Rebecca Groves Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, California, United States

Organizing to make the water and shoreline of San Francisco Bay clean, safe, and accessible for urban swimming.

San Francisco, California, United States

A community benefit district devoted to urban greening, the GBD uses the power of local funding and governance, advocacy, and volunteerism to create and care for green, resilient, and vibrant urban spaces in San Francisco's Dogpatch and Northwest Potrero Hill neighborhoods. Board Members are elected by district property owners.

San Francisco Bay Area

Led professionalization out of the startup phase, expanding budget and audience, diversifying staff, partners, and projects, and achieving top media awards for the podcast. The Nocturnists is a medical storytelling organization celebrating the art of medicine while raising awareness about the moral distress inflicted on clinicians by our corporatized healthcare system.• Advised Founder and Executive Producer on capacity building, partnerships, fundraising, programming, and staffing, executing all initiatives• Secured and managed major six-figure grants and cultivated donors, leading to budget growth of 67% during national funding downturn for public media• Initiated impact campaign, prioritized program accessibility and diversity • Optimized podcast publishing, marketing, and stakeholder communications• Secured top media awards and press, leading to 55% audience growth• Produced sold-out storytelling shows in San Francisco, Minneapolis and NYC• Assembled, cataloged, and delivered historical archive of over 1,000 files of healthcare workers’ pandemic audio diaries to US Library of Congress

San Francisco Bay Area

San Francisco Bay Area

San Francisco, Ca

Reporting to the Executive Director, I planned and implemented all of MFA's artistic programs. From 2017-2023, the McEvoy Foundation for the Arts produced exhibitions, talks, screenings, and performances engaging with the McEvoy Family Collection. • Directed exhibitions and public programs presenting diverse voices and artistic practices to growing audience• Collaborated with leading artists, curators, and cultural institutions, building relationships across cultural communities• Designed and implemented new digital asset management system, improving organizational efficiency, project tracking, and communication• Developed and managed budgets and long-term program goals• Hired and directed contractors, commissioned artists and guest curators, managed and mentored gallery staff

San Francisco, California

I planned, oversaw, and conducted curatorial projects and operations, reporting to the owners and Collection Director. The Kramlich Collection is internationally recognized as one of the most significant repositories of time-based media art. • Managed acquisitions and loans of artworks by diverse portfolio of leading contemporary artists with museums, galleries, and studios globally• Developed and managed exhibitions and led tours at multiple sites• Conducted art historical research and wrote curatorial statements• Supervised artwork installation, registration, conservation, and handling• Managed and mentored curatorial staff

San Francisco

Berlin, Germany; Frankfurt, Germany; New York, Ny; San Francisco, Ca

• Wrote and published articles, exhibition essays, and reviews on contemporary dance, theater, art, and performance philosophy• Taught Contemporary European Performance undergrad seminar (Stanford)• Gave academic conference papers, invited lectures, and public talks• Dramaturged dance and performance productions• Organized and presented art exhibitions, symposia, and performance eventsPublications available at https://stanford.academia.edu/RebeccaGroves

New York, Ny

Promoted by William Forsythe to set up and run a new nonprofit in the US to support his archive, education, and media projects after the closure of Ballett Frankfurt. • Established foundation, developed mission and vision, recruited and managed board, ensured legal compliance, led board meetings• Performed all fundraising, budgeting, and financial management• Spearheaded projects and partnerships with leading institutions and artists• Coproduced and advised on "One Flat Thing, reproduced" dance film (dir. Thierry de Mey, MK2) and "Synchronous Objects" digital score (ACCAD, OSU)• Directed cataloging of William Forsythe Archive, later acquired by ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany (2023)

Frankfurt, Germany

Recruited while researching William Forsythe’s work for my doctoral dissertation as a German Chancellor Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Forsythe’s Ballett Frankfurt (1984-2004) was critically acclaimed as the world’s most innovative contemporary ballet company.• Researched and collaborated on concept development for new productions, supporting Forsythe’s artistic vision and creative process with dancers• Assembled and preserved William Forsythe Archive• Drafted program texts, articles, proposals, and marketing materials• Wrote and presented public talks for general and academic audiences• Assisted curation of community programs and events (eg: "Public Life" at Theater Am Turm)

Frankfurt Am Main, Hesse, Germany

New York, Ny

Mabou Mines is an artist-driven experimental theater collective generating original works and re-imagined adaptations of classics.• Designed and implemented the first archival database cataloguing Mabou Mines' documentary materials from 1970-1995. • Instituted protocols for collection management, conducted curatorial research, assessed inventories, verified records, and cataloged holdings. The Mabou Mines Archive was purchased in 2003 by the Fales Library and Special Collections, New York University.

Phd Candidate (Abd)

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