Beau Kenyon is Founding Principal at Oakley Collective, a nonprofit consulting firm that holistically supports arts organizations build capacity, pilot programs, and sustainably increase impact. With offices in Boston, MA and Des Moines, IA, Kenyon’s work contributes to the vibrancy of local arts ecosystems by collaboratively building culturally responsive programs, advancement strategies, strategic plans and interdisciplinary partnerships. He teaches these same concepts in his graduate coursework in Arts Administration and Cultural Entrepreneurship at Northeastern University, College of Arts, Media + Design (2017-present). He is a former Co-Chair of WGBH Community Advisory Board (2016-2019) and currently serves as Co-Chair of the Boston Art Review Board of Directors (2023-present).

Kenyon’s approach to collaboration extends into his music composition practice, with interdisciplinary creative works appearing at SITE Santa Fe (2020), Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (2018), MFA Boston (2018 & 2022) Des Moines Civic Center (2022) and ICA Boston (2023), with public artworks installed at Governors Island (2018), Emerald Necklace (2018), Des Moines Water Works Park (permanent, 2019), Boston Public Library (2017 & 2019), and Fenway Park (2015). Beau Kenyon's contemporary ballet and concert score, Of Gravity and Light (Ballet Des Moines, 2022), interprets the science of the solar system through music, dance (Tom Mattingly), and projection (Yu-Wen Wu) and received collaborative research support from PBS, WGBH, and NASA. His interactive Augmented Reality work, ReachYou (collaboration with Jonah + Katrina Goldsaito, 2022), premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. Most recently on view at the ICA Boston, Kenyon’s multimedia work (collaboration with Yu-Wen Wu, 2023), Accumulation of Dreams explores themes of immigration and displacement, longing and belonging.