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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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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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Negotiating Production and Labor with David Correa
Negotiating Production and Labor with David Correa

Embodying rebellion through non-functionality, what happens when we reject our assigned roles? Follow the making of The Life and Death of Bluegill Prime and learn more about the practice of commissioned artist David Correa in this short video portrait, made with care by Juan Luis Matos.

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Searching for Collective Memory
Searching for Collective Memory

What narratives are shaping our historical record? Whose experiences, perspectives, and voices influence our cultural consciousness? On May 21, Commissioner, in community with Pioneer Winter Collective and Maven Leadership Collective, presented Searching for Collective Memory—an embodied program inspired by Sir Issac Julien's two-channel installation, Vagabondia (2000), during Third Thursdays at The Bass Museum of Art.

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