VISUAL HISTORY COLLABORATIVE | akart

AKArt is an art advisory agency as well as an independent curatorial platform. We have unparalleled experience developing major art initiatives from the ground up, offering private + corporate curation, collection management + creative consulting on strategy, programming, exhibitions, strategic partnerships, brand development, marketing, public relations, events + sales. We work with art fairs, art galleries, artists, auction houses, collectors, corporations, curators, institutions, luxury brands, museums, organizations + publishing houses. AKArt is a resource for the global creative community.

VISUAL HISTORY COLLABORATIVE

Visual History Collaborative works with organizations, communities, families, and individuals to create custom art pieces and installations through stories and artifacts, memories, and mementos.

Using a participatory and inclusive process, VHC invites contributors and community members to build history together. Commissioned to commemorate a milestone, project, event, or as a unique and distinctive way to acknowledge donors for a special campaign, the finished pieces are woven together to illustrate a unique shared history. VHC's art weaves cultures and communities together; it reflects history and illustrates a story. It honors, acknowledges, challenges, and communicates.

Founders of the VHC, artists Leah Sobsey and Lynn Bregman Blass, have put a 21st century spin on the ancient medium of encaustic—blending reproduced photographs and other images within it to create an unprecedented way of remembering. Encaustic, through its translucency, shows how a captured moment can inform the present—and preserve memories for

the future.

Commissions include the Rose Community Foundation, Denver, Colorado; Habitat for Humanity Durham, North Carolina; the town of Chapel Hill & Carrboro, North Carolina; The Durham Art Guild 25th Anniversary Celebration, Durham, North Carolina; as well as numerous families, private collections, and corporations.

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LIVING LEGACY TAPESTRY

IMAGES OF HOME + HOPE

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OUR STORIES, IN FOCUS

TIME, LINEAGE, MEMORY

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