Marc Bamuthi Joseph

WORK HISTORY

EDUCATION

ABOUT MARC BAMUTHI JOSEPH

Marc Bamuthi Joseph is a 2017 TED Global Fellow, an inaugural recipient of the Guggenheim Social Practice initiative, and an honoree of the United States Artists Rockefeller Fellowship. Joseph’s opera libretto, We Shall Not Be Moved, was named one of 2017’s “Best Classical Music Performances” by The New York Times. His evening length work,/peh-LO-tah/, was commissioned by the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and was presented at BAM’s Harvey Theater as a part of the 2017 Next Wave Festival. His latest piece, “In His Name” is inspired by the forgiveness exhibited by the congregation of Emanuel AME church in Charleston, and will premiere at The Perelman Center in New York in 2023. While engaging in a deeply fulfilling and successful artistic career, Bamuthi also proudly serves as Chief of Program and Pedagogy at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. He is in high demand for his creative approach to organizational design, brand development, and community mediation, and has been enlisted as a strategic partner or consultant for companies ranging from Coca Cola to Carnegie Hall. His TED talk on linking sport to freedom design among immigrant youth has been viewed nearly 1 million times, and is a testament to his capacity to distill complex systems into accessible and poetic presentations. Bamuthi\'s community development philosophy, called \"The Creative Ecosystem\", has been implemented in dozens of cities across the United States and is the subject of several critical writings, including one of the seminal essays in \"Cultural Transformations: Youth and Pedagogies of Possibility\", published by Harvard Education Press.