Melanie is a Latinx social artist, community-based creator, artivist, and arts facilitation trainer. Her work aims to reflect concepts of humanism, sociology, and identity through participatory visual arts methods. She has been orchestrating social art projects for two decades cross-pollinating sectors, ages, and cultures. She believes innovative methods of connecting people, radical collaborating, and courageous processes that uplift the spirit through integration are some ways to contribute to co-create hopeful futures.

NOTE FROM NADIA

In this podcast with my dear friend Melanie Schambach you will learn about her incredible technique for large scale group paintings and murals, her unique approach to community arts and her important investigations into questions of integrity in community facilitstion, especially when it comes to questions of money, value and exchange.

Melanie is a gentle tsunami. It has been my pleasure to cofacilitate with her a number of times, including three rounds of the 15 day Heart of Facilitation training. She's a master and a true gift to this field and I'm so excited to share some of her wisdom through this podcast with you.