Joanna Gillespie, Founder & Principal Project Manager
Joanna grew up in Buffalo and San Francisco, surrounded by entrepreneurs, craftspeople, home renovators, and artists. That upbringing shaped both how she works and what she notices.
Her career started in artist management at Righteous Babe Records, coordinating tours, media, and production logistics for three years. From there, she earned a B.A. and M.A. in Art History at the University at Buffalo, with a focus on architectural and design history.
She spent the next decade as a private art collection consultant, managing acquisitions, consignments, shipping, installation, and conservation for collections totaling over $50 million in fine art across eight cities. That work brought her repeatedly into residential design and construction, and in 2005 she founded Fox Den Projects to focus on high-end residential project management full-time.
From 2020 to 2024, Joanna also served as Studio Manager and Procurement Lead at West End Interiors, a boutique interior design firm in Buffalo, where she managed FF&E procurement, vendor relationships, budgets, and client coordination across 5 to 10 concurrent projects.
Today Fox Den Projects is her full-time practice, where she manages residential interiors and construction projects from preconstruction through handover, alongside ongoing private art collection management.
