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This month, we each record the podcast from our own spaces, talking about life during coronavirus. We discuss how we are doing, what we have been watching, and how much wine we have been drinking. 

This month we are so pleased to sit down with Nora Burnett Abrams, who was appointed to the position of Marc G Falcone Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, last year.  Nora discusses how she became interested in Art, turned the interest into an amazing career and how she landed on Contemporary Art as her chosen path.   Nora and her team at the MCA have brought so much life to downtown Denver through the museum and continue to work with the community to make Contemporary Art accessible to everyone.

**Please note. This episode was taped in January before the pandemic had reached the United States.  Please take the timing of this recording into consideration when listening.  

Since the MCA is now closed to the public due to the pandemic, they have started a crowdfunding campaign in support of the various aspects of the museum during this unprecedented closure. To see you you can support Nora, her team and the MCA please click through to https://mcadenver.org/support . Thank you!

Join us as we pop champagne and sit down with award-winning writer, editor and author, Maximillian Potter. Maximillian is a Contributing Editor to Vanity Fair Magazine. He has been a staff writer at Philadelphia Magazine, Premiere, Details and GQ, as well as a contributor to Outside and The Atlantic. Most recently, he was Editor-at-Large for Esquire Magazine and prior to that he was the Executive Editor of 5280, Denver's city magazine.

Potter has written two books: "The Opposite of Woe: My Life in Beer and Politics", the memoir of former Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper and "Shadows in the Vineyard: The True Story of the Plot to Poison the World's Greatest Wine". He is currently an adjunct faculty member in the Journalism Department at the University of Colorado. Follow him on Twitter: MaxaPotter and Instagram: Maximillian Potter.

This week we are so pleased to have Jane Burke, Senior Curatorial Assistant for the Department of Textile, Art, and Fashion for the Denver Art Museum. Jane joins us to discuss the path that lead her to work with museums around the world and how she found herself working on the premiere fashion exhibit for the Denver Art Museum, Dior. We discuss the best seasonal footwear, the differences between CBD and THC and of course what is going on in everyone's lives. Join the conversation!

A quick bonus episode explaining how we all met and how the podcast came to be.

This week we launch our podcast with Sarabeth Berk, who couldn't be a better first guest as one of the shared "themes" of our co-hosts is career changes and pivoting.  Sarabeth is a boundary crosser who works at the intersection of design and systems thinking. As an artist/researcher/educator/designer, she regularly translates ideas between creative and analytical spaces, enabling her to make cross-disciplinary connections, form new solutions, and inspire others to see and do things differently. Her research focus is about hybrid professionals-- people with multiple professional identities who blend their talents together to achieve more effective results and drive greater value for employers and clients. Join the conversation!
Find Sarabeth at:
https://www.morethanmytitle.com/
Instagram: @morethanmytitle
Linkedin: Sarabeth Berk, PH.D.