Meg Shiffler

AST Director

Meg (she/her) brings over 20 years of service to diverse Bay Area artists and communities to her role as inaugural AST Director. Her unique cross-sector background, developed from decades of work with government, nonprofit and private organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle, Minneapolis, and New York, includes envisioning and building organizations, inclusive engagement with varied stakeholders and communities, and managing complex budgets and contracts for space, labor, services, and materials.

During 16 years as Director and Chief Curator of the San Francisco Arts Commission Galleries, she vastly increased its scale, space, staff and programming while commissioning new work from regional, national and international artists, founded a municipal Artist in Residence program and initiated the international Sister City Exchange program. Meg has actively taught, written and lectured on artists, exhibition history and curatorial practice. Prior to AST, she was the Head of Space and Operations at Swissnex, an international network of innovation hubs supporting entrepreneurs, researchers, scientists and artists working toward a more sustainable future.

Contact Meg at meg.shiffler@artistspacetrust.org