Our Team

Founder and Director of Contemporary Artists' Services, Sylvia White has been advising artists on all matters related to business, marketing and exhibitions since 1979. Considered a specialist in the field of professional practices, White continues to lecture extensively and present workshops for visual artists on career management skills. A graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Fine Arts, her workshops and lectures have been sponsored by, among others; California College of the Arts and Crafts, Chicago Art Institute, Otis Art Institute, Claremont Graduate School, Artists' Equity, San Francisco Art Institute, California Institute of Arts, ProArts, University of Southern California, California Arts Council, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the California College Arts Association, National Conference.

Lisa Aguila comes to us with a background in marketing, public relations, and editorial. She has a bachelor's degree in Art History from UCLA, and a master's degree in Communications from NYU.

We are fortunate to have as our WebMistress, Mandee Tatum. With four years of web design and online technologies and the development of web communities for education, she has spent thousands of hours helping small businesses and non-profit organizations maintain beautiful web sites of many themes and capacities. She also has a master's degree in Social Psychology from the London School of Economics, which has prepared her to handle our ever-changing moods and demands.

Our gallery intern, Kim Richter, is a graduate student at UCLA studying Art History, with a specialization in Pre-Columbian Art. She comes to us from her native Germany, and is fluent in four languages! She is interested in pursuing art research, curatorial studies, and continuing her hobbies of photography, travelling, and playing with dogs.