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The articles below cover our work, including museum and public art installations, monumental rigging, and life inside a Bay Area worker-owned fine art services cooperative.
For press coverage of our work visit Atthowe in the news.
We Are Hiring a DISPATCHER
Atthowe is currently hiring a Dispatcher to support our Logistics team.
INSTALLING LIU JIANHUA AT THE ASIAN ART MUSEUM
Go behind the scenes with Atthowe’s art technicians installing Collected Letters, Liu Jianhua's 1,600-piece porcelain installation, now on view at the Asian Art Museum.
We Are Hiring
Atthowe is currently hiring a Controller to support our Finance team.
MEET OUR FACILITES + WAREHOUSE MANAGER
Meet Taz Johnson, one of the key people powering Atthowe’s facilities and warehouse operations—and a worker-owner to boot. Taz helps safeguard our clients’ collections while playing a primary role in shaping our co-op’s sustainability and safety efforts.
Moving the Unmovable: Insights from Diego Rivera’s Pan American Unity
Go behind the scenes of transporting Diego Rivera’s Pan American Unity and discover how vibration-mitigation engineering and human-in-the-loop logistics made the impossible possible. This case study from the National Autonomous University of Mexico shares a practical, replicable model for safely transporting even the most fragile large-scale artworks.
Fall Conference Season
This season Atthowe staff joined industry colleagues at the WMA, ARCS, and ICEFAT annual conferences to share ideas, strengthen partnerships, and bring fresh perspectives back to our cooperative.
On Governance
At WMA, our team facilitated a panel with key museum leaders exploring how co-op governance models might offer museums fresh strategies to increase stakeholder participation and accountability.
ArtNews Celebrates Top Art Professionals
ArtNews listed the top 75 art professionals, including Atthowe as a top all-in-one logistics company.
INSTALLING ‘WHALES’ AT CCSF
In 2025 Atthowe installed the 32,000 pound Whales sculpture at the CCSF’s Ocean Campus.
Atthowe’s Fine Art Riggers
We're honoring the retirement of longtime Head Rigger Esteban Granados and celebrating the next chapter of rigging leadership under Benaiah Seilen.
this crate plants trees
Every Atthowe crate now plants trees. We’re pledging to reforest what we use, thanks to our Greening Committee and the Arbor Day Foundation.
OLMEC HEAD at CCSF
Our team recently supported the relocation of El Rey, the 12,000-pound replica Olmec head at CCSF. Read about our collaborative effort to move and stabilize this iconic public artwork.
Atthowe Expansion
Our new 3,200 sq ft of covered workspace + storage gives us more flexibility for sculpture prep and project staging.
Hiring + Employee Retention in Co-ops
Our CEO Bryan Cain joined Project Equity and 8 Bridges Talent for a conversation on how worker ownership helps build strong, committed teams. Watch the recording to learn more.
A Cooperative Vision
After 50 years, Scott Atthowe retired and sold his company to it's employees. Now Atthowe Fine Art Services carries his vision into the future. Watch Project Equity’s short documentary about this transition.
HYBYCOZO's 'Aurum'
Recently Atthowe collaborated closely with SFAC on the installation of Aurum, a largescale geometric light sculpture by artist duo HYBYCOZO.
Scott Atthowe (1944 - 2024)
It is with great sadness that we announce the passing on October 31st of Scott Atthowe, our founder. He was an early pioneer of specialized art-handling and shipping, founding Atthowe Fine Art Services in the 1970s. He built a small trucking company into an internationally acclaimed full-service business renowned for excellence. Before retirement, he realized his dream to sell his company to its employees, leaving his employees a thriving business organized as a California Worker-Owned Cooperative.
HIROSHI SUGIMOTO’S "POINT OF INFINITY"
Standing at 69 feet, the artwork graces Infinity Point Park on Yerba Buena Island and serves as both a sculpture and a sundial.
HEAVYWEIGHT ART HANDLING BY ATTHOWE
To handle the massive Serra steel sculpture, our team employed a 395-ton crane, a Goldhofer hydraulic crawler, and a 9-axle trailer.
MOVING DIEGO RIVERA’S "PAN AMERICAN UNITY" MURAL - AGAIN!
In 2024 Atthowe returned Rivera's 60,000-pound mural from SFMOMA to San Francisco's City College.
ATTHOWE
IN THE NEWS
Interested to see what the press have said about our work? Check out featured press coverage collated below.
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