Services
We believe you don’t have to walk into a museum to experience great art.
Our projects range from coordinating 700-piece collections threaded throughout a campus to acquiring singular treasures to be admired only in private moments.
We provide art expertise across the spectrum—for spaces both public and private, with clients both knowledgeable and newly initiated, and on behalf of artists both emerging and established.
Each project – Each artwork – Each install –
is as distinct and multifaceted as the people and places it invigorates.
Whether your vision spans a single wall or an entire city center, our role as curator-consultant is to guide you every step along the way, from comprehensive planning and acquisition through installation and ongoing management.
Here’s how we do it.
A practiced ear is as critical as a practiced eye.
The best-laid plans begin with listening, and the purpose of the consultation phase is to understand the art and shape the strategy that will best serve you.
Our services include the kind of robust strategic planning required for large-scale public art, but strategy is just as critical to our process for smaller-scale engagements—it’s just that the depth and delivery of the resulting roadmap will vary.
We pride ourselves on truly hearing our clients and responding to their nuanced aesthetic, financial, and practical needs with sensitivity and rigor.
Strategic planning for public spaces.
Strategic planning for private spaces.
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Who we plan experiences for
- Cities, townships, civil districts
- Privately-owned properties with public outreach
- Public venues
- Strategic Plan Partners Include: Midway Companies, East End District, Discovery Green, Public Art of the University of Houston System
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Planning considerations/components
- Mission and vision
- Historic context
- SWOT analysis
- Comparative sites
- Implementation and funding options
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How we get there
- Full-scale community, artist, and stakeholder outreach (public forums, surveys, focus groups, interviews)
- Cultural, civic, and environmental analysis
- Photograph and archive inclusion
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What we deliver
- Comprehensive and phased strategic plan (report and presentation formats) inclusive of actionable recommendations re:
- Art installations
- Programming
- Collaboration
- Leadership
- Administration
- Communications
- Executive summary for Board, additional stakeholder materials
- Best practices training
- Comprehensive and phased strategic plan (report and presentation formats) inclusive of actionable recommendations re:
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Who we plan experiences for
- Individual residences
- Private offices
- Corporate lobbies
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Planning considerations/components
- Vision, goals, priorities
- Story and history
- Aesthetic preferences balanced by budget necessities
- Client bandwidth, who may be art savvy but time-poor
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How we get there
- Research, analysis
- Architectural, interior design, urban planning review and input
- Budget planning/allocation
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What we deliver
- Curatorial framework
- Master plan
Your ear to the ground, your foot in the door, and your arm interlinked the whole way.
You now have a plan. But even for experienced collectors, navigating the art world can be overwhelming—a niche that’s an inch wide and a mile deep.
During the Curation phase—as we seek out the art and artists in line with your needs—we relish engaging people in the deeply personal process of art education and discovery, bringing simplicity to intricacy and clarity to an industry that is all too often opaque.
As we are not beholden to any galleries or artists—and do not maintain our own inventory of art—we’re able to serve as your neutral guide to a world of color, combining an objective perspective with a crucial level of insight, access, analysis, and experience that decades of this work have afforded us.
Together we find the art that makes your heart race and your space sing.
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Art world considerations
- Extensive network of artists, dealers, galleries, institutions
- Ongoing education and immersion across art fairs, exhibitions, art history, art news, artist profiles/stature/collections
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Services and deliverables
- Client education/travel
- RFQ/RFP management
- Timeline and schedule development
- Artist communication and contract management
- Artwork selection and presentation
- Artwork access, acquisition, and loans
- Site-specific commissions
- Art council development, organizational/decision-
making structure options - Strategic opportunities and alliances guidance
- Funding strategy
Interesting art invites interesting people.
Both comfort and catalyst, art warms, it gathers, it ignites, it twinkles. Sometimes it even roars. The careful collection and composition of each piece is required to ensure the final experience thrives and endures.
We’ve selected or commissioned the appropriate works, and now coordinate the full execution including art handling and logistics, installation and oversight, and boots-on-the-ground management ranging from subcontractor selection to marketing and maintenance. Post-install, we are skilled in training and guiding clients through collections documentation, promotional events and engagement, and ongoing arts programming.
This final phase is beyond rewarding. No two experiences are ever alike—and whether it’s publicly shared or privately savored, nothing matches the moment when our clients witness their space transformed by art that is memorable, original, and authentic to them.
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Environmental considerations
- Community/historical context
- Site characteristics and suitability
- Presentation effectiveness
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Services and deliverables
- Art handling and logistics: packing, crating, shipping, delivery, installation
- Identification and management of installers, engineers,
project subcontractors - On-site installation coordination, support, and oversight
- Collections documentation and maintenance
- Didactic material research and development
- Promotion, marketing, and outreach
- Arts programming (for commercial/public clients)
We love what we do and see art as an unequivocally powerful tool for unlocking and augmenting a place’s beauty, dimension, and individuality.
Together, we’re discovering the art that will go to your children’s children.
We’re assembling a response to yesterday’s protest.
We’re uncovering the first thing you see when you open your eyes, and the last moment you capture before waving goodbye to your favorite city.
As advisor and advocate, conduit and coordinator, we hope soon to partner with you.
