Navigating Donations – Legal and Ethical Aspects of Donations with the Appraisers Association

Join us this March for a webinar with the Appraisers Association on Navigating Donations. Understanding the roles and responsibilities of the donor, donee, and the various museum and gallery staff (development office, curators, registrars, and others).  Additional discussion will address the legal and ethical aspects of a donation, including the need for an appraisal and related tax documents. 

Presenters:

Jessica Ambler, Director, Eleanor D. Wilson Museum, Hollins University and Accredited Member of the Appraisers Association

Jessica Ambler is the Director of the Eleanor D. Wilson Museum at Hollins University. She has her Ph.D. in art history from UC Santa Barbara and over a decade of experience in the art world including work in a museum, auction house, and numerous universities. She was Head of Research for the Heller Group, an art advisory in New York City and Paris specializing in modern and contemporary art, Curator + Artist Relations for Loupe, Inc. an art streaming platform, and the Director of the Martin Art Gallery at Muhlenberg College. She is a qualified appraiser and an Accredited Member of the Appraisers Association of America. She was a mayoral appointed member and officer of the Allentown Arts Commission, on the Advisory Council for the Lehigh Valley Arts and Cultural Alliance, an Executive Committee member of the Museum and Library Alliance of the Lehigh Valley, and is currently a Communications Committee Member for the Association of Academic Museums and Galleries.

Betty Krulik, AAA, Certified Appraiser and former Board President of the Appraisers Association

Betty Krulik has spent 45 years handling American and European 19th and 20th Century Art, and is an appraiser Certified in American Art. She is a former president of the Appraisers Association and currently serves on several boards including the Catalogue Raisonne Scholars Association, Art and Antique Dealers League Association, Munson Museum, Utica NY, Association of Art Musuem Curators, and American Friends of Masterworks, Bermuda.  As a private dealer, she has sold to and on behalf of major collectors and museums around the nation. She has acted as appraiser for corporate and institutional collections as well as private collectors. She began her career at Christie’s, in 1978 where she handled European Old Masters and 19th Century works as well as Contemporary works of Art In 1987, she became Director of Spanierman/Drawings, N.Y, where she worked for 14 years. At Spanierman Gallery, LLC, she specialized in important American Works of Art of the 19th and 20th centuries and has been at the forefront of research in the field, as well as being known as one of the major outlets for American Art. During her tenure at Spanierman Gallery she curated many exhibitions including the museum quality shows of the work of Willian Merritt Chase, Willard Leroy Metcalf and the landmark exhibition, Arthur Wesley Dow: His Art and His Influence. In 2001, she took the Directorship of the Department of American Art at Phillips, DePury and Luxembourg, N.Y., where she held the auctions of the Glen Foster Marine Art sale and the Thyssen Bornemizsa collection. In 2004 she began her own business: brokering, consulting, and appraising primarily historic American Art.