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Shannon Brunette is a visual artist, arts educator, intuitive facilitator, a new paradigm thinker and an advocate for social change. Her aim is to inspire and empower cultural producers, creative makers and the many who are artists at heart to support the healing of our cultural commons and the collective spirit of our universal truths. You can find other classes and workshops she teaches through Spark Your Art as well as at Minneapolis College of Art & Design. She is a 2017 artist recipient of the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council Next Step Fund award supported by the McKnight Foundation and a 2017 James P. Shannon Leadership Institute Fellow.

As Office of Cultural Work Founder and Management Consultant, Shannon Brunette, is a leader in nonprofit arts management and philanthropy, working at the intersection of art and social change with individual artists, nonprofits and creative entrepreneurs. Organizations with which Shannon has held leadership positions with have been Penumbra Theatre, Walker Art Center, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Blue Man Group and Lambent Foundation. Shannon’s had many consultancy projects with arts organizations across the country as well as many individual artists from around the globe. She is also a Co-founder of The Drawing Project, a mission driven art project to encourage and engage diverse local and global perspectives on contemporary drawing through nomadic drawing workshops.