Bio

As a co-founder of the community development and arts education non-profit, Artists for Community Transformation International, Matson Duncan is a cultural visioneer.  Since 2000, he has recruited and mobilized over a dozen A.C.T. Int'l staff members to be social change agents through the arts and entertainment industries of Los Angeles, New York, Nashville, and Austin.  From his current base in Austin he is partnered with International Arts Movement of New York to advocate for the role of the artist as vital to human flourishing, while challenging emerging artists of all disciplines in Austin to make a meaningful contribution to culture. 

A cum laude graduate from Abilene Christian University in his native Texas, Matson is a skilled singer-songwriter and actor who has found his niche in mobilizing the under employed creative class. He has served as an advisor to the Los Angeles based film production company, Liquid Worldwide, the MFA screenwriters program at Pepperdine University, Stillpoint Dance Theater, and other organizations. He is the founder of the Cultural Leadership Project which has sponsored an annual retreat for filmmakers at the Sundance Film Festival since 2002.

When not advocating for cultural leadership in the arts, Matson is an aspiring performance artist combining elements of film, music, movement, and theater to tell a story. He is also working to complete his first book (non-fiction) in which he offers a fresh alternative to contemporary views of sexuality in dating. He is enthusiastic about his recent plans to settle in Austin and build into the culture of creativity there.