Adrienne Childs is the Senior Consulting Curator at The Phillips Collection - she not only helps the collection to buy more art but she is curating exhibits all the time and is looking for artists -  and you could be the artist she wants to know more about and put in her next show. 

Earlier this year, we had the privilege of hosting Adrienne Childsat a Praxis Roundtable  -- a weekly Zoom call where Praxis students meet and interact with influential collectors, curators and gallerists. 

Here are some highlights from that Roundtable:

• Video Clip 1: Fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the art world, and who gets invited to curate which works. She discusses her challenges in the academic world, particularly in 18th-century French art, and her transition to curating African American art, highlighting changes in the art world's attention towards her work post-racial reckoning era. Sometimes you go under the radar, and all of a sudden everything flips and you find yourself overbooked with invitations. 
• Video Clip 2: Maybe you want a way in? She is talking about the importance of seizing opportunities to voice opinions and contribute to discussions, especially when there is a receptive audience.
• Video Clip 3: Does your work have to be about racial issues or politics to get curated nowadays? She discusses the ongoing debate among black artists about whether their art should focus on racial themes or individual creativity, noting a broader recognition of diverse expressions in black art.
   

As you can see, she is force of nature, a non-stop cultural worker, so to speak, and she feels she is having a moment in history and is doing all she can to learn more about artists she might be interested in - so maybe this is your moment in history? Maybe this is the time to reach put to her?

Would you like to meet her?

As a Praxis member, you can!

• You get access to Adrienne Child’s contact information - as well as the private contact details of 210+ other prestigious collectors, curators and art dealers…
• When you enroll, you get access to the full, 1-hour recording of our Roundtable with Adrienne Childs. The insights Adrienne Childs shared will help you understand exactly what she finds exciting and what she is looking for in an artist.
• In addition, as a Praxis member you also get to meet a new art world insider like Adrienne Childs every single week, live, at our Praxis Roundtable, which is a Zoom call with a different collector or curator each week… 
• You’ll get my assistance to effectively reach out to the movers and shakers you meet at these Roundtables. I’ll give you two letter templates you can use, so that you don’t have to worry about what to say and will have a better chance of getting a response back.
• Best part? Mentoring. You can ask me to personally edit these emails and letters before you send them out to make sure that they are compelling and you don’t get ghosted.
   

Plus: you also get personal access to me, Brainard Carey, and a suite of educational guides on topics ranging from Alchemy and Art (the history of contemporary artists using concepts of Alchemy), Studio visits in Praxis and how to prepare for them, to reaching galleries and getting feedback on your art.

That said, I’m willing to bet that if you ONLY showed up for the weekly Praxis Roundtables over Zoom and met the collectors, curators and dealers that are there, without doing ANYTHING else, you will at the very least 3X your investment right away. 

Which is why I offer a money back guarantee if you are not happy.

May I be brutally honest with you for a minute? 

If you’re entering the art world at an age when many successful artists are already mid-career, and this is weighing on you…

… and especially if you are an emerging artist in a relatively isolated part of the world…

Then you have to work that much harder to build your network. 

I feel that’s where the real value of this membership lies for you. 

Join the VIP Edition of Praxis Center Membership (Monthly $59/m | Annual $595/yr) and unlock a truly international circle of art world insiders who can propel your career

-Brainard

P.S. This is what a Praxis member said in the after talk on Zoom after the Roundtable we had with Lynne Cooke - a VERY powerful few words about what it is like inside: https://youtu.be/Ene-I6OePQk