When we first started, it was understanding investment and fundraising and how to properly staff a team of artists and fabricators. What’s a hella learning curve Meow Wolf faced during that time? At every step, there’s new learning curves that are of equal magnitude. The House of Eternal Return had its first birthday in March. Not feeling like we have to contract out the operations or the finances or the fundraising. Keeping true to our character and continuing the DIY aesthetic, because it is DIY, only on a much larger scale now. We’ve maintained this collective character and collective mentality, and a good amount of our customers feel that, too – like they are supporting a movement as much as they are supporting a single experience. Outside of the pure number of people coming through, about a half a million of them, what’s something Meow Wolf’s really proud of at the House of Eternal Return?The community we have built with our team and our fan base, the customers, it feels like, yes, we are a business, but it feels like we are something more than a business. They went from being a ragtag group of DIY artists to an internationally known art collective pushing a radically inclusive art movement in the span of a year.ĭGO spoke to Vince Kadlubek, CEO and co-founder of Meow Wolf, about what they’ve learned and where they’re headed. Meow Wolf is the arts production company behind it all. It’s the enchantingly offbeat outcome of over 100 artists’ efforts to concoct a psychedelic, immersive art experience. The House of Eternal Return is a permanent, multimedia art installation that opened in March 2016, and takes up 20,000 square feet and, in the very least, two hours of your life to traverse through. Is that a house or an amalgamation of wormholes leading to parallel dimensions? Both!
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