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✨ Lincoln City Fellow Spotlight — RuBen Permel ✨

We’re honored to highlight — an interdisciplinary storyteller & artist whose creative life has spanned stage, costume design, painting, photography, puppetry, and more. Born in Virginia, RuBen began making art with an 8-color crayon box and has since built a remarkable career both on and offstage.

For over 30 years he’s worked across the U.S. and Canada, including 16 years leading teams and creating with MGM Resorts and Cirque du Soleil.

RuBen’s work brings together visual impact and lived experience — from dynamic costumes and stage designs to award-winning paintings and evocative photography. He believes that doing what you’re passionate about is not a job but a calling, and his art reflects a lifetime of curiosity, craft, and generosity.

We’re grateful for RuBen’s voice in the Lincoln City Fellowship community and for the way his practice inspires wide-open creative possibility and wonder. 🌟

May NYC forever shine brighter from these brilliant artists who showed up so fully for themselves and each other during our Lincoln City Fellowship Fall Retreat.

Thank you for sharing your beauty and grief, your play and your challenges, your laughter and your powerful stories in progress. Your willingness to ask bold questions and respond with deep curiosity and softness reminds us what art can do.Your creativity is exactly what the world needs right now.

Thank you

“It takes guts to bare it all, in any medium, at any time in space. A sacred blessing to all who do. 🪶✨”

is an LA-based artist working in installation, video and 2D work. She turns architecture inside out, inviting viewers into reconstructed spaces that shift the relationship between domestic interiors, architectural structures, and nature.

A recent participant in our Spring Retreat cohort in Santa Fe, NM - she brought another layer of enchantment into the land.

We think she’s brilliant.

Good eye . What a gift this show is to your community.




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Looking forward to going back to this weekend to see my show again. Saturday from 1-3pm will be a performance featuring dancers wearing mask/headdresses created by - I’m so excited to have these new figures come into this space!! Come check it out! Show comes down August 24th 🌈❤️☀️. Thank you .r.oconnell for helping to make this all possible!!

The mountains are calling and is inviting us all to enter in.

Another proud share of another artist we deeply believe in.


“Preorders of my new book open now! See Kickstarter link in bio for full info, images, orders and limited edition prints.

After six years of work, I’m thrilled to finally share details of my upcoming book, The Sierra.
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We do need help with the final fundraising for production costs — I’ve set up a Kickstarter for preorders, plus there’s a big selection of limited edition prints to choose from!

Please consider helping out — click the Kickstarter link in my bio Thank you!”

Lincoln City Fellowship Spring Retreat 2025

in soulful collaboration with artists .seely

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wondermaking weavers of textures, dreams, and sound from

words from rhythmic magician

culinary art and nourishment from

and heartfelt experience curation from

License to Lounge never felt so good.

Celebrating and their legacy of telling stories of alienation and reconciliation.
A true and inspiring sanctuary in NYC.

Shout out to the cast of our Lincoln City Fellowship Artist Showcase, "Walking to the Edge," who have been working diligently over the last 8 weeks to create an extraordinary experience of sights, sounds and stories for all to enjoy.

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Arrive at 6pm THIS Friday when doors open to allow optimal time to explore the wonder of and experience the immersive exhibits and surprises throughout the venue.

Ticket link in bio.

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What could these artists possibly have in common?

- performance duo donning oversized boy masks .seely

- minstrel man sharing light

- mesoamerican painter

- comedic mariachi

- vulnerable clown (photo credit: )

- southern gothic rock & roll band

- elegant poet

- piano playing composer

- re-purposed materials textiles artist

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Join nationwide artists in the Lincoln City Fellowship production cohort as they unite for this one-night-only experience, embracing a fusion of artistry, performance, and storytelling to delight the senses at - the historic six-story, multi-concept wonderland in downtown Los Angeles.

Ticket link in bio.

Secure your Stage Show tickets now as we are limited to the capacity in the and will sell out.

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