Meet Our Team

FELICE MARCANO

Vice President

Armed with a background in fine art and design, Felice joined the Goltz Group companies 30 years ago. Her career has encompassed many roles within the group of businesses, and her demonstrated ability in understanding overall objectives has created results as she has actively driven projects to completion. Felice earned a B.S. in Business Administration with a concentration in Small Business Management, uniting her passion for art with the mission of business. She has been in executive leadership of the corporate art division since 2008, and brings her expertise to every project ensuring a seamless process.

bill erwin

Principal

A graduate of The University of the Arts and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, with a concentration in Art Psychotherapy, Bill has been working in the commercial interior furnishings industry for 43 years.

He has successfully completed over this time significant projects in all market segments and has worked with top interior designers and architects throughout the world.

jackie pernot

Gallery Director

With a degree in art history from the University of Illinois at Chicago and twenty years of art consulting and gallery experience, Jackie has been with Chicago Art Source and gallery 1871 since 2009.

 She enjoys working with the many artists that gallery 1871 represents and organizing the exhibitions in the gallery, as well as working with a wide range of clients, including individual collectors, interior designers and corporations.

KAREN MAKI

Art Consultant

Karen earned her Art & Art History focused degrees at the University of Northern Iowa and has since focused her career on visual interiors. Through her years of gallery experience, experiential interior graphics consulting and corporate art consulting, Karen has enjoyed combining her love of art with thoughtful design, while collaborating with interior designers and architects. 

Since joining Chicago Art Source in May 2017, she has worked with a wide variety of clients and placed art programs within hospitality, healthcare, corporate and residential surroundings.

ryan carden

Senior Project Manager

Ryan brings over twenty years business and management experience in art sales, conservation framing, art handling, and high-end residential interior design to his work as Senior Project Manager at Chicago Art Source. Working closely with our curatorial, production, and corporate sales teams, he specifies and orchestrates purchasing, framing, installation, corporate collection management, and all associated logistics. Ryan also works closely with our organization's buying teams to ensure Chicago Art Source is offering the highest quality and most current materials available for our art and framing programs.

Cassidy Kulhanek

Project Manager, Art

With a background in conceptual art, Cassidy Kulhanek brings an eye for contemporary and experimental art to the team. Before joining Chicago Art Source as a Project Manager in 2021, Cassidy worked as a Professor of Printmaking at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she completed her MFA in 2020. Prior to her time in North Carolina, Cassidy worked as a printer at the nation’s oldest letterpress print shop, and as an Assistant Preparator at the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art in Auburn, Alabama. Cassidy enjoys learning about art by engaging in new creative processes, and employs this knowledge in her curation research as a part of the Chicago Art Source team. She is driven to cultivate relationships with artists and forge partnerships between her clients and her local art community.