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Collect Art, in Community

A collaborative approach to supporting artists.

 
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Commissioner is a community that brings together locals and some of the most gifted contemporary artists in our cities.

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Artists reimagine our cities. We create more ways to support them.

The art world needs a collaborative approach to collecting art. Through membership, we commission artists, visit artist studios and collector homes, and connect with each other to build a more accessible, artist-invested community. 

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Supporting Artists in Community

Your membership helps us commission four artists at pivotal stages in their careers per year. Every quarter we announce the artist commissioned to create new original and limited-edition artwork special for our Collector members.

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Collective memory should be written in future tense.
Collective memory should be written in future tense.

Commissioner with Pioneer Winter Collective and Maven Leadership Collective is changing the way communities shape collective memory by examining what is at stake and who gets a say in determining what we value most. 

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Manchèt as Metaphor with Stephen Arboite
Manchèt as Metaphor with Stephen Arboite

For Haitian-American artist Stephen Arboite, the machèt carries an energetic charge as a tool used to cultivate the land, and as a weapon of resistance during the Haitian Revolution. Relieve our Season Eight reveal finale with the commissioned artist.

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Community-Led Model To Expand Nationally with $1M Investment from Knight Foundation
Community-Led Model To Expand Nationally with $1M Investment from Knight Foundation

Founded on models of mutual care and collective support, we’re thrilled to introduce new programs that bring people together to support artists and collect art in Miami, Detroit, Philadelphia, and Charlotte, North Carolina. 

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Enter the Portal with Stephen Arboite
Enter the Portal with Stephen Arboite

In a season of world-building as transformation—engaging artists for whom shape-shifting, alchemy, and materiality are core to their process—it’s only fitting that Stephen Arboite is the finale artist. Learn more in this brief video portrait, captured in his Little Haiti studio by Alexa Caravia.

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