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/