The Art Career Podcast Launches Season Four -- Caviar, Vampires & Warhol

There are some troubling trends in our society related to the arts. First, West Virginia University has eviscerated its language and humanities programs. It’s only the first of prominent colleges shifting their focus away from the arts. 

Second, the arts have been attached to some “woke” conspiracy by unnamed elitists. That is silly since, the arts offer us a richness and fullness to our lives, and offers us avenues to perspectives and insights we may have missed. 

 That's why I like The Art Career podcast with Emily McElwreath so much. The podcast celebrates the arts, the people involved, and the value the arts add to the vibrancy of our society and its culture.

Here is the mission statement of the podcast:  "Want to learn and be inspired by the leading art professionals who are shaping our culture? The Art Career Podcast 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 as she dives deep into topics like self-development, career trajectories, mental health, social justice, and the artists that have changed our lives"

The host, Emily McElwreath, asserts, "With each episode, our mission is to empower you, expanding your journey through the arts." 

To be clear, McElwreath doesn't just have guests who are artists in the sense of painting. To her, "artist" is an expansive term, so she has writers, fashion experts, poets, educators, and even a critic.

The Art Career podcast just began its fourth season in mid-October with an episode named, Matthew Tully Dugan: Caviar, Vampires, and Warhol.

In the episode, artist Mathew Tully Dugan cooks the most delicious small plate for the host's editor Ben and the host. --Thomas Keller’s potato pavé with whipped roasted bone marrow, salt cured egg yolk, hackleback caviar and wasabi microgreens. "A most delicious way to launch Season 4!" McElwreath announces as she savors the food.

Her guest, Matthew Tully Dugan has an impressive body of work --  His paintings, sculptures, installations, texts, and curatorial projects collapse the popular and the subcultural, the collective and the personal, as a means of processing contemporary conditions and their impact on the psyche. Recent exhibitions include solo shows at Will Shott, NY (2023), 56 Henry, New York (2022), Loveclub, NY (2021), Fierman, New York, NY (2018) as well as a public works in collaboration with Half Gallery, NY (2023). Dugan also runs a curatorial program, Art Death with yearly exhibitions in Miami Beach.

Tully's upcoming exhibition, "Inferno", will open at Lomex's new Walker Street project space this Halloween. It will be up until November 5th.

 In the fourth season, it’s not an exaggeration to say that McElwreath has gotten even better as a host. She has a natural ease about her, and that translates into a voice that calms, challenges, and crackles with kinetic energy.

Emily McElwreath owns a firm, McElwreath Art Advisory, which is a full-service firm that provides guidance and assistance to art collectors through a comprehensive list of services. She has over seventeen years of experience as an advisor, independent curator, and art educator.

Throughout her career, Emily McElwreath has worked on blockbuster exhibitions, including Andy Warhol, Julian Schnabel, and Nate Lowman at The Brant Foundation, as well as lecturing at top NYC museums including The Whitney and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 

That blend of the real world with the academic makes McElwreath the perfect person to create and host the podcast.  

The podcast is supported by ⁠The New York Studio School.⁠ Founded in 1964 as an intensive studio arts program with an emphasis on perception, artists learning from artists, and drawing as the most direct means of describing one’s ideas or experiences, the Studio School offers an array of full-time and part-time programs that prioritize small classes and individual guidance from dedicated instructors distinguished in their fields.

The Art Career podcast also offers premium memberships.  

There's a quote that exemplifies the necessity of the arts. "Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes the invisible visible."

Check out The Art Career podcast.