About
A vibrant nexus for contemporary art, See Support Collect is an intersectional placemaking and gap-filling initiative that focuses on collectorship of art by women and non-binary artists. Helmed by Latela Curatorial, this initiative began at the start of the pandemic and has taken on a variety of forms each year to include a variety of online and IRL exhibitions.
Why does See Support Collect exist?
Today, in the year 2023, women artists’ sales still make up only 2% of the global market. Despite highly visible efforts to counter the absence of women artists in international museum collections, very little action has been directed toward this jarring discrepancy in emerging to established women artists’ primary survival mechanism: the creative economy.
Who is this platform & initiative for?
Latela Curatorial dedicates its platform now and always to promoting balance in the art market and particularly to shifting the narrative around cultural value in Washington DC. Latela Curatorial staunchly supports trans women and affirms that ALL women and non-binary artists are welcome and safe as participants and collaborators in the See Support Collect container.
Archive
2023: Two exhibitions total - one IRL solo exhibition, Seed Scattering, featuring Nicole Salimbene at The Silva Gallery x Latela Curatorial, and one online exhibition, which featuring artwork by 31 international artists responding to the theme (be)longing.
2022: Five exhibitions total - four IRL exhibitions in the greater Washington DC region and one online exhibition (Artsy) where artists nationwide respond to the theme Body Autonomy.
2021: Six IRL exhibition satellite locations, a digital exhibition catalogue, and a full roster of virtual and in-person events.
2020: Launched digitally (Artsy) in Fall 2020 to uplift and center the work of 102 diverse women-identifying artists working in and around the nation’s capital. Why only in the nation’s capital? Because DC, Maryland, and Virginia artists are working in a deeply engaged local art world that is at the red-hot center of the United States’ political landscape, and yet their voices are largely dismissed by the international art community and press. This was also the year of the presidential election and while the pandemic was still ongoing, working artists’ had a difficult time competing with mainstream news.
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