Shannon Elder is a freelance EXPERIENTIAL producer and curator living in Austin, Texas. She specializes in events featuring live music and/or visual art.

Shannon is the Co-Founder and Executive Producer at PietschHouse, an artist-led event production company curating art and music events showcasing local talent. Since 2021 she has helped produce festivals, exhibitions, and programming for women and queer creatives as a Curator for Future Front Texas.

She has worked with dozens of bands and artists of various mediums by booking multi-day festival lineups, managing stages, curating artist rosters, coordinating international photography exhibitions, developing educational programming for creatives, and a little bit of everything in between.

Formerly she oversaw documentary photography projects as the Managing Photo Editor & Designer at Native Agency, an organization diversifying the media industry, where she worked with numerous photojournalists to develop and exhibit projects that would eventually be featured in outlets such as The New York Times, NPR, and WIRED.

In 2022 she spoke on a SXSW panel, Art Imitates Activism Imitates Art, about the connection between social justice and creative industries. She enjoys collage and poetry, and has been selected to show her work in various zines and art shows. In 2021 she made a cameo appearance in a Don’t Mess with Texas ad featuring The Black Pumas.

A 2021 Grant Recipient from The Institute for Diversity and Civic Life and the Henry Luce Foundation, she wrote a photo essay series highlighting the lives of eight young women who immigrated to Austin, Texas in high school.

She graduated from Columbia College Chicago with a BA in Cultural Studies and Creative Non-Fiction Writing in 2017. Her thesis examined colonial issues in photojournalism and the importance of visual storytelling as a tool for social disruption.

SERVICES

+ Event Production
+ Exhibition Design & Installation
+ Stage Management & Talent Booking
+ Venue Scouting
+ Vendor Management
+ Digital Marketing, Advertising & Promotion
+ Audio Engineer, Lighting Design, Photo/Video

CONTACT

Currently accepting new projects:

shannonraynae@gmail.com