The Church Welcomes Lorinda Ash, Susan Reed and Harvey Sawikin to its Board of Directors

The Church Welcomes

LORINDA ASH,

SUSAN REED,

and HARVEY SAWIKIN

to the Board

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The Church is thrilled to announce the addition of Lorinda Ash, Susan Reed, and Harvey Sawikin to our Board of Directors. The new Board Members serve alongside Eric Fischl, April Gornik, Moisés Cerdas, Jeremy Dennis, Nicole Seligman, Sally Susman, Dini von Mueffling, Howard Marks, Rob Masella and Herbert Sambol. We welcome their collective expertise, unique experiences and insights, and are grateful for their support of the arts and The Church as we move forward.

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THE CHURCH’S NEW BOARD MEMBERS

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LORINDA ASH

LORINDA ASH is the founder of Ash Fine Art, LLC, an art advisory firm she established in 1999 following a decade at Gagosian Gallery. Based on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, Ash Fine Art advises private and corporate clients on the acquisition, management, and placement of modern and contemporary art collections, with projects ranging from major corporate relocations to residential collections. A graduate of Northwestern University and the Medill School of Journalism, Lorinda previously served for more than 20 years as President of the Board of The Museum at Eldridge Street, where she helped lead the institution’s restoration project. She currently serves on the boards of Generation SOS and On This Spot. Lorinda lives in New York, Bridgehampton, and Palm Beach.

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SUSAN REED

SUSAN REED is an editor, writer, and media trainer. She was Editor in Chief of O, The Oprah Magazine and Golf for Women Magazine. Previously, she worked as an editor and writer at Conde Nast Sports for Women, People Magazine and Saturday Review, and was a literary agent at IMG. She is the co-author of two books and does consulting on strategic communications planning. The daughter of a diplomat, Susan grew up in Japan, Thailand, Laos and Washington, D.C. She attended Vassar College. Currently she serves on the Board of the Francis Asbury Palmer Foundation and has served on the boards of Union Theological Seminary, New York Theological Seminary and FriendFactor, an LGBT advocacy nonprofit. Susan lives in Sag Harbor.

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HARVEY SAWIKIN

HARVEY SAWIKIN is co-founder and co-manager of Firebird, the first fund family dedicated to the stock markets of the former Soviet Union. Before Firebird, he was a clerk on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and a lawyer at the firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. Harvey is a graduate of Columbia University (Magna Cum Laude) and Harvard Law School (Cum Laude), where he was an editor of the Law Review. He serves on the Visiting Committees of both the Modern and Contemporary Art and Photographs Departments at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and co-chairs the Met’s Stieglitz Society; and is on the Board of Film at Lincoln Center. Harvey is also the author of the novel, Rick Green, Esquire (Simon & Schuster 1995), and writes the Substack The Falling Knife. He lives in Manhattan and Sagaponack with his wife Andrea Krantz, and they have two adult sons.

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The Church was established in 2019 by artists Eric Fischl and April Gornik. Housed in a deconsecrated 19th-century church, its doors were opened in April 2021. Our mission is to foster creativity and to honor the living history of Sag Harbor as a maker village. The East End represents an exceptional artistic legacy, spanning the practices of indigenous art of several centuries ago, Abstract Expressionists of the mid-20th Century, and the many celebrated writers, makers, musicians, and visual artists of the recent past and current moment. Core programming includes visual art exhibitions, concerts and events, educational programming, workshops, lectures, and an artist’s residency.

The Church’s programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.