Patrick Ela

Patrick H. Ela-ASA-Fine Arts Patrick H. Ela is an Accredited Senior Appraiser of the American Society of Appraisers, tested and accredited in Fine Arts. He provides appraisal services for individual, corporate and institutional clients including Fair Market Value, Market Value, and Replacement Value appraisals for estate taxes, non-cash charitable contributions, and insurance coverage purposes among other intended uses. Ela is admitted to the Superior Court of Los Angeles as an expert witness. Selected clients include Ricardo Favela and The Royal Chicano Air Force, The Latino Museum of Los Angeles, The Sam and Alfreda Maloof Foundation, the Los Angeles Unified School District, AltaMed Health Services, Self Help Graphics & Art, the Estates of Richard Pryor, Ray Bradbury, Lee Chesney, and many private individuals. Within the American Society of Appraisers, Ela served as Chair, Past Chair, Vice Chair, and Treasurer of the Personal Property Committee (PPC). The PPC governs approximately more than 500 appraisers in Fine Arts, Decorative Arts and Antiques, Residential Contents, Automotive, and a variety of other specialties. . In other ASA activities, he served as moderator of a panel on Chicano Art at the International Conference of the American Society of Appraisers held in Los Angeles and has written articles on Chicano Art for the PP Magazine. He was appointed to serve as PPC representative on ASA's legislative committee and was actively involved in securing ASA's endorsement of the Artist Museum Partnership Act still pending before the US Congress. He has presented programs for Personal Property-specific as well as international conferences. From 2018-19 Ela served on ASA's International Elections Committee; from 2019-2021 he served as Chairman of ASA's International Marketing Committee; in the spring of 2022, he was elected by the personal property members of ASA to serve a four-year term as a Personal Property member of the ASA's Board of Governors. Education Ela holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Studio Art and Art History from Occidental College, Los Angeles (double major), a Master's Degree in Business Administration (MBA) from the Anderson School of Management, UCLA with a specialization in Arts Management; and the Certificates of Appraisal Studies and Connoisseurship from UC Irvine, Extension. He has also studied Art History at the graduate level at UCLA and attended four National IRS Symposia on Valuation Issues sponsored by the Los Angeles Chapter of the American Society of Appraisers in which he is an active member. Related Work Experience Ela was the Director of the Craft and Folk Art Museum of Los Angles from 1975-1996 where he oversaw or helped organize more than 130 exhibitions, publish more than thirty exhibition catalogs, and facilitated the expansion and growth of the Museum's library of books, periodicals, and ephemera. At the request of the Board of Trustees and the Cultural Affairs Department of the City of Los Angeles, El...