project management.
Clarity clears the path for success.
As Lead Project Manager for Guernsey’s, a pioneering auction house Since 1975, I turned obstacles into opportunities, kept teams aligned and projects on course.
I oversaw curation, marketing and storytelling to highlight the significance of rare collections in Music, Art, Pop Culture, Fashion, and History.
estate art collections.
The collection features original works by Chagall, Utrillo, Calder, Miro, De Kooning, Warhol and Pablo Picasso, the latter in the form of two magnificent creations in glass utilizing a largely undiscovered technique referred to as Les Gemmaux.
In the early 1950’s, Jean Cocteau, Georges Braque and Picasso produced and exhibited such works employing tiny colored glass fragments to create stunningly beautiful pictures. It wasn’t long before Picasso emerged as the true master of this form as cited in Time Magazine, and exhibited in museums including NYC’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The two Picasso Gemmaux in the auction are believed to be the first works of this kind to appear in a major art auction. One is Picasso’s Cubist vision of the famed Paris Cathedral, Notre Dame.
legends & treasures.
An unprecedented auction featuring 100+ lots related to the world's most iconic people and history's most infamous events.
A proud achievement of this project was the preservation and placement of The Apollo Theater Ledger to The Smithsonian Institution.
Highlights of the curated collection include:
📒 The Apollo Theater’s remarkable 460-page handwritten ledger documenting performers and events 1930s to 1970s.
🎹 The “Jazz Baroness’ beautiful
Grand Steinway Piano played by Thelonious Monk.
⭐️ B.B. King’s performance jackets.
🎸 Jimi Hendrix’s speakers from Electric Lady Studios.
🏴☠️ Atocha Shipwreck Sunken Treasure: emeralds, coins & pearls.
🇺🇸 Franklin D. Roosevelt’s diamond American Flag lapel pin.
✈️ Billie Holiday’s last issued United States passport.
⚾️ Mickey Mantle’s 1955 American League Championship ring.
the elizabeth meaders collection.
“There is no collection either institutional or privately owned that represents the totality of the Black experience in America as comprehensively as the Elizabeth Meaders Collection.”
- Randy Weinstein, Director, W.E.B. DuBois Center
African American Historical & Cultural Artifacts
Consisting of thousands of objects, Ms. Meaders’ Collection traces the African American experience from the Revolutionary War and the beginnings of Slavery on through the Civil Rights Movement and Black Lives Matter.
We gained worldwide press coverage including a full 2-page spread printed in The New York Times and a wonderful piece on CBS Morning News. The collection was sold to a prominent HBCU for $1.2 million with a matching funds trust dedicated to it’s preservation.
