Lauren Glennon joined MECA&D in June 2019 as a consultant appointed to lead MECA&D’s Strategic Plan 2020-2027.
Lauren has worked in fundraising, strategy, and managing capital projects in the arts, nonprofit, and design industries for 16 years. She has a passion and skill for connecting people and partners, managing fast-paced initiatives, and thrives when contributing to projects that have a cultural or community-building goal.
Career highlights include: managing the $120M, 12-story capital building project at 2 Columbus Circle for the Museum of Arts and Design in NYC; directing a design and project management firm for high end residential, retail, and gallery projects, including celebrity residential clients, the droog New York gallery, the C-Wonder flagship store, and the Beats By Dre SoHo store; and producing the 2019 Arts & Culture Summit on Cultural Development for Creative Portland, the official arts agency for the City of Portland, Maine.
Other experiences cover a range: cataloging ancient metals with the British Classical Society in the Athenian Agora; administering the biennial Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Awards in Painting, Sculpture, Printmaking, Photography, Video, and Craft Media for landmark nonprofit gallery Artists Space; project managing and fundraising for CityArts, a NYC community arts revitalization organization; working with Artist Pension Trust on long-term financial security for international artists; managing institutional giving for a museum, and consulting.
Lauren holds an MA from NYU in Visual Arts Administration, a program at the intersection of The Stern School of Business, Wagner Graduate School of Public Policy, and Steinhardt School of Art. Lauren’s focus centered on cultural development, nonprofit arts management, and fundraising, culminating in a thesis entitled: Economic Independence for the Nonprofit Visual Arts: Income Alternatives and A New Financial Model.
Now at MECA&D full-time as Director of Institutional Advancement and Strategic Planning, Lauren oversees the departments of Development, Marketing, and Artists at Work as well as the College’s long-term Strategic Planning and the new Be Seen brand campaign development — and cherishes working with her MECA&D team, colleagues, and partners.
Outside of work, Lauren finds joy as mom to three boys, Henry, Jack, and Charles with husband Aron Glennon, and finds adventure skiing, hiking, and swimming across the great state of Maine.