The Studio

A small team. Close attention. Art that belongs.

The best collections are grown from a place, not applied to it. Echo Arts Advisory is a curatorial practice rooted in that idea — and in the operational craft of making art look inevitable.

Our Approach
01

Place

Before a single artist is named, we spend time with the building, the operator, and the landscape. What we learn there shapes everything that follows.

02

Material

We think about what the collection is made of before we think about who makes it. Wood, paper, pigment, stone, textile, light. Material decisions set the temperature of a room long before the subject matter does.

03

Artists

Once the place and the palette are clear, the right artists become obvious. We commission and collect from a working knowledge of contemporary practice, and from studios we've spent real time in.

04

Presentation

A collection isn't finished when the artwork is chosen. Framing, pairings, sight lines, installation, and lighting — these are the details that carry the program. We stay close through every one of them.

What we do

Curatorial strategy, commission management, acquisition & placement, and program direction — one team accountable from kickoff through opening.

Every program gets its own cast.

Three principals, one voice.

Sahra Beaupré
001 — Principal

Sahra Beaupré

Sahra is the curatorial anchor of the practice. A University of Virginia graduate in Fine Art and Psychology, she brings more than twenty years of thinking about how art holds a room — what belongs, what's asked too much of a space, what a place is quietly ready to receive. Every Echo project begins with her reading of it.

Based
Bozeman, MT
Prior
Gallery director, private collection advisory
Eli Ridgway
002 — Principal

Eli Ridgway

Eli works at the intersection of art, design, and technology. He's built galleries, represented artists, and developed the tools Echo uses to visualize, iterate, and present collections to clients. Where Sahra asks what a program should say, Eli asks how it actually gets made and seen.

Based
Lisbon, Portugal
Prior
Contemporary gallerist, SF / Bozeman
Greta Hagg
003 — Principal

Greta Hagg

Greta is the spine of the practice. She turns curatorial vision into a buildable program — artist agreements, fabrication schedules, shipping, installation, the thousand decisions between a collection on paper and a collection on the wall. Nothing ships without her hand on it.

Based
Bozeman, MT
Prior
Registrar, private collections
Selected clients

From operators to architects to owners — we work with people who build to last.

Operators
  • One&Only Resorts
  • Montage
  • The Albion
Developers
  • Lone Mountain Land Company
  • Reef Investments
Architects
  • Olson Kundig
  • Gensler
  • Page
Public
  • City of Bozeman
  • Sam Houston State University
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Tell us about your place.

We take on a small number of engagements each year. If yours feels like a fit, tell us about the site, the operator, and what you're hoping your art program will do.

Start a conversation → hello@echoartsadvisory.com