“Let's Talk Impact” Podcast With Aliza Shvarts @ Creative Capital

Who is Aliza Shvarts?

Aliza Shvarts is the Director of Artist Initiatives at Creative Capital, a venture philanthropy organization that has funded the creation of new artwork since 1999. An artist, writer, and scholar, Shvarts takes a queer and feminist approach to reproductive labor and language.  Her recent work focuses on testimony and circulations of speech in the digital age. In addition to her own artistic practice and scholarship, Shvarts has worked extensively in artist education, professional development, and cultural philanthropy. She co-founded the Arts Research Collective (ARC), an incubator for experimental and socially engaged arts education, and has developed queer theory curriculum as Faculty for the Leslie-Lohman Museum Queer Artist Fellowship. She has taught at New York University, Parsons School of Design, Pratt Institute, Barnard College, Sotheby’s Institute of Art-New York, and the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. Her artwork has been exhibited internationally at venues including Tate Modern in London, Athens Biennale in Greece, Centre for Contemporary Art FUTURA in Prague, Art in General, and SculptureCenter. Shvarts was a recipient of an Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant in 2014. She is a graduate of Yale University, was a Helena Rubinstein Fellow in Critical Studies at the Whitney Independent Study Program, and holds a PhD in Performance Studies from New York University.

What is the “Let’s Talk Impact" Podcast?

The Let’s Talk Impact podcast is a collection of insights from educators, entrepreneurs, investors, activists and community leaders seeking to demystify access to capital, resources, knowledge and illuminate pathways toward successful impact ventures in NYC and around the world hosted by Justyna Kedra, founder @ WERULE. The podcast is a collaboration between WERULE and The New School’s Impact Entrepreneurship Initiative.