Events Director

Our Dream: Anderson Ranch Arts Center is looking for an experienced, organized, and creative leader to join our team and oversee events that present our organization and its mission to key constituent groups including the general public, fundraising supporters, and our National Council members. The successful candidate can collaborate with colleagues, event hosts, and underwriters to build consensus, articulate a vision and then plan and execute experiences that awe and inspire. They are an organized planner who is also enthusiastic about trying new things and adjusting to the opportunities and situations as events unfold. This person will be the ultimate pre-planner and problem-solver behind the scenes, as well as a confident and friendly face greeting vendors and participants at events. Events at Anderson Ranch are a key component to sharing our work and impact with a wide variety of people; everyone from artists to high net-worth donors, to community partners, vendors, students, and visitors. Who We Are: Anderson Ranch Arts Center is a year-round visual-arts not-for-profit, tax-exempt organization with a 55-year history of providing transformative experiences that celebrate artists, art-making and creative dialog, at the intersection of craft and the global contemporary art world. Anderson Ranch brings together both aspiring and internationally renowned artists who come from across the country and around the world to test new ideas, explore new disciplines and techniques, hone their art-making skills, engage in meaningful dialog and connect with thought leaders in the artistic community. Anderson Ranchs campus is an artistic community nestled among the pristine peaks of the Rocky Mountains. The Ranch campus consists of 14 buildings providing 55,000 square feet of facilities including eight studio buildings, a gallery, a lecture hall, caf, store, administrative offices, a student dormitory, as well as apartments and cabins for artistic staff and artists. State-of-the-art equipment allows cross-disciplinary experimentation within the mediums of ceramics, woodworking, photography, digital fabrication, painting, sculpture and printmaking. The campus is an oasis of renovated 19th-century cabins and barns that sit alongside contemporary designed buildings, all wi