The Experience Alchemists (TEA) is a creative consultancy that elevates art in all its forms. We work with clients across the cultural sector and beyond to imagine, design, plan, and implement innovative public facing experiences grounded in art and creative expression. We are experience designers, facilitators, cultural translators, and strategic thinkers.
TEA is a values-based public benefit corporation and Certified B Corp. We believe creating and sharing responsive, relevant, and empathy-inducing stories can change the world. People are at the heart of what we do. The methodology we employ treats all experiences as active, self-directed, continuous processes, which are undertaken by people who bring their whole selves–the emotional as well as rational–to any occasion.
Our work is representative of our three distinct but complementary lines of service:
Experience Design & Curation
- Experience Concept Design
- Digital Engagement and Storytelling Conceptualization
- Guest Journey/Experience Consultation
- Site-Specific Artwork Commissions
- Exhibition Curation
We are award winning experience designers with a passion for thought provoking storytelling. For more than twenty five years, our principals have been creating unique, people-centered moments that encourage informal learning and make arts, culture, and history accessible and entertaining to all. We specialize in creating engaging digital media moments that connect audiences and content in meaningful ways. We love building partnerships and creative collaborations, especially with artists, musicians, filmmakers, and writers. When commissioning new works, we find the perfect match between artists and clients, aligning aesthetics and artistic vision with the mission and goals of each organization. We can help promote and support your organization, brand and story by organizing and curating unique installations and exhibitions that are meaningful, fun, and memorable.
Interpretive Planning & Creative Project Management
- Creative Project Management
- Interpretive Planning
- Exhibition/Installation Process Development
- Traveling Exhibition Management
- Cohort Building and Partnerships
When it comes to mapping content development and logistical processes to get creative, audience-centered work done, TEA is one of the very best and most experienced in the business. We can take you and your creative project from inception all the way to launch (and beyond) by helping you to outline and achieve every step you’ll need to accomplish along the way. The creative project management practices we use promote efficiency but also take creativity, team building and communication into account. Our highly structured interpretive planning processes are fun, meaningful and, perhaps most importantly, useful to the successful development and implementation of exhibitions, installations, programs, or building expansions. They distill and articulate your team’s project specific thinking all while framing content work within the larger landscape of an institution’s needs, activities, mission, schedule, and budget.
Strategic Planning & Thought Leadership
- Digital Strategy Development
- Strategic Planning and Organizational Development
- Professional Coaching and Mentoring
- Workshops and Training Programs
- Public Speaking
As practitioners with decades of experience in the cultural sector, we possess a deep understanding of digital technologies and have a strong background in helping organizations better integrate digital tools and platforms in their operations, both audience-facing and internal. Our experience in exhibitions, collections and registration, art history and curation, education and interpretation, and project management means that we are able to think broadly about how strategy impacts institutions as a whole. TEA creates strategies that recognize clients’ specific capacities and capabilities and provides roadmaps to where they want to go in the coming years. We help clients work better and position them to successfully build digitally enabled organizations that are built on robust technology infrastructures that are fit for the current century and not the last.
Let’s make some magic together.