Gloria Arditi

Gloria is an architect who works in various fields of architecture. She was born in Milan and studied architecture at the Università La Sapienza, in Rome where she graduated with honors in Architectural Composition under the tutelage of Paolo Portoghesi. She later worked in the Studio of John Outram Associates and participated in two competitions to design buildings in London.

Gloria worked on the New York restoration project for the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island and studied at Columbia University where she wrote a thesis on the Restoration of the Edifices of the Modern Movement and published a book on Gio Ponti: Venti Cristalli di Architettura. Gloria received a PhD in Technology of Architecture from the University Ludovico Quaroni, La Sapienza.
Gloria curated, edited and wrote for two prestigious design publications: Disegno Industriale/Industrial Design, DIID, which was nominated for the Compasso D’Oro, and for IL PROGETTO, dedicated to architecture, art, communications and design.

Gloria conducted in-depth research and the appraisal of fine artwork together with Denis Mahon and Ferdinando Bologna. Their efforts resulted in the display of the work in an exquisite exhibition in 2004 at the Capodimonte Museum in Naples.

In 2006 she was appointed Vice President of the Palatina- Istanbul Association, UNESCO Agency – and wrote a proposal for the restoration of Villa Tarabya (a masterpiece of the Deco’ Italian Architecture in Istanbul) for the Italian Foreign Ministry.  With Studio Gentiloni Silveri, she participated in the restoration of various historical buildings in Rome. For the Celebration of S. Paul’s Nativity, Gloria helped find financing for urgent works of the Papal Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls.
Gloria’s ancestor, Michele Arditi was the founder and director of the Archeological Museum of Naples and under his guidance, the city of Pompeii was fully discovered. He invented the concept of ‘Open-Air Excavations’ with thousands of people working in the same site at the same time.

Victoria Ericks

Victoria graduated from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) with a degree in Art History with additional graduate coursework in ethnographic – documentary filmmaking. She began her career in the arts and media communication fields working alongside a well-established videographer while also learning the business of artist management. Comfortable in creative areas of art and media, she easily shifts from one to the other seamlessly incorporating experience garnered from one in support of the next.

This capability prompted her to take on her first entrepreneurial project, opening a studio in space design and collection curation. Shortly after moving to Rome in the mid 1980’s, she joined the ABC News production team where she contributed to high-quality, compelling programming aired on network news shows in the U.S. Later, as a Field Producer for the German television network Deutsch-Weller, she covered stories on social-political issues throughout central Italy. In recent years, Victoria has served as project manager for different painting exhibitions. Since 2005 she has been a partner and a co-founder of InRomeNow, an online publication reporting on culture, services, events and travel in and around Rome. Currently, she is once again active in the visual arts as a curator, and arts consultant. In 2014 she curated a photography exhibition hosted at Museo di Roma in Trastevere – other curatorial projects are underway. She is an activist for women’s rights/human rights, and fund-raises as Ambassador to Italy for an international non-profit organization.