Artist Studio Management for Visual Artists
Studio management and professional-practice support for late-stage emerging and mid-career visual artists.
A growing art practice creates more than work. It creates deadlines, files, inventories, applications, exhibition logistics, professional relationships, sales records, correspondence, contracts, commissions, and an accumulating history that needs care.
My name is Mallory Shotwell, and I am a studio manager for visual artists. I support artists nationally and provide strategic, administrative, and project-based support for artists. My mission is to help artists protect time for the studio while building the infrastructure needed to move confidently through exhibitions, grants, commissions, gallery relationships, institutional opportunities, and long-term career growth.
Support Around the Work
Making artwork is only one part of maintaining a serious contemporary art practice. As opportunities expand, so do the systems required to support them: image archives, inventory records, timelines, proposals, applications, studio communications, shipping, invoices, contacts, exhibitions, and ongoing documentation.
Studio management creates structure around those responsibilities. I work alongside artists to clarify priorities, coordinate moving parts, maintain professional materials, and develop systems that make the practice more legible, durable, and manageable over time.
My work is collaborative and artist-led. You retain authorship, decision-making authority, and control of your creative practice and professional relationships. I provide the operational support, institutional knowledge, and sustained attention needed to help the work move forward.
Who I Work With
I work with a small number of late-stage emerging and mid-career visual artists nationwide. My clients are often artists who are experiencing one or more of the following:
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A growing number of exhibitions, applications, commissions, or professional requests
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A backlog of images, inventory records, CV updates, correspondence, or documentation
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Difficulty keeping materials current while maintaining an active studio practice
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Major projects that require coordination across galleries, institutions, fabricators, funders, or collaborators
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A desire for more strategic systems around opportunities, deadlines, and professional relationships
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A practice that has become too complex to manage alone, but does not require or seek traditional gallery representation or a full agency structure
You may be preparing for a significant exhibition, applying for a public-art commission, updating a long-neglected archive, building a stronger grant strategy, navigating a career transition, or trying to establish sustainable systems before the next period of growth. We begin with the actual condition of your practice and build from there.
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