About Us
PARTNERS is a niche visual and performing arts agency based in San Francisco. We facilitate collaborations between artists and galleries, collectors, consultants and curators. Services include career coaching, curation, public relations and innovative fine art consulting for non-profit and for-profit clients.
Lisa Coscino, Founder
Coscino's belief that art can change the world by inspiring action, telling tough truths and creating coalitions has led her to working on social justice projects along side musicians such as Brandon Boyd of Incubus and with diverse partners such as collector Cheech Marin, the Grammy Museum, The Woody Guthrie Center, the Monterey Bay Aquarium, NASA, the Smithsonian, and Blue Ocean Film Festival. Through her curatorial efforts, she has championed broad topics such as single use plastics in the ocean, marine mammal conservation, historic preservation, Latinx arts, youth arts, and Queer Ecologies….
Clients / Projects
Artists
Bernard Trainor
Bernard Trainor was raised on the Mornington Peninsula near the city of Melbourne. It was here that he developed a lasting awareness and appreciation of the potent landscapes that inspired him to pursue a career in art and design. Bernard is the founding principal of Ground Studio…
Patricia Prescott
Patricia Prescott grew up drawing and painting, surrounded by a family lineage overflowing with artists and creative people. She graduated with honors from Art Center College of Design in 1985. After years of a busy and fulfilling career as a graphic designer, Prescott still itched to create art from her heart and returned to oil painting in 2000…
Curatorial
New Museum Los Gatos | curatorial team lead, 2019-2021
New Museum Los Gatos (NUMU), founded in 1965, is a public non-profit art and history museum located in the Civic Center Plaza in downtown Los Gatos. NUMU's mission is to engage community at the intersection of art, history and education through innovative, locally connected and globally relevant exhibitions, programs and experiences…
Violins of Hope | Lead curator, 2019-2020
An exhibition featuring the Violins of Hope will be open (and free) to the public at the War Memorial Veteran’s Gallery in San Francisco. These remarkable instruments will be on view from mid-January to mid-March, along with stories of their difficult history, and the long journey toward their restoration. The exhibition is sponsored by the American Legion War Memorial Commission. The Violins of Hope exhibition will showcase…
Boys and Girls Club, San Francisco | Creative Director 2018-2021
Curating all aspects of creative experience design (theme, concept and messaging) for the Boys and Girls Clubs Annual Gala, ensuring delivery of design at the quality level of the highly recognized and successful BGCSF brand. Gala 2018 raised $2.55 million…
Post Ranch Inn, Big Sur California, 2018
Post Ranch has been committed to featuring original art on property and supporting the artistic community both in Big Sur and around the world. Post Ranch Inn has three venues to exhibit contemporary art on site: The Post Gallery, The Mercantile and Gallery and Sierra Mar..
Management
Violins of Hope | Strategic Partner Manager, 2019-2020
The Violins are a collection of string instruments played by European Jews before, during and after the Holocaust. A coalition of nearly 30 Bay Area organizations will partner with producer, Music at Kohl Mansion, in presenting an extensive array of public programs featuring the Violins in six Bay Area counties..
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