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At the end of 2025, Latela Curatorial will discontinue hosting regular exhibitions & programming in order to focus primarily on art sourcing for clients, as our projects expand globally, and exhibition partnerships with larger institutions. As we look back over the past 10 years, we are proud of our diligent work + impact, as LC has played a vital role as an on-the-ground incubator in the Washington DC art scene. Here are 5 reasons to keep supporting our work:

  1. LC sells artwork at full retail value, rather than heavily discounted at auctions or museum donations, which increases pay for artists.

  2. By the end of 2025, LC will have curated 70 exhibitions (closer to 100 exhibitions total if counting the rotating installations LC hosted via a 3-year partnership with Industrious across their 6 locations in the Washington DC area) and hosted 180+ events in 10 years. This public-facing programming labor is an addition to client work. Operating under a for-profit structure, LC has never received grant funds for projects, general, or any other operational support. Yet LC’s impact is comparable to that of other local non-profits who receive multiple operating + project grants annually. Additionally, when LC began, about two-thirds of the commercial galleries in Washington DC either charged artists membership fees or prioritized event revenue over artist programming. Very few commercial galleries survived solely prioritizing their artist programming without charging artists. Whereas all of the above business models boast staff bodies of 3-8 full-time humans, Latela Curatorial has mainly existed as a one-woman endeavor. LC set out to carve a new business model in the artworld: to exist as both a commercial gallery rotating exhibitions, sometimes in non-traditional spaces on the cusp of what is now considered “placemaking” and a consultancy firm by working directly with clients. Through this hybrid model, we have had the pleasure of working with 1,000+ artists (the majority being local to the Washington DC area), which has allowed us to fill a gap as a strong business incubator for emerging, represented, and non-represented artists alike.

  3. At The Silva Gallery, artists were paid a stipend to produce a solo exhibition.

  4. A portion of proceeds from LC's commercial projects goes back into seeding scholarships to our businesses incubator courses for artists. Since the pandemic, over 30 artists have received either partial or full scholarships to this program.

  5. We practice our mission by collecting art because we deeply believe in and have a sheer love of collecting and supporting living artists.

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