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Yuwei Luo has extensive experience in arts administration, event planning, and NGO work. She has managed gallery operations and organized events at Tina Kim Gallery and Eli Klein Gallery. Additionally, Yuwei coordinated a collaborative project between the NBA and BESTSELLER Group, managing promotional events and logistics. Previously at the nonprofit China-U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Yuwei worked as an executive assistant to the Chairman, handling international communications, administration, and organizing events. Born and raised in Jinan, China, Yuwei also studied in Augsburg, Germany, as part of an international program, bringing a global perspective to her work. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics with a minor in Communication & Culture from Fordham University, where she was an honor student in both disciplines.

Laura Vookles is Chair of the Curatorial Department at the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers, New York, where she has worked in various capacities since 1985. She has curated and written for numerous publications, including Derrick Adams: Buoyant (Hudson River Museum, 2020), The Color of the Moon: Lunar Paintings in American Art (Fordham University Press | Hudson River Museum, 2019), Wyeth Wonderland: Josephine Douet Envisions Andrew Wyeth’s World (Hudson River Museum, 2017), The Panoramic River: The Hudson and The Thames (Hudson River Museum, 2013), Paintbox Leaves: Autumnal Inspiration from Cole to Wyeth (Hudson River Museum, 2010), Dutch New York: the Roots of Hudson Valley Culture (Fordham University Press | Hudson River Museum, 2009), and Westchester: The American Suburb (Fordham University Press | Hudson River Museum, 2006). Vookles has completed numerous successful furnishing, conservation, and interpretation projects for Glenview, the Museum’s 1877 Hudson River home on the National Register of Historic Places. She was a critical team member of a $2.1 million restoration project completed in 1999, which furnished the Parlor and reopened it as a period room for the first time, as well as uncovering and restoring a magnificent painted glass laylight over the grand staircase. This project received awards from the National Victorian Society in America Award and the Victorian Society Award, Metropolitan Chapter. In 2019, Through Our Eyes: Milestones and Memories of African Americans in Yonkers, a Samuel H. Kress project under her curatorial direction at HRM, received the Engaging Communities Award of Merit from the Museum Association of New York. She holds a Masters in Art History from Boston University and a BA in Art History from the University of Virginia. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Westchester County Historical Society and has served on the Board of the Greater Hudson Heritage Network.

Susanna Sirefman is the Founder and President of Dovetail Design Strategists, the leading independent architect selection firm. Dovetail provides pre-project strategy and design team development for civic, cultural, and educational institutions, developers, and private individuals looking for world-class architecture and design excellence. Dovetail has served an impressive and broad range of clients in the cultural sector including the Portland Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Jacob’s Pillow, Corporation of Yaddo, onePULSE Foundation, Storm King Art Center, Liberty Science Center, the New York Public Library, and the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Susanna draws from extensive knowledge of the latest design and building trends, providing her clients with unmatched access to both emerging and acclaimed talent in architecture. Trained as an architect at the renowned Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, England, Susanna’s deep knowledge of the field informs her ability to advise on design, synthesize architectural concepts, and make a project vision accessible to both architects and the public. Dovetail’s signature methodology and competitive selection process, tailored to each project, thoughtfully leads its clients to inspired architect shortlists and winning designs as they prepare for growth and enhanced visibility.

Susanna has authored five books on contemporary architecture and written for many publications including the Wall Street Journal. Among recent speaking engagements, Susanna was featured at the 2023 International Museum Construction Conference in Belgium and the 2024 California Association of Museums Annual Conference. Susanna is a fellow of the Urban Design Forum, the Urban Land Institute, and a member of the ULI Mixed-Use Product Council, the Van Alen International Council, The Museum Association of New York, the Author’s Guild, and on the Advisory Board of the online magazine Madame Architect.

With a career spanning two decades and across various prestigious arts institutions, Regan is an experienced leader and administrator with a focus on global strategic planning and business development.
Regan’s first leadership role in the arts was as Deputy Director of Membership at the New Museum, where she played an integral role in the 2007 opening of the museum’s new building on the Bowery. She then joined Sotheby’s, where she successfully launched Sotheby’s Preferred, the firm’s global client loyalty program. After spending several years in France working with private collectors and public institutions, she returned to New York in 2013 as Christie’s Senior Vice President of Client Strategy for the Post-War and Contemporary Art department. Subsequently, she served as the Director of Business Development at David Zwirner Gallery.
In 2021, Regan founded her consultancy, RLL Art Services LLC, developing bespoke strategies for galleries, museums, foundations, and other arts ventures, helping them capitalize on their strengths to address their needs. Regan is committed to driving growth and innovation in the art world by connecting and empowering artists, collectors, institutions, and communities.
Regan has held leadership positions in numerous professional organizations, including ArtTable, POWarts, the American Alliance of Museums, Art Mamas, and Americans for the Arts.
Regan holds a B.A. with honors in Art History and Philosophy from New York University, with additional degrees from the Université de Strasbourg in Eastern France, and La Sorbonne in Paris. She is a dual citizen of France and the United States. Recently, Regan relocated from New York to Washington, DC, with her husband and three children.

Dana Prussian Haney is a Senior Vice President within the Art Services group at Bank of America. As a senior member of the Bank’s industry-leading Art Services group, Mrs. Prussian Haney drives a suite of art-related products and advisory services for collectors across the Private Bank. She is responsible for leading the team’s Consignment business, sourcing Art Lending opportunities, and advising collector relationships throughout the Eastern half of the U.S.

Mrs. Prussian Haney’s background is at the intersection of art and finance, having held roles at Christie’s, Barclays, and Bessemer Trust before joining BofA to work exclusively with art collectors. Prussian Haney holds a BA in Art History and Political Science from Barnard College at Columbia University.

In addition to serving on ArtTable’s Board of Directors, Mrs. Prussian Haney serves on the Advisory Board of RXArt, a national nonprofit that commissions contemporary art installations to transform children’s hospitals. In her spare time, Mrs. Prussian Haney enjoys traveling and building a personal art collection. She lives with her husband on Manhattan’s Upper East Side.

Nora Gomez-Strauss is an arts administrator and freelance writer born, raised, and now raising a family in Queens, NY. She is currently the Assistant Director of Digital Content at the Whitney Museum of American Art, where she leads the team working on digital content strategy and production. Nora oversees website content, exhibition videos and multimedia, digital programs, social media, and digital imaging. Previously, Nora was at Public Art Fund for eleven years in the role of Director of Digital Strategies, where she oversaw all digital components of the organization. In addition to working in communications at visual art nonprofits for over fifteen years, Nora also highlights women in the creative field through freelance writing. She has been featured in The Fold Mag and Good Company Magazine. Nora has been a member of ArtTable since 2013 and lives in her native borough with her husband and two children where they can be found going for long walks, looking at art, listening to records, and escaping to the beach. She and her husband both serve on the Queens Democratic County Committee and she is the recipient of a Hispanic and Latinx Leadership Award from the New York City Council.

With a passion for the arts and architecture for over 30 years, Carol Duke helps museums and galleries plan for and design facilities that best suit the needs of their audiences, communities, and colleagues. She leads client development and strategy at DLR Group, expanding the firm’s international cultural and performing arts studio. Her long-range planning and commitment to equitable community-building supports projects at a high level, resulting in exceptional, inspiring design solutions. Carol is a trustee of the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. and actively supports several arts organizations, including the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Society for College & University Planning, the American Institute of Architects, and the International Association of Museum Facilities Administrators. She holds a BA in Art History from Randolph-Macon Woman’s College. In her spare time, Carol loves to curate her Little Free Library, travel with her husband and twin daughters, attend the theater, and visit museums.

Klaudia Ofwona Draber is a curator and the Executive Director at KODA—a social practice residency she founded for mid-career artists. She has lived and led arts, technology and strategy projects in Europe, Africa, and the United States. She is also a Faculty at Sotheby’s Institute of Art New York in the MA in Art Business program. Her professional experience includes working as the Head of Public Relations at the Polish Cultural Institute New York, and as a consultant to the British Council Arts. She also worked at UBS, managing global change and local arts CSR projects. Klaudia was the 2021-2022 Helena Rubinstein Fellow at the Whitney Museum ISP Curatorial Studies Program. She is a Board Member at ArtTable—the foremost professional organization dedicated to advancing the leadership of women and nonbinary professionals in the visual arts. Klaudia holds an MA in Art Business from Sotheby‘s Institute of Art New York. She also holds an MA in Economics from the Warsaw School of Economics. Klaudia is a PhD candidate in Practice in Curating at the University of Reading.

Ursula Davila-Villa is the co-founder of Davila-Villa & Stothart (DVS), an organization devoted to supporting artists and their families on artistic legacy planning and stewardship, studio management, as well as expanding across the globe the cultural and art historical understanding of underrepresented artists. DVS has worked with such artists as Frank Bowling, Mel Chin, Luis Camnitzer, Kurt Kocherscheidt Estate, Lorraine O’Grady, Carolee Schneemann (♰), and Cecilia Vicuña. Before the founding of DVS, she was a Partner at Alexander Gray Associates (2012–2017) where she directed the artistic and operational areas of the gallery. From 2005–2012 she was Associate Curator of Latin American Art at The Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin. In 2012 she was co-curator of El Panal/ The Hive: Third Poli/Gráfica Triennial of San Juan de Puerto Rico. In 2008 she curated a mid-career survey of Mexican artist Yoshua Okon at the Städtische Kunsthalle Munich, Germany. Previously, she worked at Cai Guo-Qiang at Cai Studio, the Guggenheim Museum, Art in General (New York), and Galería OMR (Mexico City). She completed her M.A. in Museum Studies at New York University and holds a BA in architecture and urbanism from the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Mexico, Université Laval, Quebec, Canada, and the Technische Universiteit Delft, Netherlands. She has served as a juror for United States Artists, the National Endowment for the Arts, Fundação Iberê Camargo, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Artist Pension Trust, and the II Texas Biennale. She served on the board of VisualAIDS from 2019 to 2022 and is currently on the board of Women’s Studio Workshop (WSW).

Dominique Clayton is an arts consultant, writer, gallerist born and raised in Los Angeles. Clayton is the founder and director of Dominique Gallery, a store front turned pop-up exhibition and online program which showcases and advises emerging artists with a focus on marginalized artists and artists raising families. In addition to the gallery, Dominique also serves on the curatorial and programming committee of Destination Crenshaw, a forthcoming outdoor art museum and arts program based in the historic Crenshaw community of Los Angeles. Dominique previously worked as Manager of the Founding Director’s office at The Broad and later as an interim director at Jeffrey Deitch Gallery. In her arts management role, she has provided logistical, curatorial, and production management for exhibitions and productions for arts organizations and media companies including The Broad, ARRAY, WACO Theater Center and Wearable Art Gala, Venice Family Clinic Art Walk and Auction, Fashion Mamas, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Dance Africa Festival, Black Entertainment Television, Lee Daniels Entertainment, and the Tribeca Film Institute. Clayton was also a 2019-2020 participant in the Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation Art Writer Workshop under the mentorship of the late Maurice Berger. Her arts writing has been featured on several platforms and publications including Cultured Magazine, LALA Magazine, Artsy, Sugarcane Magazine, Blavity, 21Ninety, and her own forthcoming Black Arts Diary. Clayton holds a masters degree in Business Design and Arts Leadership from Savannah College of Art and Design as well as an undergraduate degree from Columbia University.