Our Process
Intake & Site Assessment: We’ll meet with your team to discuss timelines, deliverables, art direction, and regulations to determine the best approach to the project.
Research: CulturalDC will tap our network of partners and artists to determine who needs to be involved with the project, which artist will deliver the work, and if we foresee any challenges in the process.
Community Outreach: Our team will make sure that your project is something that the community you serve wants - we present to ANC’s, get DOT approvals, and work with DHCD.
Implementation & Installation: The part where we paint the wall, install the sculpture, publish an RFP, present a feasibility study, and put housing on the market!
Types of Projects
Feasibility Planning: We want to identify all the possible uses for your properties coming online. Is the neighborhood in need of a theatre or a gallery or studio space? Should you consider a retail or restaurant component?
Requests for Proposals: CulturalDC will facilitate the process to identify prospective cultural tenants for your new development.
Public/Private Art Installations: Our network of artists practice in a variety of disciplines. CulturalDC will identify the best artist for your installation, whether its a sculpture outside an apartment complex or mural inside a restaurant.
Artist Housing: If you would like to designate certain units for affordable artist housing/live-work studios, CulturalDC can help.
Artist Opportunities
Are you an artist or arts organization of any discipline? If you are looking for opportunities including space to exhibit work, real estate proposals, artist studios or housing, and commission opportunities, please submit your information to us below and we will reach out to you if we have an opportunity for your work. We collaborate with artists of all disciplines to make space for art!
Featured Clients
Case Studies
Browse our past and ongoing projects.
Our Team
Executive Director: Kristi Maiselman (she/her)
Kristi Maiselman is the Executive Director of CulturalDC. Since her appointment in October 2018, Maiselman has facilitated projects like Ivanka Vacuuming by Jennifer Rubell, Mighty, Mighty by Devan Shimoyama, and THIS IS NOT A DRILL by Jefferson Pinder. In addition to her curatorial work, Maiselman oversees CulturalDC’s artspace development work which creates partnerships between arts organizations and commercial real estate developers in order to ensure affordable artist housing, studio space, and public art opportunities. Maiselman has been featured in the Washington Business Journal, WUSA9 and the Washington City Paper for her arts leadership. Kristi joined the CulturalDC team in June 2015 as part of the development team. She brings nearly 20 years of experience in nonprofit and for-profit arts organizations including the Corcoran College of Art and Design, Rubell Family Collection, Conner Smith, Hamiltonian Artists and the National Gallery of Art. Maiselman received her BFA in Photography from James Madison University and her MA in Arts Management from American University.
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