Who We Are
Under the leadership of Mallory King, Founder/Executive Director, Arts to Grow is a team of dedicated individuals who believe in the power of the arts to inspire learning and motivate young people to work toward a meaningful future. Our team includes teaching artists, educators, students, administrators, communications specialists, civic leaders, and more.
MALLORY L. KING
Mallory King is the Founder and Executive Director of Arts to Grow. A native New Yorker, and a product of the public school system, she understands first hand the value and life-long impact of arts education. She has more than twenty years of work experience in nonprofit and artist management in New York and Boston.
Most recently, Mallory served as Executive Director of the Brooklyn Youth Chorus Academy. She has provided fundraising consultation to Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road Project, led strategic planning for the Triple Helix Piano Trio, and created audience building and marketing strategies for the public programs of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
In addition, Mallory has served as Development Director for The Academy of American Poets and as Director of Corporate and Foundation Relations for the YMCA of Greater Boston. As a development professional, she has raised over $1 million in annual funds from public and private sources. She has also managed performing artists, booking national concert tours and securing major press coverage.
Mallory brings to Arts to Grow a deeply rooted understanding of the artistic process having grown up in a family of artists. Mallory studied classical guitar, her father is a visual artist, her mother a poet, and her sister danced professionally for twenty years.
Mallory received a BA in Economics from Bard College and an MBA from Boston University in Nonprofit and Public Management. She has volunteered her time as a board member for the Community Art Center and the Samaritans of Boston, serving on long-range planning and hiring committees. She lives in Jersey City, New Jersey with her husband and two children.
