Following are the bios for all the doctor's participating in the Fall 2008 Business of Art Conference on Saturday October 25th from 9am-4pm. Please remember the sign-up is on a first come first serve basis the day of the conference.
Please bring proposals, applications or portfolios you are looking for feedback on. The doctors have been selected because of their experience with public art.

Tania Duvergne, Independent Curator
Tania Duvergne is an independent curator and public art consultant based in New York. She has organized exhibitions and produced publications for a wide range of art organizations including non-profits and museums in New York, San Diego, and Washington, D.C. Most recently, she curated two site-specific solo exhibitions—CROSSING by Sarah Beddington currently on view at the Dumbo Arts Center, Brooklyn and shinkai by Yumi Kori at the ISE Cultural Foundation Gallery, New York—and co-edited the monograph catalogue Robert Blanchon, published by Visual AIDS and distributed by D.A.P. Duvergne has also worked extensively in the public realm and has been involved with both temporary and permanent public art projects including inSITE97, inSITE2000, New York's MTA Arts for Transit, and the Peekskill Project 2006. She holds a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MA from the Université de Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne in France.

Elizabeth Grady, Curator and Critic Elizabeth M. Grady is a curator and critic, Editor/NY and Marketing Director/US of Umĕlec, a quarterly art and culture magazine publishing in four languages, Adjunct Professor of Art History at the Fashion Institute of Technology (SUNY), and Special Assistant to the Estate of Diane Arbus. She has curated numerous exhibitions nationwide, most recently in the 2007-08 season, Displacement, the launch exhibition for a new green performance art nonprofit in Brooklyn, Host at the Soap Factory in Minneapolis and Promised Land at Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York. She has worked for various institutions in their curatorial departments, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Recent publications include "The Popular Opposition: Politicizing modern art in the National Gallery in Berlin," in Julie Codell, ed., The Political Economy of Art. (Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2008); and "Modular Notes," the main essay in the new Matthew Ritchie monograph, More Than the Eye (New York: Rizzoli, 2008).

Sarah Pace, Consultant and Founder, Rabbit Mafia
In early 2008, Sarah Pace founded Rabbit Mafia, a consulting firm for artists and non-profit organizations. Pace specializes in business and audience development, marketing and strategic planning for long-term sustainability. She provides production support and career counseling for individuals in the United States, Europe and Canada. Over the last seven years, she has worked with projects focused on the development of affordable housing and health-care for artist, as well as producing festivals, art fairs and projects ranging from film to performance and new media. In late 2007, she began pre-production on the independent feature Church. In 2004, she received an Emerging Leader In the Arts Award from Americans for the Arts for her work in Boston, MA on an affordable housing development for artists, as well as the Fort Point Public Art Series. She also serves as an officer in the international women’s group Ladies Lotto. Pace received her BA in Fine Arts and Creative Writing from the University of Colorado and an M.S in Arts Administration from Boston University. Sarah Pace is a Brooklyn native who lives [with her itty, bitty, kitty Belle] and works in Brooklyn, NY.
For more information please visit http://therabbitmafia.com In her spare time, she assists the Chefs at the Natural Gourmet School in New York and chops vegetables at an East Village soup kitchen. Someday she plans to write a book.

Astrid Persans, Director, PowerHouse Projects
Astrid Persans, Director of PowerHouse Projects has over 15 years of experience in the contemporary and modern art world working with curators and artists in both not for profit and commercial arenas with a specific focus of expanding opportunities for open artistic and curatorial exchange at both local and global levels.
Persans served in the International Program at the Museum of Modern Art developing comprehensive international curatorial exchange programs focused on Central and Eastern Europe, sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East and East Asia.
In addition to her initiatives at MoMA, Persans has also worked with small start-up organizations seeking to enliven and expand their programming. She has helped the artist-run collective NURTUREart and the nascent Brooklyn Institute of Contemporary Art to draw in wider audiences by capitalizing on the rich and often untapped diversity of both emergent and established New York artists.
Persans is currently working with artist Karen Bausman to realize a large-scale public installation, has recently launched an artist interview series called PowerHouse Presents and continues to provide opportunities for patrons to engage directly with work beyond the confines of the white box through in situ exhibitions and programs such as STUDIOcrawl.

Joanna Montoya, Curatorial Program Coordinator, The Jewish Museum
Joanna Montoya is a Curatorial Program Coordinator at The Jewish Museum. She recently co-curated Art, Image, and Warhol Connections and is organizing The Jewish Museum's biannual exhibition Light x Eight scheduled to open in December 2008. Ms. Montoya received her M.A. in Curatorial Studies from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College.

Lea Rekow, Artist and Founding Director, Gigantic ArtSpace
Lea Rekow has worked in film, video and interactive multimedia for the last 15 years. She has lived and traveled extensively in developing countries, and has produced a number of ethnographic and experimental projects that have been shown internationally. Lea is highly active in New York's arts and independent media communities. As founding director of Gigantic ArtSpace [GAS], she was involved in all aspects of curating and publishing. Lea has recently produced a documentary on ethnic cleansing in Burma, and a dvd and artists’ book with Lee Ranaldo [Sonic Youth] and Leah Singer, released by Plexifilm. Lea holds a Masters degree in film and digital media. She has previously held positions as creative director at Harmonic Ranch, director of media programs at the Center for Peace and Human Security, adjunct professor [communications] at Pratt Institute, and producer of new media for Simon and Schuster Interactive. She has also performed with art activist group Emergency Broadcast Network. She is currently in development of a feature film.

Sara Reisman, Curator
Sara Reisman is a New York based curator whose recent exhibitions include Ethnographies of the Future at Rotunda Gallery, Human Resources presented by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (2008), Star Systems: Bjorn Kjelltoft and Shana Moulton at Fordham University's Center Gallery at Lincoln Center (2007), and Float at Socrates Sculpture Park (2007, 2005, and 2003). In 2004-2005 Reisman was the Whitney-Lauder Curatorial Fellow at the Institute of Contemporary Art, at the University of Pennsylvania where she taught Contemporary Art and the Art of Curating. The following year she was the 2005-2006 Joanne Leonhardt Cassullo Curatorial Fellow at the New Museum where she contributed research and writing for the museum's opening exhibition Unmonumental: The Object in the 21st Century. Reisman is Associate Dean of the School of Art at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. As Curatorial Consultant for Public Art at the Queens Museum of Art, she organized four community-based public art commissions and the exhibition The Center of Everywhere which closed in mid-October. Since September, Reisman has been working for the Department of Cultural Affairs as the Director of Percent for Art.