Art Advisory.com - Fine Art Appraisal, Advisory and Collection Management Services

Kathryn Minard is a Certified Appraiser of Personal Property (CAPP) with a specialty in fine art and Canadian instructor in Appraisal Studies with the International Society of Appraisers (ISA). The CAPP designation is the highest professional designation conferred by the ISA. It is attained by successful completion of a comprehensive program emphasizing legal, ethical and theoretical aspects of appraising and entails the peer review of appraisal reports, approved professional development activities and a comprehensive board examination.

York University - BA - Specialized Honours - Art History, 1975

International Society of Appraisers: Certificate of Re-qualification, 2007, Fine Art Speciality Course 204, 1998, Personal Property Program, Canadian Core Courses, Toronto, 1996

American Society of Appraisers: Personal Property Appraisal, Principles of Valuation I - IV, Toronto, 1993 -1995

National Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (USPAP) Course, Toronto, 2004

Established in 2011, Art Advisory.com is the operating name of Contemporary Fine Art Services Inc., a firm founded in 1981 by Kathryn Minard. Art Advisory.com provides fine art appraising, consulting and collection management services. Appraisal services include reports for insurance coverage, damage and loss claims, charitable or cultural property donation, estate planning and division of assets, purchase or sales advice, determination of probate fees or capital gains tax, bankruptcy, divorce or partnership dissolution and expert witness and litigation support.

The firm advises clients on the acquisitions or sale of fine art and provides representation in purchase and sales transactions as well as collection management, including inventory, cataloguing, conservation, restoration, framing and installation. Clients include private and corporate collectors, financial institutions, government, public galleries and museums, registered charities and law firms.

From 2006 to 2011, Kathryn Minard, in partnership with Waddington's Auctioneers & Appraisers, provided specialized services in appraisal, research and collection management through Curator Asset Management Inc.

International Society of Appraisers, Chicago, Illinois: Certified Appraiser of Personal Property – Fine Art Division, Canadian Chapter President for 2008 & Past Regional Regional Representative for 1997-1999; Association for Professional Art Advisors, New York, NY: Affiliate Member; Friends of Canadian Art, Member; The Arts & Letters Club of Toronto, Professional Member

Consultant to Christie's Inc. on the valuation of Canadian Art, 2009

Special Advisor to the Canadian Cultural Property Export Review Board, 2001-2005

International Society of Appraisers Distinguished Service Award as Annual Conference Co-Chair in 2010 and the Award of Excellence for service as Coordinator of the Fine Art Program for Annual Conference in 2000; International Society of Appraisers Distinguished Service Award as a member of the ISA Distance Education Design Team for the ISA Distance Education Course in Appraisal Studies, 1999

Seminar on Canadian specific issues in appraisal studies, Canadian Chapter of the International Society of Appraisers, Presenter, Toronto, March 2011 Assets 2011

Annual Conference, International Society of Appraisers, Nashville, TN; Valuation Challenges, Panel participant

Assets 2010 Annual Conference, International Society of Appraisers, Toronto, Ontario; Program Co-Chair

2009 Annual Conference, International Society of Appraisers, Charleston, South Carolina

2008 National Conference, Changing Time: Changing Markets, Appraisers Association of America, New York, NY

2008 Annual Conference, International Society of Appraisers, Baltimore, Maryland

2007 National Conference on Valuation & Condition, Appraisers Association of America, Yale Club, New York, NY

International Association of Professional Art Advisors, Tours of Corporate, Private and Museum Collections in Kansas City, Missouri (October 2007)

Estate Planning & Strategic By-Products of Art Ownership, presentation to The Latremoille Group, Richardson Financial Partners Ltd., Toronto (September 2007)

Collecting and Investing in Canadian Art: Current Market Trends, presentation to The University Club of Toronto (February 2007)

Decorative Arts Symposia, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto: Silver & Gold: Treasures, Fakes and Forgeries (2008); Crystal & Glass: Glorious Grains of Sand (2007); The History of Dining (2006); Designers & Tastemakers: Innovators in the Decorative Arts (2005); The Country House: From Antiquity to the New Age (2004), Beauties of the Baroque (2003), Scotland and Away (2002), Regency: The Age of Jane Austen (2001), The Great Collectors (1998)

Group of Seven Roadshow: Art and Public Culture 1920-2005, Symposium Oct. 20-21, 2005, Sponsored by the Art Gallery of Ontario and the Ontario Association of Art Galleries

Reports from the Field: Photography Now, Workshop sponsored by the International Association of Professional Art Advisors, New York, NY (November 2004)

The Thirteenth Annual National Expert Witness Conference & Expert Report Writing Workshop, Hyannis, Massachusetts, sponsored by Seak Inc. (June 2004)

Making History: A Symposium, sponsored by Canadian Art with the Department of Fine Art, University of Toronto, and the Faculty of Fine Arts, York University. (February 2004)

Valuing Estate Assets, presentation to the Estate Planners' Council of Hamilton on appraisals for the determination of probate fees and capital gains tax, equitable distribution of assets and reduction of tax liabilities through donations of cultural property (January 2004)

Picturing Shakespeare: An interdisciplinary symposium on the authenticity of the Sanders Portrait of William Shakespeare sponsored by the University of Toronto Art Centre, the Art Gallery of Ontario and Records of English Drama, 2002

Do It Now: Strategic Emergency Plans for Corporate Art Collections, panel participant & presentation on Appraisals & Loss Prevention at a one-day workshop sponsored by the National Association for Corporate Art Management and the Association for Professional Art Advisors, New York, 2002

Catalogues Raisonnes and the Authentication Process, Conference, International Foundation for Art Research, New York, 2001

Artful Ownership, panel participant & presentation on The Role of the Appraiser, Toronto 2000 International Art Fair, 2000

What's It Worth: Recognizing Value in Art, Guest speaker for the Perspective Canada Lecture Series at the Art Gallery of Sudbury, 2000

International Society of Appraisers' Annual Conferences on Personal Property Appraising, Toronto, Ontario, Troy, Michigan & Washington, DC, 1997, 1999, 2000; Fine Art Program Co-ordinator, 2000

Board Member & Jury Committee of the Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition, 1997, 1998

The American Society of Appraisers International Appraisal Conference, Toronto, 1996

National Association for Corporate Art Management - Conferences on Corporate Art Collecting, New York & Boston, 1997, 1990-1994