I first interviewed entrepreneur Chris Kelly for the Topanga Messenger in May, 2012. Ten years later, we sat down in his shop to talk about his philosophies on life and building a mountain biking community steeped in creativity.
On Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, I documented the Akumal Arts Festival as a model of Creative Placemaking, which positions artists in the roles of civic leaders, culture bearers, and change makers. Inspired mural artists from around
After we worked so well together in the Creativity Lab, Joe Gutesha, center, served as the line producer for my documentary on creative placemaking in Akumal, Mexico. Here he is collecting a media release signature
“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. “
