How people spend time with us, and how we spend time with them, is not incidental — it is the work. It is our praxis.

We celebrate artists as essential forces at the heart of society—catalysts for change, community, and imagination. Our hub in Detroit is not a building but an evolving garden, rooted in co-creation and horizontal methodologies, and our belief that learning is a lifelong, communal practice.

We champion intergenerational learning, where knowledge flows in every direction. Emerging artists learn from seasoned practitioners, and established creators are re-inspired by the urgency and insight of new voices. Students become teachers, mentors become collaborators, and our working environments become spaces of joy, embodied storytelling, and renewal.

We work with emerging, mid-career, and established artists as well as those returning to their practice or just beginning their creative journey. Our commitment is to unexpected encounters, expansive curiosity, and the belief that creative education can be transformative at any stage of life.

As we put our values into action, we seek to ignite collaborative energy that reshapes systems and reimagines futures. We're also exploring new, sustainable ways to fund and support lifelong creative exchange and independent artists—models that center equity, imagination, and possibility.

Crossing generations, geographies, and disciplines, this is Creative Body Institute.

We want to share it with you.