As Director of Artist Initiatives, Mattox leads the department overseeing grants and awardee services, community-building opportunities, and advocates for artists and arts funding. For over two decades, Angela Mattox has dedicated her career to supporting and championing contemporary artists as a multi-disciplinary funder and presenter. From 2020-2024, she served as Creative Capital’s Senior Manager of Awardee Engagement.  In that role, she worked closely with Creative Capital awardees to support the development of their projects, connecting artists to the skills, resources and industry networks they need to achieve their goals.

Prior to joining Creative Capital, she developed bold artistic programs as a curator for the Wiener Festwochen/Vienna Festival (Vienna, Austria), as Artistic Director of Portland Institute for Contemporary Art and the TBA Festival (Portland, Oregon), and as the Performing Arts Curator at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco, California). She is currently a guest curator for the 2025 Lyon Biennale de la Danse. Her arts administration work began at Arts International, a NYC based non-profit funder that provided grants to artists and arts organizations engaged in international work.

As a consistent champion of artists, she has served on review panels for the Japan Foundation, New England Foundation for the Arts, FACE Foundation for French and US Exchange, the National Dance Project, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, MapFund, Mid-Atlantic Foundation for the Arts, and the NEA. Mattox is named to the rank of Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French Ministry of Culture, and received her BA degree in World Arts and Cultures, UCLA.