The Thriving Artist Podcast

What drives most art collectors, and how they decide what to collect, might surprise you. Stephen Zimmerman is an art collector and co-founder of the Western Art Society of the Eiteljorg Museum. He also serves as an advisory board member of the Clark Hulings Fund for Visual Artists, and is based in Indianapolis, Indiana.Stephen explains that collecting is driven by self-made aficionados who often attain a level of education about a given artist and stewardship of a school of art that far exceeds that of the official mediators of taste. As a result, collectors are often driven by an intense curiosity, passion, and (profoundly) personal relationships with individual artists. Whether your an artist, art patron, or another collector - this episode is a joyous exploration of the a commitment that is anything but a hobby.What Art Collectors Know That We Don't Collecting as diversification, therapy, and self-education (the collector as autodidact)"The wisdom of collecting original fine art"Art patrons