Mari Shibuya
Art Mediums: Muralist, Painter, Facilitator and Scribe
Mari Shibuya (they/she) (Duwamish / Coast Salish territory) is a Visual and Social Artist specializing in murals, community visioning through the arts, and scribing. Their work focuses on the intersection of public art activation, visual thinking and creative empowerment while inviting in the spirit of collaboration and connections.
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Art has invited me to view all of life as a creative act. Through this, I get an incredible sense of agency and view my perception and actions as a creative response to the raw materials offered by the moment. With this agency, I get authorship in what I am creating in my life through my response. With this authorship, I get the possibility of sculpting my life in alignment with the values I hold. The gift of the lineages of facilitation I come from is that they emphasize the use of multiple artistic modalities in conjunction with one another. This has nurtured courage within me to let my spirit expand into different mediums, and to connect with my voice and identity as a storyteller. All these elements combine to create a feedback loop of trust in myself, so that every time I stretch and strengthen myself creatively, my capacity to hold and synthesize complexity grows. The gift of this way of being, through the wave function that is life, I am able to find a sense of play that propels me forward, and continue to be of service to the moment.
