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As a result, 201 employees were notified that their positions were eliminated. An additional 56 are furloughed until further notice.

“However, we are maintaining nearly 200 positions to continue to move the company forward and share our art with the world through exciting and audacious exhibitions in the future,” according to the statement.

Meow Wolf’s House of Eternal Return temporarily closed on March 13. The company also canceled events and concerts at the Santa Fe location.

The collective is offering generous financial severance packages to those affected providing them with months of support in many ways, in addition to a myriad of services to help them through this transition.

“It was important to the Co-CEOs, the Founders and our Board, to treat each individual with dignity and a recognition of their contribution with a severance package that was consistent with our ethos, supporting our artists in the best way that we can, delivered to each ‘face to face’ with the compassion and understanding necessary for them to know that we care and that we are here to help them through this transition,” the statement said.

Meow Wolf’s co-CEOs and Meow Wolf Founders volunteered to take pay cuts in order to help fund a portion of these severance benefits.

Plans for the upcoming exhibitions in Las Vegas, Nevada, and Denver are still alive.

“We believe in our remaining team and that they will not only carry us through this time, but will continue the tradition of mind-bending creativity with which Meow Wolf has become synonymous,” Meow Wolf said.

The announcements sent ripples through social media over the weekend.

Vince Kadlubek, former CEO and a founder, posted on Facebook about the layoffs and thanked those he worked with.

“We built a phenomenal, large, and communal company. Not just a company, legitimately a family. We tried to do all this in-house, and tried to do a million things at once, and tried to build it all from the ground up,” he wrote. “For the most part, we saw incredible successes. But the pressure of the House being closed and the global economy in question, we had to scale back and pivot strategies.”

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