Art faber was initiated by a international collective of members from economic, academic, and artistic spheres.
The list of its founding members is published in the work Affranchissements, Acting for the Advancement of Art Faber.
The project is operationally supported by the multidisciplinary and international team of the Arts & Business Lab. of Université Paris Panthéon Assas, in cooperation with international partners from the economic, cultural, and academic worlds. Of course, contributions from other institutions and experts are also welcome.
Lourdes Arizpe : Co-president of the Art faber Collective, former Assistant Director- General of Culture at UNESCO, university full lchair professor, President emeritus of the International Social Science Council,former President of the International Conference on the Status of Artists, former President of the International Union of Anthropological Sciences, former Secretary General of the UN World Commission on Culture and Development.
Jérôme Duval Hamel :president of the Art faber Collective, former Senior Executive Vice-President and CEO of several companies in the industrial and cultural sectors,
university full chair professor, Chairman of the Arts &; Business Lab. at Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas, President of the Franco-German Committee for the Cultural Industries and of the Franco-German Prize for the Cultural Sectors.
Laurent Pfister: Vice-president of the Art faber Collective, university full chair professor, Director of the “Artistic assets and the art market" master and the “Art valuation” diploma at Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas
C.Briat, Pr. M.Goletty, Pr.F.Martinez, Pr V.Pez, Pr S. de St Marc, G.Maugis, P. Robert and O. Vigneaux are Heads of the Boards.
The Art faber publication collections are managed by :
Prof. J. Duval Hamel and Prof. L. Pfister for Spicilèges de l'Art faber, Albums de l'Art faber, and Opus Art faber books.
Pr J. Duval Hamel and Pr E. Maclouf for Cahiers de l'Art faber and Nouveaux Regards Art faber monographs
- Art faber Fine Arts
- Art faber Literature, Poetry and Comics
- Art faber Music and Song
- Art faber Cinema
- Art faber Photography
- Country Committees: they coordinate the activities of the Art Faber Collective in the following countries and regions: Austria, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Greece, Spain, Latin America, and the Middle East.