The LOEB Fellowship

Deborah Frieden is a cultural project planning consultant assisting nonprofits and municipalities in the creation of new museums, cultural centers, district initiatives or the expansion and re-envisioning of existing facilities and institutions.

Frieden’s work explores the contextual issues of organizations within their specific communities. Following her Loeb Fellowship she formed her consulting practice, Deborah Frieden and Associates, which works nationally as well as internationally. Currently, I am working in Memphis, Charlotte, and the Bay Area. I just completed working with the Oakland Museum of California to open its campus to the neighborhood and improve its gardens with Walter Hood & Mark Cavagnero, an expansion of the Joslyn Museum in Omaha with Snohetta, and shortly before that concluded working with the Youth Arts and Music Center in East Palo Alto, which is well into construction designed by wHY Architects.

I am very excited about my new client, a group of non-profit leaders who have come together to create an arts center in Chinatown in San Francisco. This is an almost unprecedented alliance of organizations with diverse missions who see the value and importance of preserving Chinatown’s past but more importantly showing that the Asian American experience and artistic production is vibrant and contemporary with connections to all of us. The project is in its very early stages with site acquisition, mission/vision planning and more happening quickly.