AFELL is just one outfit that has emerged in the past decade to help artists and their descendants ensure a future for their art. And as under-recognized artists get more and more attention within galleries and museums, these entities are increasingly important, working behind the scenes to help mount projects that would otherwise have been impossible.

The organization makes experimental and mixed-media works accessible to art lovers, curators and historians, chronicling elements of the art world that have for too long gone unseen.