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Jaynelle Hazard develops, implements and oversees contemporary fine art programming initiatives for top level organizations.

She has supported various art programs and worked with some of the most celebrated artworks through her experience as Director of Exhibitions at Workhouse Arts Center, in supporting the UBS corporate art collection and through her work at Blank Projects contemporary art gallery in Cape Town, South Africa. She is currently the Faith Flanagan Fellowship Chair of the Washington, D.C. Chapter of ArtTable.

Maria Sancho Arroyo brings over 25 years of international experience in the art world, first at museums – National Museum of Catalan Art, MNAC, in Barcelona and at the Louvre in Paris- then at Sotheby’s Auction House in London. During her time at Sotheby’s, she gained experience in all aspects of the auction world with a focus on business and client development. She has participated in numerous auctions and worked closely with all Sotheby’s European offices. Maria has given lectures on art market trends at the London and New York Sotheby’s Institute and is a regular contributor to the “Giornale dell’Arte”, the Italian edition of the Art newspaper. She is involved with art charitable organizations and is the Membership Chair of ArtTable DC chapter since June 2019.

Caitlin Berry owns and operates Caitlin Berry Fine Art (CBFA),  a full service art advisory firm based in the Washington, DC area. Caitlin specializes in Post-War American, Washington Color School and Contemporary Art, and provides contract curatorial services for a variety of organizations. Caitlin brings over a decade of experience in the New York and DC markets working for galleries, private dealers and art consultants. Caitlin in an active member of ArtTable and serves as co-chair for the Washington, DC chapter.

Susan is an independent scholar, curator and educator specializing in modern and contemporary art. She holds advanced degrees in Museum Studies from the Ecole du Louvre and Art History from the Université de Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne. Her research interests include contemporary art interventions in museums and artist-curated exhibitions. She is the recipient of the Terra Foundation for American Art fellowship residency in Giverny, France and the Sara Roby Predoctoral Fellowship in Twentieth-Century Realism at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. She has most recently worked in the department of American Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and formerly as an educator at the Musée d’Art moderne de la ville de Paris. Susan is an active member of ArtTable and currently serves co-chair of the Southern California chapter.

Julia P. Herzberg, Ph.D., is an art historian, independent curator, and two-time Fulbright scholar who lives and works in New York City. Since 1990, she has organized more than 30 exhibitions of international artists’ work including Pepón Osorio, Magdalena Fernández, and Raquel Rabinovich, to name a few, each show exemplifying her wide-ranging, cross-disciplinary, multinational, and aesthetic interests.

Herzberg previously served as an adjunct curator at the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, Miami (2008–2015), and consulting curator at El Museo del Barrio (1996–2001) as well as at the 8th, 9th, and 10th Havana Biennials (2003–2009). Herzberg has taught, lectured, and published extensively in the United States and abroad. As a 2012–2013 Fulbright scholar at the University Diego Portales and as a Fulbright senior specialist in 2007 at the Pontífica Universidad Católica de Chile, both in Santiago, she taught graduate courses on contemporary Latin American artists in the United States in a global context. She also curated two exhibitions at the Museum of Memory and Human Rights and the National Museum of Fine Arts in Santiago during her Fulbright period (2013). In 2019, Herzberg served as the curator of “Padece: Máximo Corválan-Pincheira,” at ARTESPACIO Galeria, Santiago, Chile, and was the curator and essayist for Rogelio López “Marín: At the Intersections of Photography, Music, and Design” at LnS Gallery, Miami. She has served as a contributing and consulting editor for Arte al Día, an international magazine of contemporary Latin American art. Herzberg is on the Sculpture Committee of The Fund for Park Avenue, featuring artists Raul Maurão, Sophia Vari, and Willie Cole on the Park Avenue Mall until November 5, 2023.

Jessica L. Porter joined ArtTable as the Executive Director in 2018, after 4 years on the Board of Directors and 8 years of membership. In this role, she is responsible for developing the long-range strategy of ArtTable, providing leadership and oversight in fundraising to meet financial goals, and directing communications and brand management to enhance the success of the organization. She oversees and provides leadership to the staff and the membership as a whole, expanding and educating through research, programs, and communications. In 2020 she was the first to assume the name of ArtTable’s founder, Lila Harnett, and became the Lila Harnett Executive Director. 

Prior to this role, she was the Executive Director of New York Artists Equity Association, Inc (NYAEA) a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded in 1947 by artists and art patrons with the mission to promote opportunities for artists. It operates Equity Gallery, an art space located on the Lower East Side of New York City.  

In 2001, Porter launched Porter Advisory, working with galleries and other organizations as an independent curator, creating exhibitions in alternative spaces and advising artists on unique opportunities and career advancement. From 2006 to 2017, Porter founded and directed Porter Contemporary, a Chelsea art gallery, where she was responsible for the overall strategy, business development and market growth, marketing, communications, and talent acquisition. 

She has spoken as an expert on CNBC about art collecting and investment of emerging artists, to the Harvard Business Women’s Association about starting an art collection, and has participated in panel discussions on such topics as art and music, women in the art industry, art and social justice, contemporary visions of Picasso and art collecting. She is also a lawyer.

Porter’s natural networking skills, combined with strategic event planning and social marketing, have made her a leader in the growth of her own businesses as well as other organizations.  Porter demonstrates a resounding commitment to providing guidance and opportunities to other women as part of the Leadership Advisory Board for the Girl Scouts of Greater New York’s annual Women of Distinction Fundraiser and as a Board Member and former Vice President of Membership at ArtTable. She also enjoys coaching little league softball and serving as a supporter and role model to girls starting out in sports. 

Porter has a Bachelor’s in Art History and French Language and Literature from the University of Delaware and a Juris Doctor from the University of Maryland. 

 

Founder and CEO, The Agora Culture | Washington, DC

Jessica Stafford Davis is the founder of the Agora Culture, a national online multicultural arts platform that supports emerging artists of color and collectors through educational programming, art salons, and its annual Art On the Vine exhibition in Martha’s Vineyard. One of the only contemporary African-American art fairs presenting critically-acclaimed, institutional-level work in the US, Art On the Vine also features a four-week residency named for acclaimed visual artists Augusta Savage and Norman Lewis. Through the Savage-Lewis residency, selected artists are provided with an opportunity to collaborate and create new works as part of an effort to help them grow and explore their creative practices.

Davis’s mission to highlight African-American artists extends into her special curatorial projects including her most recent exhibition of Jon-Serie Goff’s work in collaboration with the Middleburg Film Festival. “RECLAMATION,” inspired by the history of Middleburg, Virginia, was an exhibition that centered on enslaved and free Black laborers whose presence and history had long been forgotten by the general public.

In addition, Davis is the 2018, and first recipient of the Arena Stage Emerging Leader Award. She currently serves as a member of the George Mason University School of Art advisory board and is an ArtTable member. Previously, she served as a board member of the Washington Project for the Arts and Smith Center for Healing in the Arts. She received her BA and BS from George Mason University. She resides in McLean, Virginia, with her two sons.

Phyllis Hollis, CEO of Hollis Advisory LLC, consults senior executives with both strategic and practical hands-on advice to demystify the impact of disruptive technologies on their respective industries. She bridges the gap between the “8 Track” generation and the “Netflix” generation to employ ever-changing digital marketing technologies. Hollis Advisory offers a C-Suite perspective when building an online marketing strategy.

As a first-generation IBM systems engineer with C-Suite experience in financial services, Hollis offer a top-down, big-picture perspective. Smart businesses must combine the expertise of both generations, 8-Track+Netflix, to create successful digital marketing campaigns.

She is currently a trustee of Guild Hall in Easthampton, where she serves as the chair of the newly formed marketing committee as well as the strategic planning team.

Hollis earned a certificate in digital marketing strategy from Cornell and Harvard as well as a certificate in the fundamentals of digital marketing from Google Digital Garage. She holds a BS in business from San Jose State University.

Independent Art Historian | New York

Annette Blaugrund,PhD has published and lectured widely on diverse subjects in American art and culture. She was the director of the National Academy Museum and School of Fine Arts from 1997 to 2007, and before that the Andrew W. Mellon senior curator at the New-York Historical Society. She also worked as a curator at the Brooklyn Museum and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. She has written fifteen books about American art and contributed seven chapters and 33 articles to other publications. The National Academy gave her a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2008 and the French government named her a Chevalier in the Order of Arts in 1992, among other honors. She holds a PhD in art history from Columbia University (1987), where for six years she taught American art (1996–2001), and she currently sits on the art history department’s advisory council. Her most recent publications are The Way Back: The Paintings of George A. Weymouth (Rizzoli, 2018), for the Brandywine River Museum of Art; and Thomas Cole: The Artist as Architect (Monacelli Press, 2016), for the Thomas Cole National Historic Site (TCNHS) in Catskill, NY, and the Columbus Museum of Art, OH. She was elected to the Women Writing Women’s Lives in 2012 after writing Dispensing Beauty in New York and Beyond, a biography of Harriet Hubbard Ayer, the first woman cosmetic mogul, in 1886, in the US. For the last six years, she has served as advisor and curator for the TCNHS.