Joy Glidden
Joy Glidden is a Canadian contemporary art administrator, visual arts curator, filmmaker, and advocate for arts communities. She is currently living in Brooklyn, New York, United States.Career
Glidden started a career as a visual artist, performance artist, and art activist in Canada before moving to New York City in 1987. She is the Founding Director of the DUMBO arts center and co-founder of the DUMBO Art Under the Bridge Festival in Brooklyn where she served as the Executive Director from 1997-2006. Using art as a catalyst for change, Glidden’s efforts achieved successful development in DUMBO that is now a model for similar waterfront developments around the world. She has lectured on non-profit policy for New York University in New York City, the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, the Maryland Institute, College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland and Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and on the positive effects of an artist’s community and creative capital with the Danish, Norwegian, and Korean Consulates.
In 2006 Glidden relocated to New Orleans, Louisiana where she acted as the Director of Louisiana ArtWorks, a artist service organization near the Warehouse/Arts District, from 2007 to 2010. She is currently the CEO President of Art Index Inc. and Executive Producer of Art Index TV, a Public Broadcasting Service television series of half-hour shows about contemporary art that hopes to articulate the ways in which art impacts our culture at large.
