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Arts&Letters unifies form and function for artists and organizations. With expertise in performance production, higher education, arts administration, and philanthropy models, we specialize in articulating vision and refining strategy to advance sustainable, mission-aligned work for cultural enterprises.
Founded by art historian and educator Lauren DiGiulio in 2022, Arts&Letters has worked with a range of organizations, including large grantmakers, small private foundations, universities, artist-run enterprises, nonprofit arts organizations, and solo artists.
Through a hybrid approach that combines strategy with tailored guidance borne from deep listening, we aid our partners in articulating vision, deepening impact, and planning for the future.
We have worked on projects related to archives and artistic legacy, grantmaking strategy, educational programs, organizational development, and grant-related initiatives.
Each project is tailored specifically to the needs of the individual partnership and is based on mutual dedication to collaboration, process-focused growth, and a shared commitment to sustainable impact.
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Lauren DiGiulio is an art historian, curator, and educator. Her writing has appeared in leading scholarly and critical journals in art and performance studies, as well as in numerous commissioned publications for museums, galleries, and academic institutions in the U.S. and Europe.
As a producer, she has worked with the Byrd Hoffman Water Mill Foundation, the Willem de Kooning Foundation, and the New Island Festival on Governor’s Island. In her capacity as Director of Strategic Initiatives for Sweat Variant, led by artists Okwui Okpokwasili and Peter Born, she produced adaku part 1: the road opens, a co-commission by the Institute of Contemporary Art / Boston and the Brooklyn Academy of Music. She has led major grant initiatives at Sweat Variant and Carolina Performing Arts and participated in strategic planning for a variety of enterprises, including Ensemble Signal and Samita Sinha's Anchor Space.
In addition to teaching at UNC-Chapel Hill and the University of Rochester, she has curated events and exhibitions at the Watermill Center, the Center for Performance Research in Brooklyn, the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center at The Graduate Center, CUNY, and the George Eastman Museum. She was the dramaturg and artistic producer for The Sundance Kid is Beautiful with Christopher Knowles, a solo performance that was presented at multiple arts venues, including The Louvre, Performa 13, and the Institute for Contemporary Arts at the University of Pennsylvania.
She received her PhD from the Program in Visual and Cultural Studies at the University of Rochester and held a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship at Carolina Performing Arts at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
Dartmouth College
The Mellon Foundation
Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels
Spirits Go Blah
Anchor Space
The Byrd Hoffman Water Mill Foundation
Sweat Variant
Lauren is forthright, thorough, and deeply aware. She takes the time to build relationships and understand the needs of the organization or artists. Then she figures out how to make it possible and methodically puts things into place.
Lauren is able to keep focus where it needs to be to get to the next step while still allowing for artistic freedom.