Adrienne Gaither: Stonewalling “I had been catching up with a lot of artists I know,” Ryan Dattilo says. “Because of the crisis, every show and every gallery has been closed or canceled, so they’re not selling works.
A lot of them also aren’t full-time artists, and those other jobs have all been put on pause, or they’ve been temporarily laid off.
So I knew it was impacting a lot of them in a tough way.” A Capitol Hill bankruptcy lawyer by day, Dattilo has become an increasingly active presence on the local art and gallery scenes in recent years, particularly through his role as a board member of the Washington Project for the Arts.
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