The Art Career LLC is an interactive ecosystem providing emerging artists and arts entrepreneurs with educational content and career opportunities. Through a combination of online courses, a podcast and memberships, The Art Career will teach artists and arts entrepreneurs how to contextualize their work through a business lens. This multifaceted online arts platform will cater to the individual needs of its varied participants. The platform, which will offer a unique opportunity for artists, will also help to develop a strong market for collectors to engage with and to grow their collections.
We recognize the power of connecting emerging artists and arts entrepreneurs to their counterparts in the art world; this side steps the current market cycles, which separates young professionals from establishing their brand and connecting with their collector base. With The Art Career not only educating artists but also helping artists sell their work at a large scale, interest, dialogue, and financial contributions to contemporary art at an international scale becomes an indisputable long-term opportunity. The Art Career will ensure that young professionals invest in themselves and in turn, the art market will profit.
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Emily McElwreath
FOUNDER + CEO
Emily McElwreath (she/her) is equipped with over seventeen years of experience as an adviser, independent curator and art educator; she also boasts a background in sales. Thanks to her time as Director of Communications and Education at the Brant Foundation Art Study Center, Emily demonstrates the unique ability to understand the art world from both the point of view of the artist and the audience. This skill is continually perfected through extensive involvement in art education: throughout her career, Emily has organized multiple programs, lectures, and panels, featuring distinguished artists, on university campuses and leading NYC venues, in addition to lecturing herself at Sotheby’s Education. Emily 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. Most recently, Emily has curated multiple exhibitions with leading emerging artists and is now co-director of Pegasus Prints Gallery in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Building relationships with artists continues to be Emily’s main focus, frequenting studio visits, connecting artists with collectors, and building partnerships within the art community. With an MA from Purchase College in Art History with a Concentration in Contemporary Art Criticism and an Art Business Certification from Christie's Education, Emily McElwreath possesses diverse, real-world experience and formal academic training.
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Morgan Everhart
CO-FOUNDER + COO
Morgan Everhart (she/her) received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of North Texas in 2013, and her Master of Fine Arts from the LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting at the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2016. Recent exhibitions include: Flesh and Bloom at The David Owsley Museum of Art, Indiana (2021), Flowers for my Failures at the Longwood Museum, Virginia (2019); BLOOM at Millersville University, Pennsylvania (2019); and, Four Degrees of Abstraction at Markel Fine Arts, New York (2018). The artist’s first outdoor mural is at the intersection of Grand and Suffolk Streets (New York, NY) and featured in Neumeraki’s International exhibition Art Off-Screen. Everhart currently lives and works in New York, where she is also a contributing writer to A Women’s Thing publication and a curator-in-residence at The Yard City Hall Park.
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Joi Berry
OPERATIONS MANAGER
Joi Berry (they/she) is a non-binary curator, art professional, and creative director studying art history and museum professions at the fashion institute of technology. they have experience curating exhibitions across the lower manhattan and brooklyn area and often make it a point to showcase and echo bipoc artists’ voices through exhibition opportunities, programs made for artists of color, and other initiatives for the betterment of bipoc communities across the new york city metropolitan area. their experiences include curation, grant writing, project management, administrative work, research, programming, museum collections, marketing and public relations.
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Razcal Life
CREATIVE DIRECTOR
Razcal Life (he/him) is a Latino American artist who was born and raised in Virginia and now lives and works in New York. Razcal's art practice encompasses the fine-art, design, fashion, and music industries. He’s worked with designer brands like Luar being featured in Vogue Runway. From the runway, Razcal was able to gain recognition as a fine artist in NY. Razcal Life has also served as a creative director for hit song writers like Lunchmoney Lewis on both singles and upcoming albums, gaining additional recognition in the music industry. In his fine-art practice, Razcal Life prefers to work in print and mixed media. He likes to search for accessible resources to make artworks, oftentimes making something out of "nothing," similar to an alchemist. Razcal Life is well known for creating authenticity by finding avenues in his fine-art practice that are hyper-cost effective and undiscovered, adding context and intention to create beauty.
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Yujin Son
Art Director
Yujin Son is a New York-based, Korean artist. Growing up in an international setting in Shanghai, China, Yujin’s practice is rooted in exploring the transformity of the human mind that goes beyond the language barrier and physical limitations, connected to spirituality and quantum physics. Yujin creates narrative pieces with illustrations, VR art, 3D and video based on her research about spirituality, such as Buddhism and science and/or philosophy behind AI and perception. She received her BFA from Parsons School of Desgin in New York, 2018, and her MFA in The City College of New York, 2021.