Ruder Finn Arts & Communications Counselors (RF A&CC) is the oldest and largest practice in the world specializing in visual and performing arts public relations and marketing. For more than 50 years, we have been providing corporations, cultural institutions, government agencies and foundations with strategic communications counseling, program development, and implementation.

Our staff has experience in all of the following areas: institutional and corporate branding, identity and positioning; international and national media relations and special event management; sponsorship development and promotion; exhibition organization and circulation; strategic planning; and crisis communications.

RF A&CC has been retained for support in public relations, marketing, strategic planning and management consultation by both emerging and established cultural institutions in the United States and abroad. Over the past decade, we have created and implemented advance and opening strategic communications plans for many institutions, including: The Museum of Modern Art in New York; Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation's Guggenheim Museum Bilbao (Spain), designed by Frank O. Gehry; Millennium Park in Chicago; the J. Paul Getty Trust's Getty Center and Getty Villa in Los Angeles; I.M. Pei's Miho Museum in the mountains outside Kyoto, Japan; the Orange County Performing Arts Center in California; the Nashville Symphony Orchestra; the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston; the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo; the Cleveland Museum of Art, designed by Rafael Viñoly; the Seattle Art Museum's Olympic Sculpture Park and expanded museum; and the Morgan Library and Museum in New York.

In addition to our work with museums and other cultural institutions, RF A&CC is also known for its innovative approach to corporate sponsorship of the arts, having created dozens of noteworthy and successful campaigns for such corporations as AT&T, American Express, Avon, Cartier, Chase Manhattan Bank, Mobil Corporation, Nokia, Novartis, Pernod Ricard USA, Seagram Americas, Springs Industries, Target Stores, Time Warner, UBS, Warner Lambert, Whirlpool Corporation and Xerox, among others.

Our experience in working with both institutional and corporate clients gives us greater understanding and perspective, and the relationships that we have developed in each sphere enable us to represent clients with a greater degree of effectiveness.