The Short Version
Rob Fields is the founder & CEO of Mighty Mighty LLC, a marketing and art advisory firm. He is passionate about connecting people, art, and ideas through marketing, cultural strategy, and art advising. He developed his approach to brand-building and marketing-informed leadership over a 30+ year career that includes leading cultural institutions, representing artists, producing events, doing PR, and working on account teams at several New York City marketing agencies and trade associations. He is the former director of the Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art & Storytelling. Before Sugar Hill, Rob was the president and executive director of Weeksville Heritage Center, and led that organization’s turnaround and secured its designation as the first new member of the NYC Cultural Institutions Group in over 20 years. From 2007-2017, Rob published Bold As Love, an online magazine that covered left-of-center music and culture. In 2011, he produced the NBI Festival, a TED-inspired celebration of the Black people and ideas that are driving culture forward. Over the course of his career, he’s been a marketer for big brands, cultural institutions, and indie artists; a cultural programmer; and has written about the connection between marketing, business, and contemporary culture for Forbes.com and the Huffington Post, among the several outlets where his work has been published.
Rob currently serves on the Board of Trustees for UnionDocs. He is an avid photographer who lives in Brooklyn with his wife, author and filmmaker Bridgett M. Davis, and their family.
Fun fact: His first photograph was published in The NY Times in 2020.
The Longer Version
Rob Fields is the founder & CEO of Mighty Mighty LLC, a marketing and art advisory firm. He is passionate about connecting people, art, and ideas through marketing, cultural strategy, and art advising. He developed his approach to brand-building and marketing-informed leadership over a 30+ year career that includes leading cultural institutions, representing artists, publishing an online culture magazine, producing events, doing PR, and working on account teams at several New York City marketing agencies and trade associations.
He is the former director of the Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art & Storytelling. Before Sugar Hill, Rob was the president and executive director of Weeksville Heritage Center, and led that organization’s turnaround and secured its designation as the first new member of the NYC Cultural Institutions Group in over 20 years.
During his tenure at Weeksville, Rob represented the institution in media outlets like The Root, Bloomberg QuickTake, ALL ARTS TV, BRIC TV, WNYC’s All of It with Alison Stewart, among others.
In 2011, Rob produced the TED-inspired New Black Imagination Festival, which he founded in 2011 as a platform for forward-looking, global black culture. The Festival was a natural outgrowth of the work that he’d been doing on his black alt music and culture magazine Bold As Love, which ran from 2007-2017 and featured news, reviews, interviews and commentary focused on the state of contemporary global black culture. He published the first set of results from quantitative research into the attitudes and buying preferences of this audience in 2013.
Rob has been a frequent guest on NPR, and have written for Forbes, the creative business site PSFK, the Huffington Post, TheRoot.com, TheGrio.com and EbonyJet.com, among others. He has hosted artist interviews for BET/CentricTV, and was a panelist at SXSW 2009 and SXSW 2010, where he interviewed seminal black punk band Death. He’s also spoken at CMJ in both 2009 and 2013, and at the Indiana University’s Black Rock Conference.
Rob currently serves on the Board of Trustees for UnionDocs. He is an avid photographer who lives in Brooklyn with his wife, author Bridgett M. Davis, and their family.
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