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09/29/2026

Well, THIS was a pretty nice surprise. ❤️🎨

Autumn View took SECOND PLACE at the 82nd Annual Waterford Fair Juried Art Exhibition!

I’ve been making and showing art for a very long time, but I’m not going to pretend this stuff ever stops feeling good. It doesn’t. 😂

Especially with this painting.

Autumn View is one of those pieces that came from exactly the thing I’m always chasing—the moment when ordinary light hits something just right and suddenly you HAVE to stop and look.

Apparently somebody else stopped and looked, too. 😊

If you're looking for something to do this Saturday, come see Autumn View in person, along with the rest of the juried exhibition at the 82nd Annual Waterford Fair and Art At the Red Barn.

And come say hi if you see me wandering around pretending I’m not ridiculously pleased about that little SECOND PLACE ribbon. 😂

🎨 82nd Annual Waterford Fair
📍 Waterford, Virginia
🏆 Autumn View — Second Place

09/25/2026

When the National Cathedral says, “IDK We might have more art in the vault we can use…”

Oooooookkkkkkk!!!!! 😂

I was originally hired to print, frame and install 100 photographs throughout the newly renovated Virginia Mae Center at Washington National Cathedral.

But 100 pieces only went so far.

The original budget covered roughly one piece per guest room, but there were still public areas, conference rooms, family suites, the accessible suite and the Warden’s Suite—with multiple rooms and some BIG empty walls.

We needed more art.

We did not have more art budget.

But…

“We might have something in the vault.”

At this point, I cannot adequately express how quickly I volunteered to go investigate the National Cathedral’s vault. 😂

Turns out, they had a few things.

We pulled approximately 30 additional pieces from the Cathedral’s collection to frame and incorporate throughout the Virginia Mae Center.

Including these exquisite architectural elevations of the Cathedral’s painted ceilings.

THESE. WERE. IN. THE. VAULT.

Sometimes you don’t need to buy more art.

Sometimes you need someone willing to go digging through the vault.

🙋‍♀️

WELL HUNG.
As all good art should be.

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Art. Walls. Weird Stuff.

09/19/2026

AOTA STUDIO: I Make the Art, Too.

With all the installation, framing, restoration, gilding, fabrication and general art-related absurdity around here, sometimes one fairly important detail gets lost:

I'm an artist.

Actually, that's where all of this started.

I trained as an illustrator, with a minor in Art History, back when learning illustration meant learning to make the thing with your hands. Not all this digital stuff.

Paint. Ink. Gouache. Watercolor. Graphite. Pastel. Whatever the piece wanted to be.

Over the years I've made a little bit of everything—portraits and landscapes, still lifes and fantasy, things observed and things that came entirely out of my head.

Looking through older work recently, I realized something else: apparently I've never been particularly afraid of color.

Or black.

Or weird. (big surprise there right?) 😂

So after a week featuring 94 chunks of concrete and a silver-leaf ceiling, here's the other side of Affairs of the Art:

Sometimes I install the art.

Sometimes I restore the art.

Sometimes I frame the art.

And sometimes...

I make the art, too.

AOTA STUDIO | Affairs of the Art

full gallery here: https://artconciergedc.com/fine-art

09/17/2026

MIDAS TOUCH: Silver Edition ✨

Sometimes the job isn't to create something new.

Sometimes it's to make the new work look like it was always there.

The beautiful silver-leaf barrel-vaulted ceiling in the first part of this video was created by another artist. My assignment was the smaller ceiling beyond it: match the existing finish.
Simple enough, right?

Except it was a tight space. Overhead. HOT AF. And matching another artist's hand is an entirely different challenge from creating your own finish from scratch.

I did it.

Then I ruined it. Don't ask.

So I did it again.

And then...I did it again.

Three tries. One unfortunate encounter with gravity and a ladder. A whole lot of learning about silver leaf.

But it's done.

And it matches.

There is something wonderfully humbling about taking on a technique you haven't mastered yet. Sometimes craftsmanship isn't knowing exactly how to do everything the first time. It's knowing what the finished work needs to look like, recognizing when you're not there yet, and being willing to redo the damn thing until you are.

Midas Touch, indeed.
Art Concierge DC | Affairs of the Art

Apparently we do ceilings, too.

09/15/2026

BEAST OF THE DAY: 94 Chunks of Concrete

Congratulations to the Urban Land Institute on the reopening of its beautifully reimagined global headquarters in Washington, DC.

I had the pleasure of installing this remarkable 94-piece concrete wall sculpture by artist Eliza Redmann in collaboration with ArtLifting, as part of ULI’s newly renovated headquarters.

This one was a puzzle—in the best possible way. Ninety-four individual concrete elements, multiple walls and corners, changing sightlines, and a very specific design to translate from concept to the finished space.

Then there was the wall...

The custom Venetian-style plaster was porous, easily marred, and extremely unforgiving—not exactly ideal when your job requires drilling dozens and dozens of holes into it. During the installation, no fewer than five people stopped by to remind us, in one form or another:

DON’T mess up the black wall...

Believe me. We got the message. 😂

At one point it was even suggested that we hold a shop vac in one hand and drill with the other to catch every speck of dust.
And that nice wide “bench” wrapping around the installation? Yeah. Not a bench. Not weight-bearing. Definitely not something we could stand, sit or even Kneel on.

So: ladders, white gloves, concrete dust, reaching over the unstandable-on “bench,” and a porous black wall nobody wanted us to touch whilst installing said 94 chunks of concrete.

Ninety-four pieces later: black wall still black.

This is the part of professional art installation you don't necessarily see in the finished photograph. The finished result should look effortless. Getting it there sometimes requires planning, precision, specialized problem-solving—and a fair amount of physical absurdity.

Some call this impossible. I call it Tuesday.

I’m grateful to ArtLifting for bringing me in to execute the installation and proud to have contributed to this extraordinary new space.

ULI has shared a wonderful look inside the completed headquarters here:

https://urbanland.uli.org/inside-ulis-new-global-headquarters?utm_source=Social&utm_medium=linkedin&utm_term=urban%20land%20institute&utm_content=29038dac-6eff-49a6-85ce-f6dad8bfcdef&utm_campaign=Urban%20Land%20Social

Art Concierge DC | Affairs of the Art
We hang the easy stuff, too.

09/09/2026

I have 3 days of my timeshare week leftover because I split up my week last year. They have to be used before December 18th. It's in Kissimmee FL and I'm selling for $250 for the 3 days. These CAN be used at thanksgiving. DM me if you're interested.

09/07/2026

09/05/2026

WELL HUNG.
As all good art should be. 🎸

Art doesn’t always come in a frame.

A collection of guitars, albums, memorabilia—and one seriously good-looking music room.

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We hang the usual. And the decidedly not-so-usual.

09/03/2026

Seventy pounds. Stone fireplace. And not two stories up- but it's up there. Sure. We can hang that. 😉

Some installations are less about finding the perfect spot and more about figuring out exactly how to safely get the piece there.

This oversized framed artwork weighed approximately 70 pounds and was destined for the focal point of this soaring stone fireplace. The challenge wasn't only the weight—it was engineering a secure installation into an irregular masonry surface, while getting the placement just right within the architecture of the room.

And what a difference.

The circular composition breaks up the strong vertical lines of the stone, while the slim black frame ties beautifully into the fireplace, mirrors and lighting. What had been a very large expanse of stone suddenly feels intentional and finished.
Hanging art is an art in and of itself.

From one treasured piece to an entire collection—and especially the things you're not quite sure how anyone is going to hang—that's where Art Concierge DC comes in.