The Art Career (Emily McElwreath)
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| 30 May 2024 | Lola Kirke: Grand Ol Opry, Body Image, and Being Kind | 01:06:53 | |
Lola Kirke has played many roles as an actress (“Mozart in the Jungle,” “Gone Girl,” “Winning Time”), but as a musician her sights have always been set squarely on Country. After relocating from Los Angeles to Nashville in 2020, Kirke devoted herself to honing the craft she’d come to admire so deeply in artists like The Judds, The Pistol Annies, and Dolly Parton. Shortly thereafter, she released her critically acclaimed sophomore LP “Lady For Sale” on the much respected Third Man Records in 2022, and played sold out shows with the likes of Jenny Lewis, and Margo Price. This past February Lola made her Grand Ol Opry debut and most recently become the newest addition to the cast of Ryan Coogler‘s untitled supernatural thriller for Warner Bros Pictures which will be released next year. | |||
| 14 Dec 2023 | [REDUX] Meg Lionel Murphy: Painting After PTSD From Domestic Violence | 01:12:51 | |
Meg Lionel Murphy: Painting After PTSD From Domestic Violence *Content warning - Domestic Violence, Substance Abuse* Meg Lionel Murphy paints a dreamworld where suffering transforms femme bodies into a monstrous size, so that their pain must be seen, felt, and acknowledged. Murphy received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Minnesota—Twin Cities, with three majors: Art, Art History, and English Literature. Additionally, Meg studied classical oil painting in Florence, Italy. After graduation, Meg worked as a children’s illustrator, co-founded the literary and art magazine, Paper Darts, and co-directed the arts and social justice non-profit, Pollen Midwest. A diagnosis of severe PTSD from domestic violence led Murphy to leave her career in publishing to focus on painting and healing. She moved back to her childhood home in rural Wisconsin where she started painting in her father’s junkyard, in a studio shack that was converted from an industrial cooler. As her art took off, she moved her studio to an old storefront—that was built as a church in the 1880s. Recent solo shows include “Traumatica Dramatica'' at The Untitled Space Gallery (New York), “Interior Violence” at CoExhibitions Gallery (Minneapolis), and solo booths with SPRING/BREAK Art Show (New York and Los Angeles). Recent group shows include “10 @ 10” at The Wisconsin Museum of Art, “Pleasure Garden'' at Laurie Shapiro Gallery (Los Angeles), and “In Her World” at Voltz Clarke (New York). Her painting has been acquired by the Minnesota Museum of American Art. Her artwork has been featured in a variety of publications including Hyperallergic, Bitch, Artnet News, and Forbes. Domestic Violence Resources : NO VISIBLE BRUISES - What We Don't Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us by Rachel Louise Snyder. National Domestic Violence Hotline: 1-800-799-SAFE (7233) or 1-800-787-3224 (TTY) or 800-942-6908 (Español) (also available as web chat and text) https://www.thehotline.org/get-help/ To Find local shelters: https://www.domesticshelters.org/ Women's Law Initiative: https://hotline.womenslaw.org/public Additional Resources can be found at The National Coalition Against Domestic Violence website: https://ncadv.org/RESOURCES Domestic violence support groups can be found through Psychology Today: support groups: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/groups Danger Assessment worksheet: https://www.dangerassessment.org/DATools.aspx This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Visit BetterHelp.com/TAC today and get 10% off your first month. Follow us: @theartcareer Follow Meg Lionel Murphy : @meglionelmurphy Podcast host: @emilymcelwreath_art Music: Chase Johnson Editing: @benjamin.galloway | |||
| 15 Jul 2024 | A Reading for Our Listeners by Sarah Potter | 00:38:07 | |
Sarah Potter is a renowned psychic medium, known for her exceptional Tarot reading abilities and deep occult knowledge. Her spiritual guidance has positively impacted countless lives, spanning private individuals and corporate clients alike. Each session with Sarah offers a personalized blend of magical practices and empowering advice. For our season finale, Sarah is gifting a reading to our listeners. You will hear: 1. Tips for artists and listeners to incorporate magic into everyday lives. 2. A Tarot reading on how to move deeper into our creative practices, whatever they may be, exploring and expanding our deepest talents. 3. A simple gratitude practice | |||
| 04 Jan 2024 | Jane South: Pratt Institute, Time Alone, and Owning Your Decisions as an Artist | 01:05:06 | |
On Season 4, Episode 9 of The Art Career, Emily sits down with Jane South in her Brooklyn loft overlooking the Brooklyn Bridge. Born in Manchester, UK, Jane South worked in experimental theater before moving to the United States in 1989. Solo exhibitions include Halfway Off (2023) and Switch Back (2020) at Spencer Brownstone Gallery, Floor/Ceiling (2013) at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, CT; Box (2011), Knoxville Museum of Art, TN. Recent group exhibitions include Come A Little Closer (2023), DC Moore Gallery, New York; Augurhythms (2022) Hesse Flatow, New York; Maquette (2022); No Show Space, London, UK; Dance with Me (2019); Zürcher Gallery, New York, Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts (2019) at the American Academy of Arts & Letters, New York. Southʼs work has been reviewed in the Brooklyn Rail, The New York Times, The LA Times, Artforum, Art in America, Sculpture Magazine, New York Magazine, Frieze, ArtNews, and The New Yorker. She is represented by Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York. Awards include the Guggenheim Fellowship (2021), Brown/RISD Mellon Foundation Fellowship (2015), Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant (2009), Pollock-Krasner Foundation (2001 & 2008), and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship (2007). Residencies include Camargo Foundation, Cassis, France (2010); Dora Maar House, Ménerbes, France (2022 & 2010); Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, Italy (2008); MacDowell Colony, NH (2002 & 2004); Yaddo, NY (2001 & 2002). In 2018, South was elected to the National Academy of Design. She is currently Chair of Fine Arts at Pratt Institute, New York. theartcareer.com Jane South: @janesouth Pratt Institute: @prattfineart Follow us: @theartcareer Podcast host: @emilymcelwreath_art Editing: @benjamin.galloway
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| 05 Mar 2024 | Bianca Bosker: Get the Picture | 01:10:38 | |
On this special episode of The Art Career, Emily sits down with New York Times bestselling author, Bianca Bosker, who discusses her latest book, Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See. Bianca Bosker is the New York Times bestselling author of Cork Dork and, most recently, Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See. A contributing writer at The Atlantic, she has also written for publications such as The New Yorker, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal. Her work has been recognized with awards from the New York Press Club, the Society of Professional Journalists, and more, and has been included in The Best American Travel Writing. She lives in New York City. Follow us: @theartcareer Podcast host: @emilymcelwreath_art Editing: @benjamin.galloway | |||
| 02 Nov 2023 | Roberta Smith: The One and Only | 00:49:19 | |
On Season 4, Episode 3, Emily McElwreath sits down with Roberta Smith in her Greenwich Village home. It was a memorable fall afternoon and an episode you won't want to miss. Roberta Smith is co-chief art critic for the New York Times. She was born in New York City, raised in Lawrence, Kansas, and earned a B.A. from Grinnell College in 1969. An alumna of the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, she worked at the Museum of Modern Art and the Paula Cooper Gallery before becoming a professional art critic in the 1970s, contributing to Artforum and serving as a senior editor for Art in America. In 1981 she became art critic for the Village Voice, before moving to the New York Times in 1986. Roberta Smith: @robertasmithnyt Follow us: @theartcareer Podcast host: @emilymcelwreath_art Editing: @benjamin.galloway The Art Career is supported by The New York Studio School | |||
| 09 Nov 2023 | Christine Kuan: Improving the Lives of Artists | 00:50:51 | |
Christine Kuan is the President and Creative Director of Creative Capital. Before joining Creative Capital, Christine Kuan was CEO and Director of Sotheby’s Institute of Art, where she oversaw the Master’s Degree programs in Art Business, Contemporary Art, and Fine & Decorative Art & Design, as well as the Online, Summer, and Pre-College programs. In this role, she established new programs and partnerships with Tsinghua University in Beijing, Ewha University in Seoul, Centro University in Mexico City, and ESCP Business School in Paris. Kuan also launched a new scholarship program in partnership with Spelman College at the Atlanta University Center Consortium (AUCC). Prior to Sotheby’s Institute, she was the Chief Curator and Director of Strategic Partnerships at Artsy, where she oversaw museum and institutional partnerships, digital collection strategy, open access policy, educational initiatives, and launched their auctions business, including benefit auctions such as Whitney Art Party, Brooklyn Museum Artists Ball, ICI Benefit, Public Art Fund Benefit, Sotheby’s x Planned Parenthood. Notably, Kuan established more than 500 museum and institutional partnerships worldwide, including Musée du Louvre, Musée Picasso, Musée d’Orsay, SFMOMA, J. Paul Getty Museum, Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt Museum, Diebenkorn Foundation, Rauschenberg Foundation, Frankenthaler Foundation, Fondation Cartier, and more. Prior to Artsy, Kuan was Chief Curatorial Officer and Vice President of External Affairs at Artstor, a nonprofit image library founded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, where she led digital collections acquisitions and the funding for the digitization of archives and collections. She has also served as Editor-in-Chief of Oxford Art Online/Grove Art Online at Oxford University Press, where she significantly expanded scholarly information on women artists and Asian contemporary artists working with guest editors Whitney Chadwick and Melissa Chiu, commissioning biographies on Faith Ringgold, Judy Chicago, Ai Weiwei, Cai Guo-Qiang, and others. Kuan has also worked at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in the Department of Asian Art and the General Counsel’s Office, and she has taught English Literature and Writing at the University of Iowa, Peking University, Rutgers University, and guest lectured at Stanford University’s pilot program of Arts Leadership. She has been interviewed by The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Refinery29, Vogue, New York, China Global Television Network (CGTN), and other outlets. Kuan’s publications include: Creative Legacies: Artists’ Estates and Foundations (eds. Kathy Battista and Bryan Faller); Rights and Reproductions: The Handbook for Cultural Institutions (ed. Anne Young), Digital Heritage and Culture: Strategy and Implementation (eds. Herminia Din and Steven Wu), Guest Critic May 2022 for The Brooklyn Rail, and Best Practices Guide for Artist Demographic Data Coordination (Association of Art Museum Curators Foundation). She has lectured and published extensively on digital strategy, museum policy, and new technologies for the art world. Kuan holds an MFA in Creative Writing Poetry from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and a BA in Art History and English Literature from Rutgers University. Creative Capital: https://creative-capital.org/ Follow us: @theartcareer Podcast host: @emilymcelwreath_art Editing: @benjamin.galloway The Art Career is supported by The New York Studio School | |||
| 16 Jun 2022 | Nora Gomez-Strauss : Growing Your Audience by Making Social Media Personal | 00:44:50 | |
Whether we like it or not, the internet has completely changed the way we orient and present ourselves. Your social media presence can make or break your career and it's one of the main topics art professionals struggle with. Fortunately, there are people like Nora Gomez-Strauss in the world who manage digital strategies. In this episode, Nora discusses her career, general social media strategies, and what it’s like to manage virtual communications for a major arts organization in New York City, The Public Art Fund. Follow us: @theartcareer Podcast Host: Emily McElwreath @emilymcelwreath_art Nora Gomez-Strauss - @publicartfund @nogophoto Podcast Director: Morgan Everhart @morgan_everhart Sound editing: Aaron Stoner Music: Chase Johnson | |||
| 02 May 2024 | Robin F. Williams: Solo Institutional Exhibitions, Donut Club, and Puppies | 01:05:59 | |
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. | |||
| 06 Oct 2022 | Roxanne Jackson: Beauty, Horror, and Consciousness | 00:40:06 | |
In Season 2, Episode 2 we welcome artist Roxanne Jackson, whose solo exhibition, Nature is a Whore: A Comedy & A Tragedy, is currently on view at The Hole, New York. During the interview, Jackson explores gratitude, the power of manifestation and being a part of nature. Roxanne Jackson is a ceramic artist and sculptor living in Brooklyn and upstate New York. Her works are black-humored investigations of the links between transformation, myth and pop-culture. Press for her work includes The New York Times, The New Yorker, The LA Times, Juxtapoz Magazine, Hyperallergic, Forbes, among many more. She is the recipient of residencies at Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park (Japan), the Beeemis Center for Contemporary Arts (NE), Socrates Sculpture Park (NY), Wassaic Project (NY), PLOP (UK), The POTTERY WORKSHOP IN CHINA), the Ceramic Center of Berlin (Germany), among others. Jackson has exhibited internationally and currently has a solo show at The Hole, Nature is a Whore : A Comedy & A Tragedy www.theartcareer.com @theartcareer @roxannejackson_ @emilymcelwreath_art @lizzie.gill.art #TAC #TACpodcast #theartcareer #artpodcasts #roxannejackson | |||
| 19 Oct 2023 | Matthew Tully Dugan: Caviar, Vampires, and Warhol | 01:15:44 | |
Welcome to season 4 of the Art Career. We start the season on a beautiful fall day in a kitchen in NYC’s Chinatown. Before we sit down for our interview, artist Mathew Tully Dugan cooks the most delicious small plate for my editor Ben and myself; Thomas Keller’s potato pavé with whipped roasted bone marrow, salt cured egg yolk, hackleback caviar and wasabi microgreens. A most delicious way to launch Season 4! Matthew Tully Dugan (b. 1986) Rochester, NY born and NYC based multidisciplinary artist. Dugan's interests span celebrity, psychology, pop iconography, privacy, and fanaticism. Dugan often employs promotional, social, and found imagery in a practice motivated by digital media’s physical and emotional divide. His paintings, sculptures, installations, texts, and curatorial projects collapse the popular and the subcultural, the collective and the personal, as a means of processing contemporary conditions and their impact on the psyche. Tully's upcoming exhibition, "Inferno", will open at Lomex's new Walker Street project space this Halloween. It will be up until November 5th. Matthew Tully Dugan: @TULLYdeluxe Follow us: @theartcareer Podcast host: @emilymcelwreath_art Music: Chase Johnson Editing: @benjamin.galloway We are proud to be supported by The New York Studio School. Founded in 1964 as an intensive studio arts program with an emphasis on perception, artists learning from artists, and drawing as the most direct means of describing one’s ideas or experiences, the Studio School offers an array of full-time and part-time programs that prioritize small classes and individual guidance from dedicated instructors distinguished in their fields. It is located in the heart of Greenwich Village, in a National Historic Landmark building that was once home to the original Whitney Museum of American Art. The School invites you to join its free public programming, including the Evening Lecture Series, which for more than half a century has been a cornerstone of the NYC art world and can now be experienced worldwide via livestreaming. Visit nyss.org to enroll in classes, see what’s on in the gallery, register for evening lectures, and more. To learn more about full-time study at NYSS, schedule an in-person tour or a virtual meeting by emailing info@nyss.org. If you get value from this podcast, please consider helping me make more of these episodes by becoming an Art Career Premium member. In order to keep producing the content you love we need your support. I try my best to give you all the highest quality content but I can not do it without your help. Thank you for your generosity and cheers to Season 4! • Produce more content • Deepen our research • Upgrade our production quality • Give a platform to more guests • Build our team to help bring more free content to the public | |||
| 11 Jan 2024 | Live at The New York Studio School: Alla Broeksmit and Stella Hayes | 00:29:56 | |
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.
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| 18 Jan 2024 | THE ART OF COLLECTING | 00:30:26 | |
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.
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| 25 Jan 2024 | Sarah Potter - Celebrity Psychic Medium, Tarot Reader, and Professional Witch | 00:40:18 | |
Welcome to our two part mini series season finale with celebrity psychic medium, tarot reader, and professional witch, Sarah Potter. This week Sarah will tell us all about what being a professional witch entails and doesn't shy away from having the conversation about skeptics. Sarah will share an intimate Tarot reading with our listeners and next week a very special ritual for inspiration she created just for The Art Career! Sarah Potter is a celebrity psychic medium, Tarot reader, and professional witch based in NYC. Her spiritual guidance has been sought after by thousands of private and corporate clients as her work has been profiled by Forbes, Refinery 29, InStyle, Teen Vogue & countless other publications. As a resident Tarot Reader & witch at both Cosmopolitan & Bust Magazine, the natural next step in her Tarot journey led her to create her first book “The Cosmo Tarot : The Ultimate Deck & Guidebook” via Hearst Home. Sarah’s dedication to making magical modalities a practical and accessible part of everyday life has led her to become one of the most prominent faces of modern day witchcraft. Her writing on witchcraft, Magic, and Tarot is featured in Cosmopolitan, Astrology.com, Bust Magazine, and Shondaland. Sarah Potter: @iamsarahpotter Editing: @benjamin.galloway Host: @emilymcelwreah_art | |||
| 13 Mar 2025 | Introducing Cultural Icons—A New Standard in Cultural Journalism | 00:04:01 | |
Cultural Icons is here. A new editorial series by Emily McElwreath, spotlighting the spaces, brands, and experiences shaping today’s creative landscape. As a curator, art advisor, and cultural journalist, Emily has spent years immersed in the art world, uncovering the people and places that truly move culture forward. Now, she’s bringing that insight to Cultural Icons—a definitive selection of the most inspiring destinations, institutions, and brands that understand the intersection of art, design, and experience. In this episode, Emily introduces the vision behind Cultural Icons, how it expands upon The Art Career Podcast, and what’s to come. Stay tuned for the first feature this spring. Follow along - Cultural Icons | |||
| 26 Apr 2024 | Sienna Fekete: Curator, Educator, Queen | 00:51:07 | |
Welcome to Season 5 of The Art Career where we sit down with Sienna Fekete at The Lower East Side Girls Club.
Sienna Fekete is a Curator and Educator based in New York City with a background in radio, podcasting, and music. She is currently the Senior Arts Manager at The Lower Eastside Girls Club. Additionally, she is the curator of The Community Cookbook project volumes 1-3, was the 2021–2022 Curatorial Fellow at The Kitchen, was the host of the Points of View podcast via Cultured Magazine, and and was a Co-founder of Chroma, a cultural agency and creative studio centering on the work and perspectives of women of color. She looks forward to creating more women of color-led initiatives, producing audio projects, spearheading public programming and educational opportunities, growing her practice as a curator, and building collectively with her community. She has worked with BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra, On Air Fest, Red Bull Arts, NTS, The Lot Radio, StoryCorps, Top Rank Magazine, Domino Sound, SiriusXM, Adidas, Nike, CultureHub, AnOther Magazine, BOMB Magazine, Dazed Magazine, Awake NY, Knockdown Center, Abrons Art Center, Glossier, The Standard, Calvin, Klein, Silica Magazine, Sky High Farm, Ethel’s Club, Buffalo Zine, 8 Ball Community, Documenting the Nameplate, POWRPLNT, TXTbooks, Park Avenue Armory, The New Museum, The Public Art Fund, The Studio Museum in Harlem, MoMa, MoMA PS1, Printed Matter, The Community Paris, The Guggenheim, and The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
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| 15 Dec 2022 | Ellie Rines: Supporting Our Artists | 00:38:01 | |
On Season 2 Episode 10 of The Art Career Podcast, Emily McElwreath interviews gallerist and overall artist advocate, Ellie Rines. Emily and Ellie discuss the importance of authenticity in the art world in this special episode with one of downtown's most popular gallerists. Eleanor Rines is a New York City-based gallery owner committed to supporting and spotlighting the work of emerging contemporary artists. Rines opened her first gallery, 55 Gansevoort, in 2013 in New York City’s Meatpacking District. In 2015, she expanded and relocated the gallery to 56 Henry Street, and renamed the gallery accordingly. In 2022, Rines opened a second location, 105 Henry. This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Visit BetterHelp.com/TAC today and get 10% off your first month. Follow us: @theartcareer Follow Ellie Rines: @cornerdeliellie Follow 56 Henry: @56henry.nyc Podcast host: @emilymcelwreath_art Social Media: @lilap3arl Music: Chase Johnson Editing: Zach Worden | |||
| 05 Sep 2024 | BODY FREEDOM FOR EVERY(BODY) - Jasmine Wahi and Rebecca Jampol | 00:45:53 | |
In this very special episode to launch Season 6 of The Art Career, we sit down with founders of BODY FREEDOM FOR EVERY(BODY), Jasmine Wahi and Rebecca Jampol. We share this episode with the public just a day after the kickoff in Times Square to their cross country tour, in an effort to advocate for Trans Rights, Liberation and Queer Joy, bringing resources and materials and culture to folks across the nation!! BODY FREEDOM FOR EVERY(BODY) is a cross-country exhibition tour inside a 27-foot Box Truck celebrating Reproductive Justice, Queer Liberation, and Trans Joy! We're bringing over 200 artists’ works inside this truck to cultivate community coast-to-coast. The two-part endeavor (a traveling exhibition and an accessible digital database) addresses the importance of agency, autonomy, and choice when it comes to healthcare and individual identity. This project aims to create awareness, cultivate community, and engender support for bodily autonomy through art. This project emerges as a response to a relentless wave of conservatism that continues to politicize queer liberation and restrict reproductive & gender-affirming healthcare. The overarching message of this program is broadening awareness of the right to Safe, Legal, and Accessible health care that allows us to live in our power and choice. Rebecca Pauline Jampol is an arts educator, gallery director and independent curator and co-director of Project for Empty Space based in New York City and Newark, New Jersey. Jasmine Wahi is a curator, arts educator and the Founder and Co-Director of Project for Empty Space, a nonprofit organization in New York City and Newark, New Jersey. Project for Empty Space (PES) is a multifaceted arts organization in downtown Newark, NJ, and downtown Manhattan, NY. PES is a woman-run, femme-powered, People of the Global Majority/BIPOC, Queer, and unapologetically radical ecosystem for creatives. Today, PES provides safe, equitable spaces for artistic innovation and complex public engagement by supporting artists whose work is oriented toward social discourse.
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| 06 Jun 2024 | Dominique Clayton: Being a Black Woman in the Art World | 01:08:52 | |
On Season 5, Episode 8 of The Art Career Podcast, Emily sits down with gallerist, Dominique Clayton. In this episode Dominique shares what it is to be a black woman in the art world. Dominique Clayton is an arts consultant, writer, gallerist born and raised in Los Angeles. Clayton is the founder and director of Dominique Gallery, a store front turned pop-up exhibition and online program which showcases and advises emerging artists with a focus on marginalized artists and artists raising families. In addition to the gallery, Dominique also serves on the curatorial and programming committee of Destination Crenshaw, a forthcoming outdoor art museum and arts program based in the historic Crenshaw community of Los Angeles. Dominique previously worked as Manager of the Founding Director’s office at The Broad and later as an interim director at Jeffrey Deitch Gallery. In her arts management role, she has provided logistical, curatorial, and production management for exhibitions and productions for arts organizations and media companies including The Broad, ARRAY, WACO Theater Center and Wearable Art Gala, Venice Family Clinic Art Walk and Auction, Fashion Mamas, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Dance Africa Festival, Black Entertainment Television, Lee Daniels Entertainment, and the Tribeca Film Institute. Clayton was also a 2019-2020 participant in the Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation Art Writer Workshop under the mentorship of the late Maurice Berger. Her arts writing has been featured on several platforms and publications including Cultured Magazine, LALA Magazine, Artsy, Sugarcane Magazine, Blavity, 21Ninety, and her own forthcoming Black Arts Diary. Clayton holds a masters degree in Business Design and Arts Leadership from Savannah College of Art and Design as well as an undergraduate degree from Columbia University. https://www.dominiquegallery.com/ Black owned galleries to support: https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-black-owned-galleries-support-united-states | |||
| 13 Feb 2025 | KINLAW: Navigating Sound, Space, and Performance | 01:18:31 | |
🎙️Season 7, Episode 2 of The Art Career Podcast – Emily McElwreath sits down with the incredible performance artistKinlaw in Chinatown, NYC. Kinlaw is an audio composer, choreographer, and sculptor whose work highlights processes that accommodate and respond to the changing frequencies (i.e., liveness) of space. Their practice includes producing albums and creating large-scale performance works.
Free Resource for Artists! Want expert guidance on building your art career? Download Navigating the Art World: A Comprehensive Guide for Artists—a free resource covering essential industry insights, practical tips, and more. Get it here: Download Now Links: https://www.kinlaw.co/ https://www.instagram.com/kinlawww/?hl=en Follow us: @theartcareer Host: @emilymcelwreath_art Production + Creative Direction @soniaruscoe Editing: @benjamin.galloway Join our community for exclusive updates, artist resources, and behind-the-scenes content! Sign up at theartcareer.com Never miss an episode! Subscribe & leave us a review on Apple Podcasts & Spotify | |||
| 11 May 2023 | Meg Lionel Murphy: Painting After PTSD From Domestic Violence | 01:11:26 | |
Meg Lionel Murphy: Painting After PTSD From Domestic Violence *Content warning - Domestic Violence, Substance Abuse* Meg Lionel Murphy paints a dreamworld where suffering transforms femme bodies into a monstrous size, so that their pain must be seen, felt, and acknowledged. Murphy received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Minnesota—Twin Cities, with three majors: Art, Art History, and English Literature. Additionally, Meg studied classical oil painting in Florence, Italy. After graduation, Meg worked as a children’s illustrator, co-founded the literary and art magazine, Paper Darts, and co-directed the arts and social justice non-profit, Pollen Midwest. A diagnosis of severe PTSD from domestic violence led Murphy to leave her career in publishing to focus on painting and healing. She moved back to her childhood home in rural Wisconsin where she started painting in her father’s junkyard, in a studio shack that was converted from an industrial cooler. As her art took off, she moved her studio to an old storefront—that was built as a church in the 1880s. Recent solo shows include “Traumatica Dramatica'' at The Untitled Space Gallery (New York), “Interior Violence” at CoExhibitions Gallery (Minneapolis), and solo booths with SPRING/BREAK Art Show (New York and Los Angeles). Recent group shows include “10 @ 10” at The Wisconsin Museum of Art, “Pleasure Garden'' at Laurie Shapiro Gallery (Los Angeles), and “In Her World” at Voltz Clarke (New York). Her painting has been acquired by the Minnesota Museum of American Art. Her artwork has been featured in a variety of publications including Hyperallergic, Bitch, Artnet News, and Forbes. Domestic Violence Resources : NO VISIBLE BRUISES - What We Don't Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us by Rachel Louise Snyder. National Domestic Violence Hotline: 1-800-799-SAFE (7233) or 1-800-787-3224 (TTY) or 800-942-6908 (Español) (also available as web chat and text) Additional Resources can be found at The National Coalition Against Domestic Violence website: https://ncadv.org/RESOURCES Domestic violence support groups can be found through Psychology Today: support groups: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/groups Danger Assessment worksheet: https://www.dangerassessment.org/DATools.aspx This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Visit BetterHelp.com/TAC today and get 10% off your first month. Follow us: @theartcareer Follow Meg Lionel Murphy : @meglionelmurphy Podcast host: @emilymcelwreath_art Social Media: @lilap3arl Music: Chase Johnson Editing: @benjamin.galloway | |||
| 02 Jun 2022 | Laurie Simmons : Protecting your Business and Integrity in the Arts | 00:53:52 | |
In Episode 8 of The Art Career Podcast, we chat with artist, photographer and filmmaker, Laurie Simmons, about her refreshing love for observing and her life-long urge to call out how absurd the intersections of life, art, and consumption can be. With all of the unexpected obstacles that life brings us, Laurie Simmons shares how looking and listening helped herself achieve things she never thought possible. A prominent member of the Pictures Generation, photographer and filmmaker Laurie Simmons uses dolls, puppets, and other anthropomorphized subjects to explore objectification, domesticity, and American consumerism—their effect on women in particular. Since the 1970s, she has photographed miniature scenes of post-war domestic splendor, shot a series focusing on a custom-made Japanese “love doll,” and made a debut feature starring Meryl Streep alongside a cast of puppets and Alvin Ailey dancers dressed as inanimate objects. Simmons has enjoyed solo shows in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, London, Berlin, Brussels, Madrid, and beyond. Laurie Simmons is an artist that's happier now, more than ever before in her career. With decades of masterful, critically acclaimed work, she’s managed to do something that most artists don’t do, which is to keep herself interested. Follow us: @theartcareer Podcast Host: Emily McElwreath @emilymcelwreath_art Laurie Simmons - @lauriesimmons lauriesimmons.net Podcast Director: Morgan Everhart @morgan_everhart Sound editing: Aaron Stoner Music: Chase Johnson This episode is sponsored by Artillery, Cultbytes, and Better Help. Artillery, The Only Art Magazine That’s Fun to Read. Based in Los Angeles, covering contemporary art for 16 years. @artillery_mag artillerymag.com Cultbytes is an online art publication covering art from a broad but critical perspective. Founded in 2015, they are also New York’s first digital agency to specialize in the cultural sector. @cultbytes cultbytes.com Enjoy 10% off your first month of affordable, private therapy by visiting BetterHelp.com/tac #TAC #TACpodcast #theartcareer #artpodcasts #lauriesimmons #photography #filmmaking #picturesgeneration | |||
| 21 Mar 2025 | Jemma Rose Brown: Where Audio Meets Art | 00:55:35 | |
Jemma Rose Brown is an artist, strategist and curator of cultural programs raised & based in NYC. Her approach is shaped by a decade+ career in podcasts and the audio industry. Jemma is the General Manager of The Signal Awards and Co-Creator of On Air Fest, the premiere event for audio storytelling. She is the Co-Founder of Cosmophage. Previously, she was the Director of creative agency work x work and a Producer at The Moth. Her projects have been covered widely in Vanity Fair, Wired, Forbes, Rolling Stone & more. Jemma sits on the Advisory Committee of UnionDocs Center for Documentary Art. Alongside her professional work, Jemma’s art practice is in incessant pursuit of intimacy: reaching across the asymptote of human experience to create momentary acts of connection. Jemma utilizes memoir, staged meals and performance to test the boundaries between self and other. Links: Follow Cosmophage Collective: https://www.instagram.com/cosmophage/?hl=en Follow Jemma: https://www.instagram.com/_needsmoresalt/ Follow us: @theartcareer Host: @emilymcelwreath_art Production + Creative Direction @soniaruscoe Editing: @benjamin.galloway Join our community for exclusive updates, artist resources, and behind-the-scenes content! Sign up at theartcareer.com Never miss an episode! Subscribe & leave us a review on Apple Podcasts & Spotify | |||
| 14 Nov 2024 | Alannah Farrell: Portraiture, Psyche, and the Trans Experience in a Shifting World | 00:59:33 | |
The Art Career is honored to share a conversation with Alannah Farrell, recorded on November 8th, 2024, in their Chinatown apartment. Releasing this episode during Trans Awareness Week feels especially meaningful, but the importance of celebrating and uplifting trans voices extends to every day. Alannah’s perspective is a powerful reminder of the beauty, resilience, and talent within the community. Thank you, Alannah, for sharing so much with us. Farrell is a queer, trans non-binary painter who lives and works in Chinatown on the LES, New York City. Conversations around portraiture often focus on identity, gaze, style, and expression. Their paintings touch on these but further delve into how the human psyche is affected by relationships, selfhood, place, architectural spaces, gender dysphoria, existing in a changing body, and memory. They grapple with a complex tenderness, light piercing through a brooding sadness. Farrell presents queer individuals through a lens of understanding and connection, a context shielded from a society eager to erase or enact violence. Their paintings depict more than a moment; rather, time itself unfurling before our eyes—shifting light, shifting weight, the emergence of the inner world. Furthermore, Farrell paints thoughtfully and attentively from life. They describe inviting sitters into the studio as an adrenaline rush—having to work with time as a restriction and the challenge of attempting to capture what is full of life and motion into a singular image. — BL Alannah Farrell (b. 1988, Kingston, NY) is a queer painter who lives and works in New York, NY. Farrell completed their BFA at The Cooper Union, New York, NY. They have presented their work in solo and group exhibitions at Anat Egbi, Los Angeles, CA and New York, NY; Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas, TX; Lyles and King, New York, NY; Alexander Gray Associates, New York, NY; Harper’s, New York, NY; Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA; The Painting Center, New York, NY; Theirry Goldberg Gallery, New York, NY; and UTA Artist Space, Los Angeles, CA. Their work is in the permanent collection of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL. They are represented by Anat Egbi, Los Angeles. http://alannahfarrell.com https://www.alexandergray.com/exhibitions/821-alannah-farrell-erect/ https://www.instagram.com/alannah.farrell.studio/ | |||
| 27 Mar 2025 | Jemima Kirke: Movies, Sex and Bukowski (Redux) | 01:14:09 | |
In this candid and richly layered episode, Emily sits down with artist and actress Jemima Kirke for a conversation that unfolds with wit, depth, and honesty. Best known for her role as Jessa in HBO’s Girls, Jemima is also a RISD-trained painter whose work explores vulnerability, womanhood, and identity through a deeply personal lens. Jemima opens up about the nuances of balancing visibility in the film world with the more private act of painting, the impact of motherhood on her creative process, and why she remains uninterested in pleasing anyone but herself when it comes to making art. The interview was photographed by the inimitable Matthew Tully Dugan, who captured Jemima at home—images as intimate and magnetic as the conversation itself. As always, The Art Career Podcast is brought to you by a small but passionate team. These unscripted, heartfelt dialogues are made possible by a community that values art, storytelling, and truth. Thank you for being here. Jemima Kirke is a British-American actress and visual artist. She rose to prominence for her role as Jessa Johansson on the HBO series Girls, and has since starred in acclaimed projects such as Conversations with Friends, Maniac, and Sex Education. A graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, Jemima’s first love is painting—her figurative works often exploring themes of intimacy, identity, and the complexities of womanhood. Her art has been exhibited in both the U.S. and the UK, and she continues to cultivate a multidisciplinary practice that defies easy categorization. | |||
| 08 Jul 2022 | Ferguson Amo : Anticipating Your Art, Career, and Legacy | 00:35:28 | |
In The Art Career’s last episode of Season One, Emily McElwreath interviews Ghanaian artist Ferguson Amo who has spent his career advocating for artists rights. A self labeled “Artrepreneur”, Ferg discusses the importance of protecting your work, changing the dialogue around artists rights and building a legacy for yourself.
Ferguson Amo works across various mediums, including hyper realistic drawings, installations, and mixed media. Originally from Koforidua, Ghana, the artist explores contemporary African identity in the diaspora and examines the intricate details of history and experiences of cultural diffusion, and its assimilation, through representation. Through each work, Amo asks “how as an audience, can we move the image of black bodies and ‘blackness’ toward emancipation?” Amo has exhibited work at VisArts, Rockville; Kente Royal Gallery and The Immigrant Artist Biennial, both New York City, among others.
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| 10 Nov 2022 | Emily McElwreath (Solo): Lifting Each Other Up | 00:15:45 | |
S2|E7 Emily McElwreath (Solo) Emily shares a little about her life, the women that lift her up, and the inspiration behind @theartcareer Emily McElwreath is equipped with over seventeen years of experience as an adviser, independent curator and art educator; she also boasts a background in sales. Thanks to her time as Director of Communications and Education at the Brant Foundation Art Study Center, Emily demonstrates the unique ability to understand the art world from both the point of view of the artist and the audience. This skill is continually perfected through extensive involvement in art education: throughout her career, Emily has organized multiple programs, lectures, and panels, featuring distinguished artists, on university campuses and leading NYC venues, in addition to lecturing herself at Sotheby’s Education. Emily has worked on blockbuster exhibitions including Andy Warhol, Julian Schnabel and Nate Lowman at The Brant Foundation, as well as lecturing at top NYC museums including The Whitney and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Most recently, Emily has curated multiple exhibitions with leading emerging artists and is now host and CEO of The Art Career Podcast. Building relationships with artists continues to be Emily’s main focus, frequenting studio visits, connecting artists with collectors, and building partnerships within the art community. With an MA from Purchase College in Art History with a Concentration in Contemporary Art Criticism and an Art Business Certification from Christie's Education, Emily McElwreath possesses diverse, real-world experience and formal academic training. This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Visit BetterHelp.com/TAC today and get 10% off your first month. Follow us: @theartcareer Podcast host: @emilymcelwreath_art Music: Chase Johnson Editing: Zach Worden | |||
| 29 Sep 2022 | Mickalene Thomas: To Be an Artist Is a Radical Act | 00:55:29 | |
In Episode 1 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. @theartcareer @mickalenethomas @emilymcelwreath_art @lizzie.gill.art Image Courtesy of the Artist #TAC #TACpodcast #theartcareer #artpodcasts #mickalenethomas | |||
| 01 Dec 2022 | Shona McAndrew: Reverence and the Female Body | 00:37:26 | |
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. Follow us: @theartcareer Follow Shona McAndrew: @ellie.hayworth Follow Chart Gallery: @____chart____ Podcast host: @emilymcelwreath_art Social Media: @lilap3arl Music: Chase Johnson Editing: Zach Worden | |||
| 03 Nov 2022 | Jasmine Wahi: Politeness is Overrated | 00:47:29 | |
On Season 2 Episode 6 of The Art Career Podcast, Emily McElwreath interviews Jasmine Wahi. Wahi's multi-faceted curatorial and social practices predominantly focus on issues of femme empowerment, complicating binary structures within social discourses, and exploring multi-positional cultural identities through the lens of intersectional feminism. During the interview the two cover topics such as community, passion and equitability, and agree that politeness is, indeed, overrated. Jasmine Wahi is the Founder and Co-Director of Project for Empty Space, a nonprofit organization rooted in Newark, NJ, and soon to be in New York City. Her multi-faceted curatorial practice predominantly focuses on issues of femme empowerment, complicating binary structures within social discourses, and exploring multi-positional cultural identities through the lens of intersectional feminism. While co-directing PES, Ms. Wahi became the inaugural Holly Block Social Justice Curator at the Bronx Museum of the Arts in 2020. While at the museum she curated several renowned exhibitions, including Born In Flames: Feminist Futures and Wardell Milan: AMERIKA. God Bless You If It's Good To You, which were oriented around the thesis that visibility is the primary tenet of Social Justice. In addition to her work at more formal institutions, Ms. Wahi also curates exhibitions and lectures internationally on dismantling White Supremacist, Capitalist, Patriarchal structures in the cultural realm and beyond. Recent notable engagements include her 2019 TEDx talk on intersectionality and visibility, entitled All The Women In Me Are Tired; and a group exhibition entitled American Truth at the SVA Chelsea Galleries. A lover of learning and sharing, Ms. Wahi has taught at a number of art institutions, including Yale University, and the School of Visual Arts: MFA Fine Arts department. She is currently on the Faculty of Brooklyn College in New York City. Ms. Wahi received her own Art History education from New York University, where she has a BA in Art History from the College of Arts and Sciences, and an MA from the Institute of Fine Arts. This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Visit BetterHelp.com/TAC today and get 10% off your first month. Follow us: @theartcareer Follow Jasmine: @browngirlcurator Podcast host: @emilymcelwreath_art Music: Chase Johnson Editing: Zach Worden | |||
| 24 May 2024 | Dr. Kymberly Pinder: Dean of the Yale School of Art | 01:06:39 | |
The Art Career travelled to New Haven, CT, to sit down with Dr. Kymberly Pinder, Dean of The Yale School of Art. Dr. Kymberly Pinder (she/her) is the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Dean of the Yale School of Art. An alumna of Yale’s History of Art program, Dr. Pinder is an internationally recognized scholar of race, representation, and public art. She is the author of Painting the Gospel: Black Public Art and Religion in Chicago and the editor of Race-ing Art History: Critical Readings in Race and Art History. Dr. Pinder is widely known for her deep commitment to education and its potential to address local and national challenges. In addition to being an eminent scholar and educator, she has extensive experience at institutions of higher education and museums. Dr. Pinder was appointed Yale’s first black woman dean in 2021. Prior to her appointment at Yale, she served as Provost and Senior Vice President, then later Acting President of Massachusetts College of Art and Design (MassArt). Before her time in Boston, she was the Dean of the University of New Mexico College of Fine Arts for six years, director and curator of the University of New Mexico Art Museum, chair of the Department of Art History, Theory and Criticism, and director of that department’s graduate program at the School of the Art Institute in Chicago (SAIC). Dr. Pinder has also worked in museums and galleries, such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Art Institute of Chicago. Dr. Pinder received her M.A., M.Phil. and Ph.D. from Yale University. Dr. Pinder has approached each of her leadership roles with the view that institutions of higher education must work closely with their home cities to advocate for the importance of arts and culture and to create reciprocal avenues of access. She has curated exhibitions on urgent contemporary issues and held forums for thoughtful student and community member dialogue. Working with local artists, schools and governments, she has helped create murals in Chicago and Albuquerque. Dr. Pinder serves on the boards of Association of Independent Colleges of Art & Design (AICAD), the photography organization CENTER, the Boston Art Commission, Massachusetts State Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, and the Boston Public Art Triennial. https://www.art.yale.edu/ | |||
| 06 Feb 2025 | Art21 x The Art Career: Behind the Lens - Episode 1: Artists and the Unknown with Jurrell Lewis | 00:43:22 | |
We’re launching Season 7 of The Art Career Podcast with a special collaboration, Art21 x The Art Career: Behind the Lens—a series dedicated to the curators and filmmakers who create the magic behind Art21’s iconic documentaries and publications. Art21 is the world’s leading source to learn directly from the artists of our time. In this season’s premiere, host Emily McElwreath sits down with curator Jurrell Lewis to explore Artists and the Unknown, a compelling new book from Art21 that delves into the mysteries, curiosities, and uncertainties that drive contemporary art. From the supernatural to the speculative, Artists and the Unknown captures how artists navigate the limits of human knowledge, embracing the unknown as a space for creativity and transformation. Jurrell Lewis brings his curatorial insight to this conversation, offering a deep dive into the book’s themes, featured artists, and the ways in which art helps us interpret the unexplainable. Artists and the Unknown is available HERE from Art21. About Behind the Lens This season, we’re spotlighting the often-unsung visionaries—curators and filmmakers—who shape the stories behind today’s most influential contemporary artists. Behind the Lens offers a rare glimpse into how Art21’s groundbreaking films and publications come to life, bridging the gap between artists and audiences. About Art21 Art21 is a celebrated nonprofit organization dedicated to inspiring a more creative world through the works and words of contemporary artists. Through their award-winning documentary series, educational programs, and digital resources, Art21 brings audiences closer to today’s leading artists and their processes. Learn more at art21.org. Free Resource for Artists! Want expert guidance on building your art career? Download Navigating the Art World: A Comprehensive Guide for Artists—a free resource covering essential industry insights, practical tips, and more. Get it here: Download Now Links: Art21 – Art21 Follow us: @theartcareer Host: @emilymcelwreath_art Production + Creative Direction @soniaruscoe Editing: @benjamin.galloway Join our community for exclusive updates, artist resources, and behind-the-scenes content! Sign up at theartcareer.com Never miss an episode! Subscribe & leave us a review on Apple Podcasts & Spotify | |||
| 06 Apr 2023 | Jerry Saltz: Live at NYU | 00:55:36 | |
Welcome to Season 3, of the Art Career podcast. To launch our third season, we hosted a live interview between Emily McElwreath and famed art critic Jerry Saltz at New York University. Jerry Saltz is one of the most popular and influential culture writers working today.Since 2006, he has been senior art critic and columnist for New York magazine. Formerly the senior art critic for The Village Voice, he received the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 2018 and was nominated for the award in 2001 and 2006. Saltz served as a visiting critic at the School of Visual Arts, Columbia University, Yale University, and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the New York Studio Residency Program, and was the sole advisor for the 1995 Whitney Biennial. Saltz is the recipient of three honorary doctorates in addition to being the author of the NYT best selling book, How To Be An Artist. Cindy Sherman’s review states, “In How to Be an Artist, Jerry Saltz is so right-on it scares me.” Jerry’s most recent book, ART IS LIFE, draws on two decades of work to offer a real-time survey of contemporary art as a barometer of our times. We love bringing you inspiration and advice from the top names in the creative industry. If you like what you've heard, please join our community and help support production of the show. In doing so you will unlock exclusive content and opportunities. But most importantly, you will allow us to continue to bring this free content to the public, especially young artists who need the support and inspiration The Art Career has brought to our community.
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| 13 Oct 2022 | Simon de Pury: The Man of Constant Curiosity | 00:43:23 | |
In S2 | E3 of The Art Career Podcast, Emily McElwreath interviews Simon de Pury. Together they explore passion, curiosity and gratitude, ultimately discovering why it is that Simon truly is one of the leading figures in the art world. The Art Career Podcast is available on Apple, Spotify, and Google. Link in bio. "My real engine and true motivation is my curiosity" -Simon de Pury Auctioneer, art dealer, curator, photographer and dj, Simon de Pury is one of the leading figures in the art world. Renowned for his legendary performance on the auction podium, which have earned him the moniker “the Mick Jagger of auctions”, de Pury has auctioned and secured some of the most legendary art collections. Moreover, as an active charity auctioneer, it is estimated that de Pury has raised several billion dollars for a number of charities and cultural institutions over the course of his career. As a mentor and curator, de Pury has been instrumental in championing the careers of many contemporary artists, photographers and designers, and has been the subject of and featured in several documentaries and films, including BBC documentary ‘The Man with the Golden Gavel.’ @theartcareer @simondepury @emilymcelwreath_art @lizzie.gill.art Image Courtesy of the Artist #TAC #TACpodcast #theartcareer #artpodcasts #simondepury | |||
| 16 May 2024 | The Dark Side of Art | 00:27:43 | |
This week we uncover the dark and twisted tales where art and crime intersect. A favorite from our true crime mini-series, this episode will explore the horrifying use of modern art as an instrument of torture in addition to the disturbing artistic endeavors of a notorious serial killer-clown. Brace yourself for these haunting narratives.-- This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Visit BetterHelp.com/TAC today and get 10% off your first month. theartcareer.com Follow us: @theartcareer Podcast host: @emilymcelwreath_art Music: Chase Johnson Editing: @benjamin.galloway Production: @ruby_sloan | |||
| 12 May 2022 | Dana Prussian : Investing, Leveraging, and Selling Art | 00:48:36 | |
In Episode 5 of The Art Career Podcast, meet Dana Prussian, New York’s current Senior Vice President of Art Services at Bank of America. In this role, Dana helps drive the bank's art opportunities across all divisions nationally. Dana has a career that was relatively unheard of until recent years, as art product groups at large private banks didn’t really exist yet. She manifested her dream role and skipped the art world ladder by studying art history and political science, then working various roles at Barclays and Bessemer Trust. At the young age of 28, Dana began managing billions worth in art collections. It’s not often that you meet a young woman who helps pave a major intersection of the artworld and finance, so we’re excited to be sitting with Dana now to discuss how she did it, why she does it, and how it all works. We are also delighted to discuss her art market insights. Follow us: @theartcareer / Emily McElwreath @emilymcelwreath_art Dana Prussian - @thedmp privatebank.bankofamerica.com/solutions/individuals-families/art-services.html Podcast Director: Morgan Everhart @morgan_everhart Sound editing: Aaron Stoner Music: Chase Johnson The Art Career is sponsored by BetterHelp. Enjoy 10% off your first month of affordable, private therapy by visiting BetterHelp.com/tac | |||
| 22 Jun 2023 | [REDUX] Jasmine Wahi: Politeness is Overrated | 00:46:07 | |
We are bringing back Jasmine Wahi's episode from Season 2 Episode 6 of The Art Career Podcast! In this episode, Emily McElwreath interviews Jasmine Wahi. Wahi's multi-faceted curatorial and social practices predominantly focus on issues of femme empowerment, complicating binary structures within social discourses, and exploring multi-positional cultural identities through the lens of intersectional feminism. During the interview the two cover topics such as community, passion and equitability, and agree that politeness is, indeed, overrated. Jasmine Wahi is the Founder and Co-Director of Project for Empty Space, a nonprofit organization rooted in Newark, NJ, and soon to be in New York City. Her multi-faceted curatorial practice predominantly focuses on issues of femme empowerment, complicating binary structures within social discourses, and exploring multi-positional cultural identities through the lens of intersectional feminism. While co-directing PES, Ms. Wahi became the inaugural Holly Block Social Justice Curator at the Bronx Museum of the Arts in 2020. While at the museum she curated several renowned exhibitions, including Born In Flames: Feminist Futures and Wardell Milan: AMERIKA. God Bless You If It's Good To You, which were oriented around the thesis that visibility is the primary tenet of Social Justice. In addition to her work at more formal institutions, Ms. Wahi also curates exhibitions and lectures internationally on dismantling White Supremacist, Capitalist, Patriarchal structures in the cultural realm and beyond. Recent notable engagements include her 2019 TEDx talk on intersectionality and visibility, entitled All The Women In Me Are Tired; and a group exhibition entitled American Truth at the SVA Chelsea Galleries. A lover of learning and sharing, Ms. Wahi has taught at a number of art institutions, including Yale University, and the School of Visual Arts: MFA Fine Arts department. She is currently on the Faculty of Brooklyn College in New York City. Ms. Wahi received her own Art History education from New York University, where she has a BA in Art History from the College of Arts and Sciences, and an MA from the Institute of Fine Arts. This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Visit BetterHelp.com/TAC today and get 10% off your first month. Follow us: @theartcareer Follow Jasmine: @browngirlcurator Podcast host: @emilymcelwreath_art Music: Chase Johnson Editing: Zach Worden | |||
| 19 Dec 2024 | Molly Gochman: the Universal Act of Caregiving | 00:50:10 | |
Known for her large-scale, participatory installations, Molly Gochman speaks to Emily in this all new episode about caregiving, motherhood, artmaking, and monuments. This episode follows the recent release of her podcast, Monuments to Motherhood, alongside a series of new sculptural works of the same title which will be sited across New York City and the larger U.S early next year. Molly Gochman, an artist and activist deeply engaged in social practice, focuses on activating spaces for profound collective experiences. Her practice encompasses a diverse range of mediums including photography, sound, installation, and sculpture. Through these mediums, she often challenges and subverts conventional material boundaries to foster interaction, play, exploration, and meaningful dialogue. https://mollygochman.com Listen to Monuments to Motherhood https://www.instagram.com/mollygochman/?hl=en | |||
| 27 Jun 2024 | Bradley Carbone : Balancing a High-Low Aesthetic | 00:46:45 | |
From Complex, Adidas, to Sneeze magazine, Bradley Carbone is key in establishing and driving an authentic New York point of view - or what many may call, “streetwear media”. Bradley has his finger on the pulse of skateboarding, music, and the intersection of street art and fine art. He does this in a way that many people don’t talk about. It’s one thing to have creative vision, but it’s absolutely essential to have direction and organization for visibility and growth. It’s also another very rare thing to be as successful, equally kind as Bradley. In this episode, Bradley discusses how he stays true, connected, and innovative with the street-inspired culture of skateboarding. Follow us: @theartcareer Podcast Host: Emily McElwreath @emilymcelwreath_art Bradley Carbone - @bradleycarbone @sneezemag #TAC #TACpodcast #theartcareer #artpodcasts #sneezemag #bradleycarbone #adidas #complex #skateboarding #skateculture #streetwearmedia | |||
| 06 Dec 2024 | Department of Homeless Services, NYC - Holiday Art Supply Drive | 00:05:39 | |
This holiday season, the team at The Art Career Podcast is collecting art supplies for children and adults served by the New York City Department of Homeless Services (DHS). While food and shelter are understandably the primary focus for the Department of Homeless Services, the team at The Art Career has been in direct conversation with them, and they’ve expressed a pressing need for art supplies. We will be delivering all donated supplies before the holidays, ensuring that your contributions reach the individuals and families who need them most. As we all know, art has the power to heal, inspire, and transform lives. It offers a vital outlet for self-expression, creativity, and connection, particularly for individuals and families navigating challenging times. By providing access to art materials, we aim to nurture creativity, encourage emotional well-being, and bring moments of joy and possibility to those who need it most. Your generosity will directly help foster a sense of empowerment and hope within these communities. TO DONATE: https://www.myregistry.com/giftlist/dhsartsupplies
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| 01 Nov 2024 | Into the Shadows: The Dark Origins of Norwegian Black Metal | 00:21:29 | |
Join us for a spine-chilling dive into the dark, haunting world of Norwegian black metal. In this Halloween special, we explore the shadowy history and intense controversies surrounding this extreme music genre that rose from Norway’s icy landscapes. From its eerie beginnings to its violent, scandal-filled lore, we’ll unravel the chilling events and cultural influences that gave birth to black metal. Featuring insights from the documentary Until the Light Takes Us, we uncover the movement’s roots in rebellion, darkness, and the supernatural, giving you a glimpse into one of music history’s most intense subcultures. Perfect for Halloween, this episode will keep you on the edge of your seat—and perhaps make you rethink the power of music to summon shadows. | |||
| 28 Dec 2023 | Marina Granger: Answers and Guidance for Emerging Artists | 00:49:32 | |
Marina Press Granger worked in the NYC Art World for years, mostly as a gallery director and hated seeing artists get the runaround. Working in galleries during the time that social media became a thing, she realized that the internet was causing a massive shift in the art world. Suddenly artists had so much more power in curating their online presence which allowed them to get in front of anyone and everyone without traditional gatekeepers. So, in 2018 she started THE ARTIST ADVISORY, a company that guides visual artists on how to progress in their careers and get their work OUT THERE. To date, Marina has reached thousands of artists teaching them the business side of being an artist while helping them navigate using the internet to gain connections. In addition to using analytical business acumen acquired through years of experience and a BA & MA in Art History, Granger also uses the mindset shifts and spiritual tools to enhance the success of the artists she works with. She is also a Reiki Master and certified in Classical Chinese Feng Shui. Press includes:-Forbes-British GQ-Hyperallergic-TimeOut New York -The NY Post Tune in to what she has to say on her podcast, The Artist Advisory Hotline. theartcareer.com Marina Granger: @the_artist_advisory Follow us: @theartcareer Podcast host: @emilymcelwreath_art Editing: @benjamin.galloway | |||
| 19 May 2022 | Mark Tribe : Lifelong Interests, Online Communities, and The Art of Critique | 00:52:18 | |
In Episode 6 of The Art Career, Emily McElwreath interviews Mark Tribe. The art world knows Mark Tribe in many different ways, and as soon as you’re introduced to him, you’ll see him everywhere. Simply put, Mark Tribe is a renaissance man. He’s developed a well-rounded career as an artist and educator. In varying combinations, Mark works in painting, photography, video, installation, performance and new media. While maintaining an incredible art practice, he also serves as the Chair of the MFA Fine Arts Department at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Maintaining those two practices alone is a feat, but Mark has somehow managed to start Rhizome. The Rhizome platform is an affiliate in residence at the New Museum which champions born-digital art and culture through commissions, exhibitions, scholarship, and digital preservation. In this episode, Mark shares his balance as an artist, academic and entrepreneur. Follow us: @theartcareer Podcast Host: Emily McElwreath @emilymcelwreath_art Mark Tribe - @marktribe @rhizome @svafinearts Podcast Director: Morgan Everhart @morgan_everhart Sound editing: Aaron Stoner Music: Chase Johnson | |||
| 08 Jun 2023 | Chloe Wise: Coming to New York, Beauty, and Consumption | 00:50:02 | |
In preparation for her upcoming installation for this year's Parcours at Art Basel, Emily McElwreath interviews Chloe Wise. Chloe Wise’s practice spans diverse media, including painting, sculpture, video and installation. Foregrounding an interest in the history of portraiture, Wise examines the multiple channels that lead to the construction of a Self, paying particular attention to the interweaving of consumption and image making. With a wry sense of humour, she nods to canonical tableaux, like Manet’s Déjeuner Sur L’Herbe, exploring the shared projected desires built around food and the female body. Meticulously hand painted casts of food serve as the base for the artist’s sculptural practice where strange assemblies, now frozen in sculpted plastic, toy with the presence and absence of unchangeability and perishability, fiction and reality. Advertising, fashion, taboo, multi-national brands—Wise looks to the consumptive habits built around these structures with parody and derision, underlying how the body is framed and becomes excessive in its manipulation of these sites. Curated by Samuel Leuenberger, founder of the Swiss non-profit exhibition spaces SALTS in Birsfelden and Country SALTS in Bennwil, the Parcours sector returns to Basel's Old Town with twenty projects including sculptures, films, performances, and site-specific installations. Parcours Night, during which participating artists activate their works with physical and sound-based interventions, will return as well and take place on Saturday, June 18 from 4 to 11pm. This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Visit BetterHelp.com/TAC today and get 10% off your first month. Follow us: @theartcareer Follow Chloe: @chloewise_ Chloe website: https://www.chloewise.com/ Podcast host: @emilymcelwreath_art Music: Chase Johnson Editing: @benjamin.galloway | |||
| 18 Oct 2024 | Mathew Tully Dugan: Caviar, Vampires, and Warhol | 01:16:24 | |
With the Halloween season upon us, we're looking back to one of our favourite episodes recorded on a beautiful fall day in Chinatown with Mathew Tully Dugan. Before we sat down for our interview, artist Mathew Tully Dugan cooked the most delicious small plate for my editor Ben and myself; Thomas Keller’s potato pavé with whipped roasted bone marrow, salt cured egg yolk, hackleback caviar and wasabi microgreens. A most delicious way to launch Season 4! Matthew Tully Dugan (b. 1986) Rochester, NY born and NYC based multidisciplinary artist. Dugan's interests span celebrity, psychology, pop iconography, privacy, and fanaticism. Dugan often employs promotional, social, and found imagery in a practice motivated by digital media’s physical and emotional divide. His paintings, sculptures, installations, texts, and curatorial projects collapse the popular and the subcultural, the collective and the personal, as a means of processing contemporary conditions and their impact on the psyche. Recent exhibitions include solo shows at Will Shott, NY (2023), 56 Henry, New York (2022), Loveclub, NY (2021), Fierman, New York, NY (2018) as well as a public works in collaboration with Half Gallery, NY (2023). Dugan also runs a curatorial program, Art Death with yearly exhibitions in Miami Beach. Tully's upcoming exhibition, "Inferno", will open at Lomex's new Walker Street project space this Halloween. It will be up until November 5th. Matthew Tully Dugan: @TULLYdeluxe Follow us: @theartcareer Podcast host: @emilymcelwreath_art Music: Chase Johnson Editing: @benjamin.galloway | |||
| 24 Oct 2024 | Nick Doyle: A Conversation in a Friendly Neighborhood Kink Bar | 00:57:28 | |
On an all new episode of The Art Career, Emily sits down with artist, Nick Doyle, in his Ridgewood studio where his recent installation, Human Resources, a friendly neighbourhood kink bar, is situated until it leaves for Paris. The two have a brave and intimate conversation about sexuality, shame, and, of course, art. Nick Doyle is keenly aware of the legacy of the American notion of Manifest Destiny. Known best for sculptural wall works made from collaged denim, Doyle infiltrates the vocabulary of Americana to examine greed, excess, and toxic masculinity. Doyle uses the road trip—a pillar of American mythology—as a point of entry to his work in order to question the persistence of Rugged Individualism as the fabric of our national identity. Through a series of mechanical miniatures, theatrical scenery, and satirical prop-like denim works, the artist foregrounds the dangers of nostalgia and our evolving relationship to consumerism. Seemingly innocuous, Doyle’s imagery—vending machine, typewriter, cigarette pack—and materials—indigo and cotton—tell a story of American colonialism and consumerism, as well as explore the influence of media on global trade systems. By employing materials that hold cultural significance, the artist both reflects on and critiques social and political agendas that are often at play in contemporary life and visual culture. https://www.nickdoyle.org https://www.perrotin.com/artists/nick_doyle/777#news https://www.instagram.com/nickdoyle333/?hl=en https://www.instagram.com/human_resources._/?hl=en | |||
| 01 Feb 2024 | Ritual for Inspiration: A Gift for our Listeners | 00:23:10 | |
For our season finale, Sarah Potter has created a ritual for inspiration for our listeners. Take the time, gather the elements, and place this in your creative space. Watch what happens. Elements (Instruction in episode): -Any jar -Orange ribbon -Orange candle -Lavender for clarity -Peppermint for Motivation -Dried orange peel for success -Dried rode petals to recieve this inspiration -Cinnamon for protection and speed -Dried basil for luck -Chamomile for optimism -Lemon balm fro confidence Sarah Potter is a celebrity psychic medium, Tarot reader, and professional witch based in NYC. Her spiritual guidance has been sought after by thousands of private and corporate clients as her work has been profiled by Forbes, Refinery 29, InStyle, Teen Vogue & countless other publications. As a resident Tarot Reader & witch at both Cosmopolitan & Bust Magazine, the natural next step in her Tarot journey led her to create her first book “The Cosmo Tarot : The Ultimate Deck & Guidebook” via Hearst Home. Sarah’s dedication to making magical modalities a practical and accessible part of everyday life has led her to become one of the most prominent faces of modern day witchcraft. Her writing on witchcraft, Magic, and Tarot is featured in Cosmopolitan, Astrology.com, Bust Magazine, and Shondaland. Sarah Potter: @iamsarahpotter Editing: @benjamin.galloway Host: @emilymcelwreah_art | |||
| 23 Jun 2023 | Welcome to The Art Career | 00:01:31 | |
The Art Career Podcast is a space breaking barriers by letting you sit in on candid, straightforward conversations with leaders in visual arts, writing, music, theater and film. Join New York based advisor, curator, and overall artist advocate, Emily McElwreath, for authentic and inspirational conversations with icons of our generation like #1 New York Times best selling author Cheryl Strayed, senior art critic for New York magazine Jerry Saltz and world renowned artist Marilyn Minter. Emily dives deep into topics like self development, career trajectories, mental health, social justice and the artists that have changed our lives. Expand your journey through the arts and feel empowered about what you do. | |||
| 22 Nov 2024 | Feminism and Body Freedom: Live at The Neuberger Museum of Art with Marilyn Minter and Jasmine Wahi | 01:10:50 | |
Emily McElwreath, Host of the Art Career Podcast, in conversation with Marilyn Minter and Jasmin Wahi at the Neuburger Museum at Purchase College. Now, more than ever, our work as artists, activists, and advocates is critical in challenging oppressive structures and ensuring our voices are heard. Please join me @neubergermuseum next Thursday, November 14th, at 7pm. I will be speaking with two of the greatest, @marilynminter and @browngirlcurator About the Yaseen Lectures on the Fine Arts: This lecture series, which began in 1974, was endowed by the late Leonard C. Yaseen and his wife Helen, former residents of Larchmont, New York, who financed a similar series at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Featured speakers have included Gordon Parks, Claes Oldenburg, Maya Angelou, Faith Ringgold, Chuck Close, John Shearer, Hank Willis Thomas, and Purchase College alumnus Fred Wilson. The legacy of the Yaseens’s gift continues today through the support of Roger Yaseen and his family in honor of his parents. The Yaseen Lectures on the Fine Arts Fund is stewarded by The New York Community Trust. | |||
| 20 Jun 2024 | Kimberli Gant: Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Brooklyn Museum | 01:02:23 | |
This week on The Art Career Emily sits down in the empty galleries of, Giants: Art from the Dean Collection, with Kimberli Gant, Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art at the Brooklyn Museum. Kimberly Gant has curated numerous exhibitions and gallery reinstallations including the Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz & Alicia Keys, Spike Lee: Creative Sources (20023-2024), A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration (2003), and Black Orpheus: Jacob Lawrence & the Mbari Club (2022). Gant received her PhD in Art History from the University of Texas Austin (2017), and holds both a MA and BA in Art History from Columbia University (2009) and Pitzer College (2002). Gant has published scholarly work in academic books, such as Anywhere But Here: Black Intellectuals in the Atlantic World and Beyond (2015), art publications such as NKA: Journal of Contemporary African Art, Art Lies and African Arts, and exhibition catalogues for The Brooklyn Museum, the Chrysler Museum, The Newark Museum, The Contemporary Austin, the Studio Museum of Harlem, MoCADA, Paris Photo, and the Centre for Contemporary Art Lagos. A huge thanks to Swiss Beats and Alicia Keys for understanding the importance of artists supporting artists. | |||
| 06 Mar 2025 | Mary Sabbatino: Galerie Lelong & Co., Championing Artists, & A Surprise Visit from Yoko Ono | 01:07:58 | |
In this episode of The Art Career, Emily travels to Galerie Lelong & Co in Chelsea to sit down with gallerist Mary Sabbatino. Mary Sabbatino is Vice President and Partner of Galerie Lelong & Co., New York. She was appointed director of the New York location of Galerie Lelong & Co. in 1991 and became a gallery partner in 2007. In 2021, she was awarded the prestigious Chevalier de L’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters) from the Government of France. Championing a diverse roster of contemporary artists from throughout the world, the gallery has pioneered the community both in presenting a balanced roster of male and female artists, and artists from the Global South. Contributing to the overarching contemporary art scene, she served on the boards of ArtTable and the Executive Board of the Art Dealers’ Association of America, during which she initiated and co-authored the ADAA’s first code of ethics. Sabbatino served on the Selection Committee for Art Basel Miami Beach (2013-2020), the Art Basel Joint Selection Committee, and is a founding member of the Council for the Elizabeth Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum, New York. In 2020, along with colleagues from international galleries, she initiated the platforms Galleries Curate and SOUTH SOUTH. In addition to fostering the careers and legacies of the gallery’s artists, Sabbatino co-curated Art from Brazil in New York (1995) which presented the first solo exhibitions of the region’s most vital figures—Waltercio Caldas, Cildo Meireles, Hélio Oiticica, Mira Schendel, and Tunga—and curated Juan Downey: Video Installations and Drawings (1995), at the Museo Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile. The gallery is proud to have represented leading contemporary artists and estates for over twenty years, including Petah Coyne, Andy Goldsworthy, Jane Hammond, Alfredo Jaar, Cildo Meireles, the Estate of Ana Mendieta, Jaume Plensa, Kate Shepherd, the Estate of Nancy Spero, Ursula von Rydingsvard, and Krzysztof Wodiczko. About Galerie Lelong & Co Since 1991, Galerie Lelong & Co., New York, has championed a diverse roster of contemporary artists from throughout the world. Led by Mary Sabbatino, Vice President and Partner, the gallery has pioneered the community both in presenting a balanced roster of male and female artists, and artists from the Global South. The gallery’s programming is noted for its political acuity and museum-quality exhibitions that include contemporary sculpture and installations, as well as its work with artists to help develop large-scale public art commissions beyond the gallery’s walls. In tandem with the gallery’s artists who present works that examine the human condition and collective consciousness, Galerie Lelong & Co. demonstrates its commitment to social justice and good citizenship through charitable initiatives and collaborations. Galerie Lelong & Co. is a member of the Art Dealers’ Association of America, the most esteemed organization of art galleries in the United States. Free Resource for Artists! Want expert guidance on building your art career? Download Navigating the Art World: A Comprehensive Guide for Artists—a free resource covering essential industry insights, practical tips, and more. Get it here: Download Now Links: Follow Galerie Lelong & Co: https://www.instagram.com/galerielelong/?hl=en Follow Mary Sabbatino: https://www.instagram.com/mary_sabbatino/?hl=en Follow us: @theartcareer Host: @emilymcelwreath_art Production + Creative Direction @soniaruscoe Editing: @benjamin.galloway Join our community for exclusive updates, artist resources, and behind-the-scenes content! Sign up at theartcareer.com Never miss an episode! Subscribe & leave us a review on Apple Podcasts & Spotify | |||
| 19 Sep 2024 | All That Glitters: A STORY OF FRIENDSHIP, FRAUD, AND FINE ART By Orlando Whitfield | 00:52:00 | |
On Episode 3, Season 6 of The Art Career, Emily sits down with Orlando Whitfield, author of All That Glitters: A STORY OF FRIENDSHIP, FRAUD, AND FINE ART Orlando Whitfield and Inigo Philbrick met in 2006 at London’s Goldsmiths University where they became best friends. By 2007 they had started I&O Fine Art. Orlando would eventually set up his own gallery and watch as Inigo quickly immersed himself in a world of private jets and multimillion-dollar deals for major clients. Inigo seemed brilliant, but underneath the extravagant façade, his complicated financial schemes were unraveling. With debt, lawsuits, and court summonses piling up, Inigo went into a tailspin of lies and subterfuge. At around the same time, Orlando would himself experience a nervous breakdown and leave the art world for good. By 2019 things had spiraled enough out of control for Inigo to flee to the remote island nation of Vanuatu, 300 miles west of Fiji. Within a year, he was arrested by the FBI and extradited to America, where he was sentenced to seven years in prison for having committed more than $86 million in fraud. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/703052/all-that-glitters-by-orlando-whitfield/ https://www.theartcareer.com https://www.instagram.com/theartcareer/?hl=en | |||
| 04 May 2023 | Jeremy Blocker: New York Theatre Workshop | 00:49:19 | |
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. This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Visit BetterHelp.com/TAC today and get 10% off your first month. Follow us: @theartcareer Follow Jeremy : @jwblocker Follow New York Theatre Workshop: @nytw79 Podcast host: @emilymcelwreath_art Social Media: @lilap3arl Music: Chase Johnson Editing: @benjamin.galloway | |||
| 20 Feb 2025 | Brianna Capozzi's Lens: Lawless Fashion and Grit | 01:02:01 | |
On season 7, Episode 3 of The Art Career Podcast, Emily sits down with fashion photograher and director Brianna Capozzi in her Brooklyn, NY apartment. First published in 2014, Brianna Capozzi has been working for over a decade to make distinctive images that have contributed to a movement of contemporary female-led fashion photography. Capozzi’s work places less emphasis on an ideal and instead uplifts the raw, fierce and playful that exists innately and uniquely in each subject. Her work demonstrates a fervent interest in the power, versatility, and inherent creative force of the female form. Advertising: Adidas, Agent Provocateur, Alexander Wang, Bally, Bottega Veneta, Burberry, Calvin Klein, Carolina Herrera, Cartier, Chloe, Chopard, Deisel, DKNY, Eckhaus Latta, Fenty, Frankie’s Bikinis, GAP, Gucci, Jonathan Simkhai, Khaite, Marc Jacobs, Maryam Nassir Zadeh, Nike, Nordstrom, Pinko, Puma, Rare Beauty, Stella McCartney, Victoria’s Secret, Skims, Zara. Editorial: All In, American Vogue, British Vogue, Beauty Papers, Blau, D Republica, Dazed & Confused, Double, Interview, M Le Monde, Marfa, Myth, Pop, Re-Edition, Vogue Italia. Published: Well Behaved Women (Idea Book, 2018), Sisters (Idea Book, 2024) Free Resource for Artists! Want expert guidance on building your art career? Download Navigating the Art World: A Comprehensive Guide for Artists—a free resource covering essential industry insights, practical tips, and more. Get it here: Download Now Links: https://www.instagram.com/briannalcapozzi/?hl=en https://rep-ltd.com/artists/brianna-capozzi Follow us: @theartcareer Host: @emilymcelwreath_art Production + Creative Direction @soniaruscoe Editing: @benjamin.galloway Join our community for exclusive updates, artist resources, and behind-the-scenes content! Sign up at theartcareer.com Never miss an episode! Subscribe & leave us a review on Apple Podcasts & Spotify | |||
| 06 May 2022 | Leo Fitzpatrick: Fostering and Protecting Originality | 00:47:56 | |
In our 4th episode of The Art Career, Emily McElwreath interviews the multifaceted Leo Fitzpatrick. This may be one of the most perceptive and honest interviews you’ll ever listen to about what the art world is really like today. Many know Leo Fitzpatrick for his acting career, launching at age 14 as Telly in Larry Clark’s Kids. You may have seen him later in his career appearing in The Wire, Carnivale, Banshee and Sons of Anarchy. However, we’re here for Leo’s exceptional, intersectional career as a gallerist, actor and DJ. Leo Fitzpatrick might’ve done what many are aspiring for, as he is someone who has successfully pursued everything he’s ever been passionate about. Through this episode, we discuss why Leo started a gallery in the pandemic, how Leo measures success, and what makes the art world so dysfunctional these days. Public Access is a space bent on a wild-hearted, community-minded programming that’s reminiscent of the city’s scrappier days. Photo: James Stone, New York Magazine Follow us: @theartcareer / Emily McElwreath @emilymcelwreath_art Public Access: @publicaccess.nyc / Leo Fizpatrick @Lousyleo Podcast Director: Morgan Everhart @morgan_everhart Sound editing: Aaron Stoner Music: Chase Johnson The Art Career is sponsored by BetterHelp. Listeners enjoy 10% off their first month of affordable, private therapy by visiting BetterHelp.com/tac | |||
| 20 Apr 2023 | Danny Báez - Second Phase in NYC | 00:53:17 | |
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. This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Visit BetterHelp.com/TAC today and get 10% off your first month. Follow us: @theartcareer Follow Danny Báez : @digitaldannybaez Follow Art Noir: @artnoirco Follow : @regularnormalnyc Follow: @kickstarter Podcast host: @emilymcelwreath_art Social Media: @lilap3arl Music: Chase Johnson Editing: @benjamin.galloway | |||
| 10 Apr 2025 | Melissa Auf der Maur: Rock Icon and Cultural Visionary | 01:24:23 | |
In this episode of The Art Career, Emily sits down with the incomparable Melissa Auf der Maur — musician, visual artist, filmmaker, and co-founder of the multidisciplinary arts center Basilica Hudson. Known for her role as the bass player in iconic 1990s rock bands Hole and The Smashing Pumpkins, Melissa’s journey spans far beyond the stage. From self-producing solo albums to launching a nationally recognized cultural venue in Hudson, NY, Melissa has spent the past two decades creating space — literally and metaphorically — for artists to gather, experiment, and thrive. This conversation covers the full spectrum of her creative life: music, motherhood, mythology, and the radical act of sustaining a long-term, independent practice. We also talk about her upcoming literary memoir, which will explore her time inside the legendary 1990s rock scene — set to be released in 2026 by Grand Central Publishing / Hachette Books. We discuss: • Touring the world with Hole and The Smashing Pumpkins • Creating Basilica Hudson as a haven for artists and community • Her deep roots in visual art and photography • Storytelling, place-making, and the role of women in music history • Writing her forthcoming memoir on the 90s rock era Follow Melissa: @xmadmx Learn more about Basilica Hudson: basilicahudson.org Follow Emily: @emilymcelwreath_art Follow The Art Career: @theartcareer Melissa Auf der Maur was born and raised in Montreal, Canada where she received a fine arts education focused on music and photography. Auf der Maur is most prominently known for her | |||
| 20 Oct 2022 | Taha Clayton: Remembrance, Resilience and Representation | 00:37:46 | |
On Season 2, Episode 4, of The Art Career Podcast, Emily McElwreath interviews artist Taha Clayton during his solo exhibition, The Cloth, curated by Will Hutnick at Troutbeck in Amenia, NY. The two explore what it means to be self-taught, maintaining dedication, and the importance of representation. The Art Career podcast is available on all podcast platforms. Taha Clayton is a Brooklyn-based painter, Houston, TX born and raised in Toronto, ON. Clayton's style and aesthetic is rooted in classical practices, while his narratives juxtapose historical and futurist allusions. He creates realistic renderings, many through portraiture, to celebrate and transcend culture and legacy. His Muslim upbringing and cultural heritage shape his work in order to address mistruths of ethnic antiquity. This clash with Western perspectives is conveyed through images of empowerment rather than historically misguided portrayals of despair and strife. Whether his subjects are captured in their natural environment or composed within an imagined story, these figures embody dignity, culture and beauty. Clayton’s precise, labored, and intricate methods of realism is especially illustrated through his common use of fabric. His subjects are not only representatives, but should be seen as individuals with human stories. His work has been recently exhibited at the Wassaic Project (Wassaic, NY), the Art Renewal Center (Port Reading, NJ), and at MEAM, the Europe Museum of Modern Art (Barcelona, Spain). Clayton’s artistic journey was also documented in the award winning 2016 documentary, “Heavyweight Paint". This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Visit BetterHelp.com/TAC today and get 10% off your first month. Follow us: @theartcareer Follow Taha: @tahaclayton Podcast host: @emilymcelwreath_art Interview location for Episode 4: Troutbeck Music: Chase Johnson Editing: Zach Worden | |||
| 14 Jun 2024 | Liz Hopfan: Free Arts NYC | 00:35:20 | |
Emily sits down with founder and director of Free Arts NYC, Liz Hopfan as she preapres for their anual auction. Free Arts NYC empowers youth from underserved communities through art and mentoring programs to develop their creativity, confidence, and skills to succeed. "Since inception, Free Arts NYC has provided high-quality arts programming for youth in underserved communities, with 1:1 mentorship as a core pillar of our mission. Rooted in the heart of NYC’s vibrant creative community, we are propelled forward by a dynamic network of creatives who share our passion. Students join our programs through over 30 partnerships held with schools, community centers, and NYC’s Department of Homeless Services throughout the five boroughs. We strive to level the playing field by creating access, opportunities, and equity for the next generation." -FREE ARTS, NYC | |||
| 27 Nov 2023 | [REDUX]: Mickalene Thomas | 00:55:38 | |
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. @theartcareer @mickalenethomas @emilymcelwreath_art Image Courtesy of the Artist #TAC #TACpodcast #theartcareer #artpodcasts #mickalenethomas | |||
| 27 Oct 2022 | Eileen Myles: New York, Meditation, and Cigarettes | 00:47:47 | |
On Season 2 Episode 5 of The Art Career Podcast, Emily McElwreath interviews Eileen Myles prior to the release of Pathetic Literature, a global anthology of pieces from lesser-known classics by luminaries like Franz Kafka, Samuel Delany, and Gwendolyn Brooks to up-and-coming unpublished writers that examine pathos and feeling, giving a well-timed rehab to the word “pathetic”. During the interview the two discuss meditation, Marfa, cigarette smoking and the best city in the world, New York. The Art Career podcast is available on all podcast platforms. Eileen Myles (they/them) came to New York from Boston in 1974 to be a poet, subsequently novelist, public talker and art journalist. A Sagittarius, their 22 books include For Now, evolution, Afterglow, I Must Be Living Twice/new & selected poems, and Chelsea Girls. In 2019 they wrote and directed an 18-minute super 8 film, The Trip, a puppet road film. See it on youtube. Eileen is the recipient of a Guggenheim, a Warhol/Creative Capital Arts Writers grant, 4 Lambda Book Awards, the Shelley Prize, and a poetry award from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. In 2016, they received a Creative Capital grant and the Clark Prize for excellence in art writing. In 2019 Myles received a poetry award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters. In 2020 they got the Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Publishing Triangle. They live in New York and Marfa, TX. This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Visit BetterHelp.com/TAC today and get 10% off your first month. Follow us: @theartcareer Follow Eileen: @eileen.myles Podcast host: @emilymcelwreath_art Music: Chase Johnson Editing: Zach Worden | |||
| 27 Dec 2023 | [REDUX] Cheryl Strayed: Put Yourself in the Way of Beauty | 00:56:15 | |
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. Follow us: @theartcareer Follow Cheryl Strayed: @cherylstrayed Podcast host: @emilymcelwreath_art Social Media: @lilap3arl Music: Chase Johnson Editing: Zach Worden | |||
| 09 May 2024 | Jordan Huelskamp: Head of Curatorial at Artsy | 01:01:20 | |
On Season 5, Episode 3 of The Art Career, Emily sits down with head of curatorial at Artsy, Jordan Huelskamp, at the Artsy headquarters in downtown NYC. Jordan Huelskamp spearheads curation efforts at Artsy across the organization’s app and marketing channels. As Curatorial Lead, she reaches an audience of 5M+ users and followers, the largest online audience in commercial art. Her work illuminates data to tell compelling stories about the art market, with an aim to foreground overlooked artists. Huelskamp is also the Founder of Salon, a member-managed art fund. Her interests in merging art, human connection and technology draw from her prior experience as a culture writer and on the communications team at Apple. Huelskamp also sits on the board of the nonprofit WORTHLESSSTUDIOS in New York, which provides space, materials, and technical assistance for artists of all backgrounds to realize large-scale public art projects. Huelskamp was educated at Stanford University (B.A. in American Studies) and Columbia University (M.S. in Journalism). | |||
| 13 Jul 2023 | True Crime Gallery: The Dark Side of Art | 00:25:30 | |
Welcome to the "True Crime Gallery: The Dark Side of Art", the season 3 mini series finale of The Art Career Podcast, where we are going to uncover the dark and twisted tales where art and crime intersect. In this 3 part series, we bring you bone-chilling stories that will leave you captivated. We began with Dr. Noah Charney telling the tale of the cursed Ghent masterpiece. This episode we will explore the horrifying use of modern art as an instrument of torture, to a crime hidden behind one of the Louvre's prized masterpieces, and the disturbing artistic endeavors of a notorious serial killer-clown. We’ll end with the famous thefts of the Mona Lisa. Brace yourself for these haunting narratives.-- This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Visit BetterHelp.com/TAC today and get 10% off your first month. theartcareer.com Follow us: @theartcareer Podcast host: @emilymcelwreath_art Music: Chase Johnson Editing: @benjamin.galloway Production: @ruby_sloan | |||
| 22 Dec 2022 | Cheryl Strayed: Put Yourself in the Way of Beauty | 00:55:20 | |
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. Follow us: @theartcareer Follow Cheryl Strayed: @cherylstrayed Follow 56 Henry: @56henry.nyc Podcast host: @emilymcelwreath_art Social Media: @lilap3arl Music: Chase Johnson Editing: Zach Worden | |||
| 26 Oct 2023 | Damien Davis: Artists as Center of Ecosystem | 00:59:28 | |
On Season 4, Episode 2, Emily speaks with artist Damien Davis for a candid conversation about the importance of understanding that the ARTIST is at the center of the ecosystem, not the other way around. Damien Davis is a Brooklyn-based artist, born in Crowley, Louisiana and raised in Phoenix, Arizona. His practice explores historical representations of blackness by seeking to unpack the visual language of various cultures and question how these societies code/decode representations of race through craft, design and digital modes of production. His work has appeared at The Whitney Museum and Museum of Modern Art, as well as METHOD Gallery in Seattle, and Biagiotti Progetto Arte in Italy. He is the recipient of the Rema Hort Mann Foundation Community Engagement Grant and has been awarded residencies with the Museum of Arts and Design, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and Pilchuck Glass School. Mr. Davis is also a former fellow and current advisor for the Art & Law Program in New York City. His work has been mentioned in the New York Times, Frieze Magazine, The Guardian, Hyperallergic and Vulture Magazine. Mr. Davis holds a BFA in Studio Art and an MA in Visual Arts Administration from New York University. Damien Davis: @damiendavis Follow us: @theartcareer Podcast host: @emilymcelwreath_art Music: Chase Johnson Editing: @benjamin.galloway We are proud to be supported by The New York Studio School. Founded in 1964 as an intensive studio arts program with an emphasis on perception, artists learning from artists, and drawing as the most direct means of describing one’s ideas or experiences, the Studio School offers an array of full-time and part-time programs that prioritize small classes and individual guidance from dedicated instructors distinguished in their fields. It is located in the heart of Greenwich Village, in a National Historic Landmark building that was once home to the original Whitney Museum of American Art. The School invites you to join its free public programming, including the Evening Lecture Series, which for more than half a century has been a cornerstone of the NYC art world and can now be experienced worldwide via livestreaming. Visit nyss.org to enroll in classes, see what’s on in the gallery, register for evening lectures, and more. To learn more about full-time study at NYSS, schedule an in-person tour or a virtual meeting by emailing info@nyss.org. | |||
| 26 May 2022 | Will Hutnick : Facilitating Artist Forward Projects with Mindfulness | 00:44:02 | |
In Episode 7 of The Art Career Podcast, Emily McElwreath chats with Will Hutnick, an artist, curator, and Director of Artistic Programming at the Wassaic Project in Upstate NY. The Wassaic Project is widely known, especially with artists around NYC, for being a residency that cultivates a great artist community. Will shares how he promotes artist centric projects while maintaining healthy boundaries in his personal and professional life. Will also shares why residencies are significant in the arts and how to successfully apply to them. Hutnick is a 2021 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Painting, as well as a 2017 Martha Boschen Porter fund grant recipient from the Berkshire Taconic Foundation. He received his M.F.A. from Pratt Institute (Brooklyn, NY) and his B.A. from Providence College (Providence, RI). Recent exhibitions include: 1969 Gallery (New York, NY), Geary Contemporary (Millerton, NY), Sugarlift (New York, NY), Satellite Art Club (Brooklyn), Craven Contemporary (Kent, CT), Collar Works (Troy, NY), Standard Space (Sharon, CT, solo) and One River School (Hartsdale, NY, solo). Hutnick has been an artist-in-residence at Yaddo, Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts and Sciences, Soaring Gardens Artists’ Retreat, Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency by Collar Works, DNA Artist Residency, Wassaic Project, Vermont Studio Center and a curator-in-residence at Benaco Arte and Trestle Projects. He has curated exhibitions at SPRING/BREAK Art Show, Ortega y Gasset Projects, Trestle Projects, Pratt Institute, Wassaic Project and Standard Space. From 2015-20, Hutnick was one of the Co-Directors of Ortega y Gasset Projects, an artist-run curatorial collective and exhibition space in Brooklyn. He is currently the Director of Artistic Programming at the Wassaic Project, a nonprofit organization that uses art and art education to foster positive social change. Follow us: @theartcareer Podcast Host: Emily McElwreath @emilymcelwreath_art Will Hutnick - @willhutnick @wassaicproject Podcast Director: Morgan Everhart @morgan_everhart Sound editing: Aaron Stoner Music: Chase Johnson | |||
| 09 Jun 2022 | Bradley Carbone : Balancing a High-Low Aesthetic | 00:41:57 | |
From Complex, Adidas, to Sneeze magazine, Bradley Carbone is key in establishing and driving an authentic New York point of view - or what many may call, “streetwear media”. Bradley has his finger on the pulse of skateboarding, music, and the intersection of street art and fine art. He does this in a way that many people don’t talk about. It’s one thing to have creative vision, but it’s absolutely essential to have direction and organization for visibility and growth. It’s also another very rare thing to be as successful, equally kind as Bradley. In this episode, Bradley discusses how he stays true, connected, and innovative with the street-inspired culture of skateboarding. Follow us: @theartcareer Podcast Host: Emily McElwreath @emilymcelwreath_art Bradley Carbone - @bradleycarbone @sneezemag Podcast Director: Morgan Everhart @morgan_everhart Sound editing: Aaron Stoner Music: Chase Johnson This episode is sponsored by Artstagram, Friend of the Artist, and Better Help. Artstagram is a leading art account bringing eye-catching coverage of established and emerging artists in New York and beyond to your Instagram feed. @artstagram__ Friend of The Artist is a publication launched in 2015 to showcase the work of emerging artists. @friendoftheartist Enjoy 10% off your first month of affordable, private therapy by visiting BetterHelp.com/tac #TAC #TACpodcast #theartcareer #artpodcasts #sneezemag #bradleycarbone #adidas #complex #skateboarding #skateculture #streetwearmedia | |||
| 26 Sep 2024 | Laurie Simmons: Artists Supporting Artists | 01:01:28 | |
In this special episode Emily sits down with Laurie Simmons on a Monday morning in Chinatown at, DEEP PHOTOS / IN THE BEGINNING, the artists' second solo show at 56 Henry. Laurie Simmons is an internationally recognized artist. Since the mid-70s, Simmons has staged scenes for her camera to create images with intensely psychological subtexts and nonlinear narratives. By the early 1980s Simmons was at the forefront of a new generation of artists, predominantly women, whose use of photography began a new dialogue in contemporary art. Her work is part of the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art and The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City; the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC; the Hara Museum in Tokyo; and the Stedelijk Museum of Modern Art in Amsterdam, among others. In 2018-2019 Simmons’s retrospective Big Camera/Little Camera was presented at The Modern Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas and The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. In 2006 she produced and directed her first film, The Music of Regret, starring Meryl Streep, Adam Guettel and the Alvin Ailey 2 Dancers. The film premiered at The Museum of Modern Art. Her feature film MY ART premiered at the 73rd Venice Film Festival and Tribeca Film festival in 2017. Simmons lives and works in New York and Connecticut.
DEEP PHOTOS / IN THE BEGINNING 105 Henry Street September 4 – October 27, 2024 | |||
| 23 Jun 2022 | Lauryn-Ashley Vandyke : Manifesting Your Own Career in the Art World | 00:49:55 | |
Lauryn-Ashley Vandyke is a recent graduate of New York University who has made a fast and furious name for herself in the New York art scene. She has become downtown Manhattan’s party planner, headlining the top DJs, venues and emerging artists. Lauryn-Ashley is a regular contributor to The Drunken Canal, a print-only newspaper for the exclusive downtown crowd. In this episode of The Art Career Podcast, Lauryn-Ashley shares her journey to her recent role as David Zwirner Gallery’s event coordinator. Follow us: @theartcareer Podcast Host: Emily McElwreath @emilymcelwreath_art Lauryn-Ashley Vandyke - @tastyhandpullednoodles Podcast Director: Morgan Everhart @morgan_everhart Sound editing: Aaron Stoner Music: Chase Johnson Enjoy 10% off your first month of affordable, private therapy by visiting BetterHelp.com/tac | |||
| 27 Feb 2025 | Art21 x The Art Career: Behind the Lens - Ian Forster | 00:36:17 | |
Welcome to episode 2 of Art21 x The Art Career: Behind the Lens—a series dedicated to the curators and filmmakers who create the magic behind Art21’s iconic documentaries and publications. Art21 is the world’s leading source to learn directly from the artists of our time. In this episode, host Emily McElwreath sits down with Senior Producer for Art21, Ian Forster. As a producer and director, Ian Forster creates documentary content for Art21’s various digital and broadcast programs. Since joining the organization in 2009, he has worked on six seasons of Art in the Twenty-First Century, most recently directing and producing “London” from the tenth season and “Johannesburg” from the ninth season. Additionally, he worked on the Peabody Award-winning film William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible and has overseen the digital series Extended Play since 2012, producing over 100 short artist portraits. Forster created the online video series Artist to Artist in 2013, which featured artists in conversation with their peers at international biennials. His films have screened at festivals internationally, including DC Shorts, DOC NYC, and Artecinema, and have been honored with a Vimeo Staff Pick and as a Webby Award Honoree. He graduated from the Newhouse School at Syracuse University with a B.S. in Television, Radio, and Film. About Behind the Lens This season, we’re spotlighting the often-unsung visionaries—curators and filmmakers—who shape the stories behind today’s most influential contemporary artists. Behind the Lens offers a rare glimpse into how Art21’s groundbreaking films and publications come to life, bridging the gap between artists and audiences. About Art21 Art21 is a celebrated nonprofit organization dedicated to inspiring a more creative world through the works and words of contemporary artists. Through their award-winning documentary series, educational programs, and digital resources, Art21 brings audiences closer to today’s leading artists and their processes. Learn more at art21.org. Free Resource for Artists! Want expert guidance on building your art career? Download Navigating the Art World: A Comprehensive Guide for Artists—a free resource covering essential industry insights, practical tips, and more. Get it here: Download Now Links: Art21 – Art21 Follow Ian: https://www.instagram.com/ianjforster/ Follow us: @theartcareer Host: @emilymcelwreath_art Production + Creative Direction @soniaruscoe Editing: @benjamin.galloway Join our community for exclusive updates, artist resources, and behind-the-scenes content! Sign up at theartcareer.com Never miss an episode! Subscribe & leave us a review on Apple Podcasts & Spotify | |||
| 28 Apr 2022 | Marilyn Minter : Pleasure, Beauty Standards, and Social Change | 00:49:34 | |
In the inaugural episode of The Art Career, Emily McElwreath interviews world renowned artist and activist, Marilyn Minter. Marilyn Minter’s paintings, photographs, prints, and videos investigate how the beauty industry expertly creates and manipulates desire, beauty standards, and pleasure through images. In our inaugural episode, Marilyn shares how she paved various roads in the arts that instill social change. Marilyn Minter (born 1948) is an American artist currently living and working in New York City. Minter's work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions and has been included in group exhibitions in museums all over the world. In 2006, Marilyn Minter was included in the Whitney Biennial, and installed several billboards in Chelsea, New York City in collaboration with Creative Time. Her video Green Pink Caviar was exhibited in the lobby of the MoMA from 2010-2011. It was also shown on digital billboards on Sunset Boulevard in L.A. and on the Creative Time MTV billboard in Times Square, New York. In 2013, Minter was featured in “Riotous Baroque,” an exhibition that originated at the Kunsthaus Zürich and traveled to the Guggenheim Bilbao. In 2015, Minter’s retrospective Pretty/Dirty opened at the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston, TX. Pretty/Dirty traveled to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, the Orange Country Museum of Art, and finally the Brooklyn Museum in November 2016. Minter is represented by Salon 94, New York, Regen Projects, Los Angeles and Baldwin Gallery, Aspen. Follow us: @theartcareer / Emily McElwreath @emilymcelwreath_art Marilyn Minter: @marilynminter / www.marilynminter.net Podcast Director: Morgan Everhart @morgan_everhart Sound editing: Aaron Stoner Music: Chase Johnson Further links: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/12/magazine/sex-old-age.html www.theartcareer.com The Art Career is sponsored by BetterHelp. Listeners enjoy 10% off their first month of affordable, private therapy by visiting BetterHelp.com/tac | |||
| 16 Nov 2023 | Natalie Baxter: Suffragettes, Guns, and Quilts | 00:54:30 | |
On Season 4, Episode 5, Emily sits down with artist Natalie Baxter in her studio in Upstate NY. Natalie Baxter (b. 1985, Lexington, KY) received her MFA from the University of Kentucky in 2012 and a BA in Fine Art from the University of the South in Sewanee, TN in 2007. Her work has been exhibited in galleries, museums, universities, and fairs internationally with recent shows at Denny Dimin Gallery in both New York and Hong Kong, The New York Historical Society, The Torrance Art Museum, and Supermarket Art Fair in Stockholm. She has been an artist in residency at the Wassaic Project, Stove Works, a fellowship recipient at the Vermont Studio Center, IASPIS grant recipient at Konstepidemin in Gothenburg, Sweden, New York State Council for the Arts grant recipient, and twice awarded the Queens Art Fund Grant. Press for Baxter’s work includes, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Hyperallergic, The Guardian, and Bomb Magazine. Natalie Baxter: @nattybax Follow us: @theartcareer Podcast host: @emilymcelwreath_art Editing: @benjamin.galloway | |||
| 25 May 2023 | Dr. Kate Tomas: Magic, Intuition, and Power | 01:04:10 | |
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. This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Visit BetterHelp.com/TAC today and get 10% off your first month. Follow us: @theartcareer Follow Kate : @katetomasphd Kate;s website: https://www.drkatetomas.com/ Podcast host: @emilymcelwreath_art Music: Chase Johnson Editing: @benjamin.galloway | |||
| 28 Apr 2022 | Max Kendrick : Welcome to the World, Fairchain | 00:50:24 | |
In Episode 2 of The Art Career Podcast, Emily McElwreath speaks with Fairchain’s CEO, Max Kendrick. Fairchain is a title management, authentication, and transaction platform for fine art, organized around a high-impact social mission. Fairchain establishes new revenue streams for artists and galleries while protecting buyers from fakes, fraud, and disputes. This new platform delivers a more trustworthy, equitable, and sustainable approach to art transactions. Fairchain allows artists, gallerists, and collectors to prove title, record provenance, authenticate, and transact art works with ease, all while supporting working artists. Max Kenrick, CEO of Fairchain, is a serial innovator with a passion for tackling tough problems in ambiguous and high-risk environments. Experienced in crisis management, operations, social innovation, and strategic communication across the United States, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. Links: Follow us: @theartcareer / Emily McElwreath @emilymcelwreath_art Fairchain: @fairchain.art / www.fairchain.art/ Podcast Director: Morgan Everhart @morgan_everhart Sound editing: Aaron Stoner Music: Chase Johnson Further links: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/23/arts/design/fairchain-artists-resale-royalties.html The Art Career is sponsored by BetterHelp. Listeners enjoy 10% off their first month of affordable, private therapy by visiting BetterHelp.com/tac | |||
| 06 Sep 2022 | Special: The Armory show with Nicole Berry | 00:41:31 | |
In preparation for Season 2, Emily McElwreath sits down at the Javits Center with Nicole Berry to talk about the 2022 edition of The Armory Show. As Executive Director, Nicole Berry leads the development and strategic vision of The Armory Show, directly overseeing exhibitor relations and spearheading the fair’s VIP program. Nicole joined The Armory Show in September 2016 as Deputy Director and was appointed to the role of Executive Director in November 2017. Previously, Nicole served as Deputy Director of Expo Chicago from 2011 to 2016, playing a prominent role in expanding the fair’s exhibitor list and collector base, both internationally and in the American Midwest. Raised in San Francisco, Nicole received a Bachelor’s Degree from Colgate University and a Master's Degree in Art History from the University of California at Davis. She has been active in the international art world as an art historian, art writer, curator, and art advisor for over a decade. | |||
| 18 May 2023 | Ché Morales: Gratitude, Chance Encounters, and Partnerships | 01:00:10 | |
On Season 3, Episode 7, Emily McElwreath interviews Ché Morales. Ché Morales is an independent curator based in New York City who is passionate about presenting groundbreaking material in innovative and thought-provoking ways. With a keen eye for emerging talent, he has curated numerous exhibitions that showcase the diverse range of artists' abilities. Among his notable exhibitions are Dominique Fung’s "Wash Your Corners" at Ross + Kramer in New York, Bernadette Despujols's "The Vast Ocean in Which the Woman Swims” at Rachel Uffner Gallery in New York, Nadia Waheed's "I Climb, I Backtrack, I Float" and Asif Hoque’s "Lover's Rock" at Mindy Solomon Gallery in Miami. Additionally, he has curated exhibits such as Azikiwe Mohammed’s "396 Wortman Ave." and Heather Day's "Convergence" at Anna Zorina Gallery in New York. In 2017, Morales established ABSTRKT, an independent consultancy focused on art, design, and creating unique experiences. Clients include Nike, New Balance, Adidas, The Standard Hotel, Soho House, StockX, New York City Ballet, Cîroc and more.Through this platform, he continues to shape his artistic practice and explore new avenues within the art world. Morales is also recently founded The Online Gallery, a quarterly ad-free art archive that provides a platform for curators, artists, and organizers to share and demystify art through an editorial lens. His approach to art curation is deeply influenced by his extensive knowledge of cultural, social, and historical contexts in which art is both created and consumed. Through his work, Morales aims to push boundaries, inspire meaningful conversations, and captivate audiences with the transformative power of art. This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Visit BetterHelp.com/TAC today and get 10% off your first month. Follow us: @theartcareer Follow Ché : @chemorales Online Gallery website: https://www.theonline.gallery/ Follow The Online Gallery: @theonline.gallery Podcast host: @emilymcelwreath_art Social Media: @lilap3arl Music: Chase Johnson Editing: @benjamin.galloway | |||
| 10 Oct 2024 | Inside an Artist Residency: Ucross Foundation | 00:26:38 | |
Recently, Emily was invited to spend 2 weeks of uninterrupted time to conceptualise a show that will open at UCROSS Art Gallery in June, 2025. In this episode we go behind the scenes with Emily on the beautiful UCROSS Foundation ranch in Wyoming. Located on a 20,000-acre ranch in the wide open spaces of northeastern Wyoming, Ucross is a magical setting for individual creative work, reflection, innovation, and dreaming. Annie Proulx’s The Shipping News, Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat Pray Love, Adam Guettel’s The Light in the Piazza, Ricky Ian Gordon’s operatic adaptation of The Grapes of Wrath – these are just a few of the acclaimed works that have been created in part during Ucross residencies. The UCROSS renowned residency program has been around for more than 40 years. In that time, UCROSS has served 2,700+ artists, and approximately 1,000 of those artists are in the visual arts. These artists come from all over the country, as well as many pockets around the world. The talented artists, writers, and musicians that accompanied Emily at Ucross: Diana Marie Delgado - poetry Megan Culhane Galbraith - non-fiction Nancy Y. Kim - mixed media Sarah Lass - Dance Linn Meyers - painting Nicky Sohn - music Tyler Stoll - mixed media Kate Sullivan - fiction Therese Workman - music Special thanks to: William Belcher, President Caitlin Addlesperger, Deputy Director Brittney Denham-Whisonant - Gallery Associate Tawni Shuler, Program Director Lacasa Michelena, Gallery & Events Associate Carl Largent, Program Coordinator Jackie Vitale, Chef | |||
| 06 Jul 2023 | True Crime Gallery: The Cursed Ghent Altarpiece | 00:51:32 | |
Welcome to the "True Crime Gallery: The Dark Side of Art", the Season 3 mini series finale of The Art Career Podcast, where we are going to uncover the dark and twisted tales where art and crime intersect. In this 3 part series, we bring you bone-chilling stories that will leave you captivated. We begin this week with Dr. Noah Charney telling the tale of the cursed Ghent masterpiece. Next week we explore the horrifying use of modern art as an instrument of torture, to a crime hidden behind one of the Louvre's prized masterpieces, and the disturbing artistic endeavors of a notorious serial killer-clown. We’ll end with the famous thefts of the Mona Lisa. Brace yourself for these haunting narratives. Dr Noah Charney is the internationally best-selling author of more than twenty books, translated into fourteen languages. He is a professor of art history specializing in art crime, and has taught for Yale University, Brown University, and American University of Rome He is founder of ARCA, the Association for Research into Crimes against Art. He writes regularly for dozens of major magazines and newspapers, including The Guardian, the Washington Post, the Observer and The Art Newspaper. He has recently fronted an influencer campaign for Samsung, and in 2022 he presented a BBC Radio 4 documentary, China’s Stolen Treasures. He lives in Slovenia with his wife, children and their hairless dog. His work in the field of art crime has been praised in such international forums as the New York Times Magazine, Time Magazine, BBC Radio, National Public Radio, El Pais, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Playboy, Elle and Tatler among many others. This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Visit BetterHelp.com/TAC today and get 10% off your first month. theartcareer.com Follow us: @theartcareer Podcast host: @emilymcelwreath_art Music: Chase Johnson Editing: @benjamin.galloway Production: @ruby_sloan | |||
| 28 Apr 2022 | Deja Patterson : Body Image, Race and Sexuality | 00:37:06 | |
In episode 3 of The Art Career Podcast, Emily McElwreath interviews emerging artist, Deja Patterson. Deja Patterson is a painter who addresses societal discrimination against plus sized women through her work. Voluptuous women are prominent in her examinations of body image, race and sexuality. Deja Patterson is a New Jersey based artist originally from Mississippi. She earned her BA in Fine Art from Tougaloo College in 2017. After completing her undergraduate studies, she moved to New York City. She completed her MFA in Studio Art at Queens College in the spring of 2020. Follow us: @theartcareer / Emily McElwreath @emilymcelwreath_art Deja Patterson: @wonderfullyartistic / @artofdejapatterson Podcast Director: Morgan Everhart @morgan_everhart Sound editing: Aaron Stoner Music: Chase Johnson The Art Career is sponsored by BetterHelp. Listeners enjoy 10% off their first month of affordable, private therapy by visiting BetterHelp.com/tac | |||
| 13 Apr 2023 | Caris Reid: Radical Shifts, Symbolism, and Coming Out | 00:56:43 | |
On Season 3, Episode 2, of The Art Career Podcast, Emily McElwreath interviews Los Angeles based artist Caris Reid. Reid's paintings are a symbolic world of blooming flowers, floating lips, and penetrating stares. Influenced by her interest in Tarot and Hypnosis, the paintings feel both familiar and mysterious, every detail is coded and ripe with meaning. Reid has shown her paintings in solo exhibitions at Over the Influence Gallery in Los Angeles, Denny Gallery in New York, Ochi Projects in Los Angeles as well as exhibiting in two person shows with Elise Ferguson at Monya Rowe Gallery, and with Amanda Valdez at Denny Gallery in New York and Cicuit12 Gallery in Dallas. Her work has been exhibited at the Untitled Art Fair in Miami, Art Central Art Fair in Hong Kong, Intersect Art Fair in Palm Springs, The Dallas Art Fair, Expo Chicago, and The Spring Break Art Fair in both New York and Los Angeles. She's been included in group exhibitions at The Landing Gallery in Los Angeles, Sargents Daughters in New York, Over The Influence Gallery in Hong Kong, Leo Koenig in New York, Longhouse Projects in New York, O-O in Los Angeles, SEASON in Seattle, Ochi Gallery in Idaho, and The National Arts Club in New York among others. Caris has led painting and meditation workshops at The Palm Springs Museum of Art and at Maha Rose in New York. In 2016 she completed a 40 foot mural in downtown Los Angeles titled Grace and Grit. Her work has been featured in The New Yorker, The Observer, Artsy, Vogue Japan, Vogue Mexico, W Magazine, Architectural Digest, Forbes Magazine, LALA magazine and The New York Times as well as the book “Plant Magick” from the Taschen Library of Esoterica. This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Visit BetterHelp.com/TAC today and get 10% off your first month. Follow us: @theartcareer Follow Caris Reid: @carisr Podcast host: @emilymcelwreath_art Social Media: @lilap3arl Music: Chase Johnson Editing: Zach Worden | |||
| 13 Sep 2024 | SPRING/BREAK Art Fair 2024 - Behind the Scenes | 00:29:20 | |
For this special episode of The Art Career we travel behind the scenes of SPRING/BREAK Art Show to speak with co-directors Ambre Kelly, Andrew Gori, in addition to chatting with artists, Dani Klebes about her installation this year. SPRING/BREAK Art Show is an internationally recognized exhibition platform using underused, atypical, and historic New York City exhibition spaces to activate and challenge the traditional cultural landscape of the art market, typically but not exclusively during Armory Arts Week New York and Frieze Week LA. The 12th Edition of SPRING/BREAK Art Show New York City will be held from September 6th - 11th, 2023, with details on their 5th LA Exhibition to come. Founded by Andrew Gori and Ambre Kelly in 2009, The They Co. creative supergroup has organized, curated, facilitated and produced events with the New Museum, Brooklyn College, Art Hamptons, Flux Factory, Collective Show, Nuit Blanche New York, Silvershed, The Metric System, The Underground Library, Gowanus Studio Space, and numerous other community-based arts organizations. In May of 2011 and 2013, the group organized the SCHOOL NITE exhibition event for the New Museum's Festival of Ideas for the New City, and in September 2011 intercepted the city's San Gennaro Festival with a 90-foot sculptural interpretation of the Roman oculus, created by SOFTlab. Under the gender-melding moniker BOYFRIENDGIRLFRIEND, Gori and Kelly have collaborated on several formal projects, most recently their ongoing SIGHTSEERS photographic series since 2016. In 2017, SPRING/BREAK launched it's biannual IMMERSIVE program, with large-scale sculptural installations at a mall for the BKYLN IMMERSIVE in May 2017, followed by TIMES SQUARE IMMERSIVE, a Times Square Plaza takeover with monumental sculptures created onsite in each public plaza of Times Square in March 2019, and UPSTATE IMMERSIVE in 2021 with ten unique sculptures to create a sculpture garden in Poughkeepsie, NY during Upstate Arts Weekend. And another OLD SCHOOL IMMERSIVE Secret Show during Frieze Week. Gori and Kelly have new projects forming in the film and tv landscape and in the published written word in 2024 with collaborations upcoming with The Portland Museum of Art & more. Danielle Klebes lives and works at Wassaic Project in Wassaic, NY. Danielle has exhibited in notable galleries and museums throughout the United States, Europe, and Canada. These include Keeping Company (2023), a solo show at NARS Foundation in Brooklyn, NY, Midnight Adventure Club (2022), a solo show at AVA Gallery in Lebanon, NH, House Fire House Party (2020), a solo show at Installation Space in North Adams, MA, Aimless Pilgrimage (2020), a solo show at L'Atelier Silex Gallery in Trois- Rivières, Quebec, Canada, Fifty (2022), a group show at MoCA Jacksonville, Jacksonville, FL, Summer (2022), a group show at Galleri Christoffer Egelund in Copenhagen, Denmark, Portraiture Today (2021), a group show at the Springfield Museums, Springfield, MA, and Confluence of Tongues (2021), a group show at Grove Collective in London, UK. Danielle’s work has appeared on the cover of many publications including Cream City Review, Artscope Magazine, Studio Visit Magazine, Gertrude Press, and Prairie Schooner. Danielle received her MFA in Visual Arts from Lesley University College of Art and Design in Cambridge, MA, in 2017. | |||
| 07 Dec 2023 | Jemima Kirke: Movies, Sex, and Bukowski | 01:14:36 | |
On Season 4, Episode 8 of The Art Career, Emily sits down with Jemima Kirke and her two cats in her Brooklyn home. The actress, painter, writer, and lover of movies shares insights about performance, vulnerability, love, and much more in this candid interview. Jemima Kirke is a British-American artist, actress and director. She gained international acclaim through her role as Jessa Johansson in the 2012 HBO series Girls. She made her film debut in the 2005 indie short Smile for the Camera and her feature-length debut in Tiny Furniture, as a favour for her childhood friend Lena Dunham. In 2017, she starred in Zayn's music video for the single "Dusk Till Dawn" featuring Sia Kirke next had supporting roles in the dark comedy films Ava's Possessions and The Little Hours. In 2018, Kirke starred alongside her real-life sister Lola Kirke in Emma Forrest's film Untogether. The film premiered at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival. In 2011, Kirke appeared in the music video "Wring It Out" for the group Rival Schools. Both this music video and Smile for the Camera were directed by her friend Jordan Galland. In 2017, she appeared in the music video for "Gotta Get a Grip" by Mick Jagger, directed by Saam Farahmand and appeared opposite Alex Cameron in his music video for the song "Stranger's Kiss". In September 2017, Kirke appeared opposite Zayn Malik in his music video for the song "Dusk Till Dawn" In 2021, Kirke appeared in the Netflix series Sex Education in the role of Hope, headmistress of Moordale Secondary School. In 2021, it was announced that Kirke had accepted a role in Conversations with Friends, a series based on the book of the same name by Sally Rooney, in which she plays Melissa, an older, experienced writer fascinated by a younger couple. In 2023, Kirke starred in the Apple TV+ series City on Fire, based on the book of the same name Kirke majored in art as a student and received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2008. In late 2011, she held an exhibition titled "A Brief History" through Skylight Projects. In late 2017 to early 2018 she had a show at Sargents Daughters where she exhibited portrait-style paintings. theartcareer.com Jemima Kirke: @jemima_jo_kirke Follow us: @theartcareer Podcast host: @emilymcelwreath_art Editing: @benjamin.galloway | |||
| 30 Nov 2023 | Jenna Gribbon: Lesbian Visibility, Musedom, and Dickinson | 01:09:15 | |
On Season 4, Episode 7, Emily sits down with artist Jenna Gribbon, in her studio in Brooklyn, NY. Brooklyn-based painter Jenna Gribbon’s figurative canvases present tender, uncanny scenes of everyday life while challenging the art historical conventions of the gaze. Gribbon reckons with the patrilineage of her medium, upending the tropes—such as the artist-muse relationship—and the established approaches that she inherited. She reconceives the act of looking as a reciprocal one, marked by empathy and mutual gratification. Utilizing the alla prima technique with a precise and animated hand, she offers unguarded glimpses into her life with her wife, the musician Mackenzie Scott, as well as her young son and circle of friends. She often depicts moments that push the limits of public and private, agency and consent, and exhibition and exploitation. Painting with an acute awareness of the viewer, Gribbon plays with the voyeuristic impulse while bringing visibility to expressions of sapphic love. Born in 1978 in Knoxville, Tennessee, Gribbon studied painting at the University of Georgia (2001) and received her MFA from Hunter College (2019). In 2011, in Long Island City, Gribbon co-founded the Oracle Club, a literary salon and creative space. Gribbon’s work has been presented in exhibitions at the Frick Museum, New York; Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw; Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, Florida; Kurpfälzisches Museum, Heidelberg, Germany; Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; Georgia Museum of Contemporary Art, Atlanta; and the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, among many others. Her paintings reside in the collections of X Museum, Beijing; Dallas Museum of Art; Rubell Family Collection, Miami; Brant Foundation, New York; and FLAG Art Foundation, New York.
Jenna Gribbon: @jennabribbon Follow us: @theartcareer Podcast host: @emilymcelwreath_art Editing: @benjamin.galloway | |||
| 20 Jul 2023 | True Crime Gallery: The Theft of the Mona Lisa with Dr. Noah Charney | 00:35:58 | |
Welcome to the "True Crime Gallery: The Dark Side of Art", the Season 3 mini series finale of The Art Career Podcast, where we are going to uncover the dark and twisted tales where art and crime intersect. In this 3 part series, we bring you bone-chilling stories that will leave you captivated. We began the series with Dr. Noah Charney telling the tale of the cursed Ghent masterpiece. Next we explored the horrifying use of modern art as an instrument of torture, to a crime hidden behind one of the Louvre's prized masterpieces, and the disturbing artistic endeavors of a notorious serial killer-clown. We’ll end with the famous thefts of the Mona Lisa. Brace yourself for these haunting narratives. Dr Noah Charney is the internationally best-selling author of more than twenty books, translated into fourteen languages. He is a professor of art history specializing in art crime, and has taught for Yale University, Brown University, and American University of Rome He is founder of ARCA, the Association for Research into Crimes against Art. He writes regularly for dozens of major magazines and newspapers, including The Guardian, the Washington Post, the Observer and The Art Newspaper. He has recently fronted an influencer campaign for Samsung, and in 2022 he presented a BBC Radio 4 documentary, China’s Stolen Treasures. He lives in Slovenia with his wife, children and their hairless dog. His work in the field of art crime has been praised in such international forums as the New York Times Magazine, Time Magazine, BBC Radio, National Public Radio, El Pais, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Playboy, Elle and Tatler among many others. Dr. Noah Charney has a book coming out on the theft of the Mona Lisa! https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781538181362 theartcareer.com Follow us: @theartcareer Podcast host: @emilymcelwreath_art Dr. Noah Charney: @slovenology Music: Chase Johnson Editing: @benjamin.galloway Production: @ruby_sloan | |||
| 29 Jun 2023 | Carroll Dunham: Husband, Father, Painter | 00:56:07 | |
On Season 3 episode 12 of The Art Career, Emily sits down with Carroll Dunham in his Connecticut home. Carroll Dunham lives and works in New York and Connecticut. His most recent solo exhibitions include National Museum, Oslo, 2023; Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf, and Sprengel Museum, Hannover, 2019–2020. His work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions at international institutions including Museum Ludwig, Cologne; Millesgården, Stockholm; Drammens Museum, Drammen; a mid-career retrospective was held at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, in 2002. Dunham has also been included in notable group exhibitions including multiple Whitney Biennials and SITE Santa Fe; and at institutions including MAMCO, Geneva; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museu Picasso, Barcelona; and The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Visit BetterHelp.com/TAC today and get 10% off your first month. theartcareer.com Follow us: @theartcareer Podcast host: @emilymcelwreath_art Music: Chase Johnson Editing: @benjamin.galloway | |||
| 03 Oct 2024 | Eileen Myles: New York, Meditation, and Cigarettes | 00:49:03 | |
This week on The Art Career we are bringing back a crowd favorite: Eileen Myles. As Emily embarks on her UCROSS Foundation residency in Wyoming we have taken a week off to plan for our residency episode that will be live Thursday, Oct 10th. Being around so many talented writers and poets for these two weeks, it seems appropriate to bring Eileen Myles back for our many new listeners, in addition to anyone who hasn't listened to this episode. Eileen Myles (they/them) came to New York from Boston in 1974 to be a poet, subsequently novelist, public talker and art journalist. A Sagittarius, their 22 books include For Now, evolution, Afterglow, I Must Be Living Twice/new & selected poems, and Chelsea Girls. In 2019 they wrote and directed an 18-minute super 8 film, The Trip, a puppet road film. See it on youtube. Eileen is the recipient of a Guggenheim, a Warhol/Creative Capital Arts Writers grant, 4 Lambda Book Awards, the Shelley Prize, and a poetry award from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. In 2016, they received a Creative Capital grant and the Clark Prize for excellence in art writing. In 2019 Myles received a poetry award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters. In 2020 they got the Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Publishing Triangle. They live in New York and Marfa, TX. This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Visit BetterHelp.com/TAC today and get 10% off your first month. Follow us: @theartcareer Follow Eileen: @eileen.myles Podcast host: @emilymcelwreath_art Editing: Zach Worden | |||
| 15 Jun 2023 | Will Shott: Dismantling Tradition | 00:52:00 | |
On Season 3 episode 11 of The Art Career, Emily McElwreath interviews Will Shott. When Houston-born jewelry designer Will Shott sought to revolutionize eternally classic design for this genderless fine jewelry brand, the unique result immediately graced the necks of fashion and music industry influencers alike including Rihanna, A$AP Rocky, Luka Sabbat, Miley Cyrus, and collaborations with brands such as Gucci, Midnight studios, and many more. Shott’s WWW.WILLSHOTT label has attained unforeseen heights, with his recognizably glacial jewelry embellishing a number of runway shows as well as the most highly curated stores worldwide. Dismantling traditional notions of jewelry has led Will to expand his brand to include fine art. In September 2022 Shott opened a gallery space in the street facing room of his jewelry shop in Chinatown. For each exhibition, Shott collaborates with the artists to make a unique, limited edition piece of jewelry. Will’s unique aesthetic encompassing the worlds of fine-art, fashion and music, has created a welcome and necessary addition to New York’s gallery scene. This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Visit BetterHelp.com/TAC today and get 10% off your first month. theartcareer.com Follow us: @theartcareer Follow Will: @willshott Will Shott website: https://willshott.com/ Podcast host: @emilymcelwreath_art Music: Chase Johnson Editing: @benjamin.galloway | |||
| 17 Nov 2022 | Who is Your Audience? Branding and Communications with Ellie Hayworth | 00:52:16 | |
On Season 2, Episode 8 of The Art Career Podcast, Emily McElwreath speaks with self made publicist Ellie Hayworth about all things branding and communications. Don't miss this episode with countless pieces of wisdom about organic growth and strategy. Ellie Hayworth is the founder of Hayworth, a strategic consultancy committed to promoting intrepid ideas at the intersection of art and design. The company was founded in the art of storytelling specializing foremost in communications, marketing, and public relations savvy. Through her company, Ellie has distinguished herself as an extended communications director, a storyteller, a curator, a project manager, and a public liaison. Hayworth has developed, managed, and executed on public relations and marketing strategies for diverse clients across the arts & culture sector including the VOLTA Art Fair, the Affordable Art Fair, Powerhouse Arts, and artist Suzy Kellems Dominik, among many others. A burgeoning art collector, Ellie contributes a profound passion for the evolving mechanics of the art & design market and for the connoisseurship that sustains it. Ellie received a Bachelor of Arts with a double major in Communications Studies and Art History at Vanderbilt University and proceeded to earn a Master of Arts in Art Business from Sotheby’s Institute of Art in New York City. Born and raised in Miami, Florida, Ellie is fluent in Spanish and thus demonstrates a passion for international contemporary culture influenced largely by her own Cuban-American heritage. This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Visit BetterHelp.com/TAC today and get 10% off your first month. Follow us: @theartcareer Follow Ellie Hayworth: @ellie.hayworth Podcast host: @emilymcelwreath_art Social Media: @lilap3arl Music: Chase Johnson Editing: Zach Worden | |||
| 27 Apr 2023 | Rebecca Jampol: Artist Advocacy, Newark, and Raising Daughters | 00:45:59 | |
On Season 3, Episode 4 of The Art Career Podcast, Emily McElwreath interviews Rebecca Jampol. Rebecca Pauline Jampol is the Co-Director of Project for Empty Space, a public art curator, and designer based in Newark, NJ. Her interdisciplinary creative practice focuses on cultivating impactful social dialogue and change. She explores social activism and empowerment through a range of methods that range from curating gallery exhibitions and publishing to public art programs. This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Visit BetterHelp.com/TAC today and get 10% off your first month. Follow us: @theartcareer Follow Rebecca : @rjampol Follow Project For Empty Space: @projectforemptyspace Podcast host: @emilymcelwreath_art Social Media: @lilap3arl Music: Chase Johnson Editing: @benjamin.galloway | |||