Managing Director, CultureWorks Greater Philadelphia
Thaddeus Squire is the founder and managing director of CultureWorks Greater Philadelphia, a management services organization that offers shared space and services to the arts and heritage fields. Squire is a curator, consultant, writer, and producer who has worked across a wide variety of disciplines, from history and heritage to the fine and performing arts. His particular interest is in building creative collaborations and new models for resource sharing for the cultural and creative industries.
Following fundraising and artistic work for the Philadelphia Museum of Art and contemporary music presenter Relâche, Squire founded Peregrine Arts in 2005 with two business areas, multidisciplinary producing and management consulting, and was then converted into CultureWorks Greater Philadelphia in 2010. In 2013, Squire founded CultureTrust Greater Philadelphia, an affiliate of CultureWorks, which is a shared nonprofit administrative platform for projects and organizations, and is the first of its kind serving arts and heritage.
In addition to having served as a Pennsylvania Humanities Council Commonwealth Speaker, Squire lectures extensively on cultural policy and practice. He has a degree in music from Princeton University with a concentration in the history and philosophy of science and was a J. William Fulbright Scholar at the University of Leipzig, Germany. He also holds an orchestral conducting degree from the Leipziger Hochschule für Musik und Theater “Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy.”
He has served on numerous artistic and funding panels, including the Institute for Museum and Library Services, The Philadelphia Cultural Fund, the American Composers Forum (Philadelphia Chapter), Delaware Division of the Arts, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, and the Pennsylvania Humanities Council. He has been a 2013 and 2014 delegate to the Greater Philadelphia Leadership Exchange of the Pennsylvania Economy League and is a member of The Musical Fund Society of Philadelphia. He currently serves as vice chair of the Board of Directors of Russell Byers Charter School (Philadelphia), and is a board member of American Nonprofits (San Francisco), which is dedicated to developing new models for finance and risk management for the charitable sector. He also is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Generocity.org (Philadelphia) and the Advisory Board of the social impact real estate development organization American Communities Trust (ACT), headquartered in Baltimore.