mxmicks

WORK WITH ME

WORKSHOP FACILITATOR • TEACHING ARTIST

PERFORMING ARTIST • SONG LEADER • GRAPHIC DESIGNER

WORKSHOP FACILITATION PORTFOLIO

Exploring Resonance and Dissonance as a Way of Deep Connection

Overview: Through the use of the human voice, this workshop explores the somatic experience of connecting with sound. Participants will draw connections between harmony in vocal expression and social relationship building. What does it mean to be in resonance versus dissonance? How can these different ways of harmonizing inform the ways we connect with each other? This workshop will challenge participants to let go of prescribed understandings of what vocal expression is and step into intuitive creative relationship building.

Last offered at School of the Alternative, 2024.

Water as a Being, Mentor, and Friend

Overview: Water has memory. Water connects us all. Water is healing. This workshop asks participants to reflect on their personal relationship to Water in an effort to dismantle colonial mindsets of resource commodification. How will we show up differently if we relate to and learn from Water as a being, mentor, friend?

Last offered at The Eco Institute, 2022.

Organizations I’ve Worked With

VISUAL ART PORTFOLIO

  • Liberated

    Oil pastel and metal leaf. 36” x 48”.

    Reference model - Sinclair Palmer

  • Be Here Now

    Relief cut with water based ink. 8” x 10”.

    Words by Simon Purchase James.

  • Compartmentalized

    Acrylic paint and metal leaf. 16” x 22”.

  • Mani: Eni:se

    Digital scan of screen print design. Original size 8” x 9”.

    Print used as publicity material for 7 Directions of Service.

  • Healing Hurts

    Acrylic paint and metal leaf. 48” x 36”.

  • Let's Grow a Garden

    Acrylic paint on reclaimed cardboard. 10’ x 4’.

    Mural collaboration with Sinclair Palmer.

  • Compost Your Shit

    Relief cut print with water based ink. 5” x 7”.

  • Kill the Black Snake

    Stenciled spray paint. 12” x 18”.

    Developed for Stop Line 3 campaign.

My work focuses on cultivating right relationship between human and non human creatives of Earth. As a white, nonbinary queer person, I am committed to embodying values that dismantle cultures of colonization, white supremacy, and scarcity in an effort to shift toward cultures of accountability, community care, and abundance.

I believe that everyone is a creative so let’s work together and make art!

hello there!

my name is micky.

PRINCIPLES THAT ORIENT MY WORK

Actions and reflections begin with place.

Be guided by creative intuition.

Empower all beings to be active participants.

Reorient to abundancy mindsets.

Listen and witness spaciously.

Collaborate with the interconnectedness of life.

Relinquish control.

Honor and let be universal mysteries.

I am currently occupying stolen Occaneechi-Saponi, Eno, Tutelo, Tuscarora, Sissipihaw, Shakori, Saura, and Catawba lands in what is now called the Piedmont Region of North Carolina.