Press Release | 1/07/19

Esteemed Awardees & Collectors Join to Promote City’s Long Awaited First Contemporary Fair

An Elite Audience

We are assembling the leading art collectors, art patrons, esteemed museum board membersandcurators who will be attending with special passes and invitations, infusing a high powered, influential, affluent and art savvy audience of fairgoers.

Collectors Circle

• Barbara Eberlein, popular society Interior Designer, ASID President and Creative Director.
• Lisa Frigand, Art Patron and Activist.
• Mark Ham, Art Collector and Philanthropist.
• Bridgette Mayer, Bridgette Mayer Gallery, Owner and Curator.
• Debbie Morton, Family founded Morton’s Steak House and Hard Rock Café, Gallerist, philanthropist.
• Babette Snyder, Art Collector and Art Patron.
• Lee Stoetzel and Paige West, The West Collection at SEI with 3,300 contemporary works.
• Morris and Boo Stroud, President of Willowdale Town Center, Art Collectors / Museum Board Members.
• John Wind, Jewelry Designer, Artist, Art Collector.
• Jerry (Yoram) Wind, Jerry and Dina Wind Foundation, Dean, University of Pennsylvania, Art Patron and Philanthropist.

 Opening Night Awards Presentation

Renowned collectors Mari and Peter Shaw will present the 2019 Art Collector of the Year to Cecily Sherman. Cecily is a major collector of contemporary art.

The 2019 Philadelphia Outstanding Artist will be awarded to the late Dina Wind, accepted by John Wind and Jerry Wind. Dina, a sculptor, made a lifetime commitment to her own artistic practice, and to the Philadelphia arts community.

Teaming up with the City

Rick Friedman, PFAF Executive Director along with top officials from the City of Philadelphia’s Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy, will announce the SculptCare Silent Auction. The Mayor, James Kenney, is invited to speak. ScultpCare will directly raise funds for the restoration and conservation of the City’s Public Sculpture Collection, the nation’s largest, with 1,100 pieces.

Tap Into a Fresh Art Buying Market

The creation of the Philadelphia Fine Art Fair empowers you to discover a new market region of art collectors that you probably might not meet otherwise. Philadelphia is a separate and distinct market of art lovers with unique tastes, sensibility and culture.

 Nearly Sold Out

Limited to 38 galleries provides you a substantial mindshare. Only a few gallery spaces remain. Join Louis K Meisel Gallery, Cernuda Arte, Bridgette Mayer Gallery, Walker Fine Art, MM Fine Art, Janet Lehr Gallery, Birch Contemporary, Rockelmann & Partner, Arcadia Contemporary, Trident Art Gallery, Anna Zorina, UNIX Gallery, Grenning Gallery, Gilles Clement Gallery, Seraphin Gallery and many others who will greatly benefit.

 A Well-Cultured City

As the second largest city on the east coast, with 6 million residents and 40 local arts museums, Philadelphia is an extremely cultured and arts driven city. The potential is unlimited! With the largest collection of public sculpture in the nation, Philadelphia is known as the “Museum without Walls.” The fair enables you to “crack the Philadelphia market” in just 4 days as you showcase your gallery to over 5,000 of the region’s most eager prospects for contemporary art. We’ve teamed up with the City of Philadelphia increasing our reach.