Heather Zises has over twenty years of experience in public relations, copywriting and editing, with extensive knowledge of contemporary art and lifestyle platforms. She is editor of the award-winning book 50 Contemporary Women Artists, and director of communications at the Magnusson Group, where she manages marketing and social media for estate sales and appraisals. Raised in Boston as a ballerina, Heather holds a BA in English and dance from Cornell University, and an MA in art history and connoisseurship from Christie’s. Heather is a Founding Member of Ninth Street Collective.

Shama Rahman is Director of Brand Strategy at New York Magazine. She previously worked at The Wall Street Journal as a creative strategist in advertising and at The New York Times as an associate marketing manager for the TimesTalks live journalism series. Before the Times, she worked in marketing at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Shama recently led a writing workshop for creative folks with Ninth Street Collective and has previously held the same workshop at places like The Wing, New Women Space, The New School, Commend and Mana Contemporary. She graduated from Smith College, where she studied Economics, Art History and Museum Studies, and is the youngest member of the Smith College Museum of Art's advisory committee. She was previously a board member of the South Asian Women's Creative Collective (SAWCC) and co-organized the group's 2016 exhibition at the Queens Museum. Shama is a Founding Member of Ninth Street Collective.

An early art-world adapter to social media and the former longtime editor of ARTnews, Robin Cembalest has spent her career helping arts professionals to communicate effectively. Over 16 years at the helm of ARTnews, she shepherded the century-old magazine into the digital era, training generations of interns, writers and editors. In 2014, she launched her business Robin Cembalest Editorial Strategies, helping art-world clients to craft digital content strategies and offering professional training webinars directly to the public. An award-winning investigative journalist who has published widely in the art and mainstream press, Robin is best known today as @rcembalest, handle of her popular Instagram and Twitter feeds.

Lydia Goldbeck is a Brooklyn-based artist originally from North Carolina. She has worked at multiple art logistics companies with extensive experience in shipping operations, crating/packing, handling and inventory management. Lydia has worked alongside registrars of renowned galleries, museums and artist's studios including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Brooklyn Museum, Gavin Brown's Enterprise and Wade Guyton Studio. She has packed and shipped everything from Renaissance tapestries at St. John the Divine, to Joan Jonas installations for the MoMA. Lydia is currently working as a studio assistant for Ursula von Rydingsvard where her handling skills continue to be invaluable. She co-facilitates the “Practical Art Handling for Artists” workshop.

Art Frankly is changing the way the art world hires. Art Frankly is a resource for art professionals to find jobs and opportunities online and around the world. It is free to sign up, create a profile, browse, and apply for all listings on the site. It publishes weekly interviews that give you access to learning about different careers and different career paths in the arts. Art Frankly makes the job finding process more transparent and the hiring process more inclusive.

Artwork Archive is an art inventory platform that artists use to track their artwork, showcase their portfolio and grow their businesses. This online suite of tools helps artists manage every detail of their career, from organizing inventory to invoicing clients, and showcasing their portfolio. Artwork Archive helps replace messy spreadsheets and save time searching for information and creating consignment sheets by hand—so artists can spend more time in the studio doing what they love. (Sign up via the Ninth Street Collective link (HERE) for a 20% discount off your first year.)

Chashama supports artists by partnering with property owners to transform unused real estate into space to create and present, and provides free art classes for under-resourced communities.

• Awards 9 million worth of real estate to artists

• Subsidizes 200 artist work spaces

• Provides over 200 free art classes

• Gives 170 artists free space to present

Anchored by cultural centers in Jersey City, Chicago, and Miami, Mana Contemporary is a distributed institution, dedicated to celebrating the creative process, supporting artists and serving as a bridge between creative hubs worldwide. Through a global community committed to mutual support and progressive thought, Mana Contemporary offers world class exhibitions, residencies, career development, and conversation in person and online. Practitioners specializing in a variety of disciplines work alongside each other in forward-thinking environments that foster experimentation, collaboration, and mutual inspiration, building a profound and personal approach to contemporary art.

Paradice Palase is an arts platform promoting the democratization of the art world for creators and patrons. It supports emerging artists and fosters accessible arts patronage by producing apparel editions, curating online art sales, hosting virtual programs and managing a private studio building. Its platform is also built in part around a members network of creatives living across the United States. Founded in 2017 by Kat Ryals and Lauren Hirshfield, the platform first operated as a curatorial effort out of the basement of Kat’s apartment in Brooklyn, NY. They first connected after each recognizing barriers to entry for artists and collectors in the contemporary market. To the founders, Paradice Palase is the love child of DIY and art world utopia, with a flare of the bold and brilliant.