Arts consulting services to public, private and corporate collectors

OLANA GROUP offers a wide array of arts opportunities to help established collectors or new ones find the work or installation needed to compliment a corporate, retail or private setting. Drawing upon an outstanding group of established nationally recognized artists, site specific commissions and placement of work is completed in a professional manner with the highest level of quality.

• collection development, installation and lighting
• collection inventory and cataloguing
• appraisals and conservation referrals
• estate de-accessioning, shipment, storage

Curatorial services to museums and foundations

2005-2007
Western Interiors Home and Design Show
Santa Fe, New Mexico and San Francisco, California

2005
“Rene Magritte: A Surrealist’s Eye”: San Antonio Museum of Art

2007
“Doug Fogelson/Recent Work”: FOTOseptiembre Exposition, International Center, San Antonio, Texas

2007-Present
Curator, Catalogue and project coordinator
“Winds and Words of War: Posters and Prints from the San Antonio Public Library Collection/Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts

2008
Linda Cross: Recent Work
Catalogue design and coordination/Grant from New York Foundation for the Arts

2009
Curatorial Services
George Sugarman Foundation, Novato, California

2010
University Health System,
Downtown Campus, San Antonio
Art Program Manager

Marketing original designs for commercial production through OLANA DESIGN

Contemporary design in the new century is an artistic energy all its own. The OLANA GROUP assembles a remarkable group of artists and artisans capable of formulating the vision of the client, architect or designer by providing a finished applied arts element or piece to complete the design project. Undulating wooden ceilings, hand-carved wooden screens, metal columns and wooden totems, colorful tiled floors and fountains are among some of completed projects. The integrity of each work reflects the importance and value of an artistically enhanced environment.

• placement of chosen or created site–specific individual works of art
• decorative elements such as glass and tile
• unique rug, metal, tile, wall paper and fabric designs
• custom hand-made screens, room dividers, columns and ceilings