About the Principals

Wendy Tarlow Kaplan is an independent curator now based in New York, formerly Boston. She has organized and curated more than thirty-five exhibitions and several international traveling exhibitions, including Body & Soul: new international ceramics (2013-14), a landmark exhibition of figurative ceramics addressing social, political and environmental issues at the Museum of Arts & Design (MAD); From the Kilns of Denmark: Contemporary Danish Ceramics (2002-3), also at MAD, which traveled to 6 other venues including Paris and Berlin. Earlier exhibitions included Tiger by the Tail! Women Artists of India Transforming Culture (2007-8) and Shoes Tell Stories (2010). Wendy received her B.A. from Smith College and a Masters in Fine Arts from Boston University. She was an assistant in the Department of Prints and Drawings, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and served as assistant curator at the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University. She has also been a curator at the Art Complex Museum in Duxbury, Masachusetts, and at the Women's Studies Research Center of Brandeis University. She has written for art journals and served as a juror and on committees for the DeCordova Museum, Fuller Craft Museum, and the Museum of Arts & Design.

Martin S. Kaplan is a retired partner of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, an international law firm, and he has also served as managing trustee of foundations active in grant-making for the arts, culture, and environment. A graduate of Columbia College and Harvard Law School, he served as chair of the Massachusetts Board of Education and has received the University Medal and John Jay Award from Columbia and the Thomas Berry Award for his work in religion and ecology. He has served on non-profit and corporate boards and collects art that reflects a broad range of styles. Mr. Kaplan was a co-curator of Body & Soul, as was Laurent de Verneuil, a Paris-based curator.