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Meow Wolf Spreads The Wealth

https://meowwolf.com
Part of Meow Wolf's team of artists

It started ten years ago as what it describes as "a dumpster-diving, Do-It-Yourself warehouse space."  Today, Santa Fe's Meow Wolf is an arts and entertainment powerhouse -- part concert venue, part immersive fantasy world and part learning center for kids.  In 2017, it decided to share its success and established the Meow Wolf DIY Fund to support other alternative arts spaces around the country.

"Our DIY Fund is set up to help spaces that not only support artists but also musicians, performers and creativity in general," says Meow Wolf's Danika Padilla.  "An open space where people can come and create together."

In this longer version of the interview, Danika goes into greater detail about the DIY Fund and describes how the public can donate to it by visiting Meow Wolf's indiegogo page.

danika_padilla_interview_long_version_final.mp3

Spencer Beckwith reports on the arts for KUNM. For ten years, until March of 2014, Spencer was the producer and host of KUNM's "Performance New Mexico," a weekday morning arts program that included interviews with musicians, writers and performers. Spencer is a graduate of the acting program at the Juilliard School, and, before moving to New Mexico in 2002, was for many years a professional actor based in New York City.