Lynnette Miranda

Lynnette is a Program Officer at Builders Initiative, managing a philanthropic portfolio of artist-run organizations, creative entrepreneurship accelerators, and pay equity initiatives for cultural workers in the Chicagoland region. From 2017 to 2022, she was the Program Director at United States Artists, where she led the USA Fellowship program and collaborated on Artist Relief, a $23.4 million emergency initiative to support artists facing dire financial circumstances due to COVID-19.

She has worked at leading arts institutions, including Creative Time, ART21, and the Art Institute of Chicago. In 2015, she coordinated three art conferences, including The Creative Time Summit: The Curriculum at the Venice Biennale and Brooklyn’s Boys and Girls High School, and ART21’s Creative Chemistries: Radical Practices for Art + Education at the Park Avenue Armory. In 2016, she was one of twelve participants in Independent Curators International’s Curatorial Intensive program in New Orleans and served as the 2016-2017 Curator in Residence at Charlotte Street Foundation in Kansas City.

Her writing has been published in Hyperallergic, Pelican Bomb, American Craft Magazine, Sixty Inches From Center, Chicago Artist Writers, KC Studio, Informality, and This is Tomorrow, Contemporary Art Magazine. She has contributed writing to the exhibition catalogs Prospect.4: The Lotus in Spite of the Swamp for Prospect New Orleans and Wanderlust: Actions, Traces, Journeys 1967–2017 published by MIT Press for the University of Buffalo Art Galleries.

She is a Neubauer Civic Scholar at the University of Chicago, where she is pursuing an MBA in strategic management, finance, and economics. She has an MA in Visual Arts Administration from New York University and a BFA in Studio Art from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.