Arts Collaborative Conversation: Benjamin Wolff
Friday, January 30 at noon
Lamar Dodd Building Room S360
Benjamin Wolff will virtually join the Arts Collaborative for an informal conversation about creative leadership. He is a New York City-based writer, speaker, and cellist who has been a Forbes Leadership contributor since 2017, reporting on insights for business from the world of the arts. Wolff graduated from Columbia University with a degree in history and studied cello and chamber music at the Juilliard School and Rice University. He is the author of The Value of Immeasurable Things: Why The Arts—and Artists—Are Essential to the Future Of Work.
https://www.bwolff.com
In 1997 he co-founded the Foothills Chamber Music Festival in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. For seven years he led the festival as cellist and co-Artistic Director as it presented a celebrated series of summer performances, lectures and symposia at the Reynolda House Museum of American Art, the Southeast Center for Contemporary Art, and the Delta Fine Arts Center.
Ben is also the creator of Galileo’s Muse, a program that dramatizes a unique intersection of art and science. It tells the story of how one of history’s most famous scientists turned to music to solve the mystery of how objects fall. Galileo’s Muse has been featured at institutions such as Harvard University and NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.
For eighteen years he was Adjunct Professor of Music at Hofstra University and a member of the Hofstra String Quartet. As a cellist, he has performed with ensembles such as Concert Royal, Early Music New York, Sinfonia New York, the Paul Taylor Dance Company, and the American Classical Orchestra.
Ben is past president of the National Speakers Association New York City and has delivered innovative programs on creativity, teamwork, and emotional intelligence for companies and organizations such as Cisco, Ingram Micro, the Association for Manufacturing Excellence, the Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai, and Rockefeller University.