BTS x AWC - Amy Whitaker talks Using Business as a Tool, Building Equity in the Arts, and Re-Inventing the Art Market

Hear more from Amy on finding common language between art and business, what artists need to know about economics, how new technologies like blockchain could be used to help artists retain equity in their work, and embracing doubt as a process of invention. Links to resources mentioned throughout the episode:  Art World Conference CCI Arts Money Bootcamp 2020 “Art Thinking: How to Carve Out Creative Space in a World of Schedules, Budgets, and Bosses” by Amy Whitaker Slade School of Fine Art Yale University “Making and Being: Embodiment, Collaboration, and Circulation in the Visual Arts” by Caroline Woolard and Susan Jahoda “Art and Blockchain” by Amy Whitaker “The Work of Art: Value in Creative Careers (Culture and Economic Life)” by Alison Gerber “Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World” by Anand Giridharadas Jason Bailey @artnome Monegraph Artory Verisart Maecenas With Otis OpenSea “Why Teach Business to Artists?” by Amy Whitaker in Hyperallergic “A new way to pay artists” TEDx talk by Amy Whitaker Follow more of Amy’s work on Twitter at @theamywhit, and keep an eye out for her upcoming book “Economics of Visual Art” (2020) www.beyondthe.studio Intro and Ad Music by: Suahn Album Artwork by: David Colson