Are there currents in contemporary art-making that define our complex sociopolitical, historical moment, locally, nationally, and globally? What does it mean to enter the art market as an emerging artist? How do artists today organize and manage their collaborative studio practices? These and other questions were discussed at this panel conversation on May 27, 2021. Sabine Eckmann, William T. Kemper Director and Chief Curator at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, was joined by Andrea Teschke, partner at Petzel Gallery in New York, and artist Derek Fordjour, as well as Sam Fox School MFA in Visual Art graduates Jessica Bremehr (MFA '21), Adrian Gonzalez (MFA '21), and Lola Ogbara (MFA '20). The program was organized on the occasion of a pair of thesis exhibitions at the Kemper Art Museum, which featured the artwork of the 2020 and 2021 graduating classes of the MFA in Visual Art program at the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis.