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Articles by christicottrell

Christi Cottrell is a Minnesota attorney living in Los Angeles. She practices in the areas of Estate & Business Planning, Nonprofit Law, and Arts & Entertainment Law. In addition to her law degree, she holds an MFA in Theatre Performance and was a professional artist for more than twenty years. An avid arts and nonprofit advocate, she co-founded and was Executive Director of CalibanCo Theatre, served as an Arts Commissioner for the City of Minneapolis, and is currently a referral attorney for Springboard For The Arts. Christi can be contacted at christi.cottrell.esq@gmail.com.

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ARRESTING MOTION: ESTATE PLANNING FOR ARTISTS

by Christi Cottrell September 4, 2012 Estate Planning 101

PART VII: WRAPPING UP  “The song is ended (but the melody plays on). “ ~Irving Berlin (composer) & Beda Loehner (lyricist) All good things must come to an end. Hopefully this series has succeeded in [...]

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ARRESTING MOTION: ESTATE PLANNING FOR ARTISTS

by Christi Cottrell July 25, 2012 Guest Articles

PART VI: WHEN & WHERE? DEFINING A TRIGGER & CHOOSING A LOCATION  “Time and space are fragments of the infinite for the use of finite creatures. “ ~Henri-Frederic Amiel, Swiss Philosopher, Poet and Critic Followers [...]

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ARRESTING MOTION: ESTATE PLANNING FOR ARTISTS

by Christi Cottrell June 27, 2012 Estate Planning 101

PART V: WHAT? RECOGNIZING THE ASSETS. “An artist is someone who produces things that people don’t need to have but that he for some reason thinks it would be a good idea to give them.” [...]

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Arresting Motion: Estate Planning for Artists

by Christi Cottrell May 14, 2012 Estate Planning 101

PART IV: HOW? DETERMINING THE TOOLS. “When an artist of talent makes a painting or a sculpture, he is always aware of the potentials and limitations of his materials; the better the artist, the more [...]

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ARRESTING MOTION: ESTATE PLANNING FOR ARTISTS

by Christi Cottrell April 25, 2012 Estate Planning 101

Part III: Who? Identifying The Participants. “All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players: They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts[.]” [...]

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Arresting Motion: Estate Planning for Artists

by Christi Cottrell February 29, 2012 Estate Planning 101

Part II: Why? Framing the Issue. “Art is a nation’s most precious heritage. For it is in our works of art that we reveal to ourselves and to others the inner vision which guides us [...]

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Arresting Motion: Estate Planning for Artists

by Christi Cottrell February 14, 2012 Estate Planning 101

“The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since [...]

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