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Beyond the Studio is a podcast about the career paths of working contemporary artists.

Beyond the Studio is a podcast that focuses on the behind the scenes work of visual artists—how they're supporting and sustaining themselves and their creative work. It features candid conversations about their business practices, time management, financial planning, and how they're navigating the unique challenges of making a living, creatively. Artists are inherently resourceful, resilient, and ambitious, with a unique and diverse set of skills. We want to know how they're connecting the dots in their own life, and demystify the process. We believe that by sharing these stories openly and honestly, artists will feel more empowered and become better equipped to live out their own creative life's work.

09/24/2026

🎉🎧 NEW EPISODE of Beyond the Studio feat. Max Porter & Ru Kuwahata is now LIVE! 🎙️

In this latest episode with Ru Kuwahata & Max Porter, the creative couple and Oscar-nominated animation directors behind Tiny Inventions, we talk about rebounding from rejection, embracing slow processes, and funding work abroad.

After meeting Max & Ru as fellow speakers at ICONconference this summer, we knew they’d make excellent guests for the podcast! 📣

Hear more from Max Porter & Ru Kuwahata on using grants and residencies in Europe to fund their animation practice, negotiating the slow, labor-intensive process of stop-motion animation with the demands of commercial clients, how even an Oscar nomination didn’t prevent future failures or rejections, making the hard decision to shelve a feature film they’d worked on for years, and how they balance their time between family, teaching, and running a small business.

👉 Listen to “Tiny Inventions talks Rebounding from Rejection, Embracing Slow Processes, and Funding Work Abroad” wherever you find podcasts!

09/15/2026

“It’s interesting when we think about what is actually art and artwork, right?

This isn’t to take away from the fact that artwork is work, but that each of us has a capacity to actually tap into this cultural organizing / artistic imagination / building of the new world...

That isn’t just restricted to this group of arts workers.
It’s something that each of us has as humans.”

In our latest episode with Art.coop core organizer sruti we discuss how artists are building their own economies, ways artists are likely participating in the solidarity economy movement without even realizing it, how Art.coop is raising awareness while rejecting stereotypes like the “starving artist” and “sellout,” ways artists can incorporate collectivist practices into their own work, and bringing creativity and imagination to the systems and structures around us while building toward a better future.

🎧 Listen to “BTS x Art.Coop - Artists as Economy Builders” on Beyond the Studio wherever you find podcasts!

08/30/2026

If you’ve ever shared a studio space, been a part of an artist collective or artist-run gallery, participated in a clothing swap, shopped at a farmers market, traded supplies or services, or offered sliding scale pricing...then you’ve participated in the solidarity economy (perhaps without even realizing it).

In our latest episode with Art.coop core organizer Sruti Suryanarayanan sruti we dive into ways artists are building their own economies while reimagining the future.

📌 Let us know in the comments below other examples or how you’ve been participating in the solidarity economy!

🎧 Listen to “BTS × Art.coop - Artists as Economy Builders” on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Substack, or wherever you find podcasts.

📷: by photographer Lily Xie from Art.coop’s latest gathering at The Currency House

08/27/2026

💥📣 NEW EPISODE of Beyond the Studio feat. Art.coop is now LIVE! 🎧

This latest episode with Art.coop core organizer Sruti Suryanarayanan sruti helped crystallize a lot of ideas that have come up on the podcast over the years.

While we interview artists on how they’re personally and practically navigating the challenges of building a life and living in order to sustain a long-term career in the arts, the conversation, naturally, often leads us to the larger working conditions we all face as artists, and the broader systems that shape our collective experience.

In this episode you’ll hear more about how artists are building their own economies, ways artists are likely participating in the solidarity economy movement without even realizing it, how Art.coop is raising awareness while rejecting stereotypes like the “starving artist” and “sellout,” ways artists can incorporate collectivist practices into their own work, and bringing creativity and imagination to the systems and structures around us while building toward a better future.

🎙️ Listen to “”BTS × Art.coop - Artists as Economy Builders” on Beyond the Studio wherever you listen to podcasts!

📷: images of Art.coop’s latest gathering at The Currency House. Photos by Lily Xie.

08/18/2026

“We don’t get to decide what the story is. The data tells us what the story is…

We’ve come to see it less as something that is going to inspire the system to change, but something that will empower the people who already want to change the system…

I wish there were some kind of cheat code, but it really is prioritizing it consistently, paying attention, tracking your own progress, and holding yourself accountable.”

🎙️ Our latest episode with arts & culture journalist Julia Halperin discusses the keys to institutional change within the art world, while tracking representation of female-identifying and Black American artists across museum collections, galleries, and art auction house data.

🎧 Listen to “Julia Halperin talks Representation in the Art World, Data as Storytelling, and the Truth about Legacy” on Beyond the Studio wherever you find podcasts.

08/10/2026

“Is progress in the art world just a mirage?”

That was the question posed by a 2022 episode of The Art Angle podcast, and our first introduction to The Burns Halperin Report: the largest report of its kind tracking equity and representation in the art world.

The results, unsurprisingly, were not good.
Women represent only 11% of museum acquisitions and Black American artists just 2.2% while a single artist (Picasso) accounts for higher overall auction prices than all women artists combined.

🎙️ Our latest Beyond the Studio interview with Julia Halperin unpacks the structural reasons progress is so slow to manifest.

Besides shedding light on the inner mechanisms of the art world, it also gave us a chance to talk about how contemporary artists are navigating these challenges while defining success and legacy on their own terms.

🎧 Listen at the link in our bio or wherever you find podcasts!

slide 04: Charlotte Burns (left) and Julia Halperin (right) speaking at the 2026 Making Their Mark Forum in Washington D.C. 📷 Photo by Stephen Voss for CKA.

07/30/2026

🎙️🎊 NEW EPISODE of Beyond the Studio featuring arts & culture journalist Julia Halperin is now LIVE!

We’ve been following Julia’s work alongside on the Burns Halperin Report, tracking representation in the art world, along with her writing for publications like the The New York Times, Financial Times, CULTURED MAGAZINE where she’s currently an editor-at-large, as well as The Art Newspaper, and Artnet news where she was formerly executive editor.

In this episode, you’ll hear more from Julia Halperin on why structural progress is so slow to manifest in the art world, the sobering realities about representation of female-identifying and Black American artists with new data to back it up from the Burns Halperin Report, how to actually create change from the inside out within museums, using data collection to shape decisions in our own personal lives, how frustratingly arbitrary legacy-defining moments in the arts can seem, and why she’s interested in telling stories that haven’t been told yet.

🎧 Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you find podcasts (links in bio)

📷: Last image of Julia in conversation with Stefan Sagmeister during 5th Anniversary Edition of the Istanbul International Arts & Culture Festival for ISTANBUL’74

06/28/2026

“I know that half—probably 75%—of the things that I propose or pitch, even now as a curator, are NOT going to happen. It is just the way it is, and that is FINE. It’s the things that DO happen that matter.”

Hearing this from independent curator Dexter Wimberly might come as a surprise, given that he’s just curated a survey of Derrick Adams’ work at the ICA/Boston, in addition to previous shows at Lehmann Maupin – Art Gallery, SECCI, Efiɛ Gallery and more.

However it serves as an important reminder on how to reframe rejection and turning hardships into real opportunities for growth and change.

🎧 If you haven’t listened to the full interview “Dexter Wimberly talks Persevering, Dreaming Bigger, and Turning Setbacks into Opportunity,” find it now on Beyond the Studio wherever you listen to podcasts.

📸 slide 01: Installation view of SpaceRace at Lehmann Maupin – Art Gallery, Curated by Dexter Wimberly

📸 slide 02: Installation view of A Superlative Palette:
Contemporary Black Women Artists at the Harvey B. Gantt Center, Curated by Dexter Wimberly (photograph by Christina Hussey)

📸 slide 03: Installation view of The Shape of Things to Come at Efiɛ Gallery, Curated by Dexter Wimberly

📸 slide 04: Installation view of Elevate the Object at SECCI, Curated by Dexter Wimberly

📸 slide 05: Installation view of Derrick Adams: View Master at ICA/Boston, Curated by Dexter Wimberly (photograph by Mel Taing)

📸 slide 06: Portrait of Dexter Wimberly

06/25/2026

“I think it’s important to create new challenges for yourself…

Even when you feel like things might be going well, you have to understand that the unpredictable nature of life is constant…

No matter who you are, you have to start thinking about…what is your plan if things change, and how do you shift?

And I think sometimes getting ahead of it: creating your own shifts.”

In our latest interview with Dexter Wimberly, independent curator & entrepreneur, we talk about persevering through personal challenges while embracing change, early career pivots, and bringing an entrepreneurial mindset to every aspect of life.

🎙️ Listen to “Dexter Wimberly talks Persevering, Dreaming Bigger, and Turning Setbacks into Opportunity” on Beyond the Studio wherever you find podcasts.

📸 slide 2: Hauser & Wirth Somerset International Curatorial Residency Symposium, 2023

📸 slides 6-7: “Elevate the Object” at SECCI, curated by Dexter Wimberly, 2024

06/15/2026

“You have to have a healthy dose of blind optimism. You need to have it in there. Because so much about our lives…is about a leap of faith. There has to be a leap in there.”

What we were most inspired by in our interview with independent curator Dexter Wimberly was his perspective and attitude on facing life’s unpredictability, and how he’s managed to turn hardships into real opportunities for personal growth and change.

🌅 If you’ve ever been at a crossroads in your life & career, or faced with the immense uncertainty change can bring, this episode is a must-listen:

“Dexter Wimberly talks Persevering, Dreaming Bigger, and Turning Setbacks into Opportunity” available on Beyond the Studio wherever you find podcasts 🎙️

Images 1-2: Installation view of Derrick Adams’ View Master at the ICA/Boston, Curated by Dexter Wimberly (photograph by Mel Taing)

Images 3-4: Installation view of A Superlative Palette: Contemporary Black Women Artists at the Harvey B. Gantt Center, Curated by Dexter Wimberly (photograph by Christina Hussey)

Image 5: Portrait of Dexter Wimberly, Beyond the Studio podcast

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