About Us
Cynthia Campoy Brophy
Cynthia Campoy Brophy has worked in the nonprofit sector for many years, with a focus on youth empowerment and the arts. She began her career at The Museum of Contemporary Art and left to launch a nonprofit arts education organization, artworxLA. From founding the organization, to expanding it and eventually passing it on to the next generation of leadership, she worked to link existing resources to young people who lacked access to social, educational, and creative opportunities. She intersected with thinkers in fields of education, workforce development, creative industry, youth empowerment, and the arts to create sustainable pathways to provide young people with more creative options.
Reflecting on the impact of years of community-based work comes the understanding that if the individual does not find “center”, the work of building community is even more challenging. Strong individuals make vibrant communities make resilient economies. The driving question now is how to create space for rest and rejuvenation and space to dream and vision for all individuals, especially those living in communities of stress.
Cynthia and Marcos have collaborated over the years on projects that engaged the thinking of young people in the creation of projects exploring the environment, peace, the universe. This project is their newest collaboration.
Marcos Lutyens
Marcos Lutyens' singular creative practice has universal resonance at this defining moment.
Lutyens believes that social and emotional awareness as well as consciousness and environmental justice are key factors in the art of today. “Gone are the days when artists can sit in their studios making work that is purely aesthetic,” he says; “art needs to be in the world and of the world.
The artist needs to be vital and active, fostering resourcefulness, contemplation, and community action.” Lutyens is as deeply versed in neuroscience, cognitive psychology, artificial and animal intelligence, ecological systems, bacterial interaction, and many kinds of indigenous knowledges of the world at large. Fluent in three languages, he has an uncanny ability to empathize and to tap into the most receptive parts of the human spirit.
Lutyens’ talents are multidimensional and, in many ways, mysterious.
Lutyens’ artistic practice also targets the psychic and emotional well-being of his audiences by skillfully leading participants in meditative and hypnotic exercises that affect the deepest levels of their psyche. His works take form in installations, sculptures, drawings, short films, writings and performances.