Editorial Directors Ann Schaffer has been collecting cutting edge contemporary art since the early 1980s. In addition to collecting, she is an advisor to and teacher of young collectors. A current trustee to the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, she also shares her passion for art as their guest curator to the Blank Canvas Benefit: For Arts Sake. Furthermore, Ann is an officer of the Contemporary Arts Council of the MoMA, a trustee and chair of the Art Committee of the Montclair Art Museum, and a member of the Photography Committee of the Guggenheim Museum. Ann sits on the National Advisory Council and the Acquisitions Committee of the Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, and a trustee, executive committee member and exhibitions partner of Independent Curators International (ICI). Ellen Schweber has been closely involved in every aspect of the contemporary art scene over the last thirty years. She has worked as an art consultant, collector and teacher. Ellen founded and chaired the Contemporary Collectors Circle at the Nassau County Museum of Art for the first eight years. Additionally, she has served on the Rose Art Museum acquisition community at Brandise University. In 2000, Ellen began her career as a teacher, offering aspiring young collectors the necessary skills to create their own exciting art collections. She has taught a range of private and corporate clients throughout New York and L.A. Ellen’s personal collection spans many decades and styles, from Minimalism, Graffiti, Neo Geo and everything in between.
Contributing Writers Diane Echer is a French-American who spent most of her life in Europe, where she practiced law. She now lives and writes in the United States. An alumna of the Writer’s Institute at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and was selected to be part of the inaugural term at the Center for Fiction’s Crime Fiction Academy. Kyra Kordoski is a writer and emerging critic based in New York. She holds a MA in Cultural Studies from the University of Leeds and is currently completing an MFA in Art Criticism and Writing at the School of Visual Arts. Kyra is a contributing editor at Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art. Thomas Lin is a senior producer at The New York Times and teaches at CUNY’s Graduate School of Journalism. He edits the Scientist at Work blog and has written articles on tennis, game-based military simulators, ping pong, and the open science movement. He is writing a novel about the vagaries of friendship.