AS220 IMPACT: Xander Marro

Xander Marro
Co-Director, The Dirt Palace
Former AS220 Managing Director

All of the most important relationships in my life are with people who I met or got to know at AS220. Everything about not-for-profit management. including all of the nitty-gritty real estate stuff that we put into practice developing the Wedding Cake House, I learned at AS220.

Not only has AS220 inspired hundreds of artists and organiza­tions, it also maintains a rigorous open source ethos around its knowledge. It's made its organizational learning available and accessible to countless others. AS220 is a rich environment , where youth perspectives are bouncing around with the wis­dom of people who've been working in the field for decades.

This sensibility of collaboration runs deep in the arts ecosys­tem of Rhode Island, and AS220 has played a big role in influ­encing this culture.