69 episodes

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.

The Art Career Emily McElwreath

    • Arts
    • 4.8 • 92 Ratings

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.

    A Reading for Our Listeners by Sarah Potter

    A Reading for Our Listeners by Sarah Potter

    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 



    @iamsarahpotter

    @theartcareer

    https://www.theartcareer.com/

    • 38 min
    Bradley Carbone : Balancing a High-Low Aesthetic

    Bradley Carbone : Balancing a High-Low Aesthetic

    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.

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    • 46 min
    Kimberli Gant: Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Brooklyn Museum

    Kimberli Gant: Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Brooklyn Museum

    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.



    @drkimgant⁠

    @brooklynmuseum

    • 1 hr 2 min
    Liz Hopfan: Free Arts NYC

    Liz Hopfan: Free Arts NYC

    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



    https://www.freeartsnyc.org/

    @freeartsnyc

    • 35 min
    Dominique Clayton: Being a Black Woman in the Art World

    Dominique Clayton: Being a Black Woman in the Art World

    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.



    @lookatdominique

    @dominique.gallery

    https://www.dominiquegallery.com/

    Black owned galleries to support:

    https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-black-owned-galleries-support-united-states

    • 1 hr 8 min
    Lola Kirke: Grand Ol Opry, Body Image, and Being Kind

    Lola Kirke: Grand Ol Opry, Body Image, and Being Kind

    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.



    https://www.lolakirkemusic.com/

    https://www.theartcareer.com/

    @lolakirke

    • 1 hr 6 min

Customer Reviews

4.8 out of 5
92 Ratings

92 Ratings

Addicted 2.0 ,

Such valuable insights into the art world!

As a fellow professional in the art world, it is refreshing to hear the insights offered by artists and art world thought leaders who, if only for the duration of this podcast, open their world to us to better understand who they are, what drives them, and how art is a catalyst for progess in their lives.

Emily does a masterful job of encouraging and empowering her subjects to open up freely and vulnerably to offer us insights and anecdotes that are one-of-a-kind and only accessible via The Art Career. Anyone interested in the arts — and certainly with aspirations to go into this industry — should take note of the lessons imparted by these amazing stories. We are lucky to be given such uncompromising access to the biggest names in art in our day!

ErikaBeth94 ,

Great find for creatives in all fields!

Digging this podcast that's centered on artists, yet dives into so much more.

The episodes explore themes and challenges many creatives face on a daily basis, which has been inspirational to hear.

The host strikes a balance between dynamic interviewer and that rare great party where the conversation flows effortlessly.

Dklebes ,

Love this podcast

Really thoughtful and entertaining interviews

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