The Advisory Committee of the Vera List Center for Art and Politics is an integral part of the New School community. Members of the committee advise the chair and counsel the director of the Vera List Center, develop expertise on ways to support the academic enterprise, offer insight and guidance on programs, provide significant financial support, and serve as links to the communities in which they live and work.

Current Members

New School faculty member Sumita
Chakravarty with 2009-2010 VLC Fellow
Lana Lin, Fellows Luncheon, Fall 2009

Chair
James-Keith (J.K.) Brown
Board of Governors, The New School
New York City

Frances Beatty Adler
Vice President, Richard L. Feigen & Co., Director of the Estate of Ray Johnson
New York City
www.rlfeigen.com

Carlos Basualdo
Curator of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
www.philamuseum.org

Koan-Jeff Baysa
Curator
New York City

Susan Elizabeth Cahan
Des Lee Endowed Professor in Contemporary Art
University of Missouri, St. Louis
St. Louis, Missouri

Phoebe Eng
Creative Counsel
New York City

Wendy Ewald, Ron Warren, Jonathan
Weinberg, Lorraine O'Grady, and Martha
Rosler, summer Fellows outing, July 2009

Ronald Feldman
Codirector, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts
New York City

Ken Grossinger
Executive Director, CrossCurrents Foundation
Washington, D.C.

Paul Hechinger
New York City

Elizabeth R. Hilpman
Barlow Partners
New York City

Micheline Klagsbrun
Artist
Washington, D.C.
www.michelineklagsbrun.org

VLC Advisory Committee reception,
celebrating the 2006-07 Vera List Center
Fellows on occasion of their participation
at documenta 12, Kassel, Germany

Norman L. Kleeblatt
Susan and Elihu Rose Chief Curator, The Jewish Museum
New York City
www.thejewishmuseum.org

Jane Lombard
Director of Lombard-Freid Gallery
www.lombard-freid.com

Joshua Mack
New York City

Irvine MacManus, Jr.
Member, Board of Trustees, El Museo del Barrio
Yonkers, New York

Lydia Matthews
Dean of Academic Programs
Associate Dean and Professor
Parsons The New School for Design
New York City

Sina Najafi
Editor-in-chief, Cabinet magazine
New York City
www.cabinetmagazine.org

Nancy Delman Portnoy
Collector
Board Member, New Museum of Contemporary Art
New York City

VLC Advisory Committee members,
spring 2007. Frances Beatty Adler,
Martha Rosler, Paul Hechinger
(from left to right)

Martha Rosler
Artist
Professor (II) of Art, Rutgers University, New Jersey
Guest Professor, Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste (Städelschule), Frankfurt am Main, Germany
New York City
www.martharosler.net

Nato Thompson
Curator and Producer, Creative Time
New York City