{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Owl Have You Know","title":"A New Chapter for the Rothko Chapel feat. Alecia Harris ’23","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2068,"description":"For Alecia Harris ’23, art is as essential as breathing, and it’s something everyone deserves to have access to. So she’s turned that belief into a career that sits at the intersection of art and business, with a mission focused on making art accessible.\nAfter years working in arts programming and visitor engagement at Rice University’s Moody Center for the Arts, she earned her Professional MBA from Rice Business, then pivoted into private wealth management at J.P. Morgan, where she built a client book of art collectors and museum donors. Now, as chief development officer at the Rothko Chapel, she’s channeling all of that experience into leading fundraising and development for one of Houston’s most iconic cultural institutions, during a pivotal moment in its history.\nAlecia joins co-host Brian Jackson ’21 to discuss her winding path from art history to finance and back, what “radical hospitality” means in practice, how her MBA gave her the 50,000-foot view she needed, and why Houston’s next generation of patrons must step up to steward the city’s world-class cultural institutions into the future.\n\nEpisode Guide:\n00:00 Meet Alecia Harris\n01:09 Finding Art History\n02:29 Art Without Intimidation\n05:02 Radical Hospitality\n06:26 The Rothko Chapel\n07:39 Renovation and Light\n09:13 Why Get an MBA\n12:21 From Arts to JPMorgan\n14:26 MBA Learning Curve\n15:46 Art Advantage in Banking\n21:37 Development Role Day to Day\n23:43 Leadership Across Sectors\n28:17 Travel for Art\n31:08 Houston Hidden Gems\n\nThe Owl Have You Know Podcast is a production of Rice Business and is produced by University FM.\n\n\nEpisode Quotes:\n\nWhy arts shouldn't be a luxury \n5:41: If you stand in front of a piece of work, often Rothko paintings, like people talk about having your Rothko moment, like people are moved to tears. They have these transformative experiences in front of it. Why shouldn't that be available to everybody? And for me, even when I was working in, at JPMorgan, and I was working in finance,...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/TJ_bP9v1zp60qvMRjx8jTuTiOVRFDdgjR-9C4xy2Tmg/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzE1ODMyLzE2MDM5/OTczNzQtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}