POBA

POBA - Where the Arts Live

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Founded	2004
Location	New York City
Website	http://www.poba.org

POBA is a non-profit, online arts community, launched in July 2014 by The James Kirk Bernard Foundation.

POBA's mission is to preserve and display the creative legacies of 20th and 21st century artists who either died without their legacy being fully recognized, were not recognized for a specific medium, or whose work is not readily accessible elsewhere.

POBA offers membership to anyone who owns the rights to a deceased artist's legacy. Members can create portfolios on behalf of that artist to show the works in the appropriate digital format, for public display and private storage.

The name "POBA" derives from the Hindi word "phowa", which means the transformation of consciousness at death.

Partners

POBA has partnered with such leading institutions and galleries as the American Ballet Theater, The Berta Walker Gallery, and the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, with whom they have posthumously celebrated artists from America’s oldest active arts colony.

Artists

Founding artists included:

• Ben-Zion (1897-1987), a member, along with such painters as Mark Rothko and Adolph Gottlieb, of “The Ten” who exhibited their work together from 1935-1940
• Blake Van Hoof Packard (1994-2010), a young painter who was the great-grandson of the early 20th Century Impressionist Max Bohm, the grandson of painter Anne Packard, nephew of painter Cynthia Packard, and son of painter Leslie Packard.
• Carol C. Carlisle (1924-2011), Managing Editor of Popular Photography magazine for over 35 years, where she amassed a personal collection more than 1,200 photos by then-unknown photographers who are now considered modern masters.
• Clark Tippet (1955-1992), Principal Dancer for the American Ballet Theatre from 1976 to 1990, where he worked with such talents as Mikhail Baryshnikov, Twyla Tharp, and David Parsons, and choreographer, creating numerous works for the ABT and other dance companies.
• George Tate (1920-1992), a photographer whose work captured mid-century California’s bathing beauty and Muscle Beach culture.
• Helen Corning (1921 - 2011), an abstract artist who taught at the University of Maryland and whose works were exhibited at the Corcoran Gallery and the Smithsonian Institute.
• Jamie Bernard (1987-2010), a prodigious young writer and artist, whose tragic death prompted the creation of the James Kirk Bernard Foundation.
• Leopold Allen (1945-1987), a makeup artist for the American Ballet Theatre.
• Nancy Whorf (1930-2009), noted Provincetown painter.
• Norma Holt (1918-2013), Provincetown-based photographer.
• Norman Mailer (1923-2007), the acclaimed writer and author, whose drawings were relatively unknown.
• Eli Waldron (1916-1980), a writer whose short stories were published in such literary journals and magazines such as The Kenyon Review, Collier’s, and The Saturday Evening Post, a journalist whose articles appeared in such publications as Gourmet, Rolling Stone, Publisher’s Weekly, and The New Yorker, and a prolific artist who created a large body of drawings.

External links

• Poba website
• James Kirk Bernard Foundation website
• Business Wire Article on Yahoo Finance
• Hollywood Progressive Article