108: Design Strategist Christopher Hibma

https://www.christopherhibma.com/ In  his most recent role as the Director of Sundance Institute’s Theatre  Program, Christopher Hibma built one of the world’s leading  brands and  most diverse rosters of artist activities. In his role, he  worked to  expand the Program’s cultural impact outside the American context, with  an emphasis on storytelling that incorporated a  multiplicity of  cultures particularly from East Africa and the Arab region/diaspora. Christopher crafts creative environments for artists to luxuriate in their  animating impulses. He has designed spaces & programming at MASS  MoCA in the Berkshires, at Ucross Foundation on a cattle ranch in  Wyoming, at Luma Foundation in Arles, France and in capitals across the  Arab region and East Africa. He has developed a  set of organizing  principles and anticolonialist values when developing programs with  partners across international borders and contexts. Christopher  incorporates the principles rigor, grace & intention as he  cultivates the talents of storytellers, thinkers and leaders as he  designs into their best instincts. He and his husband have a daughter and live in Minnesota.