Jody Egolf Fine Art Logistics & Collections Management is a comprehensive resource within the sphere of fine art administration, logistics, collections care, and inventory management. Offering the services of an independent registrar JE will liaise with industry vendors and providers on clients’ behalf.
More than just shipping, Jody Egolf Fine Art Logistics & Collections Management will connect all the moving parts and people! From conservation to crating, from inventory database to international art fairs, JE will bring twenty years of industry knowledge and a global network of colleagues and contacts to your project.
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Facilitation.
Jody Egolf Fine Art Logistics & Collections Management may be hired to facilitate your project.
- Logistics: Facilitating all parts of a shipment, including continual communication with the advisor or client, to bring the project to its completion – the artwork’s ultimate destination and installation.
- Collections Management: For inventory management and collections care, JE may be hired to complete a project with set parameters or for a fixed term. For uninterrupted access, the Subscription Membership is a unique service designed for private collections requiring ongoing assistance.
- Registration & Administration: For specific inventory projects, art fairs, or exhibitions, JE should be considered a resource for registrarial staff. Services may be engaged to augment your current team and get you through a robust fair and auction season – or as an interim registrar during staff changes.
Consultation.
Jody Egolf Fine Art Logistics & Collections Management may be hired to consult on your project, procedures, or department.
- Logistics: JE will select appropriate vendors for your unique job, make the initial introductions, and then step back to let you carry the project forward.
- Collections Management: JE will advise which database platform best suits your needs, assist with the estimate process, and then encourage you to implement the software and populate the system.
- Registration & Administration: A core principle of JE is to support the community of people who propel the art world. JE may be brought on to train entry-level registrars. Functioning as a consultation service, JE will evaluate and advise on the gallery or museum current logistical, registrarial, and administrative systems and procedures.
Let’s Work Together!
| Art Advisor: Extend the services provided to your clients. The addition of this bespoke logistical and collections care tool will insure that your clients and their growing collections are ushered seamlessly from the initial viewing to final delivery and installation. |
| Art Collector & Private Collection: Professional, Best Practices, approach to the organization and care of your private art collection. |
| Artist Estate: Protection and promotion of an artist’s legacy is a monumental and invaluable mission. With a thoughtful, personalized approach, JE will advise regarding Best Practices in transport, inventory database software, archival methods, and environmental standards. |
| Art Dealer & Gallerist: If your space is more viewing room than gallery-with-support-staff, bring on JE to fulfill your logistical and registrarial needs for a specific project, set duration of time, or as a subscription membership. JE may be engaged as a consultant, to review existing registrarial procedures, inventory database, logistical systems, and even storage footprint. Evaluation of prior working practices and implementation of suggested improvements will yield an efficient and cost-reducing result. *JE has a proven track record of reducing storage footprint, thus lowering storage costs. |
| Registrar & Registrarial Department: Project-based collaboration to support current registrarial staff. Assistance implementing and streamlining operations, procedure, and organization. |
| Museum & Institution: JE may be brought on for a period to serve as interim or supplemental staff, for the duration of a departmental shift. Thus mitigating interruption brought about by a staff member’s departure. |
| Working Artist: You should be painting, or sculpting, or filming! Your time should be spent producing new work, not entering media and dimensions into a spreadsheet. Simultaneously, it is vital that you are organized and protected when negotiating with gallery representation. JE will help you design an inventory management system. |
I am curating a specialized network of shared connections and new introductions.
~ Talent meets need.
My goal is to connect clients (collectors, advisors, gallerists) with the vendor (customs and shipping agent, art handler, conservator) who best fits their project.
~ Strength meets need.