The Mentor Program coaches professional artists concerning the art market, their role in it, and supports them in achieving their artistic dreams. It provides artists with the professional and creative guidance they need, allowing them the insight, confidence, and contacts necessary to overcome obstacles in their careers.
This includes:
- Individual monthly coaching
- Weekly peer support
- Focused tasks to move you closer to your dreams
Art Pulse is proud to welcome art consultant Ashely McLean Emenegger as the next mentor of the Mentor Program for Groups 4 and 5, beginning in September 2011.
About McLean:
Besides having a notoriously difficult to pronounce last name (m-n-egg-ur), McLean has been ensconced in the art world since 1996 after chucking her career as a cog in the entertainment industry where she was shamefully complicit in churning out infotainment.
Since her vocational reincarnation that began at the Santa Monica Museum of Art, McLean has worn myriad art chapeaus, acquiring a breadth of art world knowledge and connections.
A creative thinker and savvy producer, McLean has assisted in the creation and/or revitalization of several art organizations and projects. She helped launch Bandini Art Gallery in Culver City, and as its director curated many of its critically recognized exhibitions. As executive director of the Los Angeles Art Association/Gallery 825, McLean brought the organization unprecedented peer, public, and critical acclaim. She was also a key player in the editorial reinvigoration of THE Magazine Los Angeles, a monthly art publication focusing on the Los Angeles art scene.
Through her consulting firm, McLean Fine Art, McLean has placed artwork in numerous private collections, served as art advisor and curator to nonprofit groups, and has provided her press/media consultation services to commercial art galleries. Her independent curatorial projects have received reviews in the Los Angeles Times, Artweek, Artscene, among others.
As an independent writer, her art reviews and features have appeared in multiple publications. She is also on staff for the uber-hip cultural site flavorpill.com.
McLean graduated from Sarah Lawrence College, New York, some time ago.
Likes: India, swimming at the Pasadena Rose Bowl, condiments, integrity, the absurd
Dislikes: American Apparel ads, self-importance, corporate manipulation, jazz shoes
Sign: Virgo, Scorpio rising
Personality type: ENFJ/P
The next round of the Artist Mentor Program begins in March, 2012. A waiting list is forming. If you are interested in being considered for the Program, please send us an email and ask to be added to the waiting list.
If you would like to learn more, please contact April Game at april@artpulse.org or Ansley Pye at director@pulsegallery.org.
