Jennifer Raiser, Author, Strategist and Nonprofit Junkie

Our guest, Jennifer Raiser, an Author, is no stranger to experiences that stretch who we are and expand our understanding of ourselves and what we can do. 

Jennifer Raiser divides her roles as an Author and Management Innovator. She is the Author of the bestseller, Burning Man: Art on Fire, 2014/2016, Race Point Press, and lectures extensively on the significance of the Burning Man art movement, in Black Rock City and around the world. As founding Treasurer of Burning Man Project, she oversees a budget of over $47M; on playa, she also volunteers with the Black Rock Rangers and Gate Departments. She is the Author of  In the Spirit of Napa Valley, 2015, Assouline, The Art of Being Bill: The Many Faces of Awesome, 2018, Race Point Press, two commissioned biographies, and has two books in development. She earned a BA in English Literature and an MBA, both from Harvard University.  

Buy the book: Burning Man: Art on Fire

Burning Man: Art on Fire is the book that inspired the stunning film of the same name. The book is the authorized collection of some of the most extraordinary examples of Burning Man art of the past two decades. Authored by longtime Burner Jennifer Raiser, it was published in 2014 by Race Point/Quarto, with a revised and updated in a slipcover edition in 2016. It records the effort, creativity, and interactivity of what becomes the largest art gallery in the world for one week a year. Braving extreme elements, artists and volunteer builders create a temporary city devoted to expression and participation. Within a 9-mile fence, over four hundred wildly ambitious sculptures delight, provoke, involve, and amaze. Interviews with the artists reveal not only their motivation to create art specifically for Burning Man, but also illuminate the dramatic efforts it takes to bring their vision to the remote Black Rock Desert, just because they can. Featuring the work of photographers Scott London and Sidney Erthal, with an introduction from Burning Man founder Larry Harvey and a foreword from Will Chase, this stunning book provides a tangible artifact of Burning Man for the other 51 weeks of the year.

Watch the Film Burning Man: Art on Fire

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