47. Melissa Cowley Wolf

Melissa Cowley Wolf is the Founder of MCW Projects. With 20 years of experience in philanthropy and programming for cultural institutions across the United States, she is dedicated to re-imagining and democratizing cultural philanthropy to better engage diverse generations and audiences as well as to expanding the next generation of cultural philanthropists, advocates, and audiences. Melissa is also the Director of the Arts Funders Forum, an advocacy, media, convening, and research platform designed to increase private support for arts and culture. Melissa was recently named to the Artnet 2020 Innovators List as one of 51 global innovators transforming the art industry.
She and I discuss creating intimacy through technology, building communities, increasing private giving to the arts, telling stories about what matters, political art, trust, relevancy, urgency, and the essentiality of art and artists, generational shifts in understanding philanthropy, impact giving, optimism and positivity, nomadism, practice, synchronicity, and how freedom and justice are at the essence of a life well lived!
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MCW Projects
https://www.mcw-projects.com
Art Funders Forum
https://www.artsfundersforum.com
Artnet 2020 Innovators List
https://storage.googleapis.com/artnet-interim-static-assets-repository/intelligence-reports/2020/fall_2020_intelligence_report.pdf
OpEd on Arts Funding
https://news.artnet.com/opinion/arts-funding-op-ed-melissa-cowley-wolf-1929365
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