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085: Hadley Powell: Art Advisor

January 9, 2019 by balzerdesigns Leave a Comment

Our first podcast of 2019 features a conversation with art advisor, Hadley Powell.

On the podcast we discuss her job, her path to her job, art vs. craft, seeing art, being a new mother, and much more! Hadley’s experience spans from Old Master prints to Contemporary art. She started her career at Christie’s, New York as a specialist in the Prints & Multiples department where she researched and cataloged prints from Rembrandt to Rauschenberg.

Working with contemporary art gallery Callan Contemporary at their booth in Miami.

Subsequently in the Impressionist & Modern Art department, she worked on the high profile evening sales, where she advised clients buying and selling at auction and assisted in private collection management and fine art appraisals.

Installation shot from a client’s home in Brookline. Artist: Peter Brooke

Hadley received a Bachelor of Arts in Art History and a minor in Economics from Union College.

In the United States Pavilion at the Venice Biennial, artist Mark Bradford.

She holds a Master’s degree in Modern Art, Connoisseurship and the History of the Art Market from Christie’s Education, New York. Her prize-winning thesis studied the impact of the 1913 Armory Show on George Bellows’s Monhegan Island, Maine paintings.

Installation shot from a client’s home in Cambridge. Artist: Peri Schwartz.

She resides in Brookline, MA.

Giving a talk to the Harvard Business School art group

Some useful links from our conversation:

Art Market Monitor – publication/membership site
Jeffrey Gibson – artist
Beatriz Milhazes – artist
Vitamin C: Clay & Ceramic in Contemporary Art – book

Thanks for stopping by!

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084: 2018 in Review

December 25, 2018 by balzerdesigns 1 Comment

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Today’s podcast is the first of several posts, looking back at the year that has been. Goodbye, 2018. You were a good year. Some of the things referenced in the podcast include:

On the podcast we discuss “failed” or abandoned projects, choosing priorities, and what’s coming in 2019!

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032: Skill Building

October 24, 2018 by balzerdesigns 1 Comment

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Today’s podcast is packed with fun art-related talk: my pottery obsession…er, class, the MFA Museum Council, and work by Yayoi Kusama and Cecilia Vicuña. I will do a long post all about pottery class very soon. But in the meantime, here is the instagram video I talk about on the podcast with the guy making the little pots. It’s AMAZING (and if you don’t see it, here is a direct link).

I also wanted to share two photos from the Yayoi Kusama installation (the first is inside the installation and the second is a photo of one of the “peepholes”):

And this is the Cecilia Vicuña piece:

And here is an historical quipu:

You can read more about quipus here.

Finally, here is a link to the Museum Council instagram account. I posted a video of the Yayoi Kusama experience to that account:

And a video of Cecilia Vicuña singing:

(If you don’t see the two videos above, click through to my blog.)

Thanks for stopping by!

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082: Team Teaching with Nathalie Kalbach

October 7, 2018 by balzerdesigns Leave a Comment

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Today’s podcast is about team teaching and features a conversation with Nathalie Kalbach. Nathalie is a self-taught mixed media artist.

She was born in Germany and lived most of her adult life in Hamburg before moving to the United States in September 2013. She now lives in Jersey City, NJ.

“For the last decade I have been exploring the possibilities of creating dimension and texture by layering different materials and paint media. I have worked in art journals and on canvas, incorporating collage and found objects.

For me, creating art is a dialogue between my skills and the supplies I use. It is not so much a battle as an ongoing attempt to work out the connections between ideas and techniques.

In my mixed media canvases I emphasize urban subject matter, especially gentrification. I depict the vibrancy as well as the decay that I see in the cities around me from multiple viewpoints, represented by layering and tactile dimension.”

On the podcast we discuss the more than decade long friendship Nathalie and I share…

…and some thoughts on the benefits of team teaching, as that’s what we’ll be doing at the beginning of next month.

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081: Listener Mail

September 7, 2018 by balzerdesigns 1 Comment

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Mom and I are doing our best to get back into the podcast swing of things. We’ve been podcasting since 2012 (6 YEARS!!!) but we’re not great about frequency. This will be just our sixth podcast in 2018. (Note to self: put podcast in calendar as a “to do.”) All of that said, today’s podcast is a particularly good one, because it’s a conversation with YOU! We chose a few of the awesome comments you’ve left to share and discuss.

Mom and I would also love it if you would take a few minutes to take this four question survey about the podcast and why you do or don’t listen to it. Should take you less than one minute to complete.

CLICK HERE FOR THE SURVEY

Thank you for your time!

Finally, a quick reminder that I’ve got a bunch of teaching gigs coming up:

September 22-23: I’ll be at The Ink Pad in NYC.

Saturday is “Interesting Faces” where I’ll be sharing my techniques and ideas for creating truly unique faces. It’s time to play beyond the edges of your imagination!

Sunday is “Painted Paper Collage.” In this class I’ll be sharing some of the techniques that I use over and over for projects big and small, including this fabulous collaged dress:

October 13-14: ScanNCut for Artists in the Boston area

I’m super excited to be teaching an in-person ScanNCut class. This is the first one I’ve taught that is open to the public and it is focused on using the ScanNCut as an art tool to make stamps, stencils, screens, and more!

November 2-4: co-teaching a 3-day class with Nat Kalbach in the UK

Nat and I are both so psyched to take you through the process of creating mixed media collages from two different perspectives. I think it’s going to be an amazing class!

I hope to see you in class! Thanks for stopping by!

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