Our Creative Services
We offer an abundance of experiences to support your needs, drawing on thirty years of ideation practice, transforming culture, engaging wholeness, and practicing belonging.
Workshops
Engage your whole creative self. Drawing on Marcus’ teaching of Creative Leadership and “Art & Life,” you can experience how creativity is everywhere and within everyone. Using poetry, movement, mindfulness, and our collective creativity, we practice our belonging and our awareness of the miracle and mystery all around us. These workshops help with team building, ideation, and your worldmaking practice.
Arts Consulting and Facilitation
If you’re looking for support with an ideation session, your teaching, a staff retreat, how to start an artist-in-residence program, or adding joy and breath to your work, reach out to Marcus and tap his decades of experience in nonprofits, higher education, government, and public art.
Speaking
Marcus gives talks on art in everyday life, art as a spiritual practice, art that people ignore yet powerfully changes systems, and other inspiring topics. He presents to spiritual groups, nonprofits, government agencies, national conferences, and others, engaging at various levels of interaction customized to your event.
Dance and Movement
We make movement accessible to all bodies, abilities, and comfort levels. Benefits include stress relief, connection, creativity, and joy!
Artist-in-Residence
Develop creativity from the inside out. Marcus has served as artist-in-residence for the San Mateo County, City of St. Paul, Minnesota Department of Transportation, Macalester College, St. Olaf College, and more. From a week to a year, he can help your group transform culture, behavior, and systems. Have you considered adding an artist to your team for innovative thinking and doing?
Pop-Up Tea House
Sharing tea is a surprisingly beneficial practice. It brings people together around mindfulness, enjoyment, and the aesthetics of tasting tea. We transform space, how we gather, and ourselves within. It can be one or several sessions of a “tea house” that temporarily visits and beautifies your workplace or community.
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PAST & CURRENT CLIENTS AND PARTNERS:
adrienne maree brown’s Emergent Strategy Ideation Institute
Propel Nonprofits
United Theological Seminary
Weisman Art Museum
Unitarian Universalist Church
Kulture Klub Collaborative
Million Artist Movement
Inquilinxs Unidxs Por Justicia/United Renters for Justice
Clouds in Water Zen Center
Ayeeyo Childcare Center
Kaleo Center for Faith, Justice & Social Transformation
Classes in dance, leadership, art, and various aspects of residential life, at the UC Irvine, University of Minnesota, Macalester College, Antioch College, St. Olaf College, St. Catherine University, and others
Minneapolis Downtown Improvement District
Northern Spark Festival
United Way
TEDxMinneapolis
Social Theory, Politics, & the Arts Conference
Minneapolis Institute of Art
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“No activity up to this moment in life has been more uplifting or more liberating than what I experienced today.”
“I did not expect the deep and profound impact the experience would have on me personally. Moving my body through space gave me a sense that I was celebrating my existence in this world. That my body and my life matter. That felt to me like liberation.”
Photo by Dave Kapell
“I discovered I’m more courageous than I thought.”
“DYFIT? has allowed me to remember how important the body is, and how much I value freedom and self-expression. It is helping me regain contact with my artful self.”
Photos by Sharolyn B. Hagen, Northern Spark, Thea Lauren Pineda, Christine Center, and Dave Kapell