About

Jennie Lamensdorf is an arts and culture leader based in Los Angeles. Her background as a contemporary art curator and experience building and leading corporate art programs informs her cultural strategy work and drives her commitment to supporting artists and cultural organizations. Jennie believes art has the power to encourage thoughtfulness, empathy, and creative problem solving and she brings this critical work to new platforms and audiences.  

As the Partnerships & Communications Lead for Meta Open Arts, Jennie developed the strategy and vision for Open Arts to empower creative communities to advance artistic production for Meta technologies and shared Open Arts' storytelling with a broad public audience. 

Highlights from Jennie’s time leading Meta Open Arts’ Partnerships & Communications include: winning the Tribeca X Prize for Michelle Kumata and Tani Ikeda’s Emerging Radiance, an AR experience telling the stories of Japanese-American farmers incarcerated by the United States during WWII; supporting the development of Rachel Rossin’s VR THE MAW OF, exhibited at the KW Berlin and Whitney Museum; and presenting Sofia Crespo’s AI-generated video works of extinct species, Critically Extant, as a part of Times Square Art’s Midnight Moment.  

Previously, Jennie was the Bay Area Lead of Facebook Open Arts, focusing on arts programming throughout the SF Bay Area, and Director and Curator of NYC-based Time Equities Inc. Art-in-Buildings.  She is also an independent curator and writer; her most recent project, Hot Spots: Radioactivity and the Landscape, opened at the University of Buffalo Art Galleries and traveled to the Krannert Art Museum at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Jennie co-founded Forward Union, a coalition-building initiative connecting social justice organizations with artists and creative communities. 

Jennie is a Board Member of Art Omi in Ghent, NY. She received a BA from the University of Pennsylvania and a MA in Art History from the University of Texas at Austin.