Our Team
VANCE GARRETT
Vance Garrett is a creative pioneer of the experiential and immersive entertainment movement, producing the debuts of Sleep No More, Museum of Ice Cream, and Refinery29’s 29Rooms. As Westfield’s first Vice President, Experiential, Global Entertainment, he worked with Broadway and film producer Scott Sanders (The Color Purple, Radio Music Hall) to bring innovative live and experiential initiatives into its global portfolio of 100+ retail and mixed-use properties - and continues to create original projects for their portfolio today. As CCO of CAA’s Constellation Immersive studio, he developed and directed the Elf on the Shelf Magical Journey all-ages attraction and conceived and creatively directed DiscOasis, collaborating with famed music producer Nile Rodgers, providing a platform for Madonna’s Finally Enough Love album launch. He is a cultural futurist and employs a 360-degree understanding of theatrical production and multi-sensory storytelling to create new experiences in engaging environments that connect audiences, build community, establish a sense of place, and inspire wonder. He is a graduate of Northwestern University and is on the Executive Producers Council of Center of Performing Arts, University of California Los Angeles.
ALEXANDRA MAGNUSON
Alexandra Magnuson is a multi-faceted creative producer and artist advisor distinguished by her extensive experience working with artist studios, galleries, and new business ventures to realize complex art works and installations. She has worked closely with numerous prominent artists, studios, and foundations, including Michael Hezier, Chris Burden, Mary Weatherford, Nancy Rubins, Frank Gehry, and Glenn Kaino. As a long-time artist liaison and salesperson at Gagosian, Alex developed a comprehensive understanding of the stewardship of primary and secondary art markets. Specializing in large-scale sculpture and installations, Alex has played a key role in the development and ongoing strategy around some of the most well known and staggeringly complex public artworks ever executed. She has extensive experience in virtually every function of a blue-chip gallery, including managing artist and business needs from end-to-end, contributing to and editing publications, pioneering new studio and archival systems, negotiating and creating media strategies, and developing new clients. After Gagosian, she was the Director of Sales and Artist Management at Superblue, where she pioneered new ways of producing and monetizing large-scale artist projects.
MATTHEW THOMPSON
Matthew Thompson is a contemporary art curator and strategic advisor with a passion for building. With two decades of experience in senior positions in internationally distinguished art museums and globally preeminent art advisories, he has played key roles in the development of some of the most transformative projects in the field. His work is distinguished by his close relationships with artists and extensive experience developing, producing, and monetizing complicated commissions and large-scale experiential projects. He is the co-creator and director of the art program at Powder Mountain, an immersive land art and outdoor recreation experience set across more than 10,000 acres of wild terrain in Utah’s Wasatch Mountains. Previously, he was a Senior Director at Schwartzman, where he advised on the creation of new museums and cultural initiatives globally. Before Schwartzman, he had an extensive career in museums, most recently as the director of collection development at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, where he focused on large-scale public artwork, strategic collection building, and major acquisition projects.