T Chevéz Mathews

An executive helping companies scale up. Vice president of Pappos Holding, a food and beverage company. Previously ran a 30K+ community of aspiring and early-stage founders. Board member of Fabricatorz Foundation, a project supporting cultural technologists, and The Wagon Box project, creating a countermodern cultural hub. Based in Missouri.

Selected Work

Consultant / Operating as a chief of staff for small-mid size companies needing scale up / 2023–present

Pappos Holding / Fast-growing family-owned food and beverage company / Executive Vice President / 2021–present

Venture Café St. Louis / Nonprofit supporting innovators, entrepreneurs, and makers hosting the largest weekly conference for founders in the US. Included 7,000 sqft event and free workspace and pre-accelerator programs for education entrepreneurs and SaaS startups / Executive director / 2017–2021

Fabricatorz Foundation / Global art and technology studio supporting creative initiatives such as the Open COVID Pledge, Glia, Bassel Khartabil Fellowship, Art Hack Day, Openclipart, and more / Board / 2018–present

Bassel Khartabil Fellowship / Awards $50,000 + support to an outstanding individual developing open culture in their communities / Advisor / 2017–2020

Venture School / 12-week course turning aspiring entrepreneurs’ ideas into real companies / Director / 2019–2020

EdHub Fellowship / 8-month pre-accelerator fellowship for aspiring education entrepreneurs based in St Louis, MO / 2019-2021

O.N.G. / Art and music series produced with support from Red Bull and Counterpublic triennial to highlight underground and emerging sounds / 2014–2019

Ranken Jordan Pediatric Bridge Hospital / First pediatric bridge hospital / Marketing director + various positions / 2004–2016

MBA from Maryville University St Louis

Other projects

The Wagon Box Project. A new kind of place – a Fourth Place. It serves as an intergenerational commonwealth of conversation, learning, adventure, and investment, as well as an oasis of art, music, and story, and thoughtful events throughout the year. Read more / 2023

Pyr. Print zine featuring a range of artists and writers exploring the beauty and depths of the divine. 2023

Future Ancestral Technologies: Roaming created by artist Cannupa Hanska Luger in collaboration with Fabricatorz Foundation. View here / Review in Artsy / 2023

Nostr. Created the iOS overview for the Damus app. 2022-2023

SCALE: Sensorium. Curated the second on-chain edition of SCALE, including poems, essays, and artworks from eight contributors making meaning of the new sensorium. Released at the Creative Commons Summit. Available for purchase / 2022

GODPILLED (Twitter Spaces). Four-plus hour open discussion with 700+ participants on Twitter Spaces regarding the intersection of emerging trends in art, theory, and God. The archive can be found here and here / 2022

GODPILLED. Podcast discussing art and God with musicians and artists / 2022–present (currently on pause)

Case for Cities (Routledge). Wrote a chapter on How Cities Fuel Entrepreneurship / Pending release

Time, 2021. Two-hour ephemeral performance, only viewable by God, in which I sat on a rock on a lake for two hours / 2021

Maintenance, 2021. One-hour ephemeral performance, only viewable by God, in which I clean my house / 2021

Pray on MLK Day. Led the Civil Righteousness team to scale this event to all 50 states. 2020

PaintLouis. International graffiti event hosted at the longest graffiti wall in the world. Event and artist sponsor / 2019, 2022

Art Hack Day. An event for hackers whose medium is art and artists whose medium is tech. Organized the first Art Hack Day in the Midwest / 2017

Disquiet Junto Project 0292: Eclipse. Collaboration with Disquiet to host a junto to create eclipse-inspired sounds / 2017

Talks & Panels, Etc.

The Original Bronze Age Perverts for Countere Magazine / 2024
Vance Crowe podcast: Exploring the Age of Artificial Intelligence / 2023
Barrett Barrera Conversations: Are NFTs Art? Guest speaker for a series of live conversations on new media art hosted by Barrett Barrera Projects / 2021
The Case for Cities: The entrepreneurial city lecture / 2021
General Assembly: Future of Venture Funding in the Midwest panel / 2020
Arch Grants: Startup judge / 2020
Gateway to Space awardee / 2020
Startland Innovation Exchange: Building Innovation Hubs panel / 2019
Venture Café Tokyo: “Innovation Ecosystems Around the Globe: What can Japan Learn?” panel / 2019
Saint Louis University: SLU Lift Off Camp mentor / 2019
Fulbright Institute: “A City Reinvented: Building an Innovation Ecosystem in St. Louis” panel / 2018
Maryville University: Received the Spirit of Maryville award / 2018
Tech Jobs: Tech Jobs Tour mentor / 2017
ITEN: The Emerging Entrepreneurial Artist lecture / 2015
Maryville University: Inaugural business plan competition judge / 2015