Biography
David Resnicow is president and co-founder of Resnicow Schroeder Associates. RSA is the nation’s leading company providing integrated strategic planning, management consulting, marketing, communications and revenue-generating services to cultural institutions. RSA is also the nation’s leading cultural sponsorship company, serving as the agency of record for the most active corporations in the field, including Altria, Ford, Alcoa, Merrill Lynch and AT&T. Mr. Resnicow was also the co-founder of MuseNews, a wire service of original art news and features that was acquired by Bloomberg LP in 2004 and renamed BloombergMuse.
Mr. Resnicow has advised and assisted numerous cultural and educational institutions around the country on institutional expansion, program strategy, audience development and crisis communications. He has most recently worked on strategic planning with the Smithsonian Institution, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art,the California Academy of Sciences, and the American Museum of Natural History. Other institutional clients have included Carnegie Hall, the Vatican Museums, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, PBS, WNET-TV, the National Baseball Hall of Fame, and the National Museum of Natural History, to note only a few. He has developed and implemented marketing campaigns for more than 100 major exhibitions as well as the national tours and anniversaries of such performing arts organizations as American Ballet Theatre, The Joffrey Ballet, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival. Through these and other programs, Mr. Resnicow has collaborated with almost every major art museum, science center and performing arts presenter in the U.S., and many abroad. Mr. Resnicow has also worked with individual philanthropists and foundations on the development and implementation of their programs. This has included the Eli Broad Family Foundation, The Nasher Foundation and the Aga Khan Development Network, among others. He is also the creator of "The Wall Street Rat Race," an annual race held in Lower Manhattan in which the participants run in business attire, for which he was awarded the Public Relations Society of New York's Big Apple Award. Mr. Resnicow is a member of the Board of the Mark Morris Dance Group and Second Stage Theatre, and the Advisory Board of The Franklin Furnace. He received his B.A. in Art History and Aesthetics from Washington University, Saint Louis. |
