Author, Art Thinking
What can businesses learn from the arts? Amy Whitaker explains “art thinking.”
In this clip, Amy explains how Warby Parker draws from the lessons of the art world in more than just the design of their glasses…
Amy Whitaker is a writer, artist, and teacher working at the intersection of creativity, business, and everyday life. She holds an MBA from Yale and an MFA in painting from the Slade School of Fine Art at the University College London. She is an assistant professor in Visual Arts Administration at New York University, in the Steinhardt School. She is the author of Museum Legs, and her writing has appeared in Fast Company, the New York Post, the New York Times, Art21, Architectural Design, and The Millions. In 2013, she received the Sarah Verdone Writing Award from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. She lives in New York City. From 2015-2016, Amy was the New Museum Incubator’s first entrepreneur-in-residence.
