David Maggs

Fellow on Arts and Society, Metcalf Foundation
David Maggs carries on an active career as an interdisciplinary artist and academic researcher focused on arts, cultural policy, climate change, and sustainability. He was the founder and pianist for Dark by Five, has written works for the stage, and created interactive mixed reality projects included in the UK’s Future of Live Performance. David is the founder and co-artistic director of Camber Arts, and founder of the Graham Academy, honouring his childhood music teacher, Gary Graham. David initiated and co-produced the CBC doc channel film The Country, exploring the Canadian government’s handling of indigenous identity in Newfoundland. As a fellow at the University of Toronto’s Munk School for Global Affairs, he co-authored Sustainability in an Imaginary World (Routledge Press, 2020) with mentor and longtime collaborator John Robinson, exploring the relationship between art and sustainability. He is former senior fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Sustainability in Potsdam, Germany, where he led work on culture and climate change.
Following the publication of Art and the World After This (2022), David became the inaugural Fellow on Arts and Society at the Metcalf Foundation where he works on issues of cultural policy and revitalization. In collaboration with the UK’s Policy and Evidence Centre for the Creative Industries, he co-authored Impact Investing in the Cultural and Creative Sectors: Insights from an emerging field, on groundbreaking work on impact investing in cultural and creative industries. He is co-leading the development of Arts & Social Finance, an impact fund dedicated to capacity-building and financing for Canada’s cultural sector. David has been a featured speaker at the Canadian Arts Summit, The International Transdisciplinarity Conference (Leuphana), The American Association for the Advancement of Science, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, the International Association for Analytical Psychology (Berlin), The Arts of Living with Nature (Kyoto), Impact Investing and the Arts (Sydney), the International Society of Music Educators (Helsinki), the 7th UNESCO Winter School (Hungary), Global Impact Investing Network (Berlin), and elsewhere.
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