About the Team
Patrice N. Perkins
Principal AttorneyPatrice Perkins is an art, new media, and entertainment attorney. With over 14 years of experience, she has built a reputation for providing strategic legal counsel to visionary creatives and thought leaders.
Through her firm, Creative Genius Law, Patrice partners with clients in the arts, culture and new media spaces to protect their intellectual property, secure ownership and control of their work, and negotiate deals.
Her clients include renowned artist and architect Amanda Williams, social justice artist Tonika Lewis Johnson, 4x New York Times Bestselling author Luvvie Ajayi Jones, scholar-activist Dr. Yaba Blay, media personality and author Jeanne Sparrow, therapists and authors Dr. Joy Bradford of Therapy for Black Girls and Nedra Tawwab, and the renowned tap dance collective M.A.D.D. Rhythms, among others. This diverse roster reflects her expertise in working with multi-disciplinary creatives whose work shapes culture and sparks change.
Patrice is passionate about helping independent creatives achieve financial success, with a firm-wide vision of empowering clients to generate $1M+ in revenue from their intellectual property. Her practice includes advising on art transactions, exhibitions, documentary films, publishing, podcasting, brand collaborations, and licensing deals.
A recognized thought leader, Patrice has been featured in Forbes, Fortune, Bloomberg, and WBEZ. She has developed legal programming and spoken for organizations such as the Sisters in Cinema, United States Artists, and EXPO Chicago. Patrice is one of the few attorneys worldwide named a “Legal Rebel” by the American Bar Association for her innovative approach to law, including founding We’ll Work for Art, an initiative enabling artists to use their work as currency for legal services, and BLK, a program to end the exploitation of Black creativity.
Patrice earned her B.S. in Business Economics at Florida A&M University and her Juris Doctor at DePaul University. She has served on the boards of Kartemquin Films, the Greater Englewood Chamber of Commerce, and the Chicago Artists Coalition, and currently serves on the Advisory Board for the Illinois Small Business Development Center and the Board of Directors for ILA Creative Studio.
Ivy Blanton
Client Care ManagerClient service + billing aficionado. Student of fashion, life and overall wellness.
We are a team of creative professionals who firmly believe that you must maintain ownership (or control) of your work, the value of your creativity must be recognized in negotiations and deals, and that the law shouldn’t unnecessarily restrict your creativity but should instead help you create new opportunities.
We also know that your creativity can change communities and industries.