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THE ART OF COLLECTING
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01/18/24 • 30 min
If you are an art collector, or aspire to be one, you might feel overwhelmed by the complexity and diversity of the art market. How do you find the best artworks for your taste, budget, and goals? How do you avoid overpaying and missing out on opportunities? How do you support living artists and contribute to the cultural conversation? In this episode we will answer these questions and dive into the responsibility of our society to SUPPORT LIVING ARTISTS.
McElwreath Art Advisory is a full-service firm that provides guidance and assistance to art collectors through a comprehensive list of services. Whether the goal is to acquire a single work, build a collection, or add to an existing one, they do so through an educated exploration of the art market. McElwreath Art Advisory is led by Emily McElwreath, an advisor, curator, and educator with over 20 years of experience in the art world. Emily has worked with some of the most prestigious institutions, galleries, and artists in the world. She is also the host of The Art Career Podcast, where she speaks with art world titans and emerging professionals to demystify the art world and share insights and advice. Emily and her team are passionate about promoting the work of living artists through interdisciplinary collaboration, institutional partnerships, and acquisitions. They have access to a wide network of artists, dealers, curators, and experts, and they can source artworks from various genres, mediums, and markets.
McElwreath Art Advisory is not your typical art consultancy. They are uniquely positioned to invigorate the advisory market with a new approach to arts patronage and love to work with individuals and corporations who appreciate being a part of the cultural conversation.
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Shona McAndrew: Reverence and the Female Body
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12/01/22 • 37 min
In Season 2 Episode 9 of The Art Career Podcast, Emily McElwreath interviews artist Shona McAndrew. Together they take a deep dive into body acceptance, the female gaze and explore Shona's life and career.
Shona McAndrew (b. 1990) was born in Paris and lives and works in Philadelphia. She holds an MFA in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design (2016) and a BA in Psychology and Painting from Brandeis University (2012). She had a solo sculptural installation at Art Omi inGhent, NY (2021), a solo show of life sculptures at Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts at UAB, Birmingham, AL (2021), which traveled from Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, PA (2020). Previous solo exhibitions also include CHART, New York, NY (2019 & 2021) and Spring/Break Art Show, New York, NY (2019). Shona has a upcoming solo show at CHART in February 2023.
McAndrew’s painted papier-mâché sculptures, digital collages and paintings depict women in their most private moments, taking pleasure in twirling untrimmed pubic hair, squeezing soft bellies, or a hand casually warming itself in the fold of a crotch. Life-size, or often slightly larger than human scale, the works draw from personal experience and observation to call attention to the simultaneous banality and importance of fleeting, introspective, and vulnerable moments.
Unembarrassed by their exposed bodies and confrontational towards our careless voyeurism, Shona’s women ask us to valorize mundane activities of body exploration, self-care, and forgetting to see one’s self through the critical eyes of others.
This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Visit BetterHelp.com/TAC today and get 10% off your first month.
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Cheryl Strayed: Put Yourself in the Way of Beauty
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12/22/22 • 55 min
On the Season 2 Finale of The Art Career Podcast, Emily McElwreath interviews acclaimed author Cheryl Strayed. Cheryl Strayed is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, which has sold more than 4 million copies worldwide and was made into an Oscar-nominated major motion picture. Her bestselling book Tiny Beautiful Things is currently being adapted for a Hulu television show that will be released in early 2023. In 2016, Tiny Beautiful Things was adapted as a play that has been staged in theaters around the world. Strayed is also the author of the critically acclaimed debut novel, Torch, and the bestselling collection Brave Enough, which brings together more than one hundred of her inspiring quotes. Her award-winning essays and short stories have been published in The Best American Essays, the New York Times, the Washington Post Magazine, Vogue, Salon, and elsewhere. She has hosted two hit podcasts, Sugar Calling and Dear Sugars. Cheryl lives in Portland, Oregon.
This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Visit BetterHelp.com/TAC today and get 10% off your first month.
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[REDUX]: Mickalene Thomas
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11/27/23 • 55 min
Let's travel back to season 2 and listen to a powerful conversation with Mickalene Thomas.
In Episode 1, Season 2 of The Art Career we welcome artist Mickalene Thomas. In preparation for her solo exhibition at Musée de l'Orangerie in Paris, we discuss the power of art, reincarnation, and how black erotica fills the void of aspirational love. The Art Career Podcast is available on Apple, Spotify, and Google. Link in bio.
Mickalene Thomas was born and raised in New Jersey and lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. One of the most influential artists today, her innovative practice has yielded instantly recognizable and widely celebrated aesthetic languages within contemporary visual culture. She is known for her elaborate paintings composed of rhinestones, acrylic, and enamel. Not only do her masterful mixed-media paintings, photographs, films and installations command space, they occupy eloquently while exploring the intersecting complexities of black and female identity within the Western canon.
Thomas received a B.F.A. from the Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY in 2000 and an M.F.A. from Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT in 2002.
In 2012, a blockbuster Brooklyn Museum exhibition established Thomas as one of the leading artists of her generation. In the decade since, Thomas’ work has been purchased by institutions ranging from the Museum of Modern Art to the Guggenheim, from the Whitney to the Studio Museum in Harlem and from museums in Boston, Chicago, Tokyo and more. She has held solo exhibitions all over the world.
Thomas has truly become a master of the female nude form and erotic suggestion in addition to having the drive and commitment to her practice that is unparalleled.
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05/02/24 • 65 min
On Season 5, Episode 2, of The Art Career Podcast, Emily sits down with painter, Robin F. Williams, in their Greenpoint, Brooklyn studio.
Known for her large-scale paintings of stylized, sentient, yet ambiguously generated female figures, Robin F. Williams (b. 1984) employs a variety of techniques, including oil, airbrush, poured paint, marbling, and staining of raw canvas to create deeply textured and complexly constructed paintings. Combining a masterful technical understanding with an innate sense of curiosity, Williams fuses practices from social media channels such as Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube with references to early modernism, pop culture, advertising, and cinema, to challenge the systemic conventions around representations of women. Williams received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and has presented solo exhibitions at P·P·O·W, New York, NY; Various Small Fires, Los Angeles, CA; Bard College at Simon’s Rock, Great Barrington, MA; Jack the Pelican Presents, Brooklyn, NY; and Morán Morán, Mexico City, Mexico. Her work has been featured in numerous group exhibitions nationally and internationally including In New York, Thinking of You (Part I), Flag Art Foundation, New York, NY; I’m Not Your Mother, P·P·O·W, New York, NY; Fire Figure Fantasy, ICA Miami, Miami, FL; Present Generations, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH; Bitter Nest, Galerie Perrotin, Tokyo, Japan; XENIA: Crossroads in Portrait Painting, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY; Nicolas Party: Pastel, Flag Art Foundation, New York, NY; SEED, curated by Yvonne Force, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY; and more. Her work is currently in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; Collection Majudia, Montreal, Canada; Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH; Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL; X Museum, Beijing, China; among others. Robin F. Williams: We’ve Been Expecting You , Williams’ first solo institutional exhibition, is on view at the Columbus Museum of Art through August 18, 2024. Her first solo exhibition with Perrotin Tokyo opens in May 2024.
01/11/24 • 29 min
Live at The New York Studio school with Ukrainian born artist, Alla Broeksmit, and sister and poet, Stella Hayes.
“The New York Studio School was founded in 1964 by Mercedes Matter, in collaboration with a group of students and faculty, during a time of cultural ferment. To this day, it is bound by a sense of mission, one that has often stood in counterpoint to the prevailing tastes of the art world. During the heyday of Pop, conceptual art, and minimalism, the School emphasized drawing, working from life, and a sustained studio practice. To delve into the history, however, is to become aware of the contradictions inherent in a school run by some of the most passionate minds of the New York art world.“ Jennifer Sachs Samet
Closely held memories of childhood in Kyiv and deeply rooted remembrances of family and beloved places fuel the dreamlike imagery of Alla Broeksmit’s art. Gestural brushwork and the tactility of hand-mixed pigments in the muted palette of faded frescoes lend texture and atmosphere to her expressively rendered paintings, evoking a sense of time past, recalled to the present. Broeksmit has pursued painting since the 1990s, studying at Parsons School of Design in New York City, then co-founding the Lots Road Group with fellow artists from the Heatherly School of Fine Art after moving to London in 1997. During this period, her paintings were primarily figurative and focused on portraiture, taking inspiration from the heavily impastoed, psychological portraits of Lucian Freud. In 2017, Broeksmit received her MFA from the New York Studio School, where Dean Graham Nickson encouraged her to work on a larger scale and to take “a more instinctual, visceral approach” to painting. Instructors Judy Glantzman, Kyle Staver, and Elisa Jensen were also instrumental in her development of an individualized visual language and in exposing her to the descriptive and emotional expression of color, as seen in her work.
Stella Hayes is the author of a poetry collection, One Strange Country (What Books Press, November 2020). Hayes earned a creative writing degree at University of Southern California. Her work has been nominated for the Best of the Net and for the Pushcart Prize, as well as appeared in Prelude, The Poetry Project’s The Recluse, The Lake and Spillway, among others, and is forthcoming from Stanford’s Mantis and Poet Lore. She began her life in a book-filled home in an agricultural town an hour outside of Kiev, then part of the Soviet Union. In 1977, her family of five — her father excluded — left for the U.S., settling first in Chicago. At USC, she studied creative writing with a focus on poetry with celebrated poet David St. John, chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. More recently, she has taken advanced classes in poetry and fiction at 92Y and was asked to do a reading there in the spring of 2018. She is a graduate student at NYU M.F.A in poetry and is assistant fiction editor at Washington Square Review.
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Dr. Kate Tomas: Magic, Intuition, and Power
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05/25/23 • 64 min
On Season 3, Episode 8, Emily McElwreath interviews Dr. Kate Tomas.
Dr. Kate Tomas is a spiritual teacher, mentor and advisor, with a doctoral degree in Theology from the University of Oxford, and over 23 years experience.
Kate is also one of the most highly educated and sought after practitioners in the world, holding a Masters degree in the Philosophy of Religion, and a Doctoral Degree in Philosophical Theology from the University of Oxford.
Tomas has a thriving international practice as an intuitive advisor, & a best selling book (Chakra Crystals, 2007, 2019). She holds private practices in London, and New York where she consults for individuals as well as businesses. Kate works with forward-thinking women and non-binary people to teach them ancient and modern spiritual practices in a way that engages their entire being.
Rather than needing to suspend their rational minds and critical faculties, her students are encouraged to deeply explore the world of energy, astrology and spiritual practice.
This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Visit BetterHelp.com/TAC today and get 10% off your first month.
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Music: Chase Johnson
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Jeremy Blocker: New York Theatre Workshop
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05/04/23 • 49 min
On Season 3, Episode 5 of The Art Career Podcast, Emily McElwreath interviews Jeremy Blocker, director of New York Theatre Workshop.
Jeremy Blocker began his tenure at New York Theatre Workshop in 2014 and has overseen more than thirty productions, stewarding the growth of NYTW’s annual operating budget and significantly increasing the Workshop’s reserve funds to secure the financial future of the organization. He also led the effort to create NYTW’s most recent strategic plan which has seen an expansion of the season to five productions, a 200% increase in artist compensation over the five year plan, the launch of a paid, year-long 2050 Administrative Fellowship, and the renovation of NYTW’s 4th Street Theatre. Prior to arriving at NYTW, Jeremy served as the first Managing Director of Ars Nova, New York’s premiere hub for new talent, where he produced six world premiere productions including the Obie Award-winning Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 by Dave Malloy, seven festivals, and dozens of concerts, readings and workshops. He has also previously served as Director of Individual Giving at Manhattan Theatre Club, Development Associate for Capital Projects at Atlantic Theater Company, and Producing Director of Babel Theatre Project, which he co-founded. Jeremy is an Assistant Adjunct Professor of Theatre Management and Producing at Columbia University’s School of the Arts and holds a BA from Harvard University and an MFA from Columbia.
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Danny Báez - Second Phase in NYC
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04/20/23 • 53 min
On Season 3, Episode 3 of The Art Career Podcast, Emily McElwreath interviews Danny Báez.
Danny Báez is a regular and normal guy based in New York City. He is the Co-Founder and Director of MECA International Art Fair in San Juan, Puerto Rico and Co-Founder and Board Member of the ARTNOIR Collective. He firmly believes in the power of building upon community and has organized various exhibitions in New York since 2010. Most recently, Danny Baez joined Kickstarter as Head of Arts where he will work closely with artists, collectives, arts organizations, museums, and cultural institutions to bring their creative ideas to life.
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12/27/23 • 56 min
This week we take a look back on the Season 2 Finale of The Art Career where Emily McElwreath interviews acclaimed author Cheryl Strayed. Cheryl Strayed is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, which has sold more than 4 million copies worldwide and was made into an Oscar-nominated major motion picture. Her bestselling book Tiny Beautiful Things is currently being adapted for a Hulu television show that will be released in early 2023. In 2016, Tiny Beautiful Things was adapted as a play that has been staged in theaters around the world. Strayed is also the author of the critically acclaimed debut novel, Torch, and the bestselling collection Brave Enough, which brings together more than one hundred of her inspiring quotes. Her award-winning essays and short stories have been published in The Best American Essays, the New York Times, the Washington Post Magazine, Vogue, Salon, and elsewhere. She has hosted two hit podcasts, Sugar Calling and Dear Sugars. Cheryl lives in Portland, Oregon.
This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Visit BetterHelp.com/TAC today and get 10% off your first month.
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Music: Chase Johnson
Editing: Zach Worden
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