POWarts and Pen + Brush are pleased to continue the hybrid book club event with our next guest Maria Brito, the award-winning New York-based contemporary art advisor, best-selling author, curator and TEDx speaker. Join us on Zoom or in person at Pen + Brush, as Maria discusses her newest book “How Creativity Rules The World: The Art and Business of Turning Your Ideas Into Gold” (HarperCollins 2022), which was the recipient of the International Best Book Awards in the Business and Entrepreneurship category.
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About the author: Maria Brito is a Harvard graduate, originally from Venezuela, Brito has been selected by Complex Magazine as one of the 20 Power Players in the Art World and she was named by ARTNEWS as one of the visionaries who gets to shape the art world. Her newest book “How Creativity Rules The World: The Art and Business of Turning Your Ideas Into Gold” (HarperCollins 2022) was the recipient of the International Best Book Awards in the Business and Entrepreneurship category. She has written for publications such as Entrepreneur, Huffington Post, Elle, Forbes, Artnet, Cultured Magazine, Departures, and the Gulf Coast Journal of Literature and Fine Arts from the University of Houston, Texas. For several years, Maria has taught her creativity course in companies and, in 2019, she launched “Jumpstart”, an online program on creativity for entrepreneurs based on years of research and observation in both the areas of business and art. Brito has curated exhibitions in three continents and in 2019 she created and hosted "The "C" Files with Maria Brito", a TV and streaming series for PBS's new station "ALL ARTS". Maria and her projects have been featured extensively in national and international publications including The New York Times Style Section, T: The New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, The Huffington Post, W Magazine, ELLE Magazine, Harper’s Bazaar, Time Magazine, New York Magazine, The New York Observer, The Daily Beast, The Economist, Interview Magazine, VOGUE and more.