On Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, I documented the practice of creative placemaking during the Akumal Arts Festival, which positions artists in the roles of civic leaders, culture bearers, and change makers. Inspired mural artists from around the world came to paint the town and foster new economic, educational, and social opportunities for the residents.
The Canyon Chronicle published my story about the festival Art Integrates Life in the paper’s Spotlight section.
“None of us are perfect, but all over the place in every community and field of endeavor, there are people who are working generatively with the challenges before us; meeting them, rising to their best human capacities — at least on their good days — and creating new possibilities and realities. They’re not publicized, they’re not investigated, but that landscape is as real and important as that landscape of everything we can point out as failing and corrupt and catastrophic. “
