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Davila-Villa

& Stothart

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Estate / Legacy Planning & Stewardship

We develop detailed artistic estate plans designed to support legacy goals that are aligned with the artist’s vision.

  • Work in partnership with lawyers, executors and trustees to develop an estate                    plan that aligns with the artist’s wishes.
  • Craft strategic plans that identify short- and long-term goals based on expectations and in-line with financial capacity.
  • Develop a straegic road map for action and implementation: a tool design to guide and achieve key priorities, such as catalogue raisonné, archive placement, publication of collected writings, market growth, and/or art historical visibility.

Curatorial / Institutional Engagement


We nurture curatorial and institutional partnerships to ensure that artists and their work are firmly situated within wider art historical discourses.

  • Organize solo and group exhibitions at galleries and museums.
  • Generate and shepherd the production of monographs, scholarly publications,           and exhibition catalogues.
  • Expand artists and estates’ networks in impactful and sustainable ways.

Sales & Gifting














Management of Studios & Estates

We develop comprehensive acquisition strategies for public collections and private foundations / corporations.

  • Develop comprehensive acquisition proposals for institutional sales and gifts, including generating research-based original writing as support documentation.
  • Implement targeted outreach to national and international museums and public collections.
  • Generate a pricing structure (when one does not exist) to define and outline market growth and sustainability.
  • Generate installation and preservation guidelines that outline artistic intent, conceptual framework, installation instructions, and preservation recommendations.

We support artists and families to identify operational needs, areas of opportunity, and anticipated growth to build strong management foundations.

  • Conduct operations, staffing and procedure reviews and present recommendations.
  • Support staffing growth, recruitment, retention, and training support.
  • Develop recommendations to implement operational procedures.