Patton Hindle is a creative strategist, cultural worker, and systems change-maker.

She is the Executive Director of Artadia, a nonprofit grantmaker that centers artists in their vital role in society through providing funding and professional development in 7 US cities. Most recently, Patton was the Head of Forward Funds, Kickstarter’s first social impact program that she built and ran. She also served as the Head of Arts at Kickstarter for 5 years, working closely with artists, collectives, arts organizations, and cultural institutions around the world to help them realize creative and ambitious ideas; she still maintains her deep engagement with these communities.

Additionally, Patton advises artists, for profit, and nonprofit creative organizations on business and organizational strategies.

Patton was the co-founder of Chinatown gallery yours mine & ours and the Director of Gallery and Institutional Partnerships at Artspace. She is a co-author of the second edition of How to Start and Run a Commercial Art Gallery and was a 2019 Catherine Hannah Behrend Fellow at 92Y Women inPower in New York.

Patton served as an advisor to Mellon Foundation and is currently on the Board of Directors of The Laundromat Project, the Board of Directors of Socrates Sculpture Park, the Board of Advisors of the Arts Funders Forum, and she is a mentor for New Inc..

She was raised in London and currently resides in Brooklyn, NY.