NEW YORK, November 17, 2025— The American Folk Art Museum is pleased to announce the election of Gregory (Greg) Gross to its Board of Trustees. A retired attorney, practicing ceramicist, and dedicated collector of American folk art, Gross brings both professional expertise and a deep appreciation for the ways in which handmade objects convey human stories. His appointment reflects AFAM’s ongoing commitment to fostering leadership that bridges art, scholarship, and community engagement.
“We are delighted to welcome Greg to the Museum’s Board,” stated Jason T. Busch, Becky and Bob Alexander Director & CEO. “His deep knowledge of folk art, his experience in cultural stewardship, and his own creative practice as a ceramicist make him an invaluable addition to our leadership. Greg’s perspective will help advance AFAM’s commitment to celebrating the creativity of self-taught artists across time and place.”
“As we continue to strengthen and broaden the Board with leaders from across the country, we are delighted to welcome Greg Gross,” added Elizabeth V. Warren, President of the Board of Trustees. “Greg’s passion for folk art will make him an invaluable addition to the AFAM’s leadership.”
“It’s an honor to join the Board of AFAM,” said Gross. “I have long admired the Museum’s dedication to artists whose creativity emerges from lived experience. Folk and self-taught art reveal so much about how people see and shape the world around them, and I’m excited to support AFAM’s mission to bring those stories to wider audiences.”
Gross practiced law in Pittsburgh for nearly three decades. He was a founding equity partner at Metz Lewis Brodman Must O’Keefe, LLC, a business law firm with 50 attorneys, where he specialized in securities law and mergers and acquisitions. Prior to that, he was a partner and director at Dickie McCamey, where he began his legal career in complex commercial litigation and helped to build the firm’s corporate department.
Gross earned his JD from Dickinson School of Law, where he served as comments editor of the Dickinson Law Review and was on the editorial board of the Dickinson Journal of International Law. He is an honors graduate of Allegheny College, where he earned a BA in history and English.
He currently serves on the Board of Trustees of Historic Deerfield, one of the nation’s leading living history museums, where he is active on the Investment, Collections, and Structures and Sites Committees. A former Deerfield Summer Fellow (1983), he also endowed a fund to support future participants in the program. From 2009 to 2015, Gross served on the board of Contemporary Craft in Pittsburgh and continues to support the organization as a member of its fundraiser host committee.
As a ceramicist, Gross has been creating clay works since 2015 and has studied under leading artists including Akira Satake, Bryan Hopkins, Melissa Weiss, and Troy Bungart.
Based in Pittsburgh, Gross remains deeply engaged in the region’s vibrant arts and cultural community.