Spice Arts (founded 2005) is a 501(c)3 nonprofit arts organization whose core activities include providing consulting services to other nonprofits, including museums, historical societies, and performing arts organizations. Its umbrella activities include the constituent organization Really Spicy Opera, an international leader in new opera creation.

Spice Arts has produced museum exhibits, lecture series, and performance tours featuring American history and culture throughout the United States, Canada, Western Europe, and Subsaharan Africa. Its staff have helped consulting organizations win more than $3 million in public and private funding to underwrite innovative programming expansion, outreach programming, conservation, and capital campaigns.

Spice Arts frequently collaborates with a variety of nonprofits on developing custom programming and plans for growth, and to foster new organizations during their crucial first years of operations. Spice Arts consultants have assisted with the launch of more than two dozen arts nonprofits across the United States.

Recent beneficiaries of Spice Arts services include:

• Museums & Historic Societies: The Hammond-Harwood House Association; Carroll Museums; Poe-Baltimore; the American Friends of Lafayette; the Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library
• Performing Arts Nonprofits: Empressa Ensemble; New Wave Opera; Opera Arlington; Opera Athena; Thousand Bridges Opera
• The National Park Service

Mission Statement

At Spice Arts, our mission is to foster dynamic, meaningful connections between audiences and the arts and humanities, both through our direct programming and by helping other nonprofit organizations to engage with their stakeholders, patrons, and audiences.

We believe in using history and historical artifacts to create dynamic, vibrant experiences that inspire curiosity, deepen understanding, and ignite passion. We foster innovative programming, strategic partnerships, and community-centered initiatives, to make arts and humanities accessible and engaging for diverse audiences. We nurture a culture of active participation, lifelong learning, and using the teaching of history and culture to create bonds between and within communities, ensuring that the arts and humanities continue to enrich lives and strengthen communities now and for generations to come.

As an organization, we practice knowledge sharing and building up personnel in other organizations so that they can thrive independently.

New Opera Creation

For more information about Spice Arts’ constituent ensemble, see: https://spicyopera.com