Elizabeth Frost Pierson

Elizabeth made her career in the art world as a curator, gallerist and advisor. She started with Sotheby’s before working as a director in galleries in New York, Rome, and London. She founded her advisory, Elizabeth Frost Pierson Fine Art, in the 1980’s, working as an international art advisor for corporate and private collections including Chase Bank, among others. A co-founder and director of the Stair Sainty Gallery in New York, and later in London, she curated scholarly exhibitions and cross-sectoral collaborations for over three decades using her broad network in the worlds of the arts, media, business, and diplomacy.

Elizabeth is a founding partner of the Europe Cordiale Circle (ECC), a UK-based bipartisan, cross-sectoral forum established in 2016 dedicated to fostering thoughtful and informed debate. She is the founding benefactor of a program at the American Hospital of Paris, “Healing through Music,” and has sponsored and curated cultural initiatives through the arts for the hospital’s Cancer Center for over a decade.

The founder of Longhouse, a D.C. based arts advisory and consultancy, Elizabeth serves on the Board of Directors of the Atlantic Council in Washington D.C.; the Board of Visitors of the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art in her native Oklahoma; is a founding sponsor of Oklahoma Contemporary; and has recently joined the board of the French American Cultural Foundation.

Elizabeth has spoken and written on the arts, and moderated panel discussions for the private and public sectors. She has worked as a consultant for media groups, including U.S. News & World Report, and more recently for BBC Radio 4 Today.

Elizabeth received her B.A. in Political Science and History at the Colorado College; studied Fine Art in graduate programs at Columbia University, NY; The British Institute of Florence, IT; and studied photography at The Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.. A classically trained pianist, she has also studied jazz at the Berklee College of Music in Boston.

A cultural diplomat by nature, her vision and orientation in the worlds of politics and diplomacy first took root during her formative years in Washington, D.C.. She is a vocal advocate for the role that the arts play in societies today. With a distinct transatlantic orientation Elizabeth has lived and worked in Europe – Italy, France, England and Spain – for decades. She is fluent in Spanish, French, and Italian.