About
Our Company
Fidelity Arts has been a Los Angeles County business for over 25 years and is proud to be a Minority and Woman owned small business in California. We are a boutique art consulting firm specializing in large hospitality projects. Our company is service-oriented to ensure that the clients receive exactly what the space requires by combining their interior design with carefully curated artwork. We procure and commission art to complement hospitality concepts and create a look and story that reflects the client's vision and company branding.
Working closely with design professionals, we oversee projects from the initial blueprints to the final installation. Our services include managing budgets, art selection, ordering, framing, shipping, and handling all logistical needs with meticulous attention to detail and quality. Fidelity Arts has worked with every architectural/art medium and will take your vision and transform it into a cohesive art collection while working within your budget. We will fulfill your art needs with impeccable personal service, and are equipped to handle large scale custom artwork commissions for both public and private spaces.
Valentina Cannito
Vice President
Valentina was born and raised in Northern Italy where she obtained a Master’s Degree in Architecture at the University of Genova. After graduating from university, she spent three years in London where she worked as an architect and interior designer for a boutique architectural firm, dealing with high-end hospitality and residential projects for both private and public clients. She delivered detailed specifications for multiple project areas and created exterior and interior 3D visualizations for commercial, residential and community buildings. Valentina was also in charge of business development and dealing with the company’s publicity, web presence publications, and awards application. In 2011, Valentina was lucky enough to win the Green Card Lottery, and in 2012 moved to Los Angeles, where she began her collaboration with Fidelity Arts and Amy Lucena. Valentina and Amy were thrilled to celebrate her US Citizenship during a touching Ceremony in 2018. For over twelve years she has been working with Fidelity Arts to meet the creative, administrative and technical requirements related to the new build projects of Princess Cruises Royal, Medallion and Sphere Class ships, from Royal Princess to the newest addition Sun Princess. As Vice President, she follows and manages the process from initial concepts to delivery and installation of the artwork on board, and works closely with Amy Lucena, President of Fidelity Arts, during all art selection stages. She produces presentations, designs, technical and installation drawings for art commission in accordance with the client’s direction. She also develops and manages budgets, schedules, and logistics to ensure that all phases of the project are successfully achieved in a timely manner. Her Italian origins and bilingualism are a big advantage when liaising with Italian vendors and contractors before and during the on-site shipyard installation in Italy. Valentina thrives on the construction site and it’s also where her problem-solving capabilities, detail-oriented eye and technical skills really shine. Valentina enjoys her life with her husband Ben, daughter Emilia, and dog Gaia.
Amy C. Lucena
President
During her more than twenty-year art consulting career, Amy Lucena has worked with hundreds of artists to provide her clients with both beautiful spaces and a transformed visual corporate image. At Fidelity Arts, she has worked with virtually all art media to take the clients from blueprints to security installation with extraordinary personal service. Amy Lucena was born and raised in New York and moved to Los Angeles to attend the University of California at Los Angeles. While at UCLA, she completed her BA in History/Art History with a minor in Business Administration. During university she was a student athlete, earning First Team All American Honors, (Top five US), and a full scholarship. Her art career began during her senior year, while working as weekend manager at Bronson Rollins, a prestigious gallery on Los Angeles’ famed Robertson Blvd specializing in 19th and 20th Century American and European Art and Antiquities. She also interned at Los Angeles County Museum of Art, (LACMA), Dickson Art Museum and Theodore Design. Upon graduation, Amy began work at Fidelity Arts, a contemporary decorative gallery in Los Angeles, servicing the interior design and art consultant trades. Amy began in sales but moved into management quickly, and has remained with Fidelity Arts to this day, where she is now the owner of the boutique art consulting firm. Her recent projects focus mainly on hospitality and include working with large chain hotels such as Hilton, smaller all suite hotel The Philips Club, and luxury cruise lines Princess Cruises and Cunard. As art advisor, Amy provides professional assistance to the designer, architects, artists and the client, overseeing the acquisition and commission of framed art, leaded glass domes, murals, fountains, sculptures, antiques, memorabilia, accessories, faux paint, and ceramic tile. She also handles the selection, display and design of historical windows, cases and niches and all peripheral and curatorial art needs. Amy handles both small and large scale commissions and projects, and works diligently to enhance the client’s art collections and finish their spaces perfectly, while working within their allocated budget. Amy supervises the administration, shipping, commissioning, and installation of these artwork items and more on worldwide project and feels privileged to have lived and worked in Italy, France, Japan and the United States while installing and beautifying some of the largest and most elegant ships sailing today. Fidelity Arts Inc. has been a Los Angeles business for over 25 years and is an Industry Partner Member in ASID, a member of the LA Small Business Association, (SBA), and the Santa Monica Chamber of Commerce. Fidelity Arts has been featured in Art Business News, Art Glass Magazine, and Art Magazine. Amy Lucena is a member of the LACMA Presidents Circle Avante Garde, an Industry Partner Member of ASID, GENART, LA Art Association, ( LAAA), Global Green, the International Association for Professional Art Advisors, (IAPAA), the Association for Art History, (AAH), and the National Association of Female Executives, (NAFE). She has participated in the Upward Bound House Project, Project Literacy, and Habitat for Humanity and is currently volunteering at Free Arts. Amy completed her Post Graduate Interior Design Certification at Otis College of Art and Design and has had Graduate/Continuing Education in Redesign/Staging, Italian, Architecture, Environmental Design, Photography, Printmaking, Spatial Organization, Drawing/Painting and Art History. Amy Lucena has been featured in The London Telegraph, the LA Times, The Financial Review’s Luxury Magazine, The Daily Bruin, the Cunarder and World’s Most Glamourous Hotels, as well as on Cunard.com, Travel.com, Cruisemates.com, and Artcollections.com. She is featured in the documentary Britain’s Greatest Ships: the Queen Elizabeth. Amy has lived and worked in Santa Monica for twenty years.
