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