Debi Wisch's guest appearances

Debi Wisch

The Conversation Art Podcast

Arts Entrepreneurship Podcast: Making Art Work

Art Sense

Ben Davis

Coagula Curatorial

Natasha Degen

Kysa Johnson

Joshua Cittarella

Lisa Soto

De Nichols

Tim Schneider

Stef Halmos

Anne Lindberg

Paolo Cirio

Claire Carter

Matt Gonzalez

Nick Brown

Jeff Weiss

OwlTail

A conversation with documentary film producer Debi Wisch about her latest project “The Art of Making It”. Debi (who also produced 2018’s “The Price of Everything”) discusses analyzing the art world again from the perspective of the emerging artist. She is a long-time advocate for the arts who serves on the advisory boards of the Cantor Art Museum at Stanford University and Hunter College’s Arts Advisory, while also serving on the board of the Film at Lincoln Center film society.

Ep. 57: Producer Debi Wisch "The Art of Making it"

This week on the podcast is part one of our interview with Debi Wisch. She's a film and documentary producer, and the founder of Wischful Thinking Productions. We reached out to her after watching The Art of Making It, a superb new documentary she produced that explores the art world through the prism of emerging artists. Debi will address many aspects of filmmaking including suggestions to increase the odds a film is produced, and managing different personalities on a project. In addition to her professional activities, she is also an arts benefactor and has served on the boards of renown arts and cultural institutions throughout the United States. Be sure to tune in to hear Debi's approach to filmmaking and why arts and arts advocacy are so important. Show Notes: https://www.artsentrepreneurshippodcast.com/episodes/178-debi-wisch

This week on the podcast is part one of our interview with Debi Wisch. She's a film and documentary producer, and the founder of Wischful Thinking Productions. We reached out to her after watching The Art of Making It, a superb new documentary she produced that explores the art world through the prism of emerging artists. Debi will address many aspects of filmmaking including suggestions to increase the odds a film is produced, and managing different personalities on a project. In addition to her professional activities, she is also an arts benefactor and has served on the boards of renown arts and cultural institutions throughout the United States. Be sure to tune in to hear Debi's approach to filmmaking and why arts and arts advocacy are so important. Show Notes: <a href="https://www.artsentrepreneurshippodcast.com/episodes/178-debi-wisch" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.artsentrepreneurshippodcast.com/episodes/178-debi-wisch</a>

#178: Debi Wisch (Film & Documentary Producer) (pt. 1 of 2)

Jennifer Blei Stockman

Debi Wisch and Jennifer Blei Stockman, two of the three main producers of the documentary The Price of Everything, about art and money, talk about: The breakdown of the sales system in terms of democratization; auctioneer Simon de Pury’s line: “you should buy with your eyes, not your ears,” and ignore the background noise, as Debi puts it; buying trends among collectors, and the pros and cons of those purchases; the complications of gifting collections to museums; resources available to artists on the film’s website; the producers’ goals in terms of pulling back the curtain on the art world and getting people thinking and asking questions, and how one personal motivation was not being able to collect a lot of contemporary art they’d been interested in because it was too expensive; how artists (including Jeff Koons) don’t make any money from their work when it sells at auction; the draw of contemporary art around the world that’s been made apparent to the filmmakers through the many countries that have shown interest in the film; the possible reasons why a German refugee, just prior to the Holocaust, owns a Maurizio Cattelan sculpture of an adolescent-sized Adolph Hitler on his knees; and the challenges and thrills of navigating the learning curve of filmmaking over a seven-year span for this ambitious documentary.

Debi Wisch and Jennifer Blei Stockman, two of the three main producers of the documentary <a href="http://www.thepriceofeverything.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Price of Everything</a>, about art and money, talk about: The breakdown of the sales system in terms of democratization; auctioneer Simon de Pury’s line: “you should buy with your eyes, not your ears,” and ignore the background noise, as Debi puts it; buying trends among collectors, and the pros and cons of those purchases; the complications of gifting collections to museums; resources available to artists on the film’s website; the producers’ goals in terms of pulling back the curtain on the art world and getting people thinking and asking questions, and how one personal motivation was not being able to collect a lot of contemporary art they’d been interested in because it was too expensive; how artists (including Jeff Koons) don’t make any money from their work when it sells at auction; the draw of contemporary art around the world that’s been made apparent to the filmmakers through the many countries that have shown interest in the film; the possible reasons why a German refugee, just prior to the Holocaust, owns a Maurizio Cattelan sculpture of an adolescent-sized Adolph Hitler on his knees; and the challenges and thrills of navigating the learning curve of filmmaking over a seven-year span for this ambitious documentary.

Epis.# 231: "The Price of Everything" producers Jennifer Blei Stockman and Debi Wisch 