WHO WE ARE
Founded in San Francisco in 2011, ArtRise Projects is a collaborative strategy and production practice which initiates and advises ground-breaking cultural efforts. ArtRise directs innovative civic partnerships, works with internationally renowned artists, and provides counsel to standard bearing arts organizations across the country. In this time of overlapping crises, ArtRise is particularly concerned with issues of adaptive management, as well as new modes of conservation, interpretation, and engagement that may provide an antidote to myriad environmental, economic, and political pressures.
From its inception, ArtRise has been guided by a journalistic curiosity about the role of art in society and a commitment to cultivating a holistic and thriving arts ecology. ArtRise possesses a rare fluency in how arts organizations function not as top-down entities but rather in reciprocal relationship with communities. As we face the related challenges of climate crisis, economic inequality and socio-political division, and tech-accelerated despair, ArtRise stands firm in its belief in the unmatched power of the arts to bring people together to imagine and realize a more generative, connected, and marvelous future.
Based in San Francisco and led by Marnie Burke de Guzman, ArtRise Projects brings together expert teams of creative and communications strategists, content developers, and arts producers. Team members have significant museum and media experience and share a passion for building new modes of engagement in contemporary culture.
Marnie Burke De Guzman,
PRINCIPAL
Marnie Burke De Guzman,
PRINCIPAL
Marnie Burke de Guzman, principal, is a cultural strategist, producer, and former journalist. She has worked with artists as diverse as Ai Weiwei, Janet Cardiff, and George Miller, and the People’s Kitchen Collective, and organizations ranging from the National Park Service, the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, the Walker Art Center, and the Smithsonian Folklife Festival to develop innovative ways to increase relevance, sustainability, and influence. Prior to launching ArtRise, Burke de Guzman spent more than a decade in museum leadership holding executive strategy and marketing roles at SFMOMA and the UC Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive.
In the mid-90s, she began work on a series of foundation-sponsored, long-term, national research projects focused on arts audience engagement including The Wallace Foundation’s Museum Collections Accessibility Initiative and The Pew Charitable Trust’s Artists and Communities at the Crossroads. Burke de Guzman co-founded the Art Museum Marketing Association in 2006, where she remains on the steering committee, and served on the Headlands Center for the Arts’ Board of Directors from 2008 to 2017.
IVY YOUNG,
Project Manager
IVY YOUNG,
Project Manager
Ivy Young, project manager, is a learning designer, collaborative facilitator, educator, and artist. As a lifelong learner who delights in connecting people, fostering collaboration, and solving complex challenges creatively, Ivy has supported organizations to craft and oversee processes for program design, audience research and engagement, professional development, and strategic planning.
Following her tenure as an elementary classroom teacher, over the last 15 years, Ivy has held key roles as a consultant and staff member at organizations ranging from the Balboa Park Cultural Partnership and Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, to the California Association of Museums and the National Guild for Community Arts Education.
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