Graham Wright | Boston Symphony Orchestra

I first met Graham through his work with Opus Affair, a wonderful organization founded in 2008 that connects people with a shared interest in arts and culture. In 2014, Opus Affair expanded its team and starting offering marketing and patron services consulting to arts and culture organizations. Graham recently took a position at the Boston Symphony Orchestra serving as the Director of Content and Digital Services.

We connected over Zoom to talk about arts, COVID and life post pandemic. During isolation, we have seen a tremendous uptick in arts and media consumption online. For example, Netflix gained 15.8 million new subscribers between March and April. But will this level of consumption continue as we begin to reopen the economy? Also, working artists in the gig economy are struggling to make ends meet. As we face so many existential crises - from racial justice to healthcare to climate change - we agreed that artists have a critical role to play in the fight for equity and social justice.

It was a joy catching up with Graham, and I look forward to a future time when we will be work neighbors on Boston’s Avenue of the Arts!