Private Collecting for the Public Good

Pamela J. Joyner has nearly 30 years of experience in the investment industry.  She is the Founder of Avid Partners, LLC where her expertise has been the alternative investment arena.  Currently, Ms. Joyner is focused on her philanthropic interests in the arts and education. 

Ms. Joyner is a Trustee of The Art Institute of Chicago and the J. Paul Getty Trust, Chair of the Tate Americas Foundation, and a member of the Tate International Council and the Tate North America Acquisitions Committee. She is also a Member of the Director’s Circle of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and a Member of the Modern and Contemporary Art Visiting Committee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In the education arena, Ms. Joyner serves on the board of the Art & Practice Foundation. 

Michael Findlay is a Director of Acquavella Galleries, which specializes in Impressionist and Modern European works of art and post-war American painting and sculpture and represents contemporary artists Wayne Thiebaud, Damian Loeb and Miquel Barcelo.  Findlay directed one of the first galleries in SoHo in the 1960’s and ran his own gallery there 1969-1977. Since 2001 Mr. Findlay has served on the Art Advisory Panel for the Internal Revenue Service of the Treasury Department of the U.S. Government. He is on the Boards of The Art Dealers Association of America Foundation, The New York Foundation for the Arts, Christie’s Education, The British Schools & Universities Foundation and is on the Advisory Council of the Appraisers Association of America.