Join us at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) on Wednesday, April 4th to make friends, learn and celebrate creative entrepreneurship.
Attendees will have the opportunity to mingle over Happy Hour with Fireside Chat speaker, Brett Wallace, Entrepreneur, Artist-in-Residence and Director, LinkedIn Elevate, enjoy lightning pitches from 8 rising entrepreneurs, and vote for their favorite venture to receive a $5k prize from the MICA UP/Start Competition! An additional $100k in startup funding will be awarded to winners of the 2018 UP/Start Venture Competition.
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Brett Wallace is a conceptual artist and entrepreneur whose practice involves a multi-level exploration of the future of work. His work involves conceptual interventions through video, narrative storytelling and installation. He is also a Director at LinkedIn, where he helped launch Elevate, LinkedIn’s employee activation platform.
Brett Wallace is a conceptual artist and entrepreneur whose practice involves a multi-level exploration of the future of work. His work involves conceptual interventions through video, narrative storytelling and installation. He is currently represented by Silas Von Morisse gallery in New York. Wallace is currently launching AMAZING INDUSTRIES, which will be exhibited in a solo project at SPRING/BREAK Art Show in March 2018. AMAZING INDUSTRIES is an ongoing conceptual art project exploring possible futures of work that are more humane and equal. Wallace is a member of NEW INC for 2017-2018, the world’s first museum-led incubator, led by the New Museum.
Wallace is also a Director at LinkedIn, where he helped launch Elevate, LinkedIn’s employee activation platform. He holds a BFA from UMass Amherst, is an alumnus of Harvard Business School and is pursuing an MFA at the Maryland Institute College of Art. In 2014, he founded “The Conversation Project”, an interview series at the intersection of art, technology and economy.
Brett lives and works in New York City with his wife, Laura, and their two children.
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