The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage

Exhibition, Public Interpretation & Performance Initiatives

Dates

2013 – Present

Location

Philadelphia

What we did

Engage


ArtRise Projects principal Marnie Burke de Guzman currently serves as strategic counsel for curators and producers of grant projects funded by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. For more than a decade, she has advised grant recipients, as well as Center staff and leadership, for both initiatives to develop civic and audience engagement strategies to achieve desired results. She has reviewed project proposals, analyzed audience engagement strategies and tactics, and provided feedback and counsel to exhibition curators and executive staff at more than 300 Philadelphia regional cultural organizations. In addition, she has taught crisis strategy, project planning, and marketing workshops for grantees, and with the ArtRise Projects team conducted strategic communications planning with the Center’s executive and program staff.

PROJECT TEAM


ARTRISE PROJECTS

Marnie Burke de Guzman, Principal—Audience Engagement Counsel

Stefanie Demong, Project Director, Communications & Interpretation

Halley Lamberson, Program Associate

Ivy Young, Project Manager

THE PEW CENTER FOR ARTS & HERITAGE

Megan Dutch, Chief Communications Officer

Murph Henderson, Program Officer for Performance & Administration

Christina Vassallo, Executive Director

Bill Adair, former Director, Exhibitions & Public Interpretation

Bill Bissell, former Director, Dance Program

Paula Marincola, former Executive Director

Peter Nesbett, former Center Research Strategist, Senior Specialist, Exhibitions

Kelly Shindler, former Director, Exhibitions & Public Interpretation

TOP IMAGE CREDIT

The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage grantees from the Pig Iron School in Philadelphia initiating a new program for teaching avant-garde theatre, 2011. Photo: Pig Iron School.