Marta Staudinger is the director of Latela Curatorial, a full service art advisory studio based in Washington DC that specializes in weaving together conceptual art projects and curatorial services for art collections. Through intuitive arts leadership, LC's core mission is to continuously question how support is defined in the artworld and advocate on behalf of the artist and arts workers. LC's attitude is to nurture with a matriarchal approach: creating generative (rather than solely transactional) opportunities for artists, collectors and communities alike.Latela Curatorial’s holistic and sustainable approach includes organic placemaking, large-scale art procurement, exhibition curation, collections management and community workshops. LC is particularly passionate about raising the bar for support of the arts ecosystem in the nation’s capital. LC excels in working with art collectors as well as designers/architects/developers in an ever-gentrifying area and underrepresented art market to augment the area’s artistic currents and talents.In addition, Marta also helms two special projects: GLB Memorial Fund for the Arts, which collects artwork and provides project seed grants to women artists, and the See Support Collect Initiative, an intersectional placemaking and gap-filling initiative that focuses on collectorship of art by women and non-binary artists. Marta has worked in various art museum and gallery capacities - large and small, public and private - over the last 15 years, in multiple countries. She is fluent in Spanish and Italian, and has working knowledge of several other languages.Marta is a frequent speaker on a wide range of topics of interest to the Washington DC arts and creative entrepreneur networks. She also lectures for Smithsonian Institution several times a year in Italy, Spain, and Portugal as an Art Historian.