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  • Thinking About Artists’ Legacies: Information for Artists at Every Stage of their Career

    • 12 Nov 2025
    • 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
    • Online
    • 5 registrants
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    Thinking About Artists’ Legacies: Information for Artists at Every Stage of their Career

    An introduction to a very large and complex topic

    with Julia Schwartz

    Join Pacific Rim Sculptors for a professional practices session with consultant Julia Schwartz on building an artist’s legacy. Learn practical steps for documenting your work, organizing files, creating a studio guide, and planning for the future so your art and vision can continue beyond the studio.

    Here are the topics to be covered in the program:

    • What is a an artist’s legacy?
    • Why take time away from the studio to do this work? 
    • Establishing legacy goals 
    • Thinking about who can help in the future - family, friends, colleagues, next generation scholars
    • Cost considerations
    • Documenting your work
    • Keeping files up to date so others can use them in the future
    • Building a studio guide so others can access your artwork, digital files, website, etc.
    • Educational resources

    Julia Schwartz is a consultant to artists, estates, and art nonprofits in the San Francisco Bay Area. She works with artists to organize archive materials, document artworks, facilitate complex projects, and build long-term strategies. From 2018 to 2024, she was a co-director at the Artists’ Legacy Foundation, where she managed the Artist Award, produced educational programs, and spoke with artists about their long-term goals. She also works with estates and artist-endowed foundations on special projects and outreach. 

    Portrait of Julie Schwartz

    She has spoken about estate planning topics at organizations such as: Catalogue Raisonne Scholars Association 2025; College Art Association Annual Conference 2025; ArtsBenicia 2025; Artists’ Legacy Foundation’s Legacy Discussion Group 2019-2024; Artist Book Foundation 2023; and Western States Artist Endowed Foundations Summit 2019. She holds a BS in Design from UC Davis. 

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Earlier Events

2017 April - PRS celebrated ISDay with events including an 1890 Bryant Street Open Studios in San Francisco, a sculpture exhibition in Marin County, and tours of the campus sculpture collection and presentations by sculpture students of Sonoma State University.

2017 - Tour of David Ireland House, San Francisco, CA.

Tours of Oakwilde Ranch and Sculpture Park, 7111 S. Burson Road, Valley Springs, CA (http://oakwilderanchsculpture.com)


2016 December - Pacific Rim Sculptors End-of-Year celebratory party at 1890 Bryant Street Studios in San Francisco's Mission District.

2015 - Tour of Steven Oliver Ranch and Sculpture Collection, October.

2013 September - visit to Douglas & Sturgess to observe demonstrations and learn about new mold making and cold-casting materials.

2013 - Visit to 50 Year Survey, retrospective of Bella Feldman's work with artist talk at Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA.

2013 June - meeting in SF to discuss future planning. 

2012 September - Visited the Zero1 Biennial, San Jose, CA.  

2015 October - PRS tour of Oliver Ranch Sculpture Collection


2012 August - Tours of American Steel Studios in Oakland, CA, by founder Karen Cusolito


2012 November - Visit to Transmission Gallery in Oakland, CA; talk by owner about the gallery and the process of proposing shows there. 


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