CREATING CHANGE TOGETHER
Evonne Gallardo believes artists are essential and works to advance and resource artists and the structures that serve them.
Evonne has over 20 years of leadership experience in multiple functional areas of arts and culture management and centered on cultural equity and inclusion. Evonne advises public and private arts and culture institutions and organizations to help expand and align values and actions that better serve their teams, artists and audiences.
Services include cultural equity and inclusion approaches, policies and strategies, planning including theory of change models, community engagement strategies, feasibility studies, and professional coaching.
In addition to her consulting practice, Evonne serves as a Mayor-Appointed Commissioner for the City of Los Angeles’ Cultural Affairs Commission and as Vice Chair of the Board of Directors for the National Association of Latino Arts and Culture. Evonne received a B.A. in American History at Columbia University and an M.A. in the Sociology of Art from the New School for Social Research in New York City.
TESTIMONIALS
Thank you for being a part of the recent meeting of the Commission on the Arts. Your work in facilitating the Arts in Civic Engagement working group was invaluable and it’s truly our pleasure to count you as a partner of the Commission. Thank you again for your thorough and thoughtful work. - American Academy of Arts & Sciences
We are extremely pleased with our work with Evonne Gallardo, who is leading our arts nonprofit through a strategic and fundraising process. Evonne is an experienced, knowledgeable and collaborative consultant who is invested in her clients' success. She is a deep thinker who understands how to design participatory processes that bring people together to work on original solutions. She is wise and thoughtful, with her eye always on the big picture. I simply could not imagine embarking on this process with anyone else. She's become a valued extended member of our team and we would love to continue working with her. -CALA Alliance
In her consulting work Evonne Gallardo is highly effective in making meaningful, productive connections with a broad range of constituencies and stakeholders. She is approachable, open-minded and also clear and direct. -City of Phoenix, Office of Arts and Culture
Evonne not only possesses the rare ability to see and articulate the politics and nuances surrounding the vast and varying pockets of the Los Angeles art world, including museums, galleries, non-profits, and community centers but also the ability to code-switch and position herself within and outside of these institutions. She is a powerhouse of experience having worked at every type of arts organization imaginable and has come away with a thoughtful analysis of the way each works and relates to another. She is a true gem for this city to have and there is no one else who can offer such thorough insight and sensitivity towards her projects so seamlessly. She is amazing. -Shizu Saldamando, Artist