The Lumsden Leadership Summit: Rethinking Sustainability & The Arts

The Lumsden Club invites you to attend The Launch Event for the seventh edition of the Lumsden Leadership Summit: "Rethinking Sustainability & The Arts".
The Lumsden Leadership Summit strives to bring together dynamic and accomplished women across various fields to inspire and empower the student body and wider community.
The theme for this year's launch event is "Rethinking Sustainability and the arts". Accomplished and inspiring women with diverse backgrounds who work in the intersection of art and sustainability are esteemed guest speakers. During the summit, our speakers will share their rich experiences, achievements, insights and work with the students and broader community of St Andrews. The summit strives to enhance the knowledge and career opportunities that lie within art and sustainability as well as how these manifest in practice.

Furthermore, in light of the 2021 IPCC report as well as
social, economic, and gender inequalities exacerbated by the
COVID - 19 pandemic, we wish to help students and the broader
community understand what it would take to build a sustainable
future. We believe that promoting sustainability and the arts is
key to reaching such a goal, as it inspires future artists to change
how their work is done and as well as social and cultural change.

Sheri Pasquarella
Sheri Pasquarella has been an art professional for more than 20 years. She has held positions at various prestigious galleries and organizations.
Sheri is a consultant and art advisor based in NYC. Her art advisory focuses on 'connoisseurship based' collections located throughout the US and Asia. Her business consultancy provides strategy and solutions to art & design companies that include Rafael de Cardenas/ Architecture at Large, Ashe Leandro Interiors, Coalition for the Homeless, and many others. In 2020 she founded the SLP Women's Group, a national network for female visual arts professionals.
Sheri began her career as a gallery director at Marlborough Gallery, NY, and Gorney Bravin + Lee, Chelsea. In 2002, she founded the New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA), and co-founded its eponymous art fair. In addition, she has lectured at Yale, Columbia, SUNY FIT, Christies, Bonhams, the Peabody Essex Museum, the Hammer Museum, and many others.

Sara Fitzmaurice
Sara Fitzmaurice is a business strategist with a focus on art, culture, tech and luxury brands across the globe. She founded her agency, FITZ & CO in 1995 and since that time has delivered results to more than 200 brands, including working with Art Basel since 1996. Sara's expertise is in achieving business objectives for a wide range of clients, including major executives, premiere brands in the art space, tech companies & luxury brands including real estate, hospitality, entertainment and automotive. Sara's experience includes business strategy, opinion leader engagement, crisis communications, marketing, digital content, and strategic art advisory. She has driven results for clients, including Art Basel; museums & foundations like Hill Art Foundation (founded by Tomlinson Hill), MCA Denver (David Adjaye); Parrish Art Museum (Herzog & de Meuron); and, the Aspen Art Museum (Shigeru Ban). She and her team have represented more than a dozen biennials & pavilions, including in Venice; and, provided strategic counsel to galleries such as Gagosian. She has led campaigns for luxury brands including BMW, Rolls-Royce and Celebrity Cruises, and in real estate for FAENA, HFZ Capital Group, Related and more. In the tech and media sectors, Sara has worked on behalf of eBay, HBO, Google Arts + Culture, Instagram, and Artsy, among others. She brings expertise in digital innovation for culture. Sara divides her time between FITZ & CO's offices in Los Angeles and New York. Sara is on the board of New York's Public Art Fund, where she has advised on public art projects, funding, public relations, and marketing since 1999. Sara has two daughters, one of whom is a freshman at St. Andrews.

To moderate our talk we are honoured to have onboard St Andrews own Dr. Karen Brown. Dr. Brown is Senior Lecturer in Art History and Museum and Gallery Studies at the University of St Andrews. She is passionate about the role of community museums and heritage in addressing global issues, including social inclusion, well-being, and climate action. She has led numerous national and international projects, including EU-LAC-MUSEUMS operating in the Caribbean, Chile, Costa Rica, France, Peru, Portugal, Scotland, and Spain, and shortlisted for the Europa Nostra Ilucidare Award for Heritage-led International Relations.

We are looking forward to seeing you at our event.
Kind regards,
The Lumsden Leadership Summit

The Lumsden club aims to support women's and children's charities and promote the arts both locally and abroad. The Club predominantly works alongside Fife Women’s Aid, a charity that supports mothers and children who have been the victims of domestic abuse.