VOL. 22 MIRROR

Meet Our Presenters

Ellen Petry Leanse  |  Here to Be Seen

In Here to Be Seen, Neuroscience Educator and happiness expert Ellen Petry Leanse shares the timeless secrets of mutuality and mirroring that have shaped wellbeing across human history.

Bio

Silicon Valley innovator, Digital Pioneer, Stanford University instructor, bestselling author, and transformational coach: Ellen Petry Leanse has catalyzed positive change across her career in technology and in education. At Apple, Google, and as an entrepreneur, she has cultivated breakthrough ways of elevating success through people-centric strategies built on inclusion, psychological safety, and creative mindsets. An award-winning business leader, professional and life coach, former C-level executive, and keynote speaker, Ellen grounds her work in a deep understanding of neuroscience, a topic she explores as the host of The Brain and Beyond Podcast. Blending creativity, science, hope for the future, and wisdom from the past, Ellen is committed to elevating the power of enlightened living as a path to restoring balance in the world. Her retreats and workshops attract a global following, although “local” is her favorite place: she proudly guides courses centered on creativity, authenticity, and empowerment from her website and at Ghost Ranch.

Summary

In Here to Be Seen, Neuroscience Educator Ellen Petry Leanse offers actionable insights from the world’s longest surviving cultures that can inform and guide how we navigate the challenges we all face today. By reflecting on the mindsets and priorities that enabled our species’ first 200,000 years of survival, we can reconnect with a deeper, highly human intelligence that’s often forgotten in the hustle and drive prioritized in modern times. What’s more, we can connect more deeply with what it means to be human together as we navigate complexity and dream of a future we want ourselves—and those who will follow—to be part of. Seeing our true selves in the mirror of timeless wisdom, Ellen believes, can help us evolve our own humanity. Expect to connect with a sense of mutuality, belonging, and connection through the insights she shares—and to learn tools for deepening this connection as you show up creatively in the world.

Laurie Frick  |  I Want My Data!

In I Want My Data!, Data Artist Laurie Frick delves into how personal data will reveal our identities and predict our lives, transforming behavior patterns into stunning artworks.

Bio

Laurie Frick uses data to examine what we can know about ourselves. In her hand-built installations, drawings and small works she experiments with how we will consume the mass of data increasingly captured about us. Evidence of her engineering background and long-history in high-tech are seen in the deep data analysis and detailed explanations of how this future will unfold. Her work about the future of data were recently featured on NPR’s All Things Considered, Atlantic and Wired Magazine; she has been invited to talk at Google, SXSW, Stanford and TEDx. Recipient of numerous residencies and awards, including Samsung Research, Yaddo, Bemis and Facebook. She holds an MFA from the New York Studio School, an MBA from University of Southern California and studied at NYU’s ITP program that melded art and technology into her current data work. Frick’s artwork has been exhibited in museums, galleries and art spaces across North America, including Musee de la Civilization in Quebec City, Science Museum in Oklahoma City, Pavel Zoubok in New York and Edward Cella in Los Angeles. Represented by GF Contemporary, Blueprint, Michele Mariaud and Ivester Contemporary galleries. Upcoming show Pacific Standard Time, sponsored by the Getty in Los Angeles Fall 2024.

Summary

Laurie Frick is a data artist exploring the bumpy future of data captured about us. We’ve seen humans shift from mysterious beings to big data algorithms, where everything about us is known. Rather than worry, Frick envisions a time when personal data is a peek into our unique identity and just possibly a glimpse into our future. Using her high-tech background, Frick creates large scale art works, anticipating the day when patterns of behavior become patterned artworks the mass of data will predict our lives.

Jodi Morris  |  The Most Unlikely of Friendships

In The Most Unlikely of Friendships, global Venture Guide Jodi Morris brings us into her friendship with a Maasai Warrior from Tanzania.

Bio

Jodi Morris is a modern Venture Guide. She believes it’s never too late to rewrite our story, redefine success and invest our talent, time and money towards our vision of impact. Following a two decade career in the investment industry, Jodi ventured to build a portfolio career. She partners with individuals as a Success Coach and curates immersive small group Venture Travel designed to connect us to others’ stories and find our own. A writer, speaker, investor, and traveler, her passion is connecting people and ideas globally. Having traveled to 65 countries with an emphasis on developing Asia and Africa, Jodi is inspired by individuals with ideas, passion, grit and goals. She invests globally in impact-minded entrepreneurs and girls’ education, which she deems the best investment of our lifetime. Jodi graduated from Northwestern University. Raised in Milwaukee, she spent three decades living in New York City and San Francisco before settling with her husband in Santa Fe.

Summary

Mirrors don’t just reflect the physical. Look deep enough and you may find yourself in The Most Unlikely of Friendships, Jodi Morris tells the story of her six-year friendship with William Moses Sengalai, a Maasai Warrior from Tanzania. As they navigate stereotypes and assumptions, they see themselves in each others’ stories, find support and collaborate on a shared mission for impact.

Charles Rosenthal  |  An Artist Reflects

In An Artist Reflects, join us on a journey through the decades-long career of Charles J. Rosenthal, featuring his work, creative philosophy, and key life moments.

Bio

Charles J. Rosenthal has been making paintings and prints for nearly fifty years. After attending SVA in New York City in the late ‘70’s and early ‘80’s, he spent twenty-years abroad, maintaining studios in London and La Rochelle (France). He also took time out to spend large swaths of time working for various wildlife conservation projects in Africa, Asia and the Americas. Returning to the U.S. in 2000, he has been making art in Tucson, Los Angeles, New York City and Santa Fe.

Charles’ work is concerned with the relationship of humanity to nature and how that relationship mediates the way we think about the natural world. His work is a critical engagement with and rejection of humanity’s anthropocentric world view, revealing that humans are not separate and apart from nature, but are conduits for the creative/destructive forces of a primeval natural world. Charles’ work offers the viewer an opportunity to question the anthropocentric premises we have too long used to understand our place inside the universe. He does not treat nature as a mere object of disinterested pastoral contemplation, but rather as a foundation from which to make a statement about humanity’s fraught relationship to the Earth.

Summary

An Artist Reflects takes the audience on a journey that spans decades, exploring the work, creative philosophy and a few key moments in the life of artist Charles J. Rosenthal. His story is told through a series of slides hinting at the vast breadth of his body of work, paired with a rollicking narrative describing some of the twists and turns he has taken over the course of his career. There are amusing anecdotes about past portrait subjects, musings on the role of humans in nature, a brief discussion of the artist’s role in our society, and poignant scenes from real life. Please join us and experience this gripping tale from an accomplished contemporary artist.

Matthew Wyne  |  In The Company We Keep

In The Company We Keep, Designer Matthew Wyne reveals how we can make profound life changes by using our business as a mirror of our Self.

Bio

Matthew Wyne is a graphic designer and business coach who teaches his clients how to see themselves through their business. By discovering how your company reflects your personal identity, he helps you refine your brand identity to connect with your ideal audience. Then, Matthew provides coaching that gives you the framework you need to level up your business and your life.

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Summary

In The Company We Keep, Designer Matthew Wyne reveals how we can make profound life changes by using our business as a mirror of our Self. What questions do we need to ask to create life-changing design? How can design show us parts of ourselves we might not see otherwise? Matthew gives us an inside look at a process that bridges commercial and personal growth, sharing insights you can use to see yourself and your purpose with more clarity and love.

Keith Vizcarra  |  You Never Look Into the Same Mirror Twice

Luthier Keith Vizcarra reveals the tenets of his craft inYou Never Look Into the Same Mirror Twice.

Bio

Keith Vizcarra has been living and working in the Santa Fe community since 1985. He makes guitars, mentors young creatives, and engages apprentices in the wild world of woodcraft and sound. As a Luthier, he passionately works with each musician, both the renowned and the private enthusiast, matching their dream with resonate materials crafted into unique design. His goal has been to inspire and enable peak performances by musicians who live through the sound of their instruments.

Summary

Keith Vizcarra has been making guitars for 50 years. He never makes the same guitar twice. He makes instruments with the same passion for renowned artists and private enthusiasts alike. Working with the individual, he matches their dream with materials and design. In You Never Look Into the Same Mirror Twice, Keith reveals the philosophical underpinning of his craft.

Mayowa Tomori  |  How to Loot a Museum

In How to Loot a Museum, Mayowa Tomori raises awareness about looted art by creating and distributing digital replicas of objects held in museums.

Bio

Mayowa Tomori is an award-winning Nigerian-American multimedia artist who creates participatory analog and digital art that helps people see themselves more fully represented in the world. Mayowa believes that art should primarily act as a mirror that helps people see the truth, beauty and magic in their experiences.

Their work has been supported by fellowships and grants from Mozilla Foundation, Smithsonian Institution, and the Gray Area Foundation for the Arts, and presented at Oakland Museum of California, Tribeca Film Festival and the Berlin State Museums.

 

Summary

Mayowa Tomori’s latest project Loot Co. raises awareness about stolen indigenous art in museums, by illicitly creating and distributing digital mirrors of looted objects in museum collections. These digital copies are created through guerilla-style 3D scanning expeditions and facilitated by a series of brazen, social-engineering scams targeted at prestigious cultural institutions in North America and Europe.