Board of Directors
Jill Kraus
Chair
Susan K. Freedman
President
Andrew R. Brownstein, Esq.
Vice President
Holly Lipton
Vice President
Jennifer New
Secretary
Charles Short
Treasurer
Ai Weiwei
Ellen Celli
Adrian Cheng
Elizabeth Fearon Pepperman
Wendy Fisher
Sara Fitzmaurice
Jennifer Harris
Patricia E. Harris
Andrea Krantz
Linda Lennon
Ronay Menschel
Ruthard C. Murphy
Douglas M. Polley
Rob Pruitt
Linda R. Safran
Patricia Silverstein
Hank Willis Thomas
David Wine
Jenny Dixon
Emeritus
Lloyd Frank, Esq.
Emeritus
Barbara Joelson Fife
Emeritus
Erana Stennett
Emeritus
Billie Tsien
Emeritus
Staff
Claire AichholzerDevelopment Associate
Nicholas BaumeDirector and Chief Curator
Rachael Buchwald Senior Manager of Creative Partnerships
Jackie ClineFinance & Human Resources Coordinator
Seth CohenProject Manager
Dakota DeVosManager of Creative Partnerships
Daniel Finch Project Manager, Creative Partnerships
Larry GiannechiniDirector of Project Management
Nora Gomez-StraussDirector of Digital Strategies
Grace HalioCommunications Associate
Walsh HansenProject Manager
Kellie Honeycutt Deputy Director
Sara Jones Graphic Designer
Courtney Knights Development Director
Sydney KrassenDevelopment Associate Manager
Daniel S. Palmer Curator
Rashel PeddersenProject Manager
Sam RauchDirector of Creative Partnerships
Katerina StathopoulouAssistant Curator
Allegra ThoresenCommunications Director
Sunny WangDevelopment Manager
Profiles
Jill Kraus , Chairman of the Board
Jill Kraus is Chairman of the Public Art Fund Board of Directors. She serves on the board of World Studio Foundation, which provides scholarships to minority and economically disadvantaged students in the visual arts. She also serves on the boards of the California Institute of the Arts, the New Museum, and The Museum of Modern Art, where she is Chair of the Media & Performance Committee and a member of the Executive Committee. She and her husband Peter co-chair the Friends of the Carnegie International, the oldest international art exhibition in the U.S. Mrs. Kraus is a former design director of Avon Products. Prior to Avon she was vice president of design for Swarovski Jewelry.
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 Committee. 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 , Director and Chief Curator
Nicholas Baume joined Public Art Fund as Director and Chief Curator 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 more than fifty exhibitions with a wide range of significant international artists at different stages of their careers. Author of several major exhibition catalogs, he is a frequent public speaker on contemporary art, and has contributed essays and interviews to numerous publications.