The Wise Fool Art Podcast

Corporate Curator at the General Mills Art Collection, Lisa Melander (Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA)
We discuss: - how she got a job as a corporate curator - how corporate collections find art and artists - their art collection is for the enjoyment of the employees not as investments - their effort to continually keep the collection contemporary - the relationship of art and architecture - art conservation in corporate collections - their mission as a corporate art collection - buying art with frames or without frames - the importance of a thank you note - the need for more diversity in art collections People + Places mentioned: Weinstein Hammons Gallery - https://www.weinsteinhammons.com Target Corporation Art collection - https://paulbastyr.com/target-art-collection-book Art Basel - https://www.artbasel.com/miami-beach Expo Chicago - https://www.expochicago.com Skidmore, Owings & Merrill - https://www.som.com Paulson Fontaine Press - https://paulsonfontainepress.com Highpoint Center for Printmaking - https://www.highpointprintmaking.org Artserve - https://artserve.co Charles Biederman - https://www.msfineart.com/artists/charles-biederman/ Kerry James Marshall - https://jackshainman.com/artists/kerry_james_marshall Abelardo Morell - https://www.abelardomorell.net James Rosenquist - https://www.jamesrosenquiststudio.com Doug and Mike Starn - http://www.dmstarn.com Robert Longo - https://www.robertlongo.com/series/meninthecity/ 3 contemporary artist they recently added to the collection: Dyani White Hawk - https://www.dyaniwhitehawk.com Erin O'Keefe - https://www.erinokeefe.com Carla Jay Harris - https://www.carlajayharris.com Hosted by Matthew Dols http://matthewdols.com Supported in part by: EEA Grants from Iceland, Liechtenstein + Norway https://eeagrants.org and we appreciate the assistance of our partners in this project: Hunt Kastner – https://huntkastner.com Kunstsentrene i Norge – https://www.kunstsentrene.no