Sarah Conley Odenkirk is the founder of ArtConverge, offering legal strategies and thought leadership with offices in Los Angeles and New York. She has been practicing law for more than three decades with a core focus in fine art and emerging technologies. Through ArtConverge, Odenkirk provides legal services, strategic planning, thought leadership and public policy support to clients and colleagues across the world. She is licensed and active in New York, California and Oregon.

Odenkirk provides advice to a wide range of clients including for-profit and nonprofit art institutions, artists, collectors, dealers, municipalities, digital platforms and other creative innovators. She represents clients in matters pertaining to fine art and navigating the art market; NFTs and blockchain; AI and machine learning; business affairs and strategic planning; public art and policy; and copyright and intellectual property.

In addition to her practice, Odenkirk is Lecturer in Law at University of Southern California (USC) Gould School of Law, where she teaches Art Law. From 2013 to 2017 she was the associate director for the Sotheby’s Institute of Art’s Los Angeles Campus at Claremont Graduate University, and taught a variety of art law courses including Legal Foundations, International Transactions, Public Art, and Cultural Property. She sits on the board of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; the board for Fulcrum Arts; and the advisory council for the Arts at Cedars-Sinai Hospital.

Odenkirk is a frequent speaker and published author. In addition to regularly writing timely articles on cutting-edge issues, she is also the author of “A Surprisingly Interesting Book About Contracts for Artists and Other Creatives.”