CURATED ART COLLECTION
Pierce at the Highlands
All artworks at the Pierce are by local women artists and sourced by Latela Curatorial, a full service art advisory studio based in Washington DC. LC’s art collections services include art acquisition, installation, lighting/framing, collections management, sales market reporting and more.
“Today, in the year 2021, 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.
Further, 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.
The Pierce’s distinctive decision to collect only artwork by women artists who are also local - living, creating and exhibiting in its vicinity - sets a precedent for what it really means to support the arts.”
- Marta Staudinger, Latela Curatorial Director
PIERCE ART COLLECTION INDEX
