The Art Career

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 ra...

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...

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...

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 Vo...

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&nb...

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 contem...

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 Painti...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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 pain...

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 d...

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 i...

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. On...

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...

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 draw...

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 Po...

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,...

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...

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...

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 boundari...

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 a...

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...

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, Carn...