our mission

Athena Art Foundation is a new UK registered charity aggregating and posting on its digital hub and social media feeds innovative and accessible material about pre-modern art in museums and other locations around the world. Our aim is to engage audiences with the world’s great artistic traditions, inviting people to discover and learn about works from across the centuries which continue to be as relevant now as when they were first produced. We passionately believe that looking closely at this art helps us to reflect on life today and imagine the world tomorrow.

The Athena team gathers material for the hub from a wide range of websites, publications, newsletters and promotional material, as well as producing podcasts, films, live streams and other material of our own.

meet the athena team

Athena’s Founding Team discovered their shared passion for promoting engagement with pre-20th century art while working together at the London-based Colnaghi Foundation. Click on each photo to learn more.

our founding trustees

our supporters

Athena’s Brains Trust

Jonquil O’Reilly (Vice president and Head of Sales, Old Master Paintings, Christies), Esme Garlake (Athena’s previous social media manager and ecocritical art historian), Alayo Akinkugbe (founder of @ablackhistoryofart), Dr Madeleine Haddon (curator at V&A), Jina Han (social media influencer based in South Korea), Adam Levine (Assistant Curator of European Art, Art Gallery of Ontario), Maddie Kowitz (social media influencer based in London), Sinead Read and Jasper Roscoe (both postgraduates at the Courtauld Institute of Art), Isabelle Kent (art historian and PhD candidate at Cambridge University).

Athena’s Museums Advisory Group

Till-Holger Borchert (Director, Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum, Aachen), Dr Adrienne Childs (Senior Consulting Curator at The Phillips Collection), Dr Caroline Campbell (Director, National Gallery of Ireland), Mark D. Mitchell (Holcombe T. Green Curator of American Paintings and Sculpture, Yale University Art Gallery), Michael Taylor (Chief Curator of Art, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts).

Athena is grateful to our supporters including Colnaghi Gallery and the Catherine Lewis Foundation.

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Whilst every effort is made to ensure the accuracy of the information provided, we accept no liability or responsibility to any person as a consequence of reliance on information from third parties contained within the hub.

UK Registered Charity Number 1195601