Governance

The Erik Brunetti Foundation for the Arts operates as a 501(c)(3) public charity under Section 509(a)(2). Governance is organized to ensure evidentiary integrity, long-term continuity, and institutional accountability across the Foundation’s archival, research, and public-facing activities.

Oversight is exercised by a Board of Trustees, with consultative input from an Advisory Council in development, composed of individuals working within curatorial, archival, legal, and scholarly domains.

The Foundation’s governance framework establishes the policies that regulate preservation, documentation, institutional partnerships, and public access.

These policies maintain the coherence of the Foundation’s record and support the conditions under which Brunetti’s artistic and intellectual output is preserved, contextualized, and made available for research.

Core governance responsibilities include:

• sustaining the preservation, documentation, and evidentiary structure of Brunetti’s archive;

• maintaining provenance continuity and attribution accuracy across holdings;

• reviewing institutional engagements—including loans, exhibitions, and research collaborations—for alignment with mission and archival standards;

• overseeing the production, review, and dissemination of research generated by the Foundation’s Research Division;

• ensuring compliance with nonprofit regulatory requirements and professional standards in archival stewardship;

• upholding transparency, public benefit, and long-term accessibility as ongoing institutional commitments.

Governance Frameworks

The foundation issues policy frameworks that formalize its governance principles for archival integrity, authorship verification, and cultural record stewardship. Each framework is developed and published through the Research Division and archived with a persistent identifier via Zenodo for citation and long-term preservation.

Current Frameworks

– The True Value of Art (Framework 1.0 — Foundational Baseline) → https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18123596

Board of Trustees

The Board of Trustees provides fiduciary oversight and strategic governance for the Erik Brunetti Foundation for the Arts.

The Board is responsible for ensuring alignment between the Foundation’s archival stewardship, research activities, and institutional engagements and its public-benefit mandate.

Responsibilities include oversight of collections and archives, review of institutional custodial loans and collaborations, adherence to nonprofit and professional standards, and the long-term continuity of the artistic and cultural record.

Governance policies addressing access, preservation, documentation, and institutional engagement are reviewed periodically to ensure transparency, accountability, and alignment with best practices in archival stewardship and cultural record governance.

The Board ensures adherence to nonprofit standards and the governance principles outlined in The True Value of Art (Framework 1.0).

Trustees

President & Chair

Emmelie Robert-Brunetti

Treasurer

Erik Brunetti

Secretary

Demetra Stamus

The Advisory Council, currently in formation, will reflect the Foundation’s collaborations across curatorial, archival, and scholarly disciplines. Governance policies—covering access, preservation, documentation, and institutional engagement—are periodically reviewed to ensure alignment with the Foundation’s research mandate and the long-term continuity of the artistic record.