OCTOBER 19 @ 2pm PACIFIC TIME
11a HT | 2p PT | 5p ET | 11p CEST
Next Day: 8a AEDT | 10a NZDT
MUSEA Intentional Creativity Museum proudly presents our Singing Tree Museum Exhibit, celebrating Laurie Marshall and The Singing Tree Mural Project. For over 35 years, Laurie - an author, innovator, artist, and founder of the Unity Through Creativity Foundation - has empowered both youth and adults through creative collaboration, using nature-inspired art to foster peace-building. Her mission is to ignite creativity, nurture a love for learning, and inspire a spirit of collaboration.
The Unity Through Creativity Foundation envisions a world that is compassionate, connected, and filled with creativity. One of the ways this vision comes to life is through The Singing Tree™ Mural Project, which invites people from all walks of life to overcome feelings of isolation by joining together in creative expression. The project began with a question from Meredith Miller, an 8-year-old girl, who asked:
"What if the whole world made a painting together?"
Laurie was deeply inspired by Meredith’s question, as it echoed her own desire for global peace. From there, she developed the unique Singing Tree™ mural structure, where many individuals come together to create works of art inspired by the interconnectedness of trees and forests.
To date, the project has brought 140 murals to life, created by over 24,500 participants from 52 different countries. The Singing Tree™ Mural Project is a living testament to the power of collaboration, demonstrating that when we work together, we can achieve extraordinary results.
This project also serves as a leadership training program, incorporating concepts from Peace Literacy, neurobiology, STEAM education, Worldview Exploration, Conversational Intelligence, and artistic techniques for both youth and adults.
Through collaborative community artwork and storytelling, we facilitate shared creative experiences to lay the foundation for success, envision a positive future, and spark innovation.
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Shiloh Sophia McCloud is the Curate and Co-Founder of MUSEA Intentional Creativity Museum. We are a living Museum rooted in community and storytelling with virtual and physical locations, including our large campus and exhibit space in Sonoma, California. We curate artists, rotating shows, both virtual and physical, art studios, exhibitions, education, and community experiences throughout the world.
Shiloh, along with her husband Jonathan, founded this organization after 30 years of community and art activism through a lineage of artists in their families. Today, MUSEA is home to an inter-generational and multicultural collective of emerging and experienced creatives, healers, and leaders. Our lineage begins in the 1930s and forms the framework for practice in intentional arts of every medium.
Our great work, Intentional Creativity®, is rooted in storytelling, education, and imagining social justice through self-expression as a method of chosen transformation. These thematic approaches are the cornerstone of an interdisciplinary practice that weaves creative arts, sciences, somatics, transpersonal psychology, and archeomythology.
MUSEA often serves over 15,000 members and students per month and has certified over 600 Certified Educators that run the museum and our university. With a focus on community through our app and our monthly calls for the past ten years, we provide a private container where our community can share their creative works in progress, ask for witnessing and lift each other up, and share their relationship with the arts.
This is Shiloh Sophia’s vision. She is an artist and educator who has taught at the University level and in elementary schools. She has crafted a 500-year plan for the community to continue into the future and is working with thousands to bring the vision to life. She is the author of seven books and can be found painting and writing in her studio on most days, having tea with her Muse.
This website features the work of our Guild, Museum, and the Intentional Creativity Foundation.
Here are some options within the Constellation of the World of Intentional Creativity that you can freely explore:
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A United States Citizens’ Acknowledgement of Indigenous Peoples' Right to Freedom, Territory & Self-Determination
In Honor of Carmen Baraka
"The Lakota expression, 'Aho Mitakuye Oyasin' is widely used among many tribes within what is now known as The United States of America; It means, “We are all related; all connected.
In the spirit of connection with all beings, where none are higher or lower in the great web of all life, we offer this invitation to begin healing our relations with the Indigenous peoples of these lands."
~Carmen Baraka, Indigenous Elder and Teacher
Members of our Guild community standing in front of the Black Madonna in Paris, 2014:
Lauren Adorno-Weatherford, Cynthia Harrison, Shiloh Sophia and Carol Mahinda
Our BIWOC Members Circle
We invite Black, Indigenous and Women of Color to join us, as MUSEA Members for the Sacred ECHOES of the Well – Women of Color Circle: a journey toward personal and collective self-definition. In addition to the regular membership benefits, we will have a culturally specific circle just for us.
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About Our Museum
Welcome to Musea Intentional Creativity Museum – our exhibit space curated by and for artists of the International Intentional Creativity Movement. For over 27 years, our organization has worked with women artists to bring forward their voices, images, stories and visions for the future. Our physical location first opened in 1999 in Sonoma, followed by exhibit spaces in San Francisco 2001-2004, Sausalito, 2000-2003, Mendocino 2004-2008, Healdsburg 2008-2016, and returning to our Museum and University space in Sonoma in 2016. Our first four years saw thousands of visitors on location, as well as hundreds of thousands virtually, to engage, view, study, and participate in our growing movement. The focus of our work is Intentional Creativity, an enduring lineage spanning 100 years already, and with eyes towards another 100 years into the future.
Sue Hoya Sellers 2014
There is a dreamer dreaming us
Intentional Creativity is a method and philosophy developed as an approach to making art that is in the matriarchal lineage of our Founder, Shiloh Sophia. Once she could see the power and impacts of making art with mindfulness and Intention, she began teaching all over the world and at universities, including Ph.D. programs and the United Nations. In 2010, she began to offer the teachings held within the body of work for Certification, inviting others to teach and study.
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