Joy Glidden is an entrepreneurial senior executive with 30+ years’ experience in the nonprofit and commercial contemporary artworld. She has demonstrated success through creative growth, leadership, and management with expertise in organizational, as well as artists career development. Joy emphasizes diversity, equity, and age inclusion in all her many projects.

Glidden founded the DUMBO Arts Center (DAC) and the DUMBO Arts Festival in Brooklyn, NY where she served as the executive director from 1997-2006. In 2006, Glidden relocated to New Orleans, LA to assist in the wake of post-Katrina devastation where she played a role in the development of the Culture Plan - Unified New Orleans Plan (UNOP), later used to inform Federal interests. In the spring of 2007, Glidden was appointed director of Louisiana ArtWorks, LAW, a 93,000 sq ft’ state of the arts, artist service organization. LAW flourished successfully reinvigorating the arts community of New Orleans. In 2009, Glidden was contacted by regional PBS to direct a TV series on contemporary art. Art Index TV (AITV), that is an informative and engaging half hour shows about contemporary art that aired, 2010-2013. AITV continues to stream through Alexander Street Inc. distributors, 2016- present in university libraries globally.
Upon her return to New York, she was the consulting director to Northside Town Hall, a NAGG and People’s Firehouse joint venture, on their capital campaign, worked on EPA issues effecting the waterfront of NYC, 2013–2014. Glidden was the committee chair of ArTTable, Artist Breakfast Talk, 2013-2020 and Board Member - National VP of Programs 2009 – 2010. She was the Senior Advisory for Northern New England Artist Legacy Project, NNE ALP 2017-2020 in Burlington, Vermont. 

Glidden is on the Advisory Task Force for NYC Economic Development for the African American Burial Ground in Harlem.  She is currently the founding director of the Center for the Preservation of Artists Legacies, CPAL.