New York University Steinhardt School Department of Art and Art Professions 34 Stuyvesant Street, New York, NY 10003 Amy.Whitaker@Nyu.Edu

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AMY WHITAKER New York University Steinhardt School Department of Art and Art Professions 34 Stuyvesant Street, New York, NY 10003 [email protected] | +1 212.998.5174

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION

DEGREE INSTITUTION FIELD OF STUDY DATES OF STUDY

Ph.D. Goldsmiths Political Economy 9/2019 - 1/2021 University of London (advisor: Will Davies)

M.F.A. Slade School of Fine Art Painting 9/2002 – 6/2004 University College London

M.B.A. Yale University Economics 9/1999 – 5/2001

B.A. Williams College Political Science, Art 9/1992 – 6/1996 magna cum laude

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS 2016 – New York University, Assistant Professor, Visual Arts Administration 2011 – 2015 Sotheby’s Institute of Art, Full-Time Faculty, M.A. in Art Business 2011 – 2016 School of Visual Arts, Founding Faculty, M.F.A. in Products of Design 2011 – 2013 California College of the Arts, Adjunct Faculty, M.B.A. in Design Strategy 2010 Rhode Island School of Design, Adjunct Faculty, Fine Arts 2009 Williams College, Adjunct Faculty, Economics and Art 2004 – 2005 Harvard Law School, Researcher and Editor, Internet Law (Jonathan Zittrain) 2001 – 2002 Yale University, Olin Fellow in Economics (Paul MacAvoy) 2000 – 2001 Yale University, Research Assistant in Economics (Sharon Oster) 2000 – 2001 Yale University, Teaching Assistant in Strategy (Ted Marmor) 1995 – 1996 Williams College, Teaching Assistant in Drawing (Mike Glier) 1995 – 1996 Williams College, Teaching Assistant in Color Theory (Ed Epping)

OTHER APPOINTMENTS 2015 – 2016 New Museum Incubator, Entrepreneur-in-Residence 2013 – 2016 President, Professional Organization for Women in the Arts (POWarts) 2007– 2010 Locus Analytics, Senior Researcher and Consultant 2005 – 2007 D. E. Shaw & Co., L.P., Associate, Investor Relations (Series 7 and 63) 2000 Tate, Associate, Business Strategy and Planning, Director’s Office 1998 – 1999 Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Special Projects Coordinator, Education 1996 – 1998 Jenny Holzer Studio, Editor and Project Manager 1996 The Museum of Modern Art, Intern (then freelancer), Sales and Marketing PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS

Whitaker, A. (2021). Economics of Visual Art: Market Practice and Market Resistance. Cambridge University Press. Whitaker, A. (2016). Art Thinking. New York: Harper Business. Whitaker, A. (2009). Museum Legs: Fatigue and Hope in the Face of Art. Tucson, AZ: Hol Art Books.

JOURNAL ARTICLES

(* = first author; ** = equal contribution)

1. Whitaker, A.* and Kräussl, R. (2020). Fractional Equity, and the Future of Creative Work. Management Science. In press. [impact factor: 4.219] 2. Whitaker, A.,* Bracegirdle, A., De Menil, S., Gitlitz, M.A. and Saltos, L. (2020). Art, Antiquities, and Blockchain: New Approaches to the Restitution of Cultural Heritage. International Journal of Cultural Policy. In press. [impact factor: 1.450] 3. Whitaker, A.* and Grannemann, H. (2019). Artists’ Royalties and Performers’ Equity: A Ground-Up Approach to Social Impact Investment in Creative Fields. Cultural Management, 3(2): 33-51. 4. Whitaker, A. (2019) Art and Blockchain: A Primer, History, and Taxonomy of Use Cases in the Arts. Artivate: A Journal of Entrepreneurship in the Arts, 8(2): 21-46. 5. Whitaker, A. (2019). Economic Provenance: The Financial Analysis of Art Historical Records. Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies, 6(27). https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/jcas/vol6/iss1/27 6. Whitaker, A. (2019). Shared Value over Fair Use: Technology, Added Value, and the Reinvention of Copyright, Cardozo Art and Entertainment Law Journal 37 (3), 635-657. 7. Whitaker, A. (2018). Artist as Owner Not Guarantor: The Art Market from the Artist’s Point of View. Visual Resources, 34(1-2): 48-64. 8. Whitaker, A. (2017). Partnership Strategies for Creative Placemaking in Teaching Entrepreneurial Artists. Artivate: A Journal of Entrepreneurship in the Arts, 6(2): 23-31.

ARTICLES UNDER REVIEW

1. Whitaker, A. (2020). Creative Industries and the Mispricing of Risk: Economies of Scope in Artists’ Incubator Projects. Journal of Cultural Economics. 2. Whitaker, A. (2020). Equity, Empathy, and Leadership: Reconsidering People as the Institution. Curator: The Museum Journal. 3. Whitaker, A., Thomson, D., Lu, Y., and Garde, K. (2019). Cultural Festivals in the Age of Blockchain: A New Economic and Social Model for Festival Support and Community Engagement. International Journal of Arts Management.

WHITAKER CV – SEPTEMBER 2020 2 4. Whitaker, A. (working paper). The ROI on Creativity: Measuring the Impact of Creativity on the Firm. Journal of Creativity and Innovation Management.

ARTICLES & BOOK CHAPTERS IN PROGRESS

1. Whitaker, A. (2020). Is Ownership Real? The Structural Performativity of Property Rights. Working paper for the 12th Annual Critical Finance Studies Conference, Goldsmiths, London (virtual), August 2020. 2. Whitaker, A. and Glick A. (2020). Object Impermanence: Ethics, Endowments, and Museum Deaccessioning. In Mark S. Gold and Sefamie S. Jandl, Eds., Deaccessioning in a Post-Pandemic World (Boston, MA: MuseumsEtc). [book chapter accepted based on abstract.] 3. Goetzmann, W. T.** and Whitaker, A.** (working paper). Blockage Discounts for Artists’ Estates: Best Practice, Policy, and Remodeling the IRS as Equity Investor. 4. Whitaker, A.* and Kräussl, R. (working paper). Museum Donation and Portfolio Strategy: Low and High Value Donations, Diversification and Fractional Equity in the Burton and Emily Hall Tremaine Collection. [accepted based on abstract, Art Market Studies Conference 2020, postponed to 2021.] 5. Whitaker, A.* and Kräussl, R. (working paper). The True Value of Art: Investment Returns Using Costs of Production. [accepted Association of Art History Conference 2020, postponed to 2021.] 6. Whitaker, A.,** Anderson, J.** and Hudson, M.** (working paper). The Cultural Economics of Indigenous Data Sovereignty: Property, Authorship, and Digital Investment Trusts. [submitted Association for Cultural Economics International Conference 2020, postponed without decision to 2021.] 7. Whitaker, A.** and Wolniak, G.** (working paper). From Art to Business and Law: Learning Outcomes of Art Students Who Go on to M.B.A. and J.D. Degrees. [part of SNAAP Fellowship, accessing the Strategic National Arts Alumni Project data] 8. Wolniak, G.** and Whitaker, A.** (working paper). Parental Educational Attainment and the Study of Art: An Analysis of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Arts. [part of SNAAP Fellowship, accessing the Strategic National Arts Alumni Project data] 9. van Haaften-Schick** and Whitaker, A.** (working paper). Novel Funding Sources that Arise from the Seigelaub-Projansky Agreement [in preparation for special issue of Journal of Cultural Economics] 10. Greenland, F.** and Whitaker, A.**. (working paper). Cultural and Economic Frames on the Philbrick Scandal. [in preparation for special issue of American Journal of Cultural Sociology]

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

TECHNICAL REPORTS AND WHITE PAPERS

1. Whitaker, A. (2018). Expert Rebuttal Report. Donald Graham vs. Richard Prince, Gagosian Gallery, Inc., and Lawrence Gagosian; Eric McNatt vs. Richard Prince, Blum & Poe New York, LLC. Written for Cravath, Swaine, and Moore, LLP, at the invitation of David R. Marriott

WHITAKER CV – SEPTEMBER 2020 3 (partner, litigation and intellectual property) and David J. Kappos (partner, former Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office). Submitted and notarized for inclusion in court documents on May 23, 2018. 2. Whitaker, A.** and Wolniak, G.** (2017). The Metric Is the Message: Analyzing Methods and Outcomes of the Arts in STEM to STEAM.” Prepared in conjunction with poster presentation, AAC&U, San Francisco, CA, November 4, 2017. Report shared with participating organizations Stanford Honors in the Arts program and with conference participants including Dr. Andrea Nixon, Program Director, National Science Foundation. 3. Alt, C.,* Moss-Pultz, S., Whitaker, A., and Chen, T. (2016). Defining Property in the Digital Environment, DCG Insights and Bitmark. Co-authored as an advisor to the blockchain company Bitmark and published November 29, 2016, on the website of Digital Currency Group, the leading venture-capital investor in cryptocurrency. 4. Whitaker, A. (2002). Changes in the F.D.A. Drug Approval Process During the 1990s: Rise of Biotech. Authored as an Olin Fellow in Economics at Yale, under the advisement of Paul W. MacAvoy, Williams Brothers Professor, Yale School of Management, as part of a broad study of U.S. regulatory agencies. Submitted January 2002. 5. Holleran, J.** and Whitaker, A.** (2001). Strategic Planning Review of the Yale School of Management Internship Fund. Submitted to the Dean of the School and the alumni body, Spring 2001, as co-chairs on behalf of the strategic planning board. 6. Whitaker, A. (2001). Three Options for Revenue Generation Through the Development of Space: Preliminary Analysis of Building a Conference Center at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. Submitted to the Director of Mass MoCA, May 15, 2000. 7. Jobson, A.* and Whitaker, A. (2000). Planning 2000: Statement of Ambition for Tate. Institution-wide strategic planning of Tate (Tate Modern, Tate Britain, Tate Liverpool, and Tate St. Ives) undertaken the summer Tate Modern opened and submitted to the Directors’ Group and Tate Trustees, fall 2000.

ARTISTS’ BOOKS

1. Whitaker, A. (2014). Ownership for Artists. In Pablo Helguera, Michael Mandiberg, William Powhida, Amy Whitaker, and Caroline Woolard (Eds.) The Social Life of Artistic Property (Hudson, NY: Publication Studio), pp. 100-121. 2. Whitaker, A. (2004). Business School for Artists. Hand-stitched artist’s book sold at Printed Matter. 3. Whitaker, A. (2003). 101 Witty Conceptual Art Projects on the Museum.

ESSAYS & EDITORIALS

1. Whitaker, A. (2020). Blockchain and Cultural Heritage: New Ways of Imagining Restitution of Objects. ENCATC Magazine. 2. Grannemann, H. and Whitaker, A. (2020). How to Get Up-Front Funding for a Project Without Losing Control. Arts Professional.

WHITAKER CV – SEPTEMBER 2020 4 3. Whitaker, A. (2019). Barter: What I Learned About Generosity and Reciprocity. Trade School: 2009-2019 (Ed. by Caroline Woolard). 4. Whitaker, A. (2018). Women in the Landscape. Exquisite: The First Six Years of the Sarah Verdone Award (Ed. T. Viemeister). New York: Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. With Sarah Dohrmann, Julie Jarcho, Lisa Ko, Alicia Jo Rabins, Emily Rubin, and Pia Wilson. 5. Whitaker, A. (2018). “Sculpture for the Blind Letter,” Unanswered Letters, Lenka Clayton, New York: JL Books. 6. Whitaker, A. (2018, August 14). Artists Are Entrepreneurs. We Should Compensate Them Accordingly. Artsy. (with contribution from R. Kräussl). 7. Whitaker, A. (2018, May 26-27). The Eureka Moment That Made Bitcoin Possible. Wall Street Journal, p. C18. 8. Whitaker, A. (2017, February 16). Empathy and Its Discontents. e-flux, February 16, 2017. 9. Whitaker, A. (2016, July 20). Why Teach Business to Artists? Hyperallergic, July 20, 2016. 10. Whitaker, A. (2013, October 2). Coding Is an Art: Software People Should Learn. Fast Company. 11. Whitaker, A. (2011). Does It Still Make Sense to Build an Art Museum?: Dispatches from Planning the William Eggleston Museum in Memphis. Artwrit. 12. Whitaker, A. (2011). Everyone Is an Artist and a Businessperson, Art21. 13. Whitaker, A. (2013). The Obscure Early Lives of the Artists, The Millions, January 2, 2013. 14. Whitaker, A. (2012). Can Art Really Be Free? (Q&A), Is this Free?, (Ed. by Marco Antonini), Brooklyn, NY: NURTUREart. 15. Whitaker, A. (2005). Visual Thinking. Architectural Design.

Published Teaching Curricula and Case Studies

1. Whitaker, A. (2016). Performance Practice: Business Structures and Planning Workbook. Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and The Actors Fund. [62-page workbook and five-day workshop with teacher guide and lecture slides.] 2. Whitaker, A. (2016). Professional Practice. [year-long curriculum plan for New Museum Incubator and intensive bootcamp.] 3. Whitaker, A. (2002). Guggenheim.com. Yale School of Management. (taught in E-Commerce Strategy, Prof. Fiona Scott Morton). 4. Osborne, K.** and Whitaker, A.** (2001) University Fundraising. Yale School of Management. (taught in Services Marketing, Prof. Christopher Lovelock).

HONORS AND AWARDS

2020 Finalist, Fast Company World Changing Ideas Competition (Equity for Artists). 2019 SNAAP (Strategic National Arts Alumni Project), Fellow, Indiana University. 2019 Creative Capital Art Writers Grant, Finalist. 2019 Global Research Initiative Fellowship, NYU Provost’s Office, NYU London. 2019 Goddard Junior Faculty Fellowship, NYU Steinhardt. 2018 NYU Center for the Humanities Publication Grant, Economics of Visual Art.

WHITAKER CV – SEPTEMBER 2020 5 2018 Dora Maar Brown Fellows Program, Finalist. 2017 Axiom Business Book of the Year, Silver Medalist. NYU university-wide honors citation. 2017 Business Book of the Year, Creativity and Innovation Finalist, 800-ceo-read/Porchlight. 2013 Creative Capital Artist’s Grant, Finalist. 2013 Sarah Verdone Writing Award. Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. 2008 Association for Cultural Advancement Through Visual Art, Studio grant, London. 2003 Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, Project Award. 1997 Rhodes Scholarship national finalist. 1996 Krouse Prize in Political Science, Williams College. 1996 Hutchins Prize, Williams College. (second highest award given at graduation, for “mental and moral qualities” that lead one to become “a useful, worthy, and lovable citizen.”)

PRESENTATIONS

ACADEMIC CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

2021 Whitaker, A. (2021, accepted). Museum Donation and Portfolio Strategy. Art Market Studies Association. Edinburgh. [postponed due to COVID.] 2021 Whitaker, A. (2021, accepted). The True Value of Art: Modelling Investment Returns with Costs of Production. Association of Art History. [postponed due to COVID.] 2020 Whitaker, A. (2020, August 27). Is Ownership Real? The Structural Performativity of Property Rights. 12th Annual Critical Finance Studies Conference, Goldsmiths, UK. 2020 Whitaker, A. (2020, June 9). Creative Industries and the Mispricing of Risk: Economies of Scope in Artists’ Incubator Projects. Arts, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation (AEI) Lab, O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University. 2020 Whitaker, A. (2020, May 19). SNAAP Research Proposals: Parental Educational Attainment and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Arts, and Art Students Who Study Business and Law, on the panel “Setting Up Students for Success: Lessons from SNAAP (the Strategic National Arts Alumni Project),” Association of Arts Administration Educators (AAAE) Conference (virtual), Baruch, New York, NY. 2020 Whitaker, A. (2020, March 8). Fractional Equity: Shared Futures of Art, Law, and Economics, on the panel “Artists Modelling Legal Futures,” Law Culture and the Humanities Conference, Quinnipiac University, Hamden, CT. (with G. Wolniak) 2020 Whitaker, A. (2020, February 14). From Stella to Grevsky: Employment Contracts in Artistic Production, on the panel “Contracts, Waivers, and Workman's Comp: The Art of Finding Participant Labor in the Archive,” College Art Association, Chicago, IL. 2019 Whitaker, A. (2019, November 26). Cultural Festivals in the Age of Blockchain: A New Economic and Social Model for Festival Support and Community Engagement. International Workshop on Cultural Festivals, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain. 2019 Whitaker, A. (2019, October 3). Blockchain and Antiquities: Stakeholder Analysis, Fractional Equity, and Blockchain Solutions for Looted Antiquities. ENCATC

WHITAKER CV – SEPTEMBER 2020 6 (European Cultural Policy) Annual Congress, Burgundy Business School, Dijon, France. 2019 Whitaker, A. (2019, September 17). Fractional Equity for Art. Conference on Investing for the Long Term, Centre for Endowment Asset Management, Judge School of Business, Clare College, Cambridge University, Cambridge U.K. 2019 Whitaker, A. (2019, February 14). Fractional Equity, Digital Scarcity, and Blockchain Use Cases in the Arts, on the panel “Bitcoins, Artcoins, Blockchains, Art and Art History,” College Art Association, New York, NY. 2018 Whitaker, A. (2018, November 16). Democratizing Art Markets (with Kräussl). Art Markets Workshop, Solvay School of Economics and Management, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium. 2018 Whitaker, A. (2018, March 17). Shared Value Over Fair Use, on the panel “Intellectual Property Problems: Copyright, Heritage, Tradition,” Law, Culture and the Humanities Conference, Georgetown Law School. Washington D.C. 2017 Whitaker, A. and Wolniak, G. (2017, November 3). The Metric Is the Message: Analyzing Methods and Outcomes of the Arts in STEM to STEAM. AAC&U Transforming STEM Higher Education: Discovery, Innovation, and the Value of Evidence, San Francisco, CA (poster). 2017 Whitaker, A. (2017, September 27). Business Structures and Planning: Teaching Entrepreneurship as a Design Process, ENCATC (European Cultural Policy) Annual Congress, Brussels, Belgium. 2017 Whitaker, A. (2017, May 5). Partnership Strategies for Teaching Entrepreneurial Artists,” Fifth Biennial Pave Symposium: Arts Entrepreneurship in, with, and for Communities, Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ. 2017 Whitaker, A. (2017, February 15). Artists as Owners Not Guarantors: The Art Market from the Artist’s Point of View, on the panel “Art in the Age of Financial Crisis,” College Art Association, New York, NY. 2013 Whitaker, A. (2013, February 15). Art Thinking in the Context of Design Thinking, on the panel “Design and Business: Strange Bedfellows or Flipsides of the Same Coin?”, College Art Association, Hilton, New York.

KEYNOTES & INVITED PRESENTATIONS

2020 “Economics for Artists: Where You Fit in,” Recorded lecture for the Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design (AICAD) and Art World Conference, August 23, 2020. (One-hour umbrella introduction to series of professional development sessions for the 37 member institutions of AICAD.)

2019 “Fractional Equity,” Future of the Art Market, Creative United, Somerset House, London, November 13, 2019. One of two keynotes at unconference.

2019 “Think Like an Artist,” House of Beautiful Business, Academy of Sciences, Lisbon, Portugal, November 5, 2019.

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2019 “Exploring Ethics and Social Impact,” Christie’s 2nd Annual Art + Tech Summit: The AI Revolution, Christie’s Inc., New York, NY, June 24, 2019.

2019 “Copy and Paste: The Work of Art in the Age of Blockchain,” Topics in Time-Based Media Art Conservation, Mellon Lecture Series, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, April 3, 2019.

2019 “Defining Innovation Presents Amy Whitaker,” Philadelphia Art and Business Council and Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA, May 2, 2019. Discussant: David Yager, President, University of the Arts. (keynote).

2019 “From Blockchain to AI: The Future of Due Diligence,” at Due Diligence: A Symposium on Vetting Artworks, Association of Professional Art Advisors and Christie’s New York, January 25, 2019.

2018 “A New Way to Pay Artists,” Fear Itself: TEDx FoggyBottom, George Washington University, Washington, D.C., April 14, 2018.

2018 “Purposeful Creativity, or How to Be a Generalist,” Annual Teske Creativity Lecture, University of Minnesota, Duluth, October 15, 2018. (keynote)

2017 “Art Thinking: Artist as Citizen, Owner, and Entrepreneur,” MFA in Fine Arts Speaker Series, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, December 12, 2017.

2017 “Art Thinking and Innovating: Wouldn’t It Be Cool If?” TEDx Tarrytown, Irvington Town Hall Theater, Tarrytown, NY, October 22, 2017.

2017 “Inventing Point B: How to Make Better Business and Policy Decisions Thinking Like an Artist,” in the Session “The New Normal,” The Conference, Malmö Sweden, September 4, 2017.

2017 “What I Have Been Thinking About (invited reflections),” Knight Foundation Museum Technology Roundtable, Knight Foundation Headquarters, Miami, FL, August 22, 2017.

2017 “Inventing Point B: How to Move Forward Without a Template,” Aspen Ideas Festival, Aspen, CO, June 29, 2017.

2017 “Art Thinking, or Inventing Point B in any Area of Life,” Claremont Athenaeum, Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, CA, February 23, 2017.

2017 “Art Thinking: With Amy Whitaker and Nicole Cosgrove,” The Princeton Club of New York, May 1, 2017.

WHITAKER CV – SEPTEMBER 2020 8 2017 “Creative Career: Expert Business Tactics for Artists,” General Assembly, New York, April 20, 20“Art Thinking Master Class with Amy Whitaker,” The Yale Club of New York, February 2, 2017.

2017 “Inventing Point B: How to Move Forward Without a Template,” Women of Williams, Google Capital, San Francisco, CA, January 9, 2017.

2017 “The Business of Art: Art Thinking,” Annual Art Business Lecture, The Barnes Collection, Philadelphia, PA, April 5, 2017. (keynote)

2017 “Art Thinking,” Ontario Public School Board Association (annual meeting of public school trustees across the province of Ontario), Toronto, Ontario, January 19, 2017. (keynote)

2016 “Art Thinking,” Kickstarter Ignite, PWL (People We Love) Camp, Kickstarter, Brooklyn, NY, October 16, 2016.

2016 “Inventing Point B” in the “Make. Art. Work” series, jointly hosted by the Arts Councils of Hartford, Fairfield & New Haven, deKoven House, Middletown, CT, September 24, 2016. (keynote)

2015 “Artist as Entrepreneur,” Pacific Northwest College of Art and Oregon College of Art and Craft, Portland, OR, April 8, 2015.

2013 “The Letter and the Envelope: Designing a Business Structure as a Creative Process,” Brooklyn Commune, Invisible Dog, Brooklyn, NY, May 12, 2013.

2013 “Art>Artist,” Teen Creative Agency, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, January 26, 2013.

2012 “Artist as Entrepreneur,” MFA Program, (Prof. Gregory Sholette), Queens College, Queens, NY, October 16, 2012.

2012 “Resistance: A Conversation About the Economy,” Come Early Program for “Turbulence (A Dance About the Economy), Keith Hennessy and Circo Zero, New York Live Arts, New York, NY, October 4, 2012.

2012 “The Economics of Education,” as part of Trade School at The Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY, March 29, 2012.

2011 “Economics as Form,” collaboration with Ourgoods for Living as Form, Creative Time, Essex Market, New York, NY, October 1, 2011.

2011 “Stock Market Basics,” outdoor class taught at the original Occupy Wall Street, Zuccotti Park, New York, NY, October 12, 2011. (featured in Corporate Counsel)

WHITAKER CV – SEPTEMBER 2020 9 2011 “Monday Painter/Sunday Banker: Economics as a Creative Practice,” as part of Trade School @ the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, March 25, 2011.

2010 “Museum Legs: The Public Life of Art and the Creative Life of Museums,” Rhode Island School of Design, First-Year Orientation, Providence, RI, September 12, 2010. (keynote)

2010 “Museum Legs: The Creative Life of Museums and the Public Life of Art,” in the symposium “Art Museums as Public Anchors, Penn Urban Institute, Philadelphia, PA, September 14, 2010.

2009 “Museum Legs,” introduced by Tom Sokolowski, director, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA, December 4, 2009.

2009 “Museum Legs and Art Education,” Seattle Museum of Art, Seattle, WA, November 4, 2009.

2009 “Museum Legs,” Authors@Google Program, Google Headquarters, Mountain View, CA, October 27, 2009.

2009 “Business School for Artists,” the original Trade School, New York, NY, February 22, 2009. (featured in New York Times “City Room” blog).

2009 “What Would Leonardo Do? Leveraging Principles of Art in the Workplace and Everyday Life, IBM, Armonk. NY, August 27, 2009.

2004 “Technical Lectures,” Slade School of Fine Art, London (business lectures to fellow painters at the Slade; accompanying artist’s book Business School for Artists included in the curated selection of Printed Matter, New York).

PANELS

2021 Whitaker, A. (2021, accepted). “Careers in the Arts: (Re)building, (Re)framing & (Re)envisioning the Arts Sector. College Art Association (virtual). New York, NY.

2020 “The Artist’s Contract: Drafting New Terms for 2021,” with Susan Schwartz, Virginia Broersma, and Lauren van Haaften-Schick,” The Artist’s Office, Los Angeles, CA (virtual), August 24, 2020.

2020 “The Death of the Artist: How Creators Are Struggling to Survive in the Age of Billionaires and Big Tech.” Invited discussant with author William Deresiewicz. Midtown Scholar, Harrisburg, PA (virtual) and Facebook Live, August 6, 2020.

2020 “Redistribution Is the Repair Work of Democracy,” with Lauren van Haaften- Schick and Kenneth Pietrobono, Discussion 1, Redistribution, Elizabeth Foundation

WHITAKER CV – SEPTEMBER 2020 10 for the Arts. Distributed as podcast on July 27, 2020. https://www.projectspace- efanyc.org/redistribution.

2019 “AEJL Spring Symposium: Digital Art and Blockchain,” hosted by Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal, with Steve Schindler, Partner, Schindler Cohen & Hochman LLP; Ross Blum, COO, Quidd; Elena Zavalev, Founder, New Art Academy; Christopher Buccafusco, Professor of law, Cardozo; Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University, New York, NY, March 22, 2019.

2019 “Making Art Making Money,” Arts Worker Resource Center, with Paula Landry and Patch Schwadron (moderator), The Actors Fund, Brooklyn, NY, April 16, 2019.

2019 “Stern Meets Warhol,” with Blake Gopnik, art critic and author of the forthcoming Andy Warhol biography, NYU Stern School, New York, NY, March 13, 2019.

2018 “Blockchain, Contracts, and Artists’ Participation in Markets,” with Kevin McCoy, NYU; Angela Redai, Portion; Abraham Milano, Dada; and Lauren van Haaften- Schick, Cornell, NYU Steinhardt Visual Arts Administration Colloquium, NYU Einstein Auditorium, New York, NY, November 9, 2018.

2018 “Potential Payday: Blockchain, the Art Market & Droit de Suite,” with James Tarmy, Bloomberg; Jess Houlgrave, Codex Protocol; Noah Wunsch, Sotheby’s; and Joao Enxuto and Erica Love, artists, Digital de Suite, New York, NY, May 4, 2018.

2018 “The Fine Art Market In Bitcoin, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency & More,” with Philippe Hoerle-Guggenheim, HG Contemporary; Elena Zavelev, New Art Academy; Chad Arroyo, Chief Marketing Officer Seven Stars Cloud Group, Inc; Felix Hartmann, Managing Partner- Hartmann Digital Assets Fund, LP; Sherone Rabinovitz, CEO, iOS Learning Labs (co-moderator); Lawrence Lewitinn, Editor, Modern Consensus (co-moderator); and David Stern (organizer), Yale Club of New York, April 30, 2018.

2018 “The Art of Blockchains,” with Hans Ulrich Obrist, Artistic Director, Serpentine Gallery; Ian Cheng, artist; and Ben Vickers, Chief Technology Officer, Serpentine Gallery; Art of Blockchains, Faena Forum, Miami, FL, December 4, 2018.

2018 “The Work of Art in the Age of Blockchain,” with Nanne Dekking, CEO Artory and Chairman The European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF); Christoph Meinel, Dean Hasso Plattner Institute for Digital Engineering, Potsdam; and Sofie Scheerlinck, Managing Director, TEFAF New York (moderator), Hasso Plattner Institute, German House, United Nations Plaza, New York, NY, November 29, 2018.

2017 “Humanizing the Blockchain,” with Tomicah Tillemann, Director, Bretton Woods II and Blockchain Trust Accelerator, New American Foundation; Ryan Zagone, Head of Regulation, Ripple; and Noah Robischon, Executive Editor, Fast Company, Fast Company Innovation Festival, October 26, 2017.

WHITAKER CV – SEPTEMBER 2020 11 2017 “Artists and Arts Administration,” with William Powhida, artist and critic; and Sharon Louden, artist and author Living and Sustaining a Creative Life, NYU Steinhardt Visual Arts Administration Colloquium, NYU Einstein Auditorium, New York, NY, September 15, 2017 (organizer).

2016 “Art Thinking,” with Melissa Rachleff Burtt, Associate Clinical Professor, Visual Arts Administration, and Sandra Lang, Associate Clinical Professor and Program Director, Visual Arts Administration, NYU Steinhardt Visual Arts Administration Colloquium, NYU Einstein Auditorium, New York, NY, September 23, 2016.

2016 “Ownership and Art,” with Knute Gregg and Kraig Baker, Davis Wright Tremaine; and Sean Moss-Pultz, CEO of Bitmark, Eyebeam, Brooklyn, NY, May 26, 2016.

2016 “Creative to the Core: Fractured Atlas, Art and Entrepreneurship Awards,” with Monica Montgomery, Museum of Impact; Sriram Emani, IndianRaga; Isaiah Tanenbaum, Flux Theatre Ensemble; Steven Peterman, The Sketchbook Project; and Alexander Porter, Scatter Collective, Fractured Atlas, May 11, 2016.

2016 “The Art World of Today,” with Lisa Dennison, Chairman of Sotheby’s North and South Americas; Jeffrey Deitch, former director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Mary Hoeveler, art advisor; Edward Dolman, chairman and chief executive of Phillips, and Don Thompson, author The $12 Million Stuffed Shark (moderator), Louise Blouin Creative Leadership Summit, Metropolitan Club, New York, NY, September 19, 2016.

2015 “The Market Is the Medium,” with Caroline Woolard, artist; Magda Sawon, Postmasters Gallery; and Sarah Van Anden, Department of Cultural Affairs, POWarts@Newd Art Show, June 6, 2015. (moderator and organizer)

2014 “Art and Economics,” with William N. Goetzmann, Edwin J. Beinecke Professor of Finance and Management Studies at Yale; Roman Kräussl, Professor of Finance, Luxembourg School of Finance; and Don Thompson, author, and Sarah P. Hanson, Art and Auction (moderator), Louise Blouin Creative Leadership Summit, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, September 25, 2014.

2014 “Truth Be Told: A Cross-Disciplinary Exploration of Finding Facts,” with Harold Varmus, M.D., Nobel Laureate and Head of the National Cancer Institute; Jane Aiken, Professor, Georgetown Law; Margaret Sullivan, Public Editor, the New York Times; and Geneva Overholser, former editor of the Des Moines Register (moderator), Baruch College and the Harnisch Foundation, City University of New York, February 10, 2014.

2014 “Social Life of Artistic Property: Conversation with the Authors,” with Pablo Helguera, Bill Powhida, Michael Mandiberg, and Caroline Woolard, Cue Art Foundation, New York, NY, June 4, 2014.

WHITAKER CV – SEPTEMBER 2020 12 2012 “At the Intersection of Art, Money, and Politics,” with Jan Cohen-Cruz, director; Randy Martin, NYU; Morgan Jenness, Abrams Artists Agency; and Rachel Chavkin, director, Access Restricted series, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Broad Street Ballroom, New York, NY, April 11, 2012. (moderator)

2012 LEAP Symposium: Career Pathways for Design and Social Innovation, Art Center, Pasadena, CA, December 19, 2012. (discussant)

SELECTED WORKSHOPS

2020 “Financial Literacy for Activism,” College Art Association, Chicago, IL, February 13, 2020.

2020 “Business Planning,” Assets for Artists, Brooklyn, NY. February 22, 2020.

2019 “Business School for Artists,” The 33rd Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts,” Švicarija Art Centre, Ljubljana, Slovenia, July 6, 2019.

2019 “The ROI (return on investment) in Creativity,” Program on Creativity and Innovation, NYU Shanghai, March 25, 2019.

2019 “Fractional Equity, Blockchain, and Art: Property Rights and the Pricing of Creativity,” Program on Creativity and Innovation, NYU Shanghai, March 18, 2019.

2019 “Getting Unstuck and Getting Published: The Minimum Viable Product Approach to Writing,” Tremaine Foundation workshop series, College Art Association, New York, NY, February 15, 2019.

2018 “Business School for Artists,” College Art Association, Los Angeles, CA, February 22, 2019.

2016 “Business Modeling I and II,” in the series Basic Finance for Artists (BFA): Dance Edition. Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York, NY, May 31, 2016.

2016 The Market Is the Medium: AICAD Studio Practice Residency,” Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design (AICAD), New York, July 7, 2016 and November 9, 2016.

2015 “Finance 101,” Business Strategy Series, New Museum Incubator, New York, NY, September 16, 2015.

2015 “Business Model Patterns,” Business Strategy Series, New Museum Incubator, New York, NY, September 10, 2015.

WHITAKER CV – SEPTEMBER 2020 13 2015 “Cost and Revenue: Tools for Makers,” Business Strategy Series, New Museum Incubator, New York, NY, September 9, 2015.

2015 “Hybrid Practice: Artist, Designer, Technologist, Curator, Musician, Inventor, Person, Entrepreneur,” Business Strategy Series, New Museum Incubator, New York, NY, September 9, 2015. (part of curriculum designed for New Inc)

2015 “Swing Thought: Cost Structure,” Introduction to Business Strategy. TED Fellows Collaboratorium, Birmingham, AL, April 30, 2015.

2011-2015 “Artist as Entrepreneur,” Artist Summer Institute, LMCC-Creative Capital, New York, NY, July 31, 2011; May 13, 2012; August 11, 2013; August 10, 2014; August 9, 2015.

2014 “Business Plans and Pro Formas,” Professional Development Series, New Museum Incubator, September 24, 2014.

2014 Creative Business Strategy, Parts I II: Strategy and Structure (I) and Cases and Financials (II),” New Museum Incubator, September 8 and 17, 2014.

2013 “The Market Is the Medium,” Three-session short course, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, Fall 2013.

2011 “An Hour of Business for Artists,” Crosstown Arts, Memphis, TN, March 10, 2011.

2004 “Words, Numbers, Pictures,” and hands-on painting workshop, Marakon Consultants, London, UK, November 5, 2004.

TEACHING

COURSES NYU COURSES Spring 2021 Art Money (hybrid studio art course with Gerry Pryor) Fall 2020 ARVA-GE 2910: Entrepreneurial Projects (Cultural Heritage) Spring 2020 ARVA-GE 2926: Hybrid Practice Spring 2019 ARVA-GE 2910: Entrepreneurial Projects in the Arts Fall 2018, Spring 2020 ARVA-GE 2915: Art Market Analysis (with Sandy Lee) Fall 2017 ARVA-GE 2024: Economics of the Visual Arts Spring 2017-Spring 2020 ARVA-GE 2076: Visual Arts Markets Spring 2017-Spring 2019 ARVA-GE 2301: Final Project: Visual Arts Administration Fall 2016-Fall 2018 ARVA-GE 2299: Research in Visual Arts Administration

COURSES PREVIOUSLY TAUGHT 2012-2016 Business Structures, MFA in Products of Design, School of Visual Art 2010-2015 Principles of Business in the Arts I and II, Sotheby’s Institute of Art 2010, 2011 Managerial Economics, Design Strategy MBA, California College of the Arts

WHITAKER CV – SEPTEMBER 2020 14 2010 Paint By Econ, Rhode Island School of Design 2009 Entrepreneurship as an Art Form, Art and Economics, Williams College 2001 Strategic Environment of Management (Teaching Assistant), Yale University 2001 Services Marketing (Teaching Assistant), Yale University 1996 Color Theory (Teaching Assistant), Williams College 1995 Drawing I (Teaching Assistant), Williams College

SELECTED GUEST LECTURES IN UNIVERSITY COURSES Fall 2020 “Finance and Value,” in Art and Value, Prof. Anthony Graves, Art and Art Professions (ART CR-UE 52). Fall 2020 “Cryptocurrencies, Blockchains, and Applications,” Carnegie Mellon University, Prof. Sam Perl. Fall 2020 “Economic Models in the Arts,” in Environments of Arts Administration, Prof. Sandra Lang and Ruby Yu (virtual Shanghai and New York lectures). 2018-2020 “Blockchain and Provenance for Art,” Digital Currency, Blockchains, and (ongoing) the Future of the Financial Services Industry, Profs. David Yermack, Andrew Hinkes, Geoffrey Miller (NYU Law School, LAW-LW.12371.001 and NYU Stern School, FINC.GB.3324.20). Spring 2019 Blockchain and Archives (panel) in Art, Money, Infrastructure, Prof. Anna McCarthy, Tisch, CINE-GT 1711. Spring 2019 Seminar in Arts Management: Art Thinking (PERF-798), Prof. Sherburne Laughlin, American University, Washington, D.C. (by video). Fall 2018 “Inventing Point B: How to Make Better Business and Policy Decisions by Thinking Like an Artist,” Leadership for Studio” (NBAY 6800), Prof. Mukti Khaire, Cornell Tech, New York, NY, November 8, 2018. (lecture in three sections of required MBA course). Fall 2017 “Artist as Entrepreneur,” Visual Arts Praxis Class, Prof. Marlene McCarty, NYU Steinhardt. Fall 2017, 2018 “The Blurring of For-Profit and Non-Profit Forms in the Arts,” Prof. Sandra Lang, Environments of Visual Arts Administration ARVA-GE 2030.

MA THESIS SUPERVISION Over 70 M.A. theses supervised, approximately 7-10 per year from 2011-2015 and 2016-2020. Over 40 capstone business plan projects advised in design programs. Sample M.A. thesis topics include: blockchain and the history of art markets, decentering Whiteness in museums, development of arts infrastructure in Nigeria, loss aversion in art auction bidding, and branding differentials in presentation of Cynical Realist art to Western and Chinese audiences.

MENTORSHIP, LEADERSHIP, AND SERVICE

FORMAL MENTORSHIP 2017 – New Museum Incubator, Mentor 2014 – Joan Mitchell Foundation, Creative Business Strategy Advisor 2013 – 2017 TED Fellows, Mentor as part of SupporTED Program

NYU SERVICE University

WHITAKER CV – SEPTEMBER 2020 15 2017 – Guest lecturer in business and art courses (listed above) 2020 Faculty reviewer of new Learning Management System 2018 – Participant, Stern-Steinhardt Exploratory Creativity Initiative (Stern Studio)

Steinhardt School 2019 Member, Elections Committee, Steinhardt Faculty Council 2019 Member, Dean’s Digital Strategy Advisory Group 2018 – 2019 Co-Chair, Faculty Affairs Subcommittee 2018 Editorial contributor and reviewer Faculty Council Bylaws 2017 – 2019 NYU Steinhardt Senate and Faculty Council 2016 – 2017 Member, Academic Affairs Subcommittee

Department of Art and Art Professions 2016 – Faculty advisor, Art Finance Society 2016 – Member, Visual Arts Administration Student Awards Nominating Committee 2019 – Member, Visual Arts Administration Curriculum Design Committee 2019 – 2020 Department of Art and Art Professions, Personnel and Reappointment Committee 2018 NASAD Accreditation Visit, Participant 2017 Faculty advisor, Arts Advocacy Day, Washington, D.C. 2016 – 2018 Department of Art and Art Professions, Personnel Committee

SERVICE TO THE FIELD 2020 – Vice President, Art, Antiquities, and Blockchain Consortium (501.c.3) 2019 Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Fellowship Development Task Force, Association of Arts Administration Educators (international) 2018 – Member, Intellectual Property Committee, College Art Association, U.S. 2017 Judge, Biodesign Challenge, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY 2017 Expert, Knight Foundation, Museum Technology Roundtable, Miami, FL 2017 Mentor, New Museum Incubator, New York, NY 2013 – 2016 President, Professional Organization for Women in the Arts, New York, NY

ADVISORY BOARDS 2014 – Advisor, Bitmark [blockchain registry based in Taipei, Taiwan]. 2010 – 2014 Advisor, Trade School [artist-run, barter-economy school]. 2009 – 2011 Advisor, OpEd Project [non-profit that invites more voices into public debate]. 2000 – 2001 Co-Chair, Internship Fund, Yale, School of Management. 2000 – 2001 Board Member, New Haven Cares, Yale Law School.

PEER REVIEWER Poetics [impact factor: 1.26]; University of Toronto Press; Artivate; Curator: The Museum Journal; International Journal of Cultural Policy [impact factor: 1.45]

MEMBERSHIPS Art Market Studies Association, Association of Arts Administration Educators, Association for Cultural Economics International, American Economic Association, College Art Association, Association for Art History, Professional Organization for Women in the Arts, European Academy of Management

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