whether a foundation is an appropriate choice for long term stewardship of their creative works and rights, and to share information about how to plan effectively for a foundation that will successfully fulfill its charitable purpose.
Offered periodically in collaboration with local cultural institutions, AEFI’s Artists’ Conversations help artists and their spouses/partners, as well as artists’ surviving spouses and heirs, explore considerations in creating an artist-endowed foundation.
Panelists for the Artists’ Conversation: The Bay Area included:
Leah Levy, Director, The Jay DeFeo Trust
Mary Clare Stevens, Executive Director, Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts
Christa Blatchford, CEO, Joan Mitchell Foundation
Stephen Urice, Professor of Law, University of Miami School of Law, AEFI Advisor
Christine J. Vincent, Project Director, AEFI
The program was organized in collaboration with:
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Lawrence Rinder, Director
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Julian Cox, Founding Curator of Photography and Chief Curator
Oakland Museum of California, René de Guzman, Senior Curator of Art
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Janet Bishop, Curator of Painting and Sculpture
