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In two years, the House has transformed Meow Wolf from a cadre of broke creatives into a 400-employee-strong organization with a fundraising clip on par with tech startups — and a shot at upending the art and entertainment industries as we know them.

Just as visionary as Meow Wolf’s maximalist approach to creativity is its commitment to changing attitudes and practices when it comes to art and economics...

The exhibition will feature a new immersive narrative with uniquely interactive art experiences. Grand opening will be in 2022. Meow Wolf will reveal more details about plans for D.C. in 2019.

Art Place at Fort Totten will be home to the latest outpost of the trippy, interactive exhibits.

“You have to go with your gut,” Martin says. “That's all you have. And my gut told me Meow Wolf was up to something very special here."

Creatives on the coasts will claim through omission that nothing culturally significant happens in the Mountain Time Zone. Of course they're right (don't question it)--save for one critical oversight... an extraordinary Santa Fe success story called Meow Wolf.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with CEO and co-founder Vince Kadlubek about the transition from artist collective to multimillion dollar company.

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The Bottom Line: Rapid-fire visuals adorn an intriguing fringe-culture success story.

[Meow Wolf] features secret passages and tunnels that end in a lounge and music venue.

No. 4: Taking entertainment to the next level, Meow Wolf in Santa Fe is an immersive, interactive art installation.

I was... invited to climb into the cockpit of the... robot, which a Meow Wolf spokesperson informed me was supposed to be a Mech transport and I was a space explorer...

...Meow Wolf showed off its Navigator, a giant robot vehicle that attendees could interact with via a combination of touch screen displays and superimposed AR imagery of distant galaxies.

Meow Wolf's mixed reality Mech attraction was featured at Magic Leap's first developer conference.

Set in a sci-fi future, The Navigator puts players in control of a space exploration mech, built to stunning life-size scale in the demo area.

The first stages of Meow Wolf's Corporate Social Responsibility Plan will focus on community, artists, the environment and an inclusive economy, Padilla said. That includes a 90 percent ADA accessibility rate, priority hiring for local residents as well as women and people of color and a goal of 30 percent of its energy generated from renewable sources.

What once sounded like grandiosity looks downright prescient today. Only a few years removed from its days of scavenging, Meow Wolf is now a burgeoning art-entertainment empire...

Guests will be able to experience Kaleidoscape in 2019 before [a] new Meow Wolf exhibit makes its debut in Denver in 2020.

...Meow Wolf has contributed about $250,000 to New Mexico nonprofits and schools and an equal amount outside of New Mexico.

...last week Meow Wolf sent shockwaves across the themed entertainment industry when it announced a new collaboration on a groundbreaking amusement park ride experience.

Meow Wolf officials are already planning their long-term presence [in Denver] — and not simply because they signed a 20-year, $60 million lease.

Riders who journey on Meow Wolf’s Kaleidoscape will be transported to other-worldly motion, deep sound, wild color and interactive moments that create an immersive world around you. This intriguing attraction will be the first artist-driven dark ride the world has ever seen.

Meow Wolf CEO Vince Kadlubek suggests the exhibit bridges Santa Fe’s established art community and a new generation of young artists.

Set to open in October 2019, Area 15 will have a distinctive anchor tenant: Meow Wolf, the Santa Fe, N.M.-based arts and entertainment group that creates narrative, immersive art installations

Just two years, four months and three days after it opened, Meow Wolf welcomed Longoria, Garcia, 38, and seven of their children as the millionth visitors to the immersive art exhibit, the House of Eternal Return, said John Feins, Meow Wolf vice president for communications.

I'm a firm believer that if you ever have enough money in your bank account for a plane ticket, you should seriously consider a trip to Meow Wolf in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Forget Disneyland, forget the Grand Canyon, and forget Las Vegas...

Meow Wolf... aims to offer more than just photo ops. Rather, Kadlubek and his colleagues are working towards a future where high-quality, thought-provoking art environments are the norm.

Mikey Rae’s Talent Show is centered around a 16-part, digital animated series of thirty-second episodes based on Mikey’s art and characters famously seen in the long hallway outside Meow Wolf’s award-winning House Of Eternal Return. The characters come to life, in classic Rae hilarity, to offer quirky wisdom and catch phrases born to be viral.

Meow Wolf is trying something new this summer by putting on a music festival. The Santa Fe-based art group is planning what it calls a "music experience" in Taos with a unique meow wolf twist of course.

Adam Drucker, Meow Wolf creative director and video game music composer, said “The House…” draws upon a number of video games as influences, citing “Myst,” “Bioshock” and “Proteus” as inspiration.

The fireplace might lead to an enchanted forest, the refrigerator door to a space station. The rules are simple: feel, touch, experience and escape reality.

In addition to their multiple permanent exhibitions, Meow Wolf also does many projects with other communities including festivals, parklets and non-profits.

Over 300,000 viewers tuned in to the Score Wars action that saw the best of the best come together and compete across two days of competitive play, the pro-level competition eventually saw New Zealand’s Andrew Barrow triumph over USA’s Armando Gonzales...

[Meow Wolf's] experience, "The Atrium", turns you into a mouse under a bed, a brilliant use of scale. Although unfinished, it is memorable as it is original, as is the preshow and themeing around it.

Spokesman John Feins attributed the record-breaking day to spring break, recent media attention and "the buzz on our new upgrades."

For the founders of Meow Wolf, the experience is a lot like watching a child take its first steps, or handing a teenager the keys to the car.

The creative powerhouse that's blown hundreds of thousands of minds and raked in megabuck profits and has already expanded its maximalist perturbations of reality to Denver and Las Vegas, is coming to Austin.

Instead of walking up to a painting, you actually let audiences walk inside of the painting.

For the second time since opening, the “House of Eternal Return” – a surreal set of rooms inhabited by a fictional family whose strange story is hidden in the details – closed its doors for about two weeks of renovations and creation of new spaces.

The time spent wandering was among the most interesting sensory experiences of my life, and I could happily spend many hours over many days exploring the place.

...nobody could’ve predicted they’d end up sparking an economic revolution in the art world.

More surprising—yes more surprising than all that—is that visitors are encouraged to explore: to touch whatever they want, to rifle through papers, look in the fridge, find the combination to the safe and see what’s inside.

After my first visit, a three-hour excursion, I was so determined to figure this place out that I returned three days later to see if I could somehow wrap my head around the full story of the House.

A quick ride from the Las Vegas Strip, AREA15 will be located on the southwest corner of Sirius Avenue and Rancho Drive near Palace Station.

“There’s no other retail space or mall or entertainment space saying that art is valuable. Creativity is valuable,” Kadlubek says. “We just had to be a part of that.”

Meow Wolf said it has signed on as a tenant in an entertainment complex that will offer live music, festivals, corporate events and e-sports video game tournaments...

Meow Wolf Las Vegas will have some of the same creative backers as Meow Wolf Santa Fe, including "Game of Thrones" author George R.R. Martin, who owns the former bowling alley that holds the "House of Eternal Return," the name for the Santa Fe exhibit.

The Las Vegas destination is part of a project called AREA15, a "radically re-imagined retail and entertainment complex," Meow Wolf said in a news release.

The wildly popular Santa Fe-based art company will announce its first major expansion Thursday in the form of a 90,000-square-foot permanent exhibition in the Mile High City.

As Meow Wolf’s brisk attendance on a random Monday afternoon suggests, I am just one of many who finds it to be a gripping and visceral art experience.

The year is early but here's the best news I've seen so far in 2018. Meow Wolf is opening an enormous new "world."

The Denver venture will provide a major financial and creative test for Meow Wolf and its growing staff of about 200 artists, technicians and project developers.

A new five-story building, spanning an area larger than a football field, is scheduled for completion in an industrial neighborhood by early 2020...

Construction will begin later in 2018 and an expected completion in 2020. Meow Wolf is already selling tickets to the opening night gala.

Creators of a popular immersive art entertainment project in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on Thursday announced a push into a major metropolitan market with plans for an interactive exhibit and music venue in downtown Denver.

Aside from investing in the Denver art community directly, the addition of this Meow Wolf installation will encourage others to invest in the art scene with more verve.

In early 2020, Meow Wolf, the artist collective responsible for Santa Fe’s immersive art exhibit the House of Eternal Return, will open a permanent installation in Denver.

In the end, a sense of you-have-to-have-been-there immersion is its most important draw. Meow Wolf... offers a fabulated cabinet of curiosities, all of it designed to be very photogenic.

Our ethic is simple: the more people who visit us, the more we will channel that support into philanthropy in Santa Fe and in New Mexico and beyond...

The first Score Wars to be live streamed will be the classic shoot ’em up Galaga and will bring together the very best Galaga players in the world.

Galaga is being developed... a fully immersive experience courtesy of a collaboration between the Nuttery Entertainment and the creative minds from Meow Wolf.

It thoroughly departs from the traditional museum model in its bold use of interactive space.

We should always use one of these to talk about the things we really care for...

The artistic installations change periodically, and various performances are held here as well.

'The Experience Tube' promises a good time for all...

In a world full of devices do you ever feel it's hard to connect with those around you?

Sometimes, you just want a one-on-one conversation with another person, but can’t find any privacy...

...foodies flock to sample the gumbo at the Cajun-inspired Trinity Kitchen food truck, conveniently parked outside of the immersive Meow Wolf art installation.

Mind-trippy Meow Wolf... offers a portal into the fantastical world of interactive art with 70 rooms that encompass a treehouse, laser-based musical instruments and a psychedelic “magic bus” ride.

As you wander from room to room you can open drawers, watch videos, climb into bed and generally gather clues. This is out of the box entertainment...

...one of the most mind-bending and unique art experiences in America can be found at Meow Wolf.

Designed and created by immersive art installation collective Meow Wolf... the 20,000-square-foot space that was once an old bowling alley is now like something out of a neon dream.

It’s absolutely worth a couple of hours, at minimum. We were well on our way to solving the mystery when we had to leave, but we’ll be back next time for more.

[Meow Wolf] has quickly became the most talked about destination in town.

[Meow Wolf's] warehouse-like appearance betrays nothing of the near-psychedelic haunted house atmosphere inside. It's guaranteed to fascinate.

Meow Wolf Entertainment, the film and video production arm of Meow Wolf, a privately funded arts and entertainment company, is the latest phase of expansion for the group...

The opening of Meow Wolf has been really exciting as it has become a focal point and source of inspiration for our community.

The city is bountiful in museum and cultural experiences... House of Eternal Return [by] Meow Wolf is one to absolutely not miss.

Itchy-O could already count Meow Wolf among its fans, and the feeling is mutual.

If you’ve never been to Santa Fe. Or if you’ve been before Meow Wolf had this exhibit… its time to visit again, just for this experience.

There is so much to experience and delight every sense in Santa Fe, but Meow Wolf was the highlight for every person in our family from age 4 to 70+.

If you were to ask me what kind of place this is, I would tell you that it’s a “Creative, Sensory and Artistic Experience.” But, even that doesn’t give it justice!

Though it might not be like, zombies-and-werewolves terrifying... visitors navigate a series of wormholes that transport them into “alternate dimensions.”

Through Bienville Capital, Meyercord has invested in initiatives like Artspace, which provides housing subsidies to creatives, and he nodded to Meow Wolf, an immersive installation in Santa Fe, New Mexico, which was developed through a collaboration among local artists, as a venture that could benefit from venture funding.

Times journalists around the world bring you a new 360 video every day.

[Meow Wolf] wants to have a second location fully operational in Denver by 2020.

Instead of scoring candy from their human neighbors, kids this Halloween can fill their bags with treats from characters inside Meow Wolf’s House of Eternal Return.

Social media is pretty impersonal if you think about it, since you're just staring at a screen reading something a person wrote without seeing their face or hearing their voice.

Fully utilizing the rooms that enclosed a center courtyard, [Meow Wolf's] activation featured 20 reimagined rooms full of colorful creations and over-the-top productions.

"The Experience Tube is my new favorite thing and yes, despite the wacky infomercial spoof promoting it, it's real."

Meow Wolf introduces a stretchy Experience Tube that connects two people together for real-world communication.

This is far from your typical art establishment...

As obras – visuais, sonoras e táteis – que compõem a instalação foram todas criadas por membros da Meow Wolf, que usam tecnologia para fazer sua arte.

Don't Leave Without: Experiencing the Meow Wolf's House of Eternal Return...

Meow Wolf is also passionate about rewarding and paying their artists substantially, and they offer generous compensation to their other employees and to the community at large.

House of Eternal Return is the first permanent interdisciplinary canvas by the decade-old Meow Wolf arts collective, and one of the latest attractions in New Mexico’s capital...

During the weekend of September 22 to 24, as part of the Life is Beautiful festival, Artists from Meow Wolf collaborated with artists from Las Vegas to create a temporary set of installations in Las Vegas’ abandoned Art Motel.