Agnes Mauro

Agnes Mauro is the Chief Executive Officer of One River School of Art + Design, a creative education franchise she has spent the past fourteen years building into a 15-location brand across six states. Under her leadership, One River has developed a scalable model built on contemporary art education, recurring membership revenue, and strong unit economics.

Agnes came to franchising from the art world, working in galleries and museums across the New York metropolitan area, where she developed an appreciation for contemporary art and a conviction that access to meaningful creative education is unevenly distributed in the US. That conviction is what drives One River School’s expansion today.

She sees creative education as one of the most underdeveloped categories in franchising: a space defined by real demand, declining arts programs in schools, rising appetite for after-school enrichment, and a cultural moment that is reasserting creativity as a core human skill in the age of AI, without a dominant national brand to meet it. Agnes holds a BA in Art History and an MBA.