Wyatt Closs

Based in Los Angeles, Wyatt Closs is senior vice president for Creative and Cultural Strategies at Spitfire. He’s constantly curious, likes to noodle on things and discover the new new. He has spent the last 20 years on explorations of art and design for social change, progressive politics, creative advocacy, cultural criticism writing and organizing for social justice. He is considered an early practitioner in a field now known as cultural organizing or culture change work.

Most recently, within weeks of the onset of Covid-19, Wyatt served as the creative force behind DearFrontline.com, an interactive property where art honors essential workers and users could send digital postcards to hospital staff thanking them; the Strike for Black Lives Murals series mounted in eight cities in 10 days in the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd; and It’s All Up to Us, a large-scale art show about voting rights, police violence, immigrant rights and mass incarceration in his home state of North Carolina.