Independent specialists who implement WrkLst.
The specialists
T8 Partners
New York
For more than fifteen years, T8 Partners has advised private collectors, families, entrepreneurs, cultural leaders, and corporate clients on the development and stewardship of highly individual art collections. Its work spans every dimension of collecting—from acquisition strategy, market research, valuation, due diligence, and negotiation to long-term collection planning, curatorial development, and professional collection management. T8 Partners has also overseen the digitization and archival documentation of more than 200,000 works, helping clients build accurate, accessible, and enduring records of their collections. WrkLst supports this work operationally, allowing T8 Partners to bring structure and accessibility to collections. For T8 Partners, collection management is not separate from collecting—it is fundamental to how a collection is protected, understood, and strengthened over time.
- Private collections
- Corporate collections
- Digital archiving
- Inventory management
Your contact
Anna Valverde
Founder, art adviser and curator
With WrkLst since 2017
Davila-Villa & Stothart
New York
Davila-Villa & Stothart (dvs) works in partnership with artists and artist estates to build, strengthen, and sustain their careers and legacies. Founded in 2020 by Ursula Davila-Villa and Anna Stothart, dvs focuses on the core pillars of an artist’s long-term impact: scholarly recognition, institutional visibility, and a strong, sustainable presence in the commercial market. Its work positions artists for immediate opportunities while building enduring critical and historical relevance. Its approach is highly collaborative and tailored, working closely with artists and their families to define clear goals and develop strategic plans aligned with each artist’s vision and values. As a rigorous advocate for artists, dvs remains attentive to the integrity of the work and the legacy it creates.
- Artist estates
- Artist studios
- Legacy planning
- Market
- Museum engagement
- Donations
- Archives & inventory
Your contact
Ursula Davila-Villa
Co-founder
With WrkLst since 2018
SUBSTRAT
Berlin
SUBSTRAT is a Berlin-based artist management and communications agency supporting artists in the daily logistics of their practice, in close dialogue with galleries, institutions and project partners. Alongside content, exhibition and funding work, it consults on strategies for digital and physical archiving and manages inventories — artworks, contracts, loans, provenance, condition and conservation reports.
- Artist studios
- Archiving strategy
- Inventory management
- Communications
Your contact
Alexia Timmermans
Founder, curator and artist manager
With WrkLst since 2023
Are you an inventory specialist?
Do you have experience with WrkLst, or would you like to gain it? A listing here requires having implemented WrkLst in depth with at least one client, working with us along the way — so we get to know each other and you get to know the software. If you would like to be listed afterwards, write to us; we train specialists and support them through migrations.
What a specialist does
They start from where your archive stands: they assess the records and the workflow, advise on sound archival practice and draw up a plan of action — what comes first, who does the work, how WrkLst is set up for your studio, estate, gallery or collection. Where the work needs people, they help find and train qualified staff.
We do the migration, following the plan made with the specialist: catalogues raisonnés, spreadsheets, older databases and folders of images come over to WrkLst, reviewed record by record before anything goes live. We train your team on the software; often the specialist gives the first training and stays on for the questions about your collection.
Some go further. Davila-Villa & Stothart plan an artist’s legacy together with the artist and their family — with lawyers, executors and trustees on the estate — and prepare sales and donations to museums; T8 Partners guides private collections into private foundations. What each firm does is described above, in its own words.