Our Mission & Vision
Artive’s mission to protect cultural property drives our living vision to imagine a world free of illicit threats against our world’s cultural heritage. By shedding light on current risks in the market and bringing due diligence to the forefront of conversations, we provide proactive solutions to combat threats against our world’s treasures.
Artive’s mission is to help protect the world’s cultural heritage – looted and illicitly transferred, stolen, missing and otherwise claimed – by recording and indexing data for posterity and preservation through the use of technology.
Our mission is more than “about us”, this is your story as well and we believe that our cultural heritage can only be protected if we unite our responsibilities and actions, digitally record and exchange information, and raise awareness together.
The Artive Database
Artive maintains the world’s most technologically advanced, and impartial database of cultural objects, and intends to expand access, making it a publicly accessible record of stolen and high-risk objects.
Artive maintains the world’s most technologically advanced, and impartial database of cultural objects
By building a publicly accessible feature to our database and thus disseminating information about claimed objects, Artive will be able to:
- Continue maintaining a platform that identifies and records at-risk art, cultural objects, collections, and antiquities sites involved in unlawful transactions or incidents
- Establish safe, ethical transparency by creating both an essential tool for due diligence research prior to any transaction, and a site to publicize objects currently active in a claim or incident
- Provide the industry with a resource of highly-diversified objects registered in a single, user friendly setting
WANT TO HELP US?
THERE ARE MANY WAYS TO DO IT!
As a non-profit organization we are dependent on financial support, data contributors, volunteers and sponsors to keep our mission going and our growing database maintained!
Whether you would like to support us with a financial contribution or care to join the Artive community another way, click below to make a difference!

Watch our Vision
Wonder where we came from? How we were founded and why we do what we do? Our short presentation video tells you our story and what role we play to improve the state of risk management and due diligence in the art market!
Meet some of our Team
Jason Sousa
Chairman & CEO
Kathleen Kenyon
Sr. Research Associate
Reema Pangarkar
Cultural Property Law
Lizzie Lockard
Social Media Coordinator
Sarah Bucarelli
Education
Frederic Somm
Ambassador
Emily Ford
Ambassador
Natasha Levick
Ambassador
Jeanne Crampette
Ambassador
Ariane Moser
Chief Operations Officer
Harvinder Kaur
Sr. Research Associate
Richard Van Herzeele
Law Enforcement Liaison
Manon Zeidler
Artive Journal Editor
Irina Deikarkhanova
Strategic Partnerships
David Turchin
Ambassador
Anton A. Bogdanov
Ambassador
Mackenzie Priest
Ambassador
Kaylee Eubanks
Ambassador
Rhynier Myburgh
Chief Technical Officer
Saida S. Hasanagic
Sr. Research Associate
Khamal Patterson
Cultural Property Law
Julia Voisin
Business Development
Helena Arose
Marketing Specialist
Frances Oglesby
Sr. Ambassador
Adam Gates
Ambassador
Doug Bort
Ambassador
Joseph Sperrin
Artive Intern