WHO WE ARE

Atlantic Arts is a production and consultation company at the intersection of arts, tech and culture. We produce in-person and digital creative work, while also working with individual and institutional partners in the arts & humanities sector to preserve, organize and showcase cultural resources.

This work ranges from community event production to music and podcast production to helping institutions curate and manage their digital cultural resources. We are passionate about making and exploring meaning and identity through creative collaboration.

FAQs

  • Atlantic Arts offers production and digital consultancy services for the arts and humanities sector.

    Our work ranges from producing and performing in-person music performances to audio recording and production to providing creative, data-focused tech solutions for libraries, museums, and archives.

  • We are truly interdisciplinary, our work is informed by two decades of experience in the arts and digital humanities sectors, putting technology to work in the service of the arts is our mission.

    We are immigrant-owned and are passionate about intercultural collaboration and community-focused projects.

  • We work with artists, companies and institutions seeking to showcase, share, and re-imagine traditional minority, and indigenous arts and culture.

    We have worked primarily with materials relating to Irish traditional culture but we welcome opportunities to expand and collaborate beyond this base.

  • We are based in Minneapolis, MN. We work with local communities & organizations, alongside remote and/or location-specific projects. Current work includes consultancy with cultural institutions in MN, WI, and Ireland.

Danny Diamond

OUR DIRECTOR

Our director, Danny Diamond, is a musician, archivist, and digital humanities researcher from Ireland. He is currently based in Minneapolis, MN. Danny has a broad and deep skills base intersecting the tech and humanities sectors, with experience ranging from humanities-focused academic data science research, through management and delivery of digital projects for archives and libraries, to production and performance work on collaborative international arts projects. Danny’s career path and personal identity are rooted in Irish culture: he is a traditional musician with an international profile, which inspires and informs his parallel work as a researcher and archivist with a passion for interdisciplinary connection and collaboration.

Born in Belfast and raised in Dublin, Danny spent the first decade of his professional career as an archivist and researcher of the Irish traditional arts, working with the Irish Traditional Music Archive (ITMA), a state-funded music archive and reference library in Dublin, Ireland. Between 2016–2020 he worked in a variety of interdisciplinary creative projects, notably with the band Slow Moving Clouds and dance theater company Teaċ Daṁsa, reimagining Irish culture and carrying it around the world through performances and intercultural collaborations, from New Zealand to South Korea to Paris to the USA. This career path has fostered a progressive and engaged perspective on identity, culture, and diversity. 

Since relocating to the USA in 2019 Danny has returned to academic and consultancy work, pursuing a research Master’s degree in data analysis, and working as a digital humanities consultant with cultural institutions.