Today’s guest is Jason Roske, owner of the KC Auction & Appraisal Company, an award-winning regional auction house specializing in estates and collection dispersal. For decades, Jason has helped families navigate the complex and emotional process of transitioning art collections into the marketplace. After recently serving as executor for a close friend’s estate, he began thinking about collections in a new way, as biographies of the people who built them. Today we’ll explore what happens when those biographies enter their next chapter.
In this episode, we discuss:
-Jason's concept of collections as biographies of the people who built them
-What surprises families the most when they inherit a collection
-How dispersing a collection is like editing someone’s life story
-What collectors should be doing now to prepare their collections for the next chapter
