RENÉE TANNER | MANAGING DIRECTOR
ABOUT LIGHTBOX PROJECTS
Lightbox Projects is an Auckland-based creative management company led by experienced arts administrator and Project Manager, Renée Tanner. Drawing on over 25 years of experience in the creative sector, Renée is acutely aware that artists and creative organisations need support in advising, designing and implementing projects, leaving them to focus on what they do best – create!
Renée’s career path has included being a Curator, Marketing Manager, Arts Advisor, Public Programmes Coordinator, and Philanthropy & Sponsorship Manager. This experience and skill set, perfectly positions her to help artists and creative organisations turn ideas into reality. Over the years, Renée has gathered together a trusted team of specialist contractors to help manage project requirements.
Offering a full service for those in the creative industries, Lightbox provides project management, concept development and event management, while also being able to manage sponsorship requirements and secure grant funding as necessary.
Lightbox also leads the way on artist and event promotion, providing marketing and PR support to clients with strategy, design, web design, social media management and digital marketing services.
The team is passionate about growing the industry and seeing artists and organisations flourish. With their extensive experience they are able to offer mentoring, share their experiences, past projects and advise on how to navigate the ever-changing, always challenging arts sector.
Working with Renée and her Lightbox Projects team starts with a conversation to understand the needs of you or your organisation and advising on how they can support you in the best way possible.
CLIENTS + EVENTS OVERVIEW:
- Open Studios Waitākere – re-branded and re-launched event
- Mackelvie Society – Project Manager
- Titirangi Festival of Music – new branding and brochure production
- Arts Foundation – development and launch of a crowdfunding platform Boosted.
- Black Grace Dance Company – securing sponsorship and funding
- Red Leap Theatre – marketing and sponsorship
- Auckland UNESCO City of Music – launch event and social media management
- Arts Regional Trust – arts sector workshop series development
- Auckland Art Gallery – development of a philanthropic membership programme
- Pecha Kucha NZ – coordinator for Queenstown events
- Arts Broker – for Mangere Otahuhu and Henderson Massey Local Boards
- Arts Advisor – Auckland Council
- National Gallery of Victoria – Asian Art Curator
- Elevated Park Jam with King Kapsi – event development and delivery
- Webb’s Auction House – marketing and securing sponsorships
- Auckland Art Gallery – developing an education outreach programme, ArtSuitcase
- Te Tuhi Art Gallery – public programmes coordinator
- Outreach Rehearsals – public event developed with Black Grace
- Asian Art Internship – programme developed for Auckland Art Gallery Foundation
- MAY MEET UP – arts sector networking event held at Mangere Arts Centre
- Artists Run Studio Tour – series of tours developed and delivered for Te Tuhi
- What is Art? – youth led programme for Maungakiekie Local Board
- Creative Digital Trade Conversation – event management for WeCreate
- Grants programme administration – Mangere Otahuhu and Henderson Massey Local Boards
- Siva Afi Aotearoa – Producer of Festival and workshops
- Creative Humans – Producer of Mini Arts festival in Orakei Local Board Area
- Save St David’s – Marketing and Communications for historical building campaign
- Kohna Zari Ko – Marketing and Communications for not-for-profit supporting migrant woman
- Kāhui St David’s – Marketing and Communications for Auckland music centre based in Historical church. Fundraising.
- Your Stories – Fundraising, Marketing and Communications for project restoring old newspapers to digital versions.
- Making Art Work – Art Broker role for Creative Rodney East.
- Journey of Discovery – Marketing and Communications for Art of Living Foundations’s October event.
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