Officers & Directors

Renee Studiner Yellowstone Valley Appraisal Services, antiques and fine art. Owner, 2020 to present.  Meadowlark Gallery, western and sporting fine art. Staff appraiser, 2014 – 2020.  Association of Online Appraisers, 2014 – present

M. Barden Prisant graduated from Yale in 1982 with a B.A. in Art History; that same year, he founded Telepraisal, Inc. He has held the post of Adjunct Professor at New York University and was a Contributing Editor for the magazine Art Business News for more than a decade. He is the author of more than 60 published articles and was a contributor to the book which accompanied the Antiques Roadshow. In 2002, he was named an Eminent Professional Fellow of the 120,000-member Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, the body which oversees the appraisal profession in the U.K. AOA member since 2009. Visit www.telepraisal.com, iartadvisors.com.

Jerry Goroski is a fine art consultant and appraiser with a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Montana State University in Bozeman, Montana, with a Major in Fine Arts, and Minors in Art History and Art Education. Over the last 45 years, working as a past museum curator and administrator, advertising and printing of Western Art, it’s artists, living and deceased, along with continued work with art dealers, museums and galleries, which is accepted for research for art related appraisals throughout the United States. Visit www.openrangeart.com.

Alan Bamberger provides complete art consulting, advisory and appraisal services, and current art price data, market conditions and research to anyone involved with art. He appraises all works of fine art; advises on buying, selling, donating, collecting or otherwise transacting in works of fine art; assists with inheritance issues involving art; advises on settlement or dissemination of artist estates; consults on disputes or disagreements involving art; and offers expert testimony and opinions in legal cases involving art. Visit www.artbusiness.com.

Valerie McAleenan, Timeless NeedleArts Appraisals, specializing in textiles stitched with needle-in-hand, since 2006.  Graduate of the American Needlepoint Guild’s NeedleArts Appraisal Program where she also served as Vice-Chair and Chair. She has taught needlework and guest-lectured on the merits of having needlework appraised at the national level.  She continues to teach locally at Peacock Alley Needlepoint, which she co-owned from 1999-2009.   She has been stitching since 1984 and has taken numerous courses through the Royal School of Needlework, UK. Visit Timeless Needle Arts.

Cordelia Mendoza, ISA was the previous owner of an antique retail business and an antique mall owner for over twenty-two years. She has over twenty years’ experience appraising all household and antique items for estate and probate attorneys, as well as for insurance purposes. She also has also ten years of Estate Sale experience. Appraisals by Cordelia.