Elizabeth Fearon Pepperman
Chair
Board of Directors
Susan K. Freedman
President
Andrew R. Brownstein, Esq.
Vice President
Ellen Celli
Vice President
Jennifer Harris
Vice President
Holly Lipton
Vice President
Jennifer New
Secretary
Charles Short
Treasurer
Ai Weiwei
Margot Bram
Angelo K H Chan
Wendy Fisher
Sara Fitzmaurice
Alexandra Frankel
Patricia E. Harris
Andrea Krantz
Linda Lennon
Ronay Menschel
Ruthard C. Murphy
Jessica Ogilvie
Karyn Olivier
Rasika Reddy
Allison Russo
Karen Seymour
Patricia Silverstein
Michael Sternberg
Allison Wiener
David Wine
Emeritus
Jenny Dixon
Lloyd Frank, Esq.
Barbara Joelson Fife
Erana Stennett
Billie Tsien
Doris C. Freedman
Founder
Staff
EXECUTIVE
Susan K. FreedmanPresident
Nicholas BaumeArtistic & Executive Director
Stephanie AdamsDeputy Director for External Affairs
Larry GiannechiniDeputy Director for Programs & Operations
Hilary YehExecutive Coordinator
COMMUNICATIONS
Robin CarolCommunications Director
Sara Jones Director of Design & Creative Strategy
Isaiah FrisbieMarketing Producer
Khaleelah LoganDigital Media Manager
Natasha RobertsPublicist
Patrick NylenDatabase Project Manager
CREATIVE PARTNERSHIPS
Dorothy DávilaDirector, Creative Partnerships
Jessica KirshSenior Partnership Manager
Daniel FinchSenior Program Manager
Carl LawrenceAssociate, Creative Partnerships
CURATORIAL
Melanie KressSenior Curator
Gabriela López DenaAssociate Curator of Public Practice
Jenée StrandAssistant Curator
DEVELOPMENT
Eric BeesDirector of Development
Blake ScotlandDirector of Special Events
Madison MartinAssociate Director of Individual Giving
Ella ParkerInstitutional Giving Manager
Nicole JacksonDevelopment Associate
FINANCE AND HUMAN RESOURCES
Cynthia PringleDirector, Finance & Human Resources
Rosa BledsoeAssociate Manager, Finance & Operations
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Seth CohenSenior Project Manager
Rashel PeddersenSenior Project Manager
Hussain KhanbhaiProject Manager
Gregory WeithmanProject Manager
Juan Alberto Franco RicardoAssociate Project Manager
Profiles
Elizabeth Fearon Pepperman , Chair of the Board of Directors
Elizabeth Fearon Pepperman is the Chair of Public Art Fund's Board of Directors. She is an attorney and passionate advocate for artists and arts education who has served in leadership positions on non-profit boards for more than a decade, including as President Emerita and past Board Chair of the Children’s Museum of the Arts. A graduate of Fordham Law School, she is a former Brooklyn Assistant District Attorney and presently serves as a member of the New York City Bar Association's Art Law Committee, the New York County Bar Association Committee on Art Law, Art Table Circle and as Advisor to Moms for Moms, NYC. Elizabeth lives in Greenwich Village with her husband and four children.
Susan K. Freedman , President
Susan K. Freedman has served as President of Public Art Fund since 1986. She currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Municipal Art Society and is the Vice Chair of the Board for the City Parks Foundation. Previously, Freedman served as Mayor Bloomberg’s Representative on the Board of Trustees at the Museum of Modern Art as well as on the Department of Cultural Affairs’ Advisory Commission. She has also served as a member of the Board of WNYC Radio, was a member of the Brown University President's Leadership Council, and was a jury member for the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation’s World Trade Center Memorial Competition. Freedman has spoken at numerous conferences, contributed to myriad publications, and in 2005 was awarded Municipal Art Society’s Evangeline Blashfield Award.
Nicholas Baume , Artistic & Executive Director
Nicholas Baume is Artistic & Executive Director at Public Art Fund, which he joined in 2009. A native of Australia, his curatorial career began there with Kaldor Public Art Projects and later the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. He was Contemporary Curator at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Connecticut, before moving to Boston to join the Institute of Contemporary Art as Chief Curator. Baume has curated dozens of exhibitions with a wide range of significant international artists at different stages of their careers. An author of several major exhibition catalogs, he is a frequent public speaker on contemporary art and has contributed essays and interviews to numerous publications.