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When Alissa Quart’s mother received a terminal diagnosis, she faced 400 paintings and no plan for their future. Her approach was unconventional: distributing the work directly to neighbors and friends.

This conversation explores what artists need to sustain their practice, why affordable housing matters for creative communities, and how to honor an artist’s legacy without sacrificing your own life in the process.

Experience forces me to remind you of your mortality. Artist and professional organizer Heather K. Powers wants to normalize death because it’s a part of life.

This conversation is especially important for artists, who make things that take up physical space. How do you categorize those things? What kind of records need to be kept? And what, if anything, should be destroyed, reworked, or donated?