Webinar - Protection of Fine Art Collections: Security and Risk Management
Overview
While art can imbue an otherworldly experience, there are real world issues to be addressed when collecting art to ensure its protection and survival for future generations. Join this webinar to hear specific security, risk management and financial considerations required to protect fine art and other valuable articles. How often should appraisals occur? How do you store and ship different pieces of art? What is involved in an art evacuation plan? What should you know before loaning or consigning art? Listen in to this webinar to hear answers to these questions and real life stories that exemplify key points.
After this webinar you will be able to:
- Create an art evacuation plan
- Describe considerations for transferring art in a succession plan
- Understand the necessary components to managing the risk of loaning art to a museum
Speaker(s)
Thomas Pratt, Fine Art & Collectibles Enterprises (FACE) Insurance Services
Tom Pratt has specialized in fine art and collectibles insurance for over 20 years with firms such as Allen Insurance Associates, Kaye Fine Arts & Special Risks Group and Thomson and Pratt Insurance Associates. A California State University, Northridge (CSUN) alumnus with a degree in Theatre Arts, Tom has also studied Art History at Santa Monica College, UCLA and in Paris, France. Civic activities are important to Tom. He was elected President of the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District Board of Education (1998-2002) and was appointed to the Arts Commission for the City of Santa Monica (2003) as well as the Public Access Television Commission for Calaveras County (2011). He has served as a member of the Board of Directors for the following organizations: Dean's Council for the School of Arts at CSUN, Social & Public Art Resource Center (SPARC) and the Rotary Club. Tom is a member of the organization California Lawyers for the Arts and also serves as an expert witness for art insurance related matters from time to time.
Kimberly Pratt, Fine Art & Collectibles Enterprises (FACE) Insurance Services
Kimberly Pratt has worked in the fine art and collectibles insurance field since 2009, first with Thomson and Pratt Insurance Associates and now with FACE. No stranger to risk management, she worked in information security management and political security research prior to that. Kimberly earned a BA in History and French Literature from the University of California, San Diego, as well as an MA in National Security Studies from Georgetown University. Her love of travel has taken her around the world. She began her communications and security oriented career as a speechwriter for the Japanese Mission to the United Nations in Vienna, Austria, where she lived for nearly five years. In addition, she has lived and studied or worked in Japan, France, and the Czech Republic. Kimberly is active in her local community and serves as a Board Member for the Murphys Community Club.