Partnerships
The Erik Brunetti Foundation for the Arts collaborates with organizations whose expertise, collections, audiences, or infrastructure can advance preservation, research, publication, exhibition, education, and responsible public access.
Partnerships may be developed with museums, archives, libraries, universities, research centers, publishers, cultural foundations, artist-run organizations, conservation specialists, production studios, and digital platforms. These relationships extend the Foundation’s capacity to preserve primary-source materials, support original scholarship, circulate documented works, develop publications and exhibitions, and provide responsible access to artistic and cultural records.
Each partnership is defined according to the requirements of the project rather than through a single standardized model. Collaboration may involve a short-term research initiative, an institutional loan, a publication, an exhibition, a conservation assessment, a digitization project, an educational program, an edition, or a longer-term custodial arrangement. The roles, responsibilities, schedules, intended outcomes, documentation requirements, and conditions of access are established separately for each project.
Potential partners are considered in relation to their relevant expertise, institutional capacity, professional standards, public or scholarly purpose, and ability to care for and accurately interpret the materials involved. Where Foundation holdings are requested, proposed partners must demonstrate appropriate environmental, handling, security, insurance, transportation, and documentation procedures. Projects involving publication or digital dissemination must also address attribution, image rights, editorial responsibility, preservation, and the long-term accessibility of resulting records.
The Foundation gives priority to relationships that produce a durable contribution to research, preservation, education, or public understanding. Whenever appropriate, collaborative work should result in a documented record—such as a publication, catalogue entry, conservation report, exhibition file, oral history, repository deposit, or set of production materials—that remains useful beyond the immediate life of the project.
Areas of Collaboration
Partnerships may support:
Museum exhibitions and institutional loans
Archival research and collection access
Publications and editorial projects
Conservation, documentation, and digitization
Lectures, seminars, and educational programs
Artist interviews and oral histories
Editions and specialized production
Repository deposits and research dissemination
Curatorial and collections-based research
Digital presentation and responsible circulation
Projects are evaluated according to scholarly relevance, institutional capacity, public benefit, preservation requirements, and their contribution to the long-term cultural record. Any movement, reproduction, or display of Foundation holdings remains subject to the applicable Archive, Loans, and Reproductions policies.
Institutional Collaboration
Museum and research partnerships may involve loans, exhibitions, object study, cataloguing, conservation assessment, publication, provenance research, or the placement of selected materials within an appropriate scholarly context.
The Foundation welcomes proposals that identify a defined curatorial or research purpose, the materials or bodies of work involved, the anticipated audience, the proposed schedule, and the participating institution’s capacity to meet professional standards of care and documentation.
Publishing & Production
The Foundation works with qualified publishers, printers, editors, fabricators, photographers, and other specialists when their expertise contributes materially to a research, publication, exhibition, or edition project.
Production relationships are documented to preserve the contributions of participating specialists and the technical history of the resulting work. Where applicable, records may include proofs, specifications, correspondence, production photographs, approval materials, and final publication or edition information.
Digital Platforms
The Foundation uses selected digital platforms to extend access to documented works, exhibitions, editions, and collection information. Platform participation is managed separately from the Foundation’s scholarly catalogue, physical Archive, and Catalogue Raisonné.
Artsy
The Erik Brunetti Foundation for the Arts maintains an official presence on Artsy through which selected works and editions are presented. Artwork pages may provide current availability, acquisition information, exhibition history, images, and collector services.
The Artsy presentation is selective and does not constitute a complete inventory of Foundation holdings. Works retained for archival, research, or institutional purposes may appear as contextual records, when appropriate, without being offered for acquisition. Scholarly and provenance information remains subject to verification within the Foundation’s own collection and catalogue records.
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Partnership Inquiries
Proposals should include a description of the organization, the purpose and scope of the proposed collaboration, the relevant materials or program area, the intended outcomes, and a preliminary schedule.
General partnerships:
foundation@erikbrunettifoundation.org
Archive & institutional loans:
archive@erikbrunettifoundation.org
Research & publications:
research@erikbrunettifoundation.org