GERTRUDE STEIN, DIRECTOR
Ms Stein received her B.S. from the City University of New York where she majored in Art and Literature. She has also studied at the Art Students League, the New York School of Social Work and the New School for Social Research.
Ms Stein is the founder of The Gallery: Gertrude Stein where some of the exhibitions she has created over the year include: Balthus, Wolf Vostel, Erro, D'Arcangelo, Sam Goodman, Weldon Kees, NO!art artists, and Russian Diaspora artists. The Gallery: Gertrude Stein hosted the first uptown exhibit of Boris Lurie and the NO!artists.
Ms Stein is also a donor to many museums including the Museum of Modern Art and the Pennsylvania Academy, among many others. She has also lent paintings and sculptures from her personal collection to world class museums overseas and in the United States of America.
Ms Stein is a long time consultant and dealer in significant art works to collectors and museums and was a member of the Appraisers Association of America from 1962 until her retirement from the Association in 1997.
Ms Stein also has a keen interest in Social Work and has worked as worked as a Program Director for the New York City Department of Welfare, running Arts programs for Senior Citizen Centers and Senior Citizen Clubs including Hodson Center, Bronx, Sinovich Center, Manhattan, Brooklyn Settlement House, Chelsea Settlement House and Chinese Settlement House.
ANTHONY WILLIAMS
As a senior partner in Dentons' Corporate group in New York, Mr. Williams works on commercial transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, private equity investments and finances for American, European and Asian clients. He brings to his practice extensive international experience in financial management, investments, accounting and business development.
Current Corporate directorships include Springer Publishing Company; Mannheim Media LLC; Plymouth Holdings Limited, a British Virgin Islands investment company; Progressive Green Solutions; Hirsch International LLC.
Mr. Williams serves on a number of civic/charitable boards, including as Director of the Schaina & Josephina Lurje Memorial Foundation; Vice Chairman of the board of HELP USA, Inc., a developer and operator of transitional and low-income housing for the homeless and poor; Director of The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum; Chairman of the International Foundation for Art Research; Director of the Friends of the Heidelberg Center for American Studies; Director of the Friends of Israeli Flying Aid; Director and member of Executive Committee of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights; Trustee of the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences; Director of the German American Chamber of Commerce.
JOI GRIEG
Joi Grieg has been involved with art and the NO!artists most of her life. Her first meeting with Boris Lurie was in 1963 at Gallery Gertrude Stein's NO!show and that relationship continued through the early 2000s. Through her father, Michael Grieg, a Beat poet in San Francisco, she knew Seymour Krim and Sam Goodman starting in the 1960s. She continues to be active in the Washington, D.C. area through volunteer and other activities with organizations like the Kennedy Center and the Library of Congress.
Professionally, Joi Grieg has been a technologist and futurist for more than 30 years, having retired as Deputy Chief Technology Officer at IBM and served on government non-profit organizations as a Senior Fellow as well as a Board member at health and adoption organizations. She continues to consult and is active in associations. Joi pursued her doctorate in Technology and completed the Executive CIO program at University of Maryland University College, received her M.B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1977, and her B.A. in International Management in 1975 from San Francisco State University. In her student days, she was active in drama and poetry.
Joi Grieg resides in Bethesda, Maryland (USA) and is often in the New York area.
AMY KORENVAES
Amy Korenvaes is a graduate of The Rhode Island School of Design with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. Mrs. Korenvaes is the President of the Harlan and Amy Korenvaes Family Foundation, which supports numerous charitable organizations around the world.
In addition to her charitable work, she serves on the Children's Medical Center of Dallas Foundation Board of Directors and Executive Committee, as well as the Legacy Senior Communities and the Legacy At Home Boards of Trustees. She also sits on the Boards of Trustees of United Hatzalah and Israeli Flying Aid. Mrs. Korenvaes is an active National Board Member of Jewish Federation's Secure Community Network (SCN) and the Dallas SCN Board.