Nicole Merritt Chari
Nicole is an arts leader with a wide spectrum of expertise including curation and booking, producing, program design, event and project management, budgeting, people management, administration, and relationship building.
For more than a decade, Nicole has worked with artists, institutions, festivals, communities and brands to create impactful work. She has programmed stages at festivals (globalFEST, SXSW, Bonnaroo), planned multi day arts conferences around the world (North & South America, Asia, and Europe), led artist residency and commissioning programs, launched digital festivals, and more.
Currently, Nicole is the Programming Director and Senior Curator at National Sawdust, a multidisciplinary cutting edge arts center and music venue in Brooklyn, New York. She is motivated by her unshakeable belief that the arts have the unique ability to affect real and important societal change. She is especially passionate about projects that build cultural bridges, and connect artists and communities with the resources required to thrive.