The Art Career

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Sienna Fekete: Curator, Educator, Queen Apr 26, 2024

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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. theartcareer.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Sienna Fekete: @sii_sii The Lower Eastside Girls Club @girlsclubny Follow us: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@theartcareer⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Podcast host: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@emilymcelwreath_art⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Editing: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@benjamin.galloway⁠

Bianca Bosker: Get the Picture Mar 05, 2024

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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 Dorkand, 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.

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Bianca Bosker: ⁠⁠@bbosker

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Ritual for Inspiration: A Gift for our Listeners Feb 01, 2024

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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.

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Host: ⁠⁠@emilymcelwreah_art

Sarah Potter - Celebrity Psychic Medium, Tarot Reader, and Professional Witch Jan 25, 2024

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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!

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Sarah Potter: @iamsarahpotter

Editing:⁠ @benjamin.galloway⁠

Host: ⁠@emilymcelwreah_art

THE ART OF COLLECTING Jan 18, 2024

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If you are an art collector, or aspire to be one, you might feel overwhelmed by the complexity and diversity of the art market. How do you find the best artworks for your taste, budget, and goals? How do you avoid overpaying and missing out on opportunities? How do you support living artists and contribute to the cultural conversation? In this episode we will answer these questions and dive into the responsibility of our society to SUPPORT LIVING ARTISTS.

McElwreath Art Advisory is a full-service firm that provides guidance and assistance to art collectors through a comprehensive list of services. Whether the goal is to acquire a single work, build a collection, or add to an existing one, they do so through an educated exploration of the art market. McElwreath Art Advisory is led by Emily McElwreath, an advisor, curator, and educator with over 20 years of experience in the art world. Emily has worked with some of the most prestigious institutions, galleries, and artists in the world. She is also the host of The Art Career Podcast, where she speaks with art world titans and emerging professionals to demystify the art world and share insights and advice. Emily and her team are passionate about promoting the work of living artists through interdisciplinary collaboration, institutional partnerships, and acquisitions. They have access to a wide network of artists, dealers, curators, and experts, and they can source artworks from various genres, mediums, and markets.
McElwreath Art Advisory is not your typical art consultancy. They are uniquely positioned to invigorate the advisory market with a new approach to arts patronage and love to work with individuals and corporations who appreciate being a part of the cultural conversation.

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Editing: @benjamin.galloway

Host: @emilymcelwreah_art

Live at The New York Studio School: Alla Broeksmit and Stella Hayes Jan 11, 2024

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Live at The New York Studio school with Ukrainian born artist, Alla Broeksmit, and sister and poet, Stella Hayes.

“The New York Studio School was founded in 1964 by Mercedes Matter, in collaboration with a group of students and faculty, during a time of cultural ferment. To this day, it is bound by a sense of mission, one that has often stood in counterpoint to the prevailing tastes of the art world. During the heyday of Pop, conceptual art, and minimalism, the School emphasized drawing, working from life, and a sustained studio practice. To delve into the history, however, is to become aware of the contradictions inherent in a school run by some of the most passionate minds of the New York art world.“ Jennifer Sachs Samet

Closely held memories of childhood in Kyiv and deeply rooted remembrances of family and beloved places fuel the dreamlike imagery of Alla Broeksmit’s art. Gestural brushwork and the tactility of hand-mixed pigments in the muted palette of faded frescoes lend texture and atmosphere to her expressively rendered paintings, evoking a sense of time past, recalled to the present. Broeksmit has pursued painting since the 1990s, studying at Parsons School of Design in New York City, then co-founding the Lots Road Group with fellow artists from the Heatherly School of Fine Art after moving to London in 1997. During this period, her paintings were primarily figurative and focused on portraiture, taking inspiration from the heavily impastoed, psychological portraits of Lucian Freud. In 2017, Broeksmit received her MFA from the New York Studio School, where Dean Graham Nickson encouraged her to work on a larger scale and to take “a more instinctual, visceral approach” to painting. Instructors Judy Glantzman, Kyle Staver, and Elisa Jensen were also instrumental in her development of an individualized visual language and in exposing her to the descriptive and emotional expression of color, as seen in her work.

Stella Hayes is the author of a poetry collection, One Strange Country (What Books Press, November 2020). Hayes earned a creative writing degree at University of Southern California. Her work has been nominated for the Best of the Net and for the Pushcart Prize, as well as appeared in Prelude, The Poetry Project’s The Recluse, The Lake and Spillway, among others, and is forthcoming from Stanford’s Mantis and Poet Lore. She began her life in a book-filled home in an agricultural town an hour outside of Kiev, then part of the Soviet Union. In 1977, her family of five — her father excluded — left for the U.S., settling first in Chicago. At USC, she studied creative writing with a focus on poetry with celebrated poet David St. John, chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. More recently, she has taken advanced classes in poetry and fiction at 92Y and was asked to do a reading there in the spring of 2018. She is a graduate student at NYU M.F.A in poetry and is assistant fiction editor at Washington Square Review.

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Jane South: ⁠⁠@janesouth⁠

New York Studio School: @ny_studioschool

Alla Broeksmit: @artallastudio

Stella Hayes: stellahayes.com

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Editing: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@benjamin.galloway⁠

Jane South: Pratt Institute, Time Alone, and Owning Your Decisions as an Artist Jan 04, 2024

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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.

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Jane South: ⁠@janesouth

Pratt Institute: @prattfineart

Podcast host: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@emilymcelwreath_art⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Editing: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@benjamin.galloway⁠

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Marina Granger: Answers and Guidance for Emerging Artists Dec 28, 2023

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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.

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Marina Granger: @the_artist_advisory

Podcast host: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@emilymcelwreath_art⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Editing: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@benjamin.galloway⁠

[REDUX] Cheryl Strayed: Put Yourself in the Way of Beauty Dec 27, 2023

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This week we take a look back on the Season 2 Finale of The Art Career where Emily McElwreath interviews acclaimed author Cheryl Strayed. Cheryl Strayed is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, which has sold more than 4 million copies worldwide and was made into an Oscar-nominated major motion picture. Her bestselling book Tiny Beautiful Things is currently being adapted for a Hulu television show that will be released in early 2023. In 2016, Tiny Beautiful Things was adapted as a play that has been staged in theaters around the world. Strayed is also the author of the critically acclaimed debut novel, Torch, and the bestselling collection Brave Enough, which brings together more than one hundred of her inspiring quotes. Her award-winning essays and short stories have been published in The Best American Essays, the New York Times, the Washington Post Magazine, Vogue, Salon, and elsewhere. She has hosted two hit podcasts, Sugar Calling and Dear Sugars. Cheryl lives in Portland, Oregon.

This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Visit ⁠BetterHelp.com/TAC ⁠today and get 10% off your first month.

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Music: Chase Johnson

Editing: Zach Worden

[REDUX] Meg Lionel Murphy: Painting After PTSD From Domestic Violence Dec 14, 2023

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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.

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Music: Chase Johnson

Editing: ⁠⁠⁠@benjamin.galloway⁠