The 2022 edition of New Wave Art Wknd took place from December 2-4, 2022. Please reach out to Sarah Haimes at sh@newwave.art with Patron Program, sponsorship, or press inquiries.
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The Theme for New Wave Art Wknd 2022 was SERVICE and explored how we can best serve our communities of artists and beyond.
New Wave Art Wknd is a non-commercial event featuring robust public programming and a Patron Program itinerary including private collection visits, lunches and dinners, and gallery and museum receptions designed to showcase the flourishing contemporary art scene in South Florida.
Public programs included panel and roundtable discussions by renowned artists and art world players. The weekend’s Patron Program itinerary included intimate studio and private collection visits, and exhibition previews and tours.
Presenting Sponsor
2022 Sponsors
2022 Participants
Beth Rudin DeWoody, art collector, and curator, resides between Los Angeles, New York, and Palm Beach. She is President of The Rudin Family Foundations and EVP of Rudin Management. Her Board affiliations include the Whitney Museum of American Art, Hammer Museum, and others. She is an Honorary Trustee at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and on the Photography Steering Committee at the Norton Museum.
Beth Rudin DeWoody
Laura Dvorkin is the co-curator of The Bunker Artspace: Collection of Beth Rudin DeWoody in West Palm Beach. She has worked with the Collection for over thirteen years; organizing exhibitions in the US and abroad and managing large presentations of the Collection at institutions. Dvorkin is also the co-curator of 53 West 53, the Residential MoMA Expansion Tower, New York, and consults on acquisitions for private clients. Laura Dvorkin currently lives and works in New York City.
Laura Dvorkin
Sarah Gavlak is an art dealer and the founder of GAVLAK, a contemporary art gallery in Palm Beach, established in 2005. Gavlak attended graduate school in critical theory at ArtCenter College of Design in 1996, which launched her career as a curator, writer and gallerist. In 2014, Gavlak opened a second exhibition space in Los Angeles, expanding the gallery’s network and programming. A lifelong advocate for social change, she is a member of ArtTable, an organization dedicated to advancing the leadership of women in the visual arts, and a trustee of ArtCenter College of Design. Driven by an uncompromising vision for groundbreaking contemporary art, Gavlak has brought the work of women, LGBTQ+, immigrant and BIPOC artists to the attention of collectors, public institutions and global audiences for over twenty years. Her roster represents artists working across media, including Jose Alvarez (D.O.P.A), Karen Carson, Viola Frey, Marylin Minter, and Betty Tompkins, in addition to rising talents like April Bey, Candida Alvarez, Gisela Colón and Taha Heydari. Her priorities as a gallerist precede the current sea change toward equity in the artworld and have made an enduring impact on the vibrant contemporary art scene in Palm Beach, Los Angeles, and beyond. In 2018, Gavlak launched New Wave—a Palm Beach-based nonprofit—and its associated New Wave Art Wknd (NWAW) to build upon the thriving arts culture in South Florida and facilitate relationships between collectors and artists. Rooted in critical dialogue around diversity and inclusion, NWAW offers a range of public programming and private events to lead the conversation on equitable philanthropy and collecting. New Wave has since grown to host a year-round residency for artists from underrepresented communities and will host its fifth annual New Wave Art Wknd this December.
Sarah Gavlak
Thelma Golden is Director and Chief Curator of The Studio Museum in Harlem, the world’s leading institution devoted to visual art by artists of African descent. Golden began her career as a Studio Museum intern in 1987. In 1988, she joined the Whitney Museum of American Art, where she launched her influential curatorial practice. Over a decade at the Whitney, she organized numerous groundbreaking exhibitions, including Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in American Art, in 1994. She was also a member of the curatorial team for the 1993 Biennial.
Golden holds a B.A. in Art History and African American Studies from Smith College. She has received honorary doctorates from the City College of New York (2009), San Francisco Art Institute (2008), Smith College (2004), and Moore College of Art and Design (2003). In 2010, she was awarded a Barnard Medal of Distinction from Barnard College. That same year, President Barack Obama appointed Golden to the Committee for the Preservation of the White House, on which she served from 2010–2016. She currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Barack Obama Foundation and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. She is a 2008 Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute, and in 2016 received the Audrey Irmas Award for Curatorial Excellence from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College. In 2015, she was appointed as a Ford Foundation Art of Change Visiting Fellow. Golden is a recognized authority in contemporary art by artists of African descent and an active lecturer and panelist speaking about contemporary art and culture at national and international institutions. Her 2009 TED Talk, “How Art Gives Shape to Cultural Change,” examines how contemporary artists continue to shape dialogue about race, culture, and community.
Thelma Golden
Rosario Güiraldes is a curator from Argentina currently based in New York City. She is the Associate Curator at The Drawing Center. Recent and upcoming exhibitions curated at The Drawing Center include the contemporary drawing survey Drawing in the Continuous Present (2022), with Michael Armitage, Christine Sun Kim, Helen Marten, Walter Price, and others; and monographic exhibitions by Xiyadie (2023); Fernanda Laguna (2022); Ebecho Muslimova (2021); and Guo Fengyi (2020). In 2017, she organized Forensic Architecture: Towards an Investigative Aesthetics; a major survey of interdisciplinary collective Forensic Architecture that toured the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art (MACBA) and the University Museum Contemporary Art (MUAC) in Mexico City earning Forensic Architecture a Turner Prize nomination. Güiraldes holds an MA from the Center for Curatorial Studies (CCS Bard) and is a Visiting Critic in the Department of Painting and Printmaking at Yale School of Art.
Photo Courtesy of William Jess Laird
Rosario Güiraldes
Kirk Henriques is a painter whose rich work combines figuration and abstraction to examine landscapes, time, and memory with strong reference to Black people in relation to identity, space and the balances of societal structure and its inequities.
He received his BFA from Savannah College of Art and Design and MFA from Cornell University. He has had solo exhibitions at Charles Moffett in NYC, Unrepd in Los Angeles, The Millbrook School in Hudson Valley, NY, and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art in Ithaca, NY. His work has also been included in group shows at the San Francisco Art Institute, Kavi Gupta Gallery, the New York Academy of Art, and Bridget Donahue.
Kirk Henriques
Kendal Henry is an artist and curator who lives in New York City and specializes in the field of public art for over 30 years. He illustrates that public art can be used as a tool for social engagement, civic pride and economic development through the projects and programs he’s initiated in the US and internationally.
He’s currently the Assistant Commissioner of Public Art at the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs and an adjunct professor at New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development. A guest lecturer at various universities and educational institutions including Rhode Island School of Design Senior Studio; and Pratt Institute’s Arts and Cultural Management Program. Kendal served as the Director of Culture and Economic Development for the City of Newburgh, NY where he created the region’s first Percent for Art Program. Prior to that post he was Manager of Arts Programs at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Art and Design for eleven years. During this time, he has overseen the commissioning, fabrication and installation of MTA’s permanent art projects, served as a member of the MTA’s in-house design team, and produced temporary exhibitions at Grand Central Terminal.
Kendal was also elected to serve two 3-year terms on the Americans for the Arts Public Art Network Council.
Kendal Henry
Rujeko Hockley is the Arnhold Associate Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Most recently, she organized the Whitney’s presentation of Jennifer Packer: The Eye Is Not
Satisfied With Seeing (2021) and co-curated the mid-career survey Julie Mehretu (2021).
Additional projects at the Whitney include the 2019 Whitney Biennial, Toyin Ojih Odutola: To
Wander Determined (2017), and An Incomplete History of Protest: Selections from the Whitney’s
Collection, 1940-2017 (2017). Previously, she was Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art at the
Brooklyn Museum, where she co-curated Crossing Brooklyn: Art from Bushwick, Bed-Stuy, and
Beyond (2014) and was involved in exhibitions highlighting the permanent collection as well as
artists LaToya Ruby Frazier, The Bruce High Quality Foundation, Kehinde Wiley, Tom Sachs,
and others. She is the co-curator of We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965-85
(2017), which originated at the Brooklyn Museum and travelled to three U.S. venues in 2017-18.
She serves on the Board of Art Matters, as well as the Advisory Board of Recess.
Rujeko Hockley
Ghislain d’Humières is the new Director and CEO of The Norton Museum of Art. D’Humières has served as the Director and CEO of the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Director and Chief Curator of the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at the University of Oklahoma, and held leadership positions at other major arts institutions, D’Humières has extensive expertise in community engagement and increasing access to art, expanding public programming, building and caring for collections, and fundraising.
Ghislain d’Humières
Stephanie Ingrassia has lived in Brooklyn for more than 30 years during which time she has served on the boards of Brooklyn Museum, CreativeTime, and most recently, Pioneer Works. During her career in editorial design, she taught at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan and has embraced curatorial projects including a recent collaboration with Cristina Grajales Gallery, merging her passions for industrial design and contemporary art. In recent years, Stephanie has become a serial producer of creative construction and design projects, including the founding of the festival Spring Hill Arts Gathering, aka SHAG, in 2021. SHAG takes place annually on a wooded corner of her Connecticut farm, Spring Hill Vineyards, and presents permanent and temporary art exhibitions, live music, and community-building programs; every June, SHAG collaborates with artists, activists, and changemakers who are pioneering new ideas about justice and representation, with longterm plans of establishing a rural artist residency program. Stephanie's art and design collection are focused primarily on living artists, rooted in the belief that by encouraging living artists, the results can be far-reaching and benefit communities greatly.
Stephanie Ingrassia
Arghavan Khosravi is an Iranian artist whose studio practice mobilizes visual art as a vehicle for cultural transformation. Her work weaves Persian motifs and Surrealist iconography into ghostly, enigmatic figurative paintings that thematize gender, censorship, and cultural transience. She is a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grantee and Walter Feldman Fellow. Her recent solo exhibitions include Arghavan Khosravi at The Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH, and Arghavan Khosravi: The Witness at Kavi Gupta, Chicago, IL. Recent group exhibitions include Uncombed, Unforeseen, Unconstrained, an official collateral exhibition of the 59th Venice Biennale; as well as exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Yinchuan, China; Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL; Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI; and Provincetown Art Association and Museum, MA; among others. Her recent residencies include The Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH; the Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA; the Studios at MassMoCA, North Adams, MA; Monson Arts, Monson, ME; and Residency Unlimited, Brooklyn, NY. Khosravi earned an MFA in painting from the Rhode Island School of Design after completing the studio art program at Brandeis University. Khosravi previously earned a BFA in Graphic Design from Tehran Azad University and an MFA in Illustration from the University of Tehran. Khosravi’s work is in the collections of the Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA; The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Museum; Philadelphia, PA; Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH; Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI; and the Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI, among others. Khosravi lives and works in Stamford, Connecticut.
Arghavan Khosravi
Jesse Krimes is a Philadelphia based artist and curator whose work explores how contemporary media shapes and reinforces societal mechanisms of power and control, with a particular focus of criminal and racial justice. Shortly after graduating from Millersville University, he was indicted by the U.S. government on drug charges. While serving a six-year prison sentence he produced and smuggled out numerous bodies of work, established prison art programs, and formed artist collectives. After his release, he co-founded Right of Return USA, the first and only national fellowship dedicated to supporting formerly incarcerated artists.
Krimes’ work has been exhibited at venues including MoMA PS1, Palais de Tokyo, Philadelphia Museum of Art, International Red Cross Museum, Zimmerli Museum, and Aperture Gallery. His curatorial practice is focused on elevating other system impacted artists, and he also successfully led a class-action lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase for charging formerly incarcerated people predatory fees after their release from federal prison.
Krimes was awarded fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Pew Center for Arts and Heritage, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Creative Capital, Art for Justice Fund, Independence Foundation, and Vermont Studio Center. His work is in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum, OZ Art NWA, Kadist Art Foundation, The Bunker Artspace, and the Agnes Gund Collection. He is represented by Malin Gallery in New York.
Jesse Krimes
Marilyn Minter (born 1948) is an American artist currently living and working in New York City. Minter's work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions and has been included in group exhibitions in museums all over the world. In 2006, Marilyn Minter was included in the Whitney Biennial, and installed several billboards in Chelsea, New York City in collaboration with Creative Time. Her video Green Pink Caviar was exhibited in the lobby of the MoMA from 2010-2011. It was also shown on digital billboards on Sunset Boulevard in L.A. and on the Creative Time MTV billboard in Times Square, New York. In 2013, Minter was featured in “Riotous Baroque,” an exhibition that originated at the Kunsthaus Zürich and traveled to the Guggenheim Bilbao. In 2015, Minter’s retrospective Pretty/Dirty opened at the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston, TX. Pretty/Dirty traveled to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, the Orange Country Museum of Art, and finally the Brooklyn Museum in November 2016. Minter is represented by Salon 94, New York, Regen Projects, Los Angeles and Baldwin Gallery, Aspen.
Marilyn Minter
Maynard Monrow was born in Hollywood, California and currently lives in New York City. Monrow received his BFA and MFA from California Institute of the Arts.
His work has been exhibited at numerous institutions and galleries including: The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY; Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, Hollywood, FL; Gavlak Gallery LA and Palm Beach; Booth Gallery, New York, NY; Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York, NY and ACME Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2005).
He has staged international performances in Rome, Italy, and participated in numerous projects including Ruffian’s Spring 2016 Ready-to-Wear Collection and LAX Art’s L.A.P.D. Billboard Project.
Maynard Monrow
Thomas E. Moore III currently leads the fundraising, artist relationships, and communications efforts as the Director of Development at the National Academy of Design in New York City – the oldest artists-run institution in the county. He has spent the last 10+ years being an advocate and raising funds for the arts, humanitarian aid, and social justice issues that are close to his heart. Thomas is also a Trustee on the board of many organizations, including the American Friends of the Louvre, Represented Foundation, and the Association of Fundraising Professionals. As a volunteer, he supports arts organizations, individual artists, and collectors to navigate the complexities and nuances of the nonprofit and art world to reach their goals. Thomas believes deeply that both philanthropy and art are tools that can move the needle on social justice issues and impact change. He and his wife, Alexandra, have focused their personal collection on works by women, LGBTQ+, and Black artists.
Thomas E. Moore, III
Devin Osorio (b. 1993, New York) grew up as a first-generation Dominican American in the Northern Manhattan neighborhood of Washington Heights, where they find inspiration from the strong Dominican presence and the cultural and socioeconomic diversity. Using shared and self-reflective symbolism, Osorio honors Dominican culture through shrine-like paintings that incorporate plants, animals and glyphs to create a visual vernacular of and for the Dominican American community. Their work has been exhibited in New York, Atlanta, Los Angeles, Mexico City, and Madrid. Osorio earned a BFA from Savannah College of Art and Design.
Devin Osorio
Since 2015, Anne Pasternak has served as the Shelby White and Leon Levy Director of the Brooklyn Museum. For more than thirty years, she has devoted her career to engaging broad audiences with the limitless power of art to move, motivate, and inspire. A staunch advocate for the civic and democratic roles our cultural and educational institutions can play, Anne is committed to projects that demonstrate the crucial links between art and social justice.
Anne Pasternak
Gopal Rajegowda is a Partner at Related Southeast.
Throughout his career, Mr. Gopal Rajegowda has been passionate about developing successful destinations that combine world-class design, urban planning, hospitality, arts & culture, experiential retail, food and beverage and community.
With more than 16 years of experience managing all aspects of mixed-use real estate acquisition and development, Mr. Rajegowda has been directly responsible for leading the development of multiple mixed-use destination resort projects, including the W South Beach in Miami Beach, the Cosmopolitan Resort & Casino in Las Vegas and the Hilton West Palm Beach.
Currently, he heads the re-imagination of the Rosemary Square neighborhood in West Palm Beach, Florida. This experiential destination features shopping, dining, entertainment, and a live-work-play community with programmable green spaces and thought-provoking public art. He is also leading the development of 360 Rosemary, a Class-A office building, 575 Rosemary, a mixed-use tower that includes luxury residences and retail space, and One Flagler, a Class-A world-class office building located along the Downtown West Palm Beach waterfront.
Mr. Rajegowda serves as a board member of the Economic Council of Palm Beach County, Chamber of Commerce of The Palm Beaches and Cultural Council of Palm Beach County. The Mayor of West Palm Beach recently appointed him as a member of the West Palm Beach Mayor’s Taskforce for Racial and Ethnic Equality. He holds an M.A. in Real Estate Development from Columbia University and a B.A. in Mathematics from Cornell University, and currently resides in West Palm Beach.
Gopal Rajegowda
Arden is newly appointed Glenn W. & Cornelia T. Bailey Senior Curator of Contemporary Art at the Norton Museum of Art. She has curated and organized dozens of exhibitions, projects, and programs. Her interests are socially-engaged art, education & participation, and installation photography.
Arden Sherman
Dr. V. Joy Simmons is an art collector and philanthropist who has supported the work of artists of African descent and more broadly, of artists whose work is informed and inspired by Black culture. Recognizing the importance of sustaining a healthy arts ecosystem, Dr. Simmons mentors the next generation of art collectors and cultivates interest in supporting the networks of culture that sustain creativity. She has played a vital role in the establishment and growth of various small to mid-size institutions that now help define Los Angeles’s vibrant cultural landscape. She served as a founding Board member of LAXART, The Watts House Project, and The Mistake Room where she currently serves as Board Chair. Having recently retired from a long career as a physician at Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center, she is currently working as the Senior Art and Exhibition Advisor for Destination Crenshaw, a 1.3 mile public art corridor down Crenshaw Boulevard in Los Angeles. She has been an active supporter of the Arts and diversity at Stanford where she served as a Trustee of the University. Dr. Simmons is the recipient of numerous honors for her commitment to community service, most recently Stanford University’s prestigious Gold Spike Award recognizing exceptional and significant service to her alma mater.
Joy Simmons
Cortney Lane Stell is the Executive Director + Chief Curator of Black Cube, a nomadic contemporary art museum based in Denver, Colorado. Stell is currently serving her second term on Denver’s Commission on Cultural Affairs, as appointed by the mayor. She has held independent curatorial practice since 2006, which has included curating numerous exhibitions nationally and internationally for museums, university galleries, biennials and art events. Stemming from a philosophical interest in art as communication, Stell has organized exhibitions that focus on artworks experimental in both conceptual and material nature, including exhibitions with artists such as Liam Gillick, Cyprien Gaillard, Daniel Arsham, and Shirley Tse. In her role as the Executive Director + Chief Curator of Black Cube, she has art directed dozens of site-specific artworks including works by SANGREE, Adriana Corral, Marguerite Humeau, and Jennifer Ling Datchuk—to name a few. Stell holds a MA from the European Graduate School in Switzerland where she is also a PhD candidate in Media Communications.
Cortney Lane Stell
Lulu is an embroidery-based artist whose practice addresses contemporary conditions as she visualizes landscapes and their hidden narratives, each telling a story and revealing banal curiosities that are commonly unnoticed in our daily lives. She started embroidering at the age of 10 after learning her techniques from her grandmother and her growing fascination with narrative art and comic books.
She currently lives and works in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and has exhibited at Bronx Art Space, New York (2017) Roberto Paradise, San Juan, Puerto Rico (2017), Flux Factory, Brooklyn, NY (2019), MACO Feria de Arte, Mexico City (2020), Embajada, San Juan Puerto Rico (2020), amongst other spaces. She has also participated in residencies such as International Studio and Curatorial Program in Brooklyn, NYC (2018), Flux Factory in Queens, NYC (2019), Program for Independent studies at the Contemporary Arts Museum of Puerto Rico (2020), Artist Cooperative Residency and Exhibitions in rural southwest Wisconsin (2021) and Uncommon Residency with Teton Art Lab in Wyoming (2022).
María Lucía ‘Lulu’ Varona
Ana María Velasco (she/her) creates maps that outline her travels through earthy and spiritual worlds. Her painting practice is a relational one. La Sierra Madre de Santa Marta, the largest coastal mountain range on the planet and one of the most irreplaceable sites for conservation in the world, has been the motif and metaphor for Velasco’s artistic and personal investigation for the last decade. Through recurring engagements with this landscape, she has established an intimate relationship with the site and those who inhabit it, discovering new layers of our mutual dependence after each expedition. Born in Colombia, she often approaches the country, its biodiversity, its politics, and its people as a foundation for her visual vocabulary.
Ana María Velasco
Roberto Visani is a multi-media artist residing in Brooklyn, New York. Primarily working in sculpture, his artwork examines the black body, often through the reinterpretation of historical artworks and artifacts.
He has exhibited at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, NY, The Studio Museum in Harlem, NY, The Bronx Museum, NY, Brattlesboro Museum, VT, Speed Museum of Art, KY, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, SF, and Barbican Galleries, London. Visani has been awarded residencies from Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, NY, Chelsea College of Art, London and Art Omi, NY. He is a NYFA Fellow in Sculpture and was a Fulbright Fellow to Ghana. His work has been reviewed by the New York Times, Art Forum, Art News, and Frieze among others. Since 2004 he has taught at John Jay College of Criminal Justice where he is an associate professor of art.
Roberto Visani
Kelly Williams is a widely recognized leader in the alternative investment space, having founded the Customized Fund Investment Group in 1999 which she grew to over $30 billion of assets under management before leading its sale in 2014. Kelly and her husband, Andrew Forsyth, bought their first home in Palm Beach in 2009 and moved full-time in 2013. In 2015, Kelly established The Williams Legacy Foundation. This independent charitable organization utilizes a dynamic approach to philanthropy to support effective programs, innovative partnerships, and investments designed to further opportunities for women, minorities, and underserved communities. Through the Foundation, the Williams family promotes fellowship and constructive engagement in order to strengthen and empower communities, and combat isolation. The Foundation also supports education, social responsibility, and diversity in the arts –– and her mission-driven approach to collecting reflects these pursuits. Her collection contains artworks spanning centuries, including more than one hundred forty different artists from more than twenty countries, focusing on historically under-represented artists, particularly artists of color, artists who are members of the global African diaspora, female, and non-binary artists.
Numerous artists in the Williams collection not only use their artistic platform to address racism, injustice, and inequality - but also proudly celebrate the strength, beauty, and resilience of black and indigenous people in America through artwork across various media. Historic painting examples of representation and abstract expressionism include works by Benny Andrews, Frank Bowling, Whitfield Lovell, Joe Overstreet, Sam Gilliam, Mercedes Matter, Vivian Springford, Paul Waters, Michael Corinne West, and Peter Williams.
Contemporary examples of emerging and mid-career painting and sculpture include works by Emma Amos, Mark Bradford, Nick Cave, Simone Leigh, Firelei Baez, Ryan Cosbert, Xavier Daniels, Robert Davis, Vaginal Davis, Lucy Dodd, June Edmonds, Theaster Gates, Vanessa German, Jeffrey Gibson, Ronald Jackson, Carla Jay Harris, February James, Leosho Johnson, Forrest Kirk, YoYo Lander, Hugo McCloud, Alexis McGrigg, Murjoni Merriweather, Tommy Mitchell, Azikiwe Mohammed, Zanele Muholi, Carmen Neely, Alicia Pillar, Jaune Quick-to-see Smith, Tschabalala Self, David Shrobe, Alisa Sikelianos-Carter, Jeff Sonhouse, Kathia St. Hilaire, Khalif Thompson, Genesis Tramaine, Soujourner Truth Parsons, Khari Turner, Kara Walker, Autumn Wallace, Chris Watts, Didier William, Zenobia, among others. An important thread amongst the intergenerational artists represented is the shared belief in the communicative power of art to tell stories, explore identity, and create historic objects as a means of empowerment and social change.
Separate from The Williams Legacy Foundation and extensive work in the investment field, Kelly serves on numerous non-profit boards in leadership roles, including Chair of the Board of Commissioners of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Vice Chair of the Board of The Norton Museum of Art, and Founding Chair of Private Equity Women Investor Network (PEWIN). She also serves on the boards of The Olana Partnership, The National Philanthropic Trust, The Robert Toigo Foundation, Union College, and The New York School of Interior Design. Kelly actively loans and gifts artworks to these institutions, among others. She resides with her husband, Andrew Forsyth, in Palm Beach, FL, and also maintains residences in Nantucket, MA, York, SC, and New York, NY.
