Barbara Eberlein, Eberlein Interior Design, ASID President and Creative Director,
Barbara Eberlein ASID, NCIDQ is the president and creative director of Eberlein Design Consultants Ltd. Barbara was formally educated in the classics, history and art, an education that has served her enduring passion for design. With an influential voice in today’s dynamic design community, she has built a national reputation for expertise in the restoration of significant historic structures of the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries. Dedicated to lifelong learning, Barbara has received fellowships with distinguished programs for advanced study in England and Italy. Barbara is president emeritus of the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art (ICAA) Philadelphia Chapter, as well as coordinating President of the College of Chapters nationwide. She holds leadership roles at The Philadelphia Museum of Art on curatorial, architectural, and development committees. She has served on several design competition juries for the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the ICAA. She is a member of the Leaders of Design Council and the Athenaeum of Philadelphia.

Cecily has been an avid and passionate collector of fine art for over 60 years. The former high school English teacher of 39 years from the Philadelphia school system, and now 84, Cecily is still going at full speed collecting art today as she did back in the early 1970’s. She caught the collecting bug while still a college student, in Paris and has not looked back since. So devoted to art collecting, she preferred to receive a Picasso print instead of an engagement ring from her suitor, her longtime and late husband Philip.

Her impressive collection of investment quality art fills her home in Philadelphia. Over the past 40+ years of collecting, her aesthetics and tastes have evolved from modern to abstract, to minimalism, to Pop, to contemporary, to conceptual, to radical painting and keeps going. Thus, her artworks range from George Bellows, Milton Avery, Max Weber, Arthur Carles to Louise Nevelson, Louse Bourgeois, Ann Hamilton, Kiki Smith, James Turrell to Winston Roeth and Phil Sims just a small sampling of her fabulous and astounding collection.

Over the many years she has acquired pieces by roaming into galleries around the world. From NYC’s Chelsea and Upper East Side to galleries across the nation and Europe. Local favorite galleries in Philadelphia include Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Gallery Joe and Works on Paper. Her favorite piece, a remarkable 500-pound Anish Kapoor sculpture needed an army of art handlers with a huge crane to bring in and install onto her second floor, shutting down the street.

Cecily and her late husband have regularly attended the leading fairs in the world including Art Basel, Venice Biennale, Art Basel Miami, The Armory Show and Frieze NYC.

Passionate, knowledgeable, energetic and driven she regularly attends the viewing of the Fall Contemporary art auctions in NYC. She cannot wait to attend the next Hort Family Collectionopen house reception during The Armory Show in NYC.

Babette Snyder, Art Collector, Philadelphia

Babette is involved in both the visual and performing arts of Philadelphia. She has sat on the boards of the Pennsylvania Ballet and Dance Celebration/Next Move Dance, as well as on the board of the Institute of Contemporary Art. She is presently on the Advisory Board of the Philadelphia Photo Arts Center. Babette owned the Philadelphia children’s retail stores Kamikaze kids for 17 years and is now managing her residential and commercial real estate investments in Brooklyn, NY. She and her family are the founders of The Global Bridge School in Ang Ta Phouk, Cambodia...a middle school of 350 children that teaches English and computer sciences.

Lee Stoetzel and Paige West, The West Collection

Over the last 23 years, Al and his daughter Paige have collected 3,300 compelling contemporary works by over 800 leading international artists. West Collection artworks are on long-term loan to SEI, the financial services firm founded by Al West. The goal of the West Collection is to share the challenging and inventive work of these emerging artists with the SEI employees, clients, and the public at the SEI Corporate Campus in Oaks, PA and SEI satellite offices internationally. Additionally, artwork loans are made to major museum exhibitions as well as to local Philadelphia projects through SEI partnerships and West family support.

Boo and Morris Stroud, Stroud Water Research Center, Art Collectors, Chester County

A graduate of Trinity College, Morris W. Stroud II earned a Master of Architecture degree from the University of Pennsylvania. Following posts in architectural design and construction project management, he founded and serves as president of Willowdale Town Center, Inc. An artist himself, Morris has served on several corporate and nonprofit boards in addition to the Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art. He is cousin to Marion “Kippy” Stroud who founded The Fabric Workshop and son of WB Dixon Stroud, financier, philanthropist and collector. Morris' stepmother is Ann Percy, drawing curator at The Philadelphia Museum of Art.

For the past 20 years Paige has curated the West Collection, a private contemporary art collection representing over 700 artists and 4,000 works of art shown publicly at SEI’s corporate offices located outside of Philadelphia and around the world. In 1998 she founded Mixed Greens Gallery, located in the Chelsea area in New York City. She is the author of The Art of Buying Art: An Insider’s Guide to Collecting Contemporary Art (HarperCollins), has produced two documentaries on artists (Salvatore Scarpitta and Vik Muniz), and is a Creative Capital Board Member. She currently resides in New York with her husband and three sons.

John Y. Wind, Maximal Art, Jewelry Designer, Artist, Art Collector, Philadelphia

For over 30 years Wind’s company Maximal Art has created modern vintage fashion jewelry and gifts. His work is in the permanent collections of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London; Musée des Arts Decoratifs, Paris; and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. As an artist, he has shown his identity-based collages, sculptures and installations internationally, and in 2019 will have a solo exhibition, The Women, at the InLiquid Gallery, Philadelphia. He is on the board of Vox Populi Gallery, and is President of the Dina Wind Art Foundation, whose mission is to promote the work of his late mother and to support the arts and artists of Philadelphia.

Jerry (Yoram) Wind, Jerry and Dina Wind Foundation, Art Collector, Philadelphia

Wind joined The Wharton School in 1967 with a doctorate from Stanford. He is the Lauder Professor Emeritus, Professor of marketing, and founder of the Wharton Think Tank. He has edited the top marketing journals, published hundreds of articles and 25 books, and received every top award and recognition in his field including the Marketing Hall of Fame. Jerry has consulted widely, sits on the advisory boards of various companies and nonprofit organizations, and testifies in intellectual property cases. He is a co-founder of The Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya Israel and chair of their higher academic committee. He is also a trustee of the Philadelphia Museum of Art and chairs their marketing advisory group.