Latela Curatorial is thrilled to announce the second annual Women in the Arts exhibition and programming series, October 11-November 21. Launched digitally in Fall 2020 to uplift and center the work of 102 diverse women-identifying artists working in and around the nation’s capital, this year’s Women in the Arts will take place through multiple platforms including SIX exhibition satellite locations, a digital exhibition catalogue, and a full roster of events online and in-person.

A vibrant nexus for contemporary art, Women in the Arts is a curated 6-week program of intersectional placemaking, gap-filling, community-fostering exhibitions, receptions, artist-led programs, and dialogue.

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. 

Latela Curatorial dedicates its platform now and always to promoting balance in the art market and to shifting the narrative around cultural value in Washington. Latela Curatorial staunchly supports trans women and affirms that ALL women and femmes are welcome and safe as participants and collaborators in the Women in the Arts container.