Kelly Olshan is an arts manager and visual artist passionate about providing fiscal and professional development resources for creative practitioners. She graduated valedictorian from UNC Asheville, where she obtained a BFA in painting, and holds an MA in arts administration from Columbia University. Her research on nonprofit professional development programs for artists has been published in the Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society. Prior to joining NYFA, she served as the Program Manager for Queens Council on the Arts, where she oversaw the organization’s Artist Commissioning Program, High School to Art School, and Professional Development programs, as well as authored the book How You Can Commission Art. Previously, she has held roles at Americans for the Arts, Art21, Artforum, and Creative Capital. She serves on the Advisory Committee of the DOT Public Art program and is a frequent panelist for NYC’s Percent for Art Program.

Alaina Claire Feldman
Director, CUNY Baruch Gallery

Alaina Claire Feldman is the Director and Curator of Mishkin Gallery at Baruch College, City University of New York (CUNY) where she has organized solo and group exhibitions, performances, readings and film screenings with artists such as Minerva Cuevas, Juan Downey, Lamin Fofana, Nicolás Guagnini, May Joseph, Zeena Parkins, Nicolas Premier, Jeff Preiss, Ho Tzu Nyen and more. She teaches Curatorial Praxis in Baruch’s MA Arts Administration program and holds a degree in art history and critical visual studies from Pratt Institute, and social and environmental justice studies from the Graduate Center. Her writing on art and political ecology has appeared in Afterall, Art Asia Pacific, Contemporary&, e-flux journal, Flash Art, PARSE, Texte Zur Kunst and in catalogues for museums around the world. She is the editor of The Ocean After Nature and Nicolás Guagnini: Theatre of the Self, and managing editor of the Apichatpong Weerasethkul Sourcebook. Previously curated exhibitions include Peter Fend: HACE SENTIDO (Embajada, San Juan, 2018 w TV GOV) a project interrogating the environmental predatory “shock doctrine” of a post-Maria Puerto Rico, as well as Cherchez la femme/Maso et Miso Vont en Bateau (The Kitchen, New York, 2012 and Space, London, 2014), featuring video works she translated from the Centre Audiovisual Simone de Beauvoir in Paris. She was previously Director of Exhibitions at Independent Curators International where she organized dozens of projects, including The Ocean After Nature, a traveling and modular exhibition presented at seven museums around the world. Her current research is concerned with display technologies that have contributed to the production of nature/ocean as material for consumption as well as the history of natural history, aquariums, critical animal studies, and collecting & collections.

Judith Pineiro
Executive Director of the Association of Art Museum Curators (AAMC) & AAMC Foundation

Executive Director of the Association of Art Museum Curators (AAMC) & AAMC Foundation, Judith Pineiro has been in the visual arts sector for nearly 30 years. A recognized strategic leader capable of delivering a vision, Pineiro has a proven track record of building and strengthening organizations, propelling them forward. Dedicated to ensuring an inclusive and valued arts community, she believes our art organizations should reflect and respect the communities they serve. Joining AAMC & AAMC Foundation in 2014, she has quadrupled funding and programming, as well as raised the organization’s mission driven profile. Directly prior, she was an External Affairs consultant for cultural sector clients. Additional senior level roles include Director, Affordable Art Fair U.S.; Associate Development Director, Institutional Advancement, Museum of Arts and Design; and Account Manager, Museum Services, Christie’s. Pineiro also volunteers serving as VP, Communication on the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees at ArtTable, and Board Finance Committee member. She is a former Board member at New York Artists Equity Association; mentor in the Diversity in Arts Leadership program of the Arts & Business Council, Americans for the Arts; and juror for the National Arts Education Association and Brooklyn Arts Council. She has also had speaking engagements with the American Alliance of Museums, Association of African American Museums, Association of Art Museum Curators, Museum Computer Network, POWArts and Young Professionals in the Arts/NYFA. Judith received an MA in art history, BA in art history and BA in journalism/mass media all from Rutgers University.