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ARTOLUTION Executive Director & Co-Founder: Ed.D, Ed.M 🎨🌎🌏🌍✨🌱 🇺🇳 🌳🍏🚲🏔🛠📓✏️🖌🖍🖊⌛️🫀🧠🫁🌙🌞💡🪄⌛️⏳❤️

I am the Executive Director and Co-Founder of the international community-based public arts organization Artolution. I am a public artist and community arts educator from Denver, CO who is based out of NyC. I graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design with honors and a degree in Painting and received my Education Masters (Ed.M) in “Community Arts” in Art and Art Education from the Teachers College, Columbia University. I published a 3-year body of research through my Education Doctorate (Ed.D) titled “ The Rohingya Artolution: Teaching Locally Led Community-based Public Art Educators in the Largest Refugee Camp in History”. I have worked with hundreds of communities in different contexts across the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, Australasia, Europe, North America and Asia. My work ranges from community building in refugee camps, art education in emergencies, hospital workshops, abuse and addiction support through art, trauma relief, reconciliation and conflict resolution. I am a trans-disciplinary artist, sculptor, puppeteer, teacher and facilitate collaborative mural programs that address critical local issues with children, youth and families. I created the “Foundstrument Soundstrument Project”, building large-scale interactive percussive sculptures out of trash and recycled materials around the world.

My projects have taken me from Syrian, South Sudanese, Palestinian, and Greek refugee camps to conflict zones, traumatized communities, and across borders to over 26 countries globally. I have received recognition from the New York Times, CBS and the Associated Press. I planted the seeds for the first ongoing public arts program for Rohingya artists in the largest refugee camp in the world, in Bangladesh on the border of Myanmar. I am a published author contributing to “Art Making with Refugees and Survivors: Transformative Responses to Trauma after Natural Disasters, War and Other Crises”,as well as publishing with Global Citizen. For my global work, I was awarded the International Crisis Award from World of Children and UNICEF in 2018. My ranging work focuses on cultivating ongoing programs by educating local artists globally on how to transform communities through public engagement, creative facilitation and inspired participation as the next phase in the history of the arts.

Email: [email protected]
Website: www.artolution.org