Lela Hersh, ASA, ISA AM

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Lela Hersh
ISA member since Apr 25, 2019

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Lela Hersh has been involved in the arts for 40 years and works as an art advisor, collection manager, appraiser, consultant, curator, and teacher. She is the president of Museum and Fine Arts Consulting, LLC, an accredited senior appraiser with the American Society of Appraisers (ASA), an accredited member of the International Society of Appraisers, and an Executive Member of the Association of Professional Art Advisors (APAA).

Since 2003, Museum and Fine Arts Consulting has provided personalized and independent art advisory and collections management services to museums and cultural institutions, corporations, foundations, galleries, and private and corporate collectors. Ms. Hersh is a twenty-year veteran of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, where she served as the Director of Collections and Exhibitions. She is a Senior Lecturer in the Arts Administration and Policy degree program at The School of the Art Institute, Chicago, teaching graduate-level courses since the late 1990s, including Arts Consulting, Collection Management, Exhibition Design, and The Art Object: Valuation and Authentication. Ms. Hersh is also an Adjunct Professor at Claremont Graduate University, California. She is currently a member of ASA’s Board of Examiners.

Ms. Hersh has published work in several areas including selected artist entries, Collection Catalogue, Volume II, by Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2002), Objects of Appraisal: Legal and Ethical Issues, Museum News with Ildiko DeAngelis (2001), and selected artist biographies, Art in Chicago, 1945-1995, published. She also wrote the Appraisal chapter of AAM’s sixth edition of Museum Registration published by Rowman & Littlefield (2020).