Kenyon Adams

Head of Brand @Grey Spaces

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Kenyon Adams (KYN) is a multi-hyphenate creator, coach, and artistic director. His passion is to amplify businesses and business leaders to help them discover and actualize their CORE CONTRIBUTION. KYN served as Artist in Residence at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music for the 2015-16 academic year and has been a Distinguished Fellow at the Hannah Arendt Center. In 2023, he was named Artist in Residence at the University of Texas Austin (TX Performing Arts) where he developed, COMPLINE NOIR, the final work in his WATCHNIGHT trilogy. As a producing artistic director, KYN has worked with artists including Carrie Mae Weems, Meredith Monk, Alyson Shotz, Aloe Blacc, Bill T. Jones, Camille A. Brown, Paul Taylor Dance Company, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Ambrose Rhapsody Murray, Lee Isaac Chung, Julianne Swartz, Silas Farley, Andrea Miller, Nicole Sealey, and Ilya Kaminsky. Kenyon is a Senior Fellow of the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College, and an Artist in Residence at Texas Performing Arts, UT Austin. Kenyon contributed as Artist in Residence at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music for the 2015-16 academic year. In 2021, he was honored to serve on the Advisory Council for artist Carrie Mae Weems' Land of Broken Dreams: A Gathering, at the Park Avenue Armory. KYN has contributed art and thought leadership to Live Ideas (New York Live Arts), Fusebox Festival, Open Society University Network, the Fisher Center at Bard College, Yale School of Drama, the Alpine Fellowship, the Langston Hughes Project, Armstrong NOW (Louis Armstrong House Museum), YoungARTS, National Arts Policy Roundtable, the Watermill Center, and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. He studied Religion & Literature at Yale Divinity School, and Theology of Contemporary Performance at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music. He holds a BFA from Southern Methodist University, and an MAR from Yale University. KYN has performed nationally as a vocalist, songwriter, and blues harmonica player, making his featur

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