“You succeed in harmonizing concepts and practicality. With your qualities and your discerning taste, you contribute to heighten the effort toward equally shared art & culture for all.”— Patrick Defais, Director of Social & Cultural Affairs, Greater Paris —
“In listening to you Saturday night, as you presented the Atelier Circulaire to the French Minister, it was fascinating to realize how you have managed, in such a short time, to fully understand what connects us to France while our ways of life and our creativity identify and distinguish us.”— Pierrette Petit, Cultural Attachée for the Government of Québec in Paris —
Based in Arlington, MA, Christine Arveil offers project-based consulting, helping individuals and entities to take their proposition in arts, music & culture to the next level of recognition.
Arveil has 30+ years of experience in creative management, serving both for-profit and not-for-profit ventures. She holds an MBA from Paris-Dauphine, 1993 and a Master of Literature, Paris-Sorbonne, 1985.
Experience paired with creativity, humor, and a practical mind are useful tools in a field often short on funds and fuses. When dreams and vision align with an efficient business strategy, success grows.
Arveil pays acute attention to the identity and philosophy of the projects she serves, understanding the goals of their actors and identifying their strengths. She enjoys learning new perspectives within teams of diverse backgrounds and identities, and strives to build connections.
Artists, educators, advocates, diplomats, business and institutional partners have noted her impact at the local and international levels, fostering individual recognition, social good and dialogue of cultures, while widening access to art experiences (read Testimonials.)
In 2025, Arveil was invited to write a project for substitutive synthetic bows, in response to CITES classification of Pernambuco wood as a protected species.
This proposal, building upon her initial work on the matter at Rolland Studio, as well as her outreach regarding ivory protection, was presented at music festivals and to MIT, where research would be launched to formulate a cutting-edge musical bow. The project continues to advance and refine, with tentative plans for business partnerships already in place.
In the same year, she created an extensive press kit for Rolland Studio in support of the New York auction of a violin bow to benefit a Foundation for young Asian musicians. The auction achieved a record-breaking sale for a living bowmaker.
“We greatly appreciated Christine’s efforts to support diversity, equity and inclusion throughout this project. Throughout, she motivated the students to consider values of corporate responsibility, connecting communities and ‘paying it forward’ as priorities.”
~Brendan McNally
In 2021-22, Arveil mentored students at Brown University School of Business and Engineering, in a program directed by Brendan McNally and Prof. Hamzah Ansari, strategizing around Benoît Rolland’s revolutionary conducting baton. During this Capstone project, Arveil:
- proposed an innovation’s framework within an equally innovative business model
- emphasized the importance of corporate responsibility, community engagement, and ethics
- invited a series of prominent guest speakers including orchestral conductors, business executives, and lawyers
- ensured recognition for all parties involved, short and long term
In 2020-21, Arveil was also a mentor at Bryant University’s School of Business on Benoît Rolland’s project for the next generation of synthetic bows.
Arveil’s work has long centered on composed music. As managing partner from 2001-2023, she supported the rise to international recognition of Boston-based French bow maker Benoît Rolland, a MacArthur Fellow and Chevalier des Arts & des Lettres, whose bows are played in 57 countries. She oversaw:
- the Studio’s design and construction
- client relations
- image and branding
- intellectual property portfolio and legal matters
- development of inventions
- written and digital communication
- event planning and hosting
- preservation and digitization of historical documents and artifacts
- the collection and curation of Rolland’s knowledge
With a small but multi-competent team headed by Arveil, Rolland Studio served music at large and addressed policy and legal issues globally. As a partner in Rolland’s Legacy of Knowledge Project, Arveil wrote the first body of conceptual texts on bowmaking, from its historical roots to cutting-edge innovation, elevating his reputation from a niche to a legacy.
“Through the combination of her genius and experience, Christine Arveil has earned my company a reputation for excellence.”
~Benoît Rolland
“All the persons visited responded very positively to her expose of the effort of French authorities and elected representatives to foster the knowledge of Canadian culture among French population.”
~French Diplomatic Cable, 1993
As the founding director of the Canadian art festival Latitudes Nord, in 1993, she:
- oversaw international cooperation at the state, provincial and city levels, as an envoy for the French Ministry of Culture, Department of International Affairs
- raised the festival’s six-figure budget
- managed governmental funds and private sponsors
- organized exhibitions, artist residencies, concerts, theatrical productions, films, and school outreach programs
- brought 47 Canadian and Québécois artists to Paris
- coordinated a network of venues and spaces
- streamlined communications with a unified message
She demonstrated initiative and leadership, as much as a skill for solving problems creatively, as they arose. Having identified the place and context where the project would thrive, she fostered long term connections for the actors on the ground.
Christine’s trust in the potential of art and music for peace and social justice led her to steadily engage with non-profits.
She participated in the revival of the non-profit Art & Paix (Art & Peace) in the early 1990s Paris, an inter-faith and civic collective of artists and intellectuals with different cultural backgrounds. Their collaborative projects and public presentations fostered creative dialogues in response to violence.
She next committed to an internship at the Arab World Institute’s Department of Contemporary Art, offering insight in North African contemporary art.
“Christine Arveil…helped us with determination, openness to discovering a little-known world, humor and creativity in the unexpected or adverse situations we faced. She was neither destabilized nor discouraged by the high standards for this project.”
~Philippe Gluck, Founder of Dialogue-Infos
“Christine always had a view to the larger perspective and to the intersection of arts and social justice, and it is in part because of her strength and commitment that Music For Food exists today.”
~Kim Kashkashian
She assisted with the fundraising and editorial efforts of Dialogue-Infos, the first news outlet serving the hearing-impaired community in France in 1994.
In the United States, she was instrumental to the founding of the non-profit Music for Food, assisting Founder Kim Kashkashian from 2010 to 2016:
- helped to develop the founding vision into a progressive business model
- mentored the first two executive directors
- designed visuals
- assisted with operations
- partnered MFF with sister non-profit organizations
- fostered advocacy
She next organized and ran a fundraising event for Community MusicWorks, and volunteers with Community Supported Film. She is an active friend to several non-profits in Boston, MA.
2023, The Art of Refuge, Watertown Free Public Library, MA
Curated the first American exhibition of Samira Birawi, in collaboration with Youla Hana, Refugee support group Leader, and Sue-Ellen Tcherepnin, President of Watertown Citizens for Peace, Justice and the Environment. The one-month show highlighted UN World Refugee Day.
Arveil contributed the exhibit narrative and the site-specific scenography of the show, based on the artist’s notes and research of factual history. She assisted with its installation and the press release.
