NFTs, Graffiti & Sedition: How Artists Create the Future | Maria Brito | TEDxUniversityofMississippi

What can businesspeople and professionals learn from artists about success? Using her years of experience in the art world, where she has observed 450 artists, Brito reveals how successful artists follow trends and visualize the future. She shows how artists recognize opportunity, develop innovative ideas, galvanize community, and create meaningful products that reflect, defy, and span cultures and times. Maria Brito is a proud Latina, Venezuelan immigrant and Harvard graduate. She left a successful career as a corporate attorney in 2009 to launch and grow a seven-figure art advisory from scratch. Since then, she’s worked with some of the world’s top artists, including Chinese activist Ai Weiwei and incognito street sensation Banksy. She has curated art exhibitions on three continents and advised hip-hop moguls, Oscar® winning actors, Tony® winning producers, CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, and hundreds of others through her weekly blog, The Groove. Maria’s expertise has been featured in The New York Times, The Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, VOGUE, TIME, The Economist and CNN. She is passionate about adding creative perspective and diversity to business and life. Maria recently published How Creativity Rules the World (HarperCollins, 2022). This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx