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About
Adam Fong
Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Adam is a composer, performer and producer of new music, and a community leader in arts and culture. He co-founded and led two arts service organizations: Emerging Arts Professionals (founded 2009) and the Center for New Music (founded 2012). Fong received the MFA in Music Composition at California Institute of the Arts, where he studied with James Tenney and Wadada Leo Smith; he also holds a master’s degree from Stanford University (English). His compositions have been performed widely, and he is a frequent lecturer, advisor, and panelist on experimental music, cultural entrepreneurship, arts leadership, cultural strategy, and community building. He is currently Program Officer in Performing Arts at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, where he manages a diverse portfolio of grants supporting artists, communities, and youth throughout the Bay Area.
what’s shaking
through-lines and topics of interest that tie together Adam’s work (so far)
Peer Networks
Participatory Grantmaking, Community Creativity, Connecting Across Disciplines
Strategic Innovation
New Strategies & New Paradigms
Alternate Systems
Just Intonation, Network-Based Impact, Cultural Practice as Knowledge Index
Leadership Development
Omnidirectional Mentorship, Next Generation Leadership
Field Building
Arts x Community Development, Culture x Conservation
Creative Conditions
Creative Agency, Economic Well-Being, Cultural Self-Determination
what’s good
Artists Strategy
In July of 2024, the Hewlett Foundation Performing Arts Program announced an expansion of its support to artists in the San Francisco Bay Area. Adam leads this strategy with the goal of ensuring that Bay Area artists and culture bearers both shape and benefit from the services, policies, and practices that most benefit their creative agency and economic well-being.
Centering artists
A more holistic approach affirms that artists and culture bearers are the people best equipped to shape their own creative lives.
Increased support
This strategy expansion increased from 15% to 30% the program budget allocated to supporting artists.
Cultural policy
This support asks artists to determine what policy or practice shifts will help them realize their full potential.
what’s good
Center for New Music
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Portfolio
shake-ups of all kinds: articles, presentations, musical compositions, and more
bands and brands
partner groups and organizations where Adam and his work can be found
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
Program Officer, Performing Arts (2018 – present)
Center for New Music
Co-Founder, Executive Director (2012-18), Board of Directors
Emerging Arts Professionals San Francisco Bay Area
Co-Founder, Director (2011-14)
Blood Moon Orchestra
Bass, electronics, co-composer, MEKONG: LIFE
what’s new a.k.a. blog
updates and recent shakings
