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Corporate Curator, General Mills Art Collection, Lisa Melander (Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA)


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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://www.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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Transcript available here: https://wisefoolpod.com/transcript-for-episode-166-corporate-curator-general-mills-art-collection-lisa-melander-minneapolis-minnesota-usa/

 

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