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Get in, loser! We’re going behind the scenes of the weird world of working at Meow Wolf. Wheee!
Two blue beings amidst a vibrant cornucopia of delicious spaghetti at House of Eternal Return. Photo by Shanny Schmidt.
Walking through the doors of Meow Wolf is like stepping into another dimension. All the sights, all the sounds, and all the sounds that you experience in that one visit can’t be quantified right? Now imagine working in that vibrating, otherworldly realm every single day.
Working at Meow Wolf takes you to unexpected places – like watching Boyabaddie box-jump into a sink, playing in our exhibitions with gleeful celebrities like being kids again, escorting a famous duck influencer during a media preview, launching a Meow Wolf hot air balloon, or guiding a group of costumed creatures through crowded public events and making sure they roll down a hill safely. Even our meetings are a vibe: full of non sequiturs, surreal rabbit holes, and very real debates about absurd topics like, “how do we install this giant tongue?”
We asked some of our coworkers to share the strangest, funniest, or most “how is this my job?” moments they’ve had at Meow Wolf.
By Connor Gray, Regional PR Manager for Meow Wolf Texas Locations
I often say I have a dream job – a fever dream job. To help announce our upcoming NYC location to the masses, I was asked to dress up as Plotzo for a grand reveal at SXSW 2025. En route to Austin, I drove to the convention in the dead of night with a rat costume and a dream. After some workshopping with Meow Wolf co-founder Benji Geary, it was obvious that I needed to physically attack him with my hands mid-panel.
On the day of the festival, I watched our own Kati Murphy and Benji discuss the art of absurdism with TikTok-lebrity Boyabaddie and Liquid Death's Dan Murphy. As they kicked off the Q+A portion, I sidled behind closed doors and transformed into Plotzo. Through a hairline vision in the mask, I bumbled my way into the Q+A line with chaos, high fives, and confusion abound. At some point, I was either ambushed or hugged by a unicorn, I think? When I had the mic, I stormed the stage. I did what any Meow Wolf shrimp would do and used my thumbs to (pretend) impale Benji's eyes out. Amid screaming and (hopefully fake) blood, I unzipped my jacket to reveal a "I Plotzo NY" shirt announcing our NYC location to the world. What a silly lush life!
By Quinn Fati, Copywriter for Meow Wolf
I created a video for work that is known within the confines of the Marketing Department as Spaghetti Hell. It came up as a fever dream between me and our previous video editor Lauren Henderson, where we just riffed about what would be the silliest thing to fill House of Eternal Return with and what that could look like.
The script we wrote sat in my Google drive for like a year. Nearly a year! Honestly a big part of that is that I don't love producing, and we waited for the "right time" (there never is) but I asked Katherine Schlauch if she would be down, and she was not only down, she was a huge dream. Allyson Lupovich was so helpful in fleshing out the script and setting the video up for success. Shanny Schmidt helped me out as a second camera and she captured the entirety of the philosophical video that Lauren then edited to give it that incredibly funny existential dialogue. It was completely improvised from start to finish and I think it was such a smash. I couldn't have asked for better help or a better ragtag team over the course of this whole thing.
We were able to make it on a shoestring budget, less than $150 for props (which, again, sat in my house just begging to get made into something freakish), and I made the spaghetti element in Lauren's house since she was based in Santa Fe at the time. It was a feast, I couldn't stop thinking about that video where Grimes explains how she ate nothing but spaghetti for a year straight. I made my friend's house smell like a school cafeteria and I owe her my life for that.
The real kicker was the two spaghetti aspics I made. I had never done anything like that, I think my use of spaghetti sauce in it flew a little too close to the sun but overall it came out perfect. It came out gross and strange and silly, so it came out perfect.
Editor’s note: Spaghetti Hell was wildly popular! Who wants to eat spaghetti aspic with us at Meow Wolf?!
By Christopher MacQueen, Production Director, AD&P for Meow Wolf Santa Fe
My partner asked me what I was going to do one day before going to work and I told him that my first meeting was to discuss how we could realistically levitate eggs. And that my last meeting of the day was to confirm dimensions of 5 possum sculptures that might actually be half candy, but we still needed to make sure that was the plan. He literally thought I was making it all up. But seriously, that was my day at work….
By Jenna Ehrke, Director, Sales & Marketing at Meow Wolf Denver
They say, if you do what you love, you’ll never work a day in your life. We say: if you do some really weird, cool stuff, people will stare.
What better way to introduce ourselves to the neighbors than showing up in a head-to-toe costume that looks half-meringue and half-hairspray, which was perfectly suited for a half-harebrained idea. Meow Wolf Denver NEEEEEEDED to congratulate Casa Bonita – freshly off their cool reno courtesy of Trey & Matt – on their impending grand opening. We were tight on time and resources, so what’s a marketer to do? Just double-check that her job description DID indeed list out, “other duties as assigned,” in clear black and white (it always does), that @love.emily.bakery was up to frosting a cake (she always is) and that Erin Barnes was down to shake things up (y’all already know!).
As the three of us converged in the parking lot outside the pink palace, I laced up my dirty chucks and plopped Fluffy’s head onto mine. Erin got the camera ready, and Emily revealed the cake. “Casa Bonita is better than Meow Wolf.” The rest is probably history, but it’s at least one very real fever dream for Casa Bonita’s general manager. The question remains – did they eat the cake?!?!
By Amanda Siroskey, Marketing Manager for Meow Wolf Denver
I have worn a few different hats in my time at Meow Wolf, but one of my favorites was helping with our on-site festival teams for Vortex, our kickass Meow Wolf festival in Denver (most recently), and then our pop-up Gone Fishin’ activation for Texas Eclipse in 2024.
Let me tell you, Vortex had everything: Becoming beloved Convergence Station mascots in the summer heat and climbing precarious stage stairs (with like, half vision) planning, filming, and participating in a pop-up dance party with Bob's Dance Shop and our fabulous performance team; holding down tents in the middle of blustery rainstorms; and everyone's favorite festival job: being the photo pit police. Oh yeah, and doing my normal on-site marketing stuff too, but that’s just a regular Tuesday over here.
Texas Eclipse was also an incredible adventure. The team we had there was so awesome and for someone who hadn’t tried to sleep next to an all-night sound stage before, it was a learning experience! Not to mention we woke up on the morning of the eclipse to a notification from the event organizers saying that we were all to immediately evacuate due to the impending severe storms in the area. So while navigating that challenge to our setup and team safety, we also were all able to witness the eclipse as a team. It was a lovely and memorable moment for us all. Through the chaos, there’s always love.
Well, there you have it. When you work for an immersive art pioneer that came from a DIY art collective, it’s always a strange day to be in the Meow Wolf multiverse. If you want a job as bewildering as this, check out the careers website.
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