As Founding Creative Director and Chief Strategic Officer, galvanizes a diverse set of collaborators together across artistic disciplines to enhance our CEO and Founder, Sharon Prince’s vision for Grace Farms. Chelsea has been a key contributor to Grace Farms Foundation since 2015, and is also a member of Grace Farms Foundation’s Board of Directors. Chelsea’s distinct contributions to Grace Farms includes the development of international partnerships with cultural institutions, leading design companies, and artists; the manifestation of the Grace Farms brand identity; site-responsive arts projects and commissions, and publications. Impactful collaborations include partnerships with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, MillerKnoll, and Pentagram.
Chelsea initiated the first Design for Freedom Pilot Projects; The Brij Cultural Center in New Delhi, India; Shadow of a Face monument celebrating Harriet Tubman by Nina Cooke John in Newark, New Jersey; Theaster Gates’ 21st Serpentine Pavilion at Serpentine Galleries in London, England; and New Canaan Library, New Canaan, Connecticut.
Chelsea curated and initiated Grace Farms’ exhibits, beginning with Common Good Through Crisis with MASS Design and Pentagram, and Peace Forest, with Shohei Yoshida (Shohei Yoshida + associates) and Peter Miller (Palette Architecture). Chelsea curated With Every Fiber, the first Design for Freedom exhibit, which opens May 4.
This year, Chelsea is introducing an artist-in-residency program, starting with a year-long residency with James Florio, who will be creating images of Grace Farms using large-format film.
Chelsea currently leads all arts programming with a suite of best-in-class advisors, Music Director, Marcus G. Miller, and Toshihiro Oki, Architectural Advisor, and Director of Arts Operations, Publications, and Exhibits, Emily Altman.
She also leads all marketing and design, and is focused on developing a foundation-wide project to enhance Grace Farms’ design for neurodiversity in partnership with Grace Farms’ executive team and with consultation from BuroHappold.
Chelsea co-edited and managed the design and editorial process of Design for Freedom, Grace Farms’ high-level industry report on slavery in the built environment and made critical contributions to the report’s editorial impact, which features more than 30 leaders within the ecosystem of the built environment. Chelsea has also created additional Foundation publications, including its first book, and souls are candles, annual reports, and thought leadership pieces.
Prior to joining Grace Farms Foundation, Chelsea started two businesses, including an award-winning publishing company, and gained traditional publishing experience at Conde Nast and through education at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communication at Syracuse University. In July 2024, Chelsea was elected to the Ridgefield Academy Board of Trustees, a policy-making body responsible for guiding the Academy’s mission and ensuring its successful fulfillment of academic excellence and fostering the individual growth of each student.
