FOUNDER / Curator

Ying is a strategist for the network leadership organization Converge for Impact, and lectures at Stanford University and Esalen Institute. Drawing from Zen Buddhism as well as the Native American path, Ying practices integration in the rich intersection of wisdom traditions, creative processes, and human flourishing.

A curator sees many treasures and perceives them as gifts, and wishes to connect creators to places and tribes where they belong.

ADVISOR / Artist-in-Residence

Kim is a plein-air painter, a figure painter, an installation artist, a performer, and a lecturer on color theory. She is the Director of the Modern Color Atelier at Gage Academy of Art. As a recent Creative Fellow at Bloedel Reserve, she opened her first solo museum exhibition, “Into the Garden,” at the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art in February 2021.

An advisor gives sagely advice, or helps to shift perspective, disrupt easy ideas, be child-like or a wise fool.

ADVISOR / Artist-in-Residence

Maureen is an evolutionary ecologist, visual artist, and student of human and non-human nature. Her desire to sense and participate in the languages of nature led to two decades of research on amphibians, wetlands, and climate change, and to art-making. She works with colleagues around the world at the intersections of conservation, science, art, social equity, and creative processes through Dark Creature.

An advisor gives sagely advice, or helps to shift perspective, disrupt easy ideas, be child-like or a wise fool.