Episode 18 - Pauline Shender

Welcome To Art Lovers Forum.  I met Pauline Shender a few years ago at Fountainhead Arts, an art residency in Miami. We are both members. She is a few decades younger than me but when I see her, I feel like I am looking at myself at her age. However, I’m far more brash, she is much more sophisticated.

Pauline has been studying contemporary art since 2012. What started as a curiosity about contemporary art has turned into a meaningful pursuit of further knowledge. An initial course with Kathleen Madden at Barnard College entitled: Conversations in Contemporary Art has led to collecting, Museum involvement and patronage of emerging artists. Pauline is currently or has been on the Acquisitions Committee at the ICA Miami, Emerging Collectors Committee at the Norton and is a Patron of the Fountainhead as well. She has amassed a growing collection of approximately 75 works from both emerging and established artists including: Azita Moradkhani, Nate Lewis, Tariku Shiferaw, Emily Mae Smith, Teresita Fernandez, Theaster Gates, Maynard Monrow, and William Kentridge. She made her first art donation to the Norton in 2023 of a Naama Tsabar "Work on Felt" and there is a performance planned at the Norton likely in 2025.