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Michaell Magrutsche: Art, Authenticity, and Neurodiversity


Michaell Magrutsche is truly a multimedia artist: a painter, photographer, music composer, digital artist, and author. A former Newport Beach, California, arts commissioner, Michaell promotes the value of public art. He is also the author of five books and a podcast producer.

Michaell describes himself as an “outside the box” thinker. He often explores the paradox of why 95% of worldwide artists exist at the poverty level. Why are artists expected to be proud of being poor? Without creativity, including the arts, there would be no man-made systems. Without art, there would be no world as we know it.

Michaell seeks to discover patterns within art that foster creative communication. He also identifies “art values” outside any system, which raises our human potential.

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How Can Systems Make Us Sub-Human? The Rediscovering of Our Human Worth and Our Inherent Superpowers
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-can-systems-make-us-subhuman-michaell-magrutsche-magrutsche/

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