MIriam Schulman

Artist, author, and host of The Inspiration Place podcast, Miriam Schulman in conversation with Aaron Hicklin, proprietor of One Grand Books, about her new book, Artpreneur: The Step-by-Step Guide to Making a Sustainable Living from Your Creativity. No matter what kind of creative artist you are -whether you're a musician, photographer, painter, writer, dancer, singer, or any other medium with aspirations of making a living from your art, this is the perfect time to turn your creative ideas into a successful art business. With gatekeepers no longer controlling the market, anyone with a laptop and a dream can make a thriving living from their creativity.

Schulman has helped thousands of creatives around the world develop their skill sets and create more time and freedom to do what they love. Her signature coaching program, The Artist Incubator, teaches artists how to go from “so-so” sales to “sold-out” collections.  

After witnessing 9/11, she abandoned a lucrative hedge fund to become a full-time thriving working artist. Featured in major publications including Forbes, Entrepreneur, The New York Times, Where Women Create, Art of Man, and Art Journaling magazine. Her artwork has also been featured on NBC’s “Parenthood” and the Amazon series “Hunters” with Al Pacino.

Jim Stratton

Jim Stratton has been fascinated by the oddness of our world in space all his life. Among his estimated 8,000 news interviews over his years as a reporter in the 1970's were three Presidents of the United States, two Beatles, three heads of state, and eight newsmakers who have been assassinated. However, he never dated a fashion model, nor a physicist.

He's written 350+ newspaper columns, hitchhiked an estimated 17,000 miles, spent 18 years as a reform Democratic District Leader in Manhattan, made several short art films, and opened four iconic bars (Grassroots and Puffy's in Manhattan, Bar Bayeux in Brooklyn, and The Maple Leaf Bar in New Orleans). He is also an accomplished palindromist.

Jim was one of the very early loft-tenants in both SoHo (1968) and Tribeca (1974). His first published book, Pioneering in the Urban Wilderness, was an account of the sweat-equity conversions of commercial buildings by artists in a dozen cities across the U.S. If these experiences don't qualify him to recognize oddness, nothing does.

Cost: Conversation is free and open to the public.