No. 28

WIP Arts

Not a restaurant.

Not a networking event.

Since June 2025, Christopher Kronner has hosted intimate dinners in Brooklyn Heights — bringing together artists, actors, musicians, writers, and founders around the dinner table.

No agenda. No program. Just the kind of conversation that only happens when the room is right.

WIP Arts is the institution we are building around it.

A cultural platform,
forming in real time.

A two-venue network of dinners, programming, and creative development — held together by a community that does not exist anywhere else in New York.

What we are building has no precedent in New York. This is the thesis.

The numbers, with no marketing behind them.

One year. No recruiting.

Film. Theatre. Publishing. Music. Architecture. Design. Venture capital.

Not because we recruited them. Because the right people found each other here.

Founding partner commitment to WIP Arts, Inc.

One relationship. One institution.
Capital that serves the mission across every layer it touches.

The window
is now.

The institutions that define their eras are built in the twelve to eighteen month window when their communities are forming.

Not after.

Christopher Kronner · Founder