Business Matters in the Visual Arts LLC

Business Matters in the Visual Arts LLC, San Francisco, CA Art Advisor and Accredited Senior Appraiser, Fine Art, ASA
1997 – Present 

Consulting practice providing advisory, appraisal, strategic planning, and organizational expertise to artists, attorneys, collectors, estates, galleries, organizations and corporations. Litigation support to attorneys with cases involving artists and works of art. Providing art business testimony and reports  for Expert Witness cases since 1993.

Cullman Stone LLC, San Francisco, CA
2014 – Present 

Independent curating projects. Providing expertise with deaccessioning, consigning and resale  of art in private collections. Exhibition and collection management consulting.

San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
1996 – 2000 

Visiting Faculty
Taught undergraduate and graduate students interdisciplinary courses relating to the professional practices in the art world.

San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
1994 – 1997

Director of Career Services
Designed annual programming, weekly workshops and a spectrum of services to prepare students to transition successfully in the art world. Served as Campus Fulbright Advisor.

Nestlé Beverage Co, San Francisco, CA
1993 – 1994 

Guest Curator 

Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA
1993 – 1994 

Special Activities Manager
Organized events around the Art Spiegelman “Road to Maus” exhibition, worked with donors and board members on the annual gala dinner and art auction, “Bridging the Community Through Art”.

Learning Through Education in the Arts Project, San Francisco, CA Executive Director 
1992 

Worked with funders, donors and board members to transition a small nonprofit arts education organization in crisis to greater economic stability. LEAP provided 54 curriculum-based arts education residencies in the San Francisco public and parochial schools in the 1991-1992 school year through their Architect-in-Schools and Artist-in-Schools residency program. Dancers, musicians, artists and performers integrated art into the academic curriculum, in collaboration with the principals of each school.

Jeremy Stone Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1982 – 1991 

Director/Founder
Gallery represented and exhibited emerging and mid-career American artists while also presenting historical museum quality shows. Developed a national level of visibility in the art world, including exhibition coverage in press, national art magazines and major newspapers. Curated and mounted over 80 exhibitions.