The Art Career

Emily McElwreath

The Art Career 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 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, and social justice.

  • 27 minutes 43 seconds
    The Dark Side of Art

    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.-- 

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    Podcast host: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@emilymcelwreath_art⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

    Music: Chase Johnson

    Editing: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@benjamin.galloway⁠⁠

    Production: ⁠⁠@ruby_sloan

    16 May 2024, 6:46 pm
  • 1 hour 1 minute
    Jordan Huelskamp: Head of Curatorial at Artsy

    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).


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    https://www.artsy.net/

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    9 May 2024, 1:47 pm
  • 1 hour 5 minutes
    Robin F. Williams: Solo Institutional Exhibitions, Donut Club, and Puppies

    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. 

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    Columbus Museum of Art

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    @theartcareer


    2 May 2024, 4:22 pm
  • 51 minutes 7 seconds
    Sienna Fekete: Curator, Educator, Queen
    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
    26 April 2024, 11:04 am
  • 1 hour 10 minutes
    Bianca Bosker: Get the Picture

    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 SeeA 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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    Editing: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@benjamin.galloway⁠

    5 March 2024, 2:58 pm
  • 23 minutes 10 seconds
    Ritual for Inspiration: A Gift for our Listeners

    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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    Sarah Potter: ⁠@iamsarahpotter⁠

    Editing:⁠⁠ @benjamin.galloway⁠⁠

    Host: ⁠⁠@emilymcelwreah_art

    1 February 2024, 5:42 pm
  • 40 minutes 18 seconds
    Sarah Potter - Celebrity Psychic Medium, Tarot Reader, and Professional Witch

    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.


    ⁠www.theartcareer.com⁠

    Sarah Potter: @iamsarahpotter

    Editing:⁠ @benjamin.galloway⁠

    Host: ⁠@emilymcelwreah_art

    25 January 2024, 6:29 pm
  • 30 minutes 26 seconds
    THE ART OF COLLECTING

    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

    18 January 2024, 4:21 pm
  • 29 minutes 56 seconds
    Live at The New York Studio School: Alla Broeksmit and Stella Hayes

    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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    Podcast host: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@emilymcelwreath_art⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

    Editing: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@benjamin.galloway⁠

    11 January 2024, 5:34 pm
  • 1 hour 5 minutes
    Jane South: Pratt Institute, Time Alone, and Owning Your Decisions as an Artist

    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

    Follow us: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@theartcareer⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

    Podcast host: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@emilymcelwreath_art⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

    Editing: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@benjamin.galloway⁠

     

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    4 January 2024, 5:47 pm
  • 49 minutes 32 seconds
    Marina Granger: Answers and Guidance for Emerging Artists

    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

    Follow us: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@theartcareer⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

    Podcast host: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@emilymcelwreath_art⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

    Editing: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@benjamin.galloway⁠

    28 December 2023, 4:54 pm
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