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On Being AN Atthowe Art Handler
Adam Lacanilao joined our technician team in May of 2025, and after over a year in the field, he's on track to becoming one of our co-op owners. In this piece, Adam talks about his work as an Art Handler at Atthowe and beyond. Find more of his writing on his blog, Prius With Flames, and read his article about his work with Atthowe below.
From AI to Installation: A CODAsummit Roundtable
At CODAsummit 2026, Senior Project Manager David Martin joined a roundtable of fabricators, engineers, and artists to talk about the potentials and constraints of AI in public art design.
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.
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IN THE NEWS
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