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Nicholas was born and raised in Albany NY and holds a degree in International Studies – Marketing / Management and Business Administration from Siena College in Loudonville NY.
Nicholas began his career in the shipping industry, specializing in oil tankers. He worked in New York City, Hamburg Germany, and Genoa Italy until he settled in Athens Greece in 1992 where he continues to live with his family. After numerous years in shipping, Nicholas was invited to enter the not-for-profit cultural sector and from 1998 to 2003 he held the position of Managing Director at the Epistrofi Gallery – Cultural Center. After its closing, he joined the Herakleidon Museum where he was Managing Director from its founding in 2003 to 2013 and Executive Director from 2013 to 2016.
Since 1998, Nicholas has worked in and serviced the “not for profit” sector organizing many successful art exhibitions and complementary educational programs in Greece that also traveled to partner museums around the globe. Parallel to this, he focused on fundraising for educational development in the museum environment. His passion and dedication to community outreach and scholarships for the less fortunate have benefited thousands of students in Greece and abroad.
Nicholas co-founded PAN Art Connections Inc. in 2010 and is President since 2022.
PANART’s Marketing and Communication team is comprised of Maria Fedas, COO & Communications and Harineta Rigatos, Digital Marketing Strategist. Together, with their creativity and expertise, they develop and execute PANART’s comprehensive digital marketing strategy that’s in sync with the company’s brand and mission.
Additionally, they work closely with PANART’s museum client’s communication teams, assisting them with their PANART exhibition digital marketing efforts, ensuring a seamless process and effective marketing campaign.
Harineta Rigatos is a digital marketing and social media strategist who specializes in translating organizational stories into the digital space while building and cultivating their digital communities.
With a wealth of experience in digital storytelling in the arts and cultural sector, Harineta has led strategies for notable organizations such as Frank Lloyd Wright Museum, Guggenheim Museum, Hawai’i Contemporary, MoMA PS1, NEON, National Academy of Design, the Newburgh Arts & Cultural Study, Socrates Sculpture Park, W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund, among others.
She holds a B.A. in Art History from the State University of NY at Albany and a M.A. in Museum Studies from Marist College in Florence, Italy.
Notably, Harineta is a 2018 Social, Art & Culture Webby Winner for her and her team’s work on the Guggenheim Museum’s Instagram account.
PANART’s Marketing and Communication team is comprised of Maria Fedas, COO & Communications and Harineta Rigatos, Digital Marketing Strategist. Together, with their creativity and expertise, they develop and execute PANART’s comprehensive digital marketing strategy that’s in sync with the company’s brand and mission. Additionally, they work closely with PANART’s museum client’s communication teams, assisting them with their PANART exhibition digital marketing efforts, ensuring a seamless process and effective marketing campaign.
Linda joins PANART as our Exhibition Coordinator with over 30 years experience dedicated to caring for art and exhibitions. She brings a deep knowledge of exhibition planning, packing, shipping, insurance, security and documentation to PANART exhibitions.
As an Exhibition Registrar formerly on staff at the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES), the Museum of Modern Art, the Museum for African Art and others, she has facilitated the showings of hundreds of exhibitions on a wide variety of topics to venues throughout the world. As the lead for logistics for several multi-artist, multi-venue contemporary art biennials she has planned and coordinated the transport and installation of works from all over the world.
Linda holds a BA in art history and studio art and has studied architectural preservation concentrating on stone conservation at Columbia University (GSAPP).
Katharine J. Wright is a curator and scholar of modern and contemporary art based in New York City.
For more than fifteen years, Katharine has conducted research, organized educational programs, and held curatorial roles at major art museums including MoMA, the Whitney, and the Metropolitan Museum.
Ms. Wright holds undergraduate and doctoral degrees from Williams College and The Institute of Fine Arts, NYU. She has curated exhibitions in the United States and internationally, featuring artists such as Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Marta Chilindron, George Lois, Sol LeWitt, Dan Flavin and many more.
Katharine has served as a Consulting Curator with PANART since 2020, serving as a consulting curator on Keith Haring: Radiant Visions and Bob Dylan: The Original Drawn Blank Series.
Popi brings over twenty years of experience with museums and art organizations.
She holds a Bachelor’s in Graphic Arts & Artistic Studies specializing in the Conservation of Antiquities and Works of Art from the Athens University of Applied Sciences.
She has worked as a Visitor Experience and Retail Manager at the Epistrofi Gallery – Cultural Center, Athens, Greece. She then moved to the Herakleidon Museum, Athens, Greece, where she oversaw all aspects of exhibitions and events. She was the head of the framing and conservation department, as well as manager of the museum annex, while also assisting with staff training.
Her great passion is the preservation of works of art, giving them a new life.
Heather White is the Owner and Principal Objects Conservator at LYLC Studio, LLC, in St. Louis, Missouri, and she’s enjoyed a career in the recovery and long-term care of cultural material for over ten years.
She holds a Bachelor’s in Art History and Archaeology from the University of Missouri-Columbia, and a Master’s in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage from the UCLA/Getty program. Heather is a peer-reviewed Professional Associate and Collections Assessor for the American Institute for Conservation (AIC).
Through her private practice, she works with various entities and individuals – locally and abroad – in the care of their collections and valuables.
With over 25 years of experience in Computer Information Systems, Vagelis brings knowledge, expertise and creative solutions to the team.
He holds an Associate’s Degree in Business, Computer Information Systems / CIS Computer Engineering from the American College of Greece, as well as an ISO 9001-2008 certification for quality management and quality assurance.
He was worked for various companies and museums, such as the Epistrofi Gallery – Cultural Center, Leond Ltd and the Herakleidon Museum as an IT Manager securing the effective operation of their ICT infrastructure and ensuring that all policies, systems and software are properly implemented and observed.
His positions also included eBusiness & Logistics Manager, Quality and Safety Manager, SQAS Assessment Coordinator, Internal Auditor and Technical Advisor.
Alexandra was born in Athens. She has been working in the graphic design industry & publishing for many years.
She currently runs “theRoundButton”, her own design-decor project collaborating with architects and decorators all over the world.
Art has always fascinated her, ever since she was in school studying art history, so the chance to work as a graphic designer for PANART was more than welcome.
She spends most of the time in front of her MacBook or at her home studio creating new artworks, always in the company of her cat and loud music. As she says: “Some live in a dream. I live in Athens, Greece”.
Jackie Zorn brings over a decade and a half of exhibitions experience to the team.
She has organized hundreds of exhibitions from conception to circulation and consolidation to dispersal. As the former registrar for Artis—Naples, The Baker Museum of Naples Florida and the Aspen Art Museum of Aspen Colorado, Jackie oversaw all aspects of over 300 museum exhibitions.
She holds a BFA in 2-dimensional fine art from Western Colorado University and currently lives in Naples Florida.
