Jonas Cartano

Jonas Cartano is a partner and co-founder of Third Eye Cultural Collaborative, a boutique consulting firm dedicated to strengthening our cultural ecosystem by enhancing the impact of small to mid-size organizations by providing strategy, organizational development, and innovation support services that enrich arts and culture organizations and leaders.

Jonas’ work is grounded in arts education, program development, and organizational change. He has designed and produced education programs for students, teachers, adults, and arts professionals and organizational innovation and adaptive leadership development programs for arts leaders across the country. Interested in supporting emerging arts organizations with an emphasis on social impact in NYC, Jonas has served as a board member for a variety of small and startup arts nonprofit organizations. He currently serves on the board of Carleton College’s Alumni Admissions Representatives program and recently served on the board of its Alumni Annual Fund, which is widely recognized as a national model for alumni fundraising. He has held staff positions at The Metropolitan Opera, Jazz at Lincoln Center, and EmcArts and worked on projects with Opera America, The New York Philharmonic, and Project Zero at Harvard University. A lifelong choral singer, Jonas was the director of programs at Chorus America and has performed and served in board and administrative positions with a wide range of choruses in New York City, Boston, and Washington DC.

Jonas earned his BA in Music from Carleton College, his EdM in Arts in Education from Harvard University, and was a member of the inaugural class to receive an Executive Diploma in Arts and Culture Strategy from the University of Pennsylvania and National Arts Strategies in 2015. Jonas also has a Certificate of Nonprofit Board Consulting from BoardSource and is currently a member of the inaugural class of National Arts Strategies’ Leadership Coaching Training Program.