Mallory Shotwell is an independent curator, artist professional practice consultant, and interdisciplinary artist with a background in artist-run and nonprofit arts leadership. She is the founder and former director of Cultivate, an artist-run organization in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where she led exhibitions, educational programming, and community partnerships supporting nearly 10,000 students and more than 1,000 artists.

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Her curatorial practice is research-driven and collaborative, focused on care, labor, and the conditions under which cultural work is produced. She has developed exhibitions and programs, including It Takes a Village and Embodied Homescapes, foregrounding interdisciplinary exchange and public engagement while attending closely to the operational realities of exhibition-making within nonprofit and civic institutions.

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In parallel, Shotwell works as an artist professional practice consultant, supporting mid-career artists and arts organizations navigating exhibitions, residencies, juried opportunities, and institutional processes. This work centers on professional materials, timelines, systems organization, and communication, with an emphasis on clarity, reliability, and institutional fluency.

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Her interdisciplinary studio practice informs both roles, grounding her work in lived experience and sustained inquiry. She is intentionally focused on shaping exhibitions, programs, and research initiatives within mission-driven art institutions, where curatorial vision, operational rigor, and artist advocacy are understood as interdependent.