Staff

Martha Henry and Kim Vaadia, Board Members and Co-Directors of Urban Art Projects, a non-profit corporation, have a combined 45 years of art consultancy experience in both the public and private sectors.

Martha Henry has worked on many public art projects including a 9/11 memorial for American Express, which is permanently installed at The World Financial Center, the Jackie Robinson Peewee Reese Memorial at Keyspan Stadium in Coney Island and the Korean War Veterans Memorial in Kissena Park in Queens.

Kim Vaadia has been intimately involved in Williamsburg, establishing her art consultancy office in the neighborhood over ten years ago. In addition to consulting to artists working in the public sector, Kim has also produced fine art exhibitions both in Williamsburg and in Manhattan.

Board of Directors

Judy Haselton is a Certified Financial Planner and Registered Life Planner®, specialzing in financial life planning and investment management. She has accumulated over 20 years of experience in the financial services industry, having worked in investment banking with SmithBarney, in commercial banking with Bank of America and on her own, as a principal in private equity transactions.
Earning both an MBA from Columbia University Graduate School of Business and a Certificate in Financial Planning from New York University, she is also a member of NAPFA, the National Association of Personal Financial Advisors, the Financial Planning Association.

John Koegel is an attorney and founder of the law firm The Koegel Group. Since 1982 he has specialized in “art law”, exclusively representing artists, galleries, and others involved with visual art in most areas of the law including litigation. He attended Fordham Law School and initially joined the law firm of Rogers & Wells. After a two year appointment as counsel to a National Commission appointed by President Carter in Washington D.C., he served as General Counsel and Secretary at the Museum of Modern Art. Over the years he has been actively involved in the drafting of legislation affecting the arts, especially including the Visual Artists Rights Act of 1990 (the federal law of moral rights for artists). John Koegel did the necessary legal work to establish Urban Art Projects.

Martha Henry has worked on many public art projects including a 9/11 memorial for American Express, which is permanently installed at The World Financial Center, the Jackie Robinson Peewee Reese Memorial at Keyspan Stadium in Coney Island and the Korean War Veterans Memorial in Kissena Park in Queens.

Kim Vaadia has been intimately involved in Williamsburg, establishing her art consultancy office in the neighborhood over ten years ago. In addition to consulting to artists working in the public sector, Kim has also produced fine art exhibitions both in Williamsburg and in Manhattan.

Mission

Urban Art Projects, Inc. is a non-profit corporation and 501(3)C for charitable, educational purposes. Specifically, Urban Art Projects, Inc. will provide the organizational framework for public art exhibitions, both nationally and internationally.