Tour Guide: Hilary Pierce Hatfield
When: Friday April 5th, 1 & 3pm
Where: Meet at Registration Desk

Meet Your Tour Guide

Hilary Pierce Hatfield is a fine art professional with over 25 years of experience in the visual arts, in both the non-profit and private sectors. She is a graduate of Maryland Institute College of Art, first working for the Contemporary Museum in Baltimore, designing exhibitions and producing a film on the work of Alison Saar, which aired on Public Television.

Over her career, Ms. Hatfield has worked with numerous museums in facilitating exhibitions, loans, gifts and acquisitions; including the Musee de Vernon, in France, The Hunter Museum, The National Museum of Wildlife Art, The Canton Museum of Art, The New York Historical Society, The African American Museum in Philadelphia and The Museum of Kyoto in Japan. She is an advisor and curator for private and family foundation collections, and was an associate curator for the Petrucci Family Foundation Collection of African American Art, which was exhibited at the Portland Art Museum in 2017.

She has lectured on art collection stewardship for PNC Bank’s Hawthorn Family Wealth Advisors and will give a private lecture for major donors to Olana Partnership in 2019. In 2020, Ms. Hatfield is co-curating an exhibition of works by contemporary artist Freya Grand along with works by 20th century Latin American artists at The Museum of the Americas in Washington DC.

Ms. Hatfield is the Founder and President of Art Collector’s Athenaeum, a unique service that digitizes private art collections for estate planning and improved art collection management. Her company has catalogued, researched and digitally archived thousands of works of art to support and secure the legacy of serious collectors. www.artcollectorsathenaeum.com