Artist Professional Development - SFAI

Artist Professional Development

Taking the Long View: Framing Your Life as an Artist
Sponsored by the Artist Legacy Foundation
2 Sessions/ Saturdays, October 11 and 18
Time: 10am-3pm (lunch provided and break from 12:30-1:30pm)

San Francisco Art Institute
800 Chestnut Street
San Francisco
Tuition: $25 deposit returnable upon attending all sessions

This seminar is offered at no cost. Space is limited-please register early.

Register here.

For more info call 415.749-4554


This seminar will help artists in all stages of their careers navigate through legal and professional issues by providing greater understanding of the art world. The seminar will offer insights that help bridge the gap between the artist’s studio practice and the legal and business world outside of the studio. With an experienced team of faculty from both the fields of law and art, this seminar covers topics such as estate planning, contract negotiation, approaching collectors, dealers and art venues, trademarks, patent litigation and preserving your own legacy.

Peter Lippett has been practicing estate planning, trust administration and probate law exclusively for 45 years, is the author of two estate planning books, and his extensive lecturing has garnered rave reviews for his ability to explain complex legalisms in an understandable, informative and chatty manner. He is a member of the San Francisco Estate Planning Council, and speaks annually at the Visual Art and the Law conference in Santa Fe, New Mexico that is attended by art advisors nationwide.

Diane Frankel has twenty-five years of experience in the non-profit arena, serving as the director of graduate programs in museum studies at John F. Kennedy University and the founding director of the Bay Area Discovery Museum. As a presidential appointee of President Clinton, she headed the Institute of Museum and Library Services in Washington, DC. This agency provides funds for museum and libraries across the United States and is the largest Federal cultural agency. Upon her return to San Francisco, Ms. Frankel directed the Children, Youth and Families Program at the James Irvine Foundation. Since leaving the Foundation in 2004, she has been the Interim Director at the di Rosa Preserve, has served as a consultant to arts and cultural organizations, as an affiliate of Management Consultants for the Arts and as the Executive Director of the Artists’ Legacy Foundation.

Simon Frankel has broad litigation experience and specializes in Intellectual Property Litigation. Mr. Frankel has represented clients in the media, financial, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, software, and other industries on a broad range of matters. His extensive IP litigation experience includes trademark, copyright, patent, counterfeiting, and trade secret matters. He has also handled numerous defamation actions for defendants, and has extensive experience with legal issues related to visual art and professional liability matters, as well as work with U.S. Customs and Border Protection on anti-counterfeiting issues. In addition, he has been involved in a wide range of commercial litigation matters, including contract matters, securities actions, licensing disputes, and consumer class actions. He has worked on over a dozen appeals in federal and state court and has argued cases in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and the California Court of Appeals. His intellectual property work includes cases such as Mattel v. Walking Mountain Productions, 353 F.3d 792 (9th Cir. 2003), in which he represented an artist sued by Mattel for trademark and copyright infringement for the use of Barbie dolls in his photographs, sold at galleries and art fairs. The artist obtained summary judgment and ultimately recovered over $2 million in attorney's fees and costs. He is an Adjunct Professor at the University of San Francisco School of Law, where he teaches a class on Art Law.

Charles Hobson is an artist who uses pastel, monotypes and other printmaking variations to construct his images for books and works on paper. Usually following literary or historical themes, his books have covered topics as diverse as famous couples who met in Paris (Parisian Encounters) and Leonardo's lessons on how to draw the human figure accompanied by monotypes of baseball players in action (Leonardo Knows Baseball). He has been a member of the faculty at the San Francisco Art Institute since 1990 and his work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the New York Public Library, the Whitney Museum, the National Gallery, Stanford University, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and the Getty Center, among others. His archive of designs and prototypes for his books has recently been acquired by Stanford University together with a complete set of his artists' books.

Mildred Howard is known for her sculptural installations and mixed media assemblage work, and has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the Adeline Kent Award from the San Francisco Art Institute and a fellowship from the California Arts Council. Mildred Howard's work has been exhibited internationally including recent shows in Cairo, Egypt and Bath, England, as well as Creative Time in New York, The New Museum in New York and galleries from Boston, Los Angeles, Atlanta and Santa Fe. Other commissions and installations were executed for the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, Washington, the San Francisco International Airport, the San Jose Museum of Art, and for inSITE San Diego.

Brooke Oliver has broad litigation experience in Copyrights, Trademarks, Art Law, Business Law, Entertainment Law and Nonprofit Organizations. She has served as Editor-In-Chief of the Golden Gate Law Review as well as Co-Chair for the Visual Arts & The Law, CLE International, New Mexico, 2002-2006. She has authored: "The Artist's Perspective In The Acquisition, Exhibition, And Preservation Of New Media Works," ALI-ABA, 2005; "Expanding Art Markets: Prints, Certificates of Authenticity & Art Licensing," CLE International, 2004; Art on the Wall: Visual Artists Rights Act Update," ABA Summer Intellectual Property Law Convention, 2003; "Balancing Muralists' Intellectual Property with Real Property Rights," Artistic License, Vol. 8, No. 1, 1999; "Inspiration on the Streets-Muralists Rights & Entrepreneurship," Artistic License, Vol. 6, No. 3, 1997; "Contracting for Cohabitation," 23 Golden Gate L. Rev. 899, 1993.
Founded in 2000 by Squeak Carnwath and Viola Frey, the mission of the Artists’ Legacy Foundation is to promote the art and legacy of Foundation artists after their death and to support, advance, protect and maintain established painters and sculptors through award and grant programs that allow recipients to spend more creative time in their studios; through educational programs that help inform artists about estate planning and choices they need to make throughout their careers; and, through collaborative projects with other artist foundations that extend the work of the Artists’ Legacy Foundation.

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