Episode #41: Dawn Breeze - PlaceCorps and the Kingston Fellowship, Kingston, NY

MICROCOLLEGE: The Thoreau College Podcast

Dawn Breeze is a creativity advocate, change agent, and internationally awarded artist, living and working in Germantown, NY. She consults on creativity and leadership with global organizations and progressive institutions, as well as with individual entrepreneurs and leaders. Breeze is committed to building community through creativity.Her social projects include: Place Corps, a progressive education institute founded in 2019 and offering a variety of residencies, fellowships, and community learning opportunities to know, love, and serve our places, Instar Lodge, the non-for-profit arts project space she founded and directed, Wayfinding: Imaging History with (Our)story, a mapping odyssey at Olana State Historic Site, and her creativity curriculum Creativity + Courage™ which she leads as participatory workshops throughout New England for institutions, corporations, and recovery programs.She has demonstrated her vision and voice through her expansive and eclectic publishing projects and art exhibitions. Such as Girls in Trees, a widely acclaimed anthology edited by writer Rebecca Godfrey featuring thirty-three artists including: Sharon Olds, Nick Flynn, Samantha Hunt and others. As well as her recent self-published book of poetry, Breath 40x inspired by her work with iconic poet Bernadette Mayer.

Learn about the breadth and variety of Dawn's work at http://www.dawnbreeze.org/

PlaceCorps: https://www.placecorps.org/

Kingston Fellowship: https://www.placecorps.org/kingstonfellowship

Instar Lodge: http://instarlodge.com/

Learn more about Thoreau College and the microcollege movement at https://www.thoreaucollege.org

Driftless Folk School: https://www.driftlessfolkschool.org