Trump Names Art Collector Nicole McGraw as US Ambassador to Croatia

President-elect Donald Trump mentioned Nicole is a ‘philanthropist, businesswoman, and world famend artwork collector.’

President-elect Donald Trump introduced on Dec. 17 that he has nominated Florida-based artwork collector Nicole McGraw to function the following U.S. ambassador to Croatia.

“Nicole is a philanthropist, businesswoman, and World famend artwork collector,” Trump wrote in an announcement posted on Fact Social.

McGraw opened her first artwork gallery in Palm Seashore Gardens again in 2006, in accordance with Trump. She has since constructed a shopper base that spans throughout the globe, in addition to a “profitable hedge fund specializing in advantageous artwork investments,” the president-elect mentioned.

In accordance with her official web site, McGraw attended Southern Methodist College in Texas the place she graduated with a BFA in Artwork Historical past and Studio artwork.

She fashioned a non-profit group known as CANVAS Artwork Charities in 2015 to fund public installations, exhibitions, schooling, and occasions that “enrich communities,” in accordance with her web site.

The group hosts annual exhibits in downtown West Palm Seashore which have added greater than $3,000,000 in public artwork to West Palm Seashore’s panorama and “turned it into an essential vacation spot,” the web site states.

McGraw additionally fashioned the Canvas Artwork Fund—a hedge fund specializing in procuring and advertising and marketing high-value artwork items which are distressed on account of points comparable to bankruptcies, and fireplace gross sales—in 2016, her official web site states.

By means of her work, McGraw has helped increase greater than $2,000,000 for native charities over the previous three years, in accordance with her biography. She has additionally been a board member of Place of Hope, a faith-based group providing applications and providers to abused and uncared for kids.

Trump mentioned McGraw’s work with Place of Hope “raised Thousands and thousands of {Dollars} for uncared for and abused kids.”

The function of U.S. ambassador to Croatia has been stuffed by Nathalie Rayes since January 2024.

Rayes is the previous president and CEO of Latino Victory, a progressive political motion committee co-founded by actress Eva Longoria geared toward rising Latino illustration at each stage of presidency.

Earlier in her profession, Rayes managed the Los Angeles Mayor’s Workplace of Intergovernmental Relations, Worldwide Commerce, and Protocol, and established the town’s first Workplace of Immigrant Affairs, in accordance with her official biography.

Trump’s newest nomination comes after he picked former Fox Information persona Kimberly Guilfoyle to be the U.S. ambassador to Greece.

The incoming U.S. chief additionally nominated former U.S. ambassador to El Salvador and ex-CIA official Ronald Johnson for U.S. ambassador to Mexico put up, and personal fairness actual property investor Tom Barrack as U.S. ambassador to Turkey.

Trump on Dec. 11 additionally nominated former NFL participant and one-time Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker to function U.S. ambassador to the Bahamas.