4 YEARS ~ SEE SUPPORT COLLECT INITIATIVE (2020-2023)
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.
Programming & Exhibitions Archive:
2023: Two exhibitions total - one IRL solo exhibition, Seed Scattering, featuring Nicole Salimbene at The Silva Gallery × 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.
In Conversation:
Throughout this initiative, Latela Curatorial has held space digitally to curate conversations and studio visits with artists for the public at large. Below is a list of Zoom Artist Talks from our archives, videos are available upon request.
2021
11/15: Hood Talk Moderated by Fabiola Rondon Delgado, Independent Curator and Experience Developer at the Anacostia Community Museum ~ featuring Ayo Figueroa, Ashley Tillery, Erin Douglas, Clare Elliott and Shae McCoy
11/8: Investigating Identity Moderated by Heather Hakimzadeh, Curator at the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) ~ featuring Jessica Wachter, Kelly Chuning, Michelle Hartney (Corpus Callosum) and Minna Philips
11/1: Staging Sculpture Moderated by Helen Criales, Art Consultant and Curator at Latela Curatorial ~ featuring Elisa Adams, Noel Kassewitz and Stephanie Mercedes
10/25: Setting Boundaries Moderated by Lisa Dorin, Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs and Curator of Contemporary Art at the Williams College Museum of Art ~ featuring Anne Hanger, Mariana Ramos Ortiz, Nava Gidanian-Kagan and Sobia Ahmad
10/18: Invocations Moderated by Leah Kuttruff, analyst for Christie's 20th and 21st Century Art department ~ featuring Nastassia E. Swift, Lee Nowell-Wilson and Kate Fitzpatrick
10/11: Cut a Figure Moderated by Hall Rockefeller, Art critic, Writer, Lecturer, and Founder/Director of Less than Half and Less than Half Salon ~ featuring Deborah Grayson, Christ Stringer and Rose Jaffe
2020
11/29: Urban Femininity in Context Moderated by Marta Staudinger, Director of Latela Curatorial ~ featuring Blythe King, Kristin Adair & (Noir) Selena Jackson
11/24: Defining Accuracy through Photography Moderated by Gary Ryan, Executive Director of the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art ~ featuring Eve White, Jean Weicher & Mehves Lelic
11/22: Surrendering to the Creative Process Moderated by Zoë Charlton, Fine Artist, Co-Director/Curator of 'sindikit and Associate Professor Department of Art at American University ~ featuring Annie Broderick & Marta Staudinger
11/19: The Psyche, Intuitive Practice & Cosmic Phenomena Moderated by Allison Nance, Arts Director at Culture House DC ~ featuring Janet Wittenberg, Marlowe Emerson, Nora Maccoby & Projected Reflections (Kathy A Williams)
11/17: Art Uplifts the Spirit Moderated by Mollie Berger Salah, Curatorial Assistant for prints and drawings at the National Gallery of Art ~ featuring Aliana Grace Bailey, Barbara Januszkiewicz, Christine Olmstead & Heather Lynn
11/15: The Importance of Art Collections Moderated by Rebecca Fasman, Curator at the Kinsey Institute ~ featuring Alexandra Arata, Jordann Wine, Katie Pumphrey & Susan Hostetler
11/12: Artists as Activists Moderated by Betsy Johnson, Assistant Curator, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden ~ featuring Noel Kassewitz, Phaan Howng, Rex Delafkaran, Rosa Ines Vera, Sobia Ahmad & Stephanie Mercedes
11/10: Art Against the System Moderated by Helen Criales, Curator & Art Consultant at Latela Curatorial ~ featuring Carina Tenaglia, Janet Tran & Kim Rice
11/5: Memorializing Moments: From Nature's Course to Man's Manipulation Moderated by Leslie Mounaime, Curator of Exhibitions at the Torpedo Factory Art Center & Director of Target Gallery ~ featuring Jenny Freestone, Julia Clouser, Helen Diana Criales & Mahsa R Fard
11/1: Breaking the Code Moderated by Caitlin Berry, Owner of Caitlin Berry Fine Arts ~ featuring Kay Fuller, Madison Bolls, Martina Sestakova & Miriam Awad Murray
10/29: Interpretive Spaces Moderated by Lesley Lundgren Director of Exhibitions at Strathmore ~ featuring Clare Winslow, Emon Surakitkoson, Kate Fitzpatrick & Nicole Ida Fossi
10/27: Fluidity of Light & Time Moderated by Lily Siegel Executive Director of Hamiltonian Artists ~ featuring Amber Eve Anderson, Elaine Jeffrey & Sue Wrbican
10/25: The Girlhood Gaze Moderated by Ginny Treanor, Associate Curator at National Museum of Women in the Arts ~ featuring ANDiLAND, Lex Marie & Sarah Renzi Sanders
10/22: Decoding Ancestries: Culture & Lineage Moderated by Nathalie von Veh, Independent Curator / Storyteller and
Regrants Manager at WPA ~ featuring Jackie Milad, Laila Abdul Hadi Jadallah, Lina Alattar & Nina Q. Allen
10/20: Memory as Nurturer Moderated by Vesela Sretenovic, Senior Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Phillips Collection ~ featuring CASIMIRA, Ceci Cole McInturff, Madeline A. Stratton & Melissa Preston Jessell
10/18: Transformation: Hyperrealism & Movement Across Media Moderated by Meghan Masius, Latela Curatorial Artist Advisor & Studio Manager for Adam Pendleton ~ featuring Alexandra N Sherman, Brie Hayden, Erin Pedati, Maryam Rassapour, Sarah Jamison
10/15: Inhabiting Flesh Moderated by Helen Criales, Latela Curatorial Art Consultant & Curator ~ featuring Amy Hughes Braden, Anna U Davis, Behnaz Babazadeh, Michelle Lisa Herman & Mina Jafari
10/13: Materiality Moderated by Marta Staudinger, Latela Curatorial Director ~ featuring Anne Hanger, Dany Green, P D Klein, Sara Dittrich & Sarah J. Hull
10/11: VIP Preview Sneak peek of the exhibition and four exclusive artist talks featuring: Aliana Grace Bailey, Anna U Davis, Jackie Milad & Sue Wrbican