Death, Divorce & Downsizing: What Happens to the Art and your Legacy?

Registration and Networking: 5:00 - 5:30pm
Workshop: 5:30-7pm
Moderator: Meredith Badler, Program Director, CBCA

Panelists:

Julie Davis Ratner, Estate Planning Attorney, Colorado Attorneys for the Arts (CAFTA)

Ratner practices primarily in the fields of Estate Planning and Probate & Trust administration. From families just beginning the estate planning process to older clients and family businesses, Julie offers informed, empathetic guidance through the preservation of assets for future generations and charitable giving. Julie counsels her clients on issues such as succession plans, last wills and testaments, living trusts, irrevocable trusts, powers of attorney, and living wills.

Jessie de la Cruz , Arthyve

ArtHyve is a non-profit community arts archives, dedicated topreserving the cultural heritage of contemporary Colorado art and artists by creating a publicly accessible, locally focused arts and culture research center. This initiative is of vital importance as Denver is one of the fastest-growing cities in the nation, subject to rapid gentrification and displacement of many long-time artists and creatives. There is not a place within the state dedicated to the active documentation, preservation, and accessibility of the materials, documents, and ephemera that document the creative output of our city and state’s rapidly changing neighborhoods.

Caroline Douglas, Visual Artist

Caroline has been working in clay for over 40 years and will offer a professional artist's prespective.  Currently, her figurative sculptures are evocations of a dream world. Her inspiration comes from mythology, fairy tales, dreams and the antics of animals and children. Publications include Ceramics: Art and Perception, Lark Books, The Shambhala Sun, andBetter Homes and Gardens. Her work is in the National Museum for Women in the Arts and other private collections.

Moderated by Meredith Badler

As the Program Director for CBCA, Meredith oversees Leadership Arts and alumni activities, Colorado Attorneys for the Arts, Arts + Industry Forums, the Business for the Arts Awards and the biennial Economic Activity Study. She also manages CBCA’s social media communications. In her limited free time, she is President of the Smith College Alumnae Club of Colorado and a regional Alumnae Admissions Coordinator for the mountain states. You can chuckle at her on stage at the Bovine Metropolis Theater and other local venues where she performs long-form improv comedy.

Thank you to the City of Boulder's Office of Arts and Culture for their sponsorship of the Business of Arts Program.