You've Built a Career on Your Craft.
Don't Let AI Make You Invisible.

I spent four decades as a global art agent, working at the highest level the art world offers. I represented, curated, and promoted work by Joan Miró, Henry Moore, Alexander Calder, Louise Nevelson, Duane Hanson, and my lifelong friend, Gordon Parks.

I built collections for Chase Manhattan Bank, Citicorp, and Prudential. I recommended exhibitions to institutions including the Smithsonian. My galleries and exhibitions have been covered in THE Magazine, Pasatiempo, and Journal North.

Along the way, I founded FATE, Fine Art Traveling Exhibitions, ran my own gallery in Santa Fe, and self-published fifteen books.

I am not a certified AI coach. I am the person these artists trusted with their legacy. Art is simply where I proved the method first.

For thirty-three years, Gordon Parks was my friend. I built his first traveling exhibition, two hundred photographs that toured and sold out to museums for twenty-three years straight. He never finished high school. He became the first African American photographer to document the Civil Rights Movement for Life magazine, and the first Black director Hollywood ever commissioned, for The Learning Tree and then Shaft.

But Gordon had a second life the world refused to see. In his final thirty years, once he finally had the means to stop shooting on the street, he made fine art. Paintings. Drawings. A body of work he considered his truest voice.

When his retrospective catalog, Half Past Autumn, came out, it ran three hundred sixty pages. His fine art got twelve of them.

I spent twenty-three years and seven hundred thousand dollars of my own money trying to change that. Contracts. Gallery meetings. Museum pitches, one slow negotiation at a time. Gordon passed at ninety-three, in the middle of our launch, still believing the world had never fully accepted him as an artist.

I could not move fast enough back then. Every step was manual, and manual takes decades.

Seventeen years ago, I was semiconscious in intensive care for ten days. In that place between here and gone, I made a promise. I asked to come back and finish what I started, but only if I was granted complete healing.

I woke up. The scans were perfect. My doctors had no explanation. I did not need one.

That was my first defining moment. My second came more recently, and quietly, one loss at a time. Thirteen people in my inner circle died within a few years of each other, including both of my parents and the mentors who shaped my entire career.

I stopped and asked myself a hard question: what do I still want to build, and who am I still meant to help, before my own time runs out?

The answer became my Ten Legacy Projects. AI for Rookies is the first one I am giving away, because it is the fastest way to help the most people help themselves.