Dr. Lise Motherwell, a licensed psychologist, is a stepdaughter of Helen Frankenthaler. She is the Immediate Past-President of the Board of the Provincetown Art Association and Museum. In 2019, she co-curated with Elizabeth Smith a show of Helen Frankenthaler's work titled Abstract Climates: Helen Frankenthaler in Provincetown. She has authored essays and lectured on various artists including Helen Frankenthaler, Anne-Marie Levine, Robert Motherwell, and Tabitha Vevers.

Richard Armstrong was Director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation from 2008 to 2023 and Henry J. Heinz Director, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, from 1996 to 2008. He held various previous curatorial roles in museums including the Carnegie, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art.  Armstrong is a member of several foundation boards as well as the art advisory board of the Fondation Beyeler, Riehen, Switzerland.

Ann Philbin was the Director of the Hammer Museum at UCLA from 1999 to 2024. Prior to that, she was the Director of The Drawing Center in New York City from 1990 to 1999. She has served on several boards of foundations and non-profits and is currently on the board of the Foundation for Arts Initiatives (FfAI).  She is a member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences and, in 2025, she was awarded the prestigious Getty Prize.

A multifaceted leader in the arts, nonprofit, government, and higher education sectors, Dr. Mariko Silver is President and CEO of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. She previously served as President and CEO of the Henry Luce Foundation and as President of Bennington College, following senior roles at Arizona State University and in state and federal government, where she advised on global policy, innovation, and education. Dr. Silver serves on the boards of the Council on Foreign Relations, MacArthur Foundation and MASS MoCA.

Elizabeth Smith joined the New York-based Helen Frankenthaler Foundation as its first Executive Director in 2013.  Previously, she was Executive Director, Curatorial Affairs at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Chief Curator and Deputy Director of Programs at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; and Curator at MOCA, Los Angeles.  She has curated, published, and lectured extensively on the work of Frankenthaler and other topics in contemporary visual art and architecture.

Clifford Ross is a multimedia artist whose work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the National Gallery of Art among others. His work has been widely exhibited in the United States and abroad, including a large-scale survey at MASS MoCA in 2015.  A nephew of Helen Frankenthaler, he served on the Foundation’s board for more than three decades. He was elected to serve as the first Chair of the Foundation after her death in 2011, and served until 2021. He remained a board member until 2025.