I had the privilege of being in my native Pittsburgh when Fred Rogers died. His spirit filled the air for over a week. People were kinder, more tender, simpler, loved the kids a little more. I am having a similar experience with the passing of Hal Marcus Studio & Gallery. His spirit is filling the air of El Paso. I am meeting him around every corner and every other Instagram post. People are more colorful, more willing to find the joy in their lives and more courageous in unabashedly being their wild and beautiful selves. I met Hal only five years ago when I moved to El Paso. We immediately connected on our love of Peace and Art. Here is a lovely talk he gave at the 2024 International Day of Peace Symposium, held at UTEP and organized by Unity Through Creativity Foundation. His words have new power now.

We are happy to offer an hybrid Innovative Team-building Facilitator Certification program. On-line Innovative Team-building Facilitator Certification the second weekend of April 10th, 11th, and 12th 2026. Participants will have complete experience of designing and creating a Singing Tree® Mural. This can be a stand alone workshop or completed as a pre-requisite for certification. Time: April 10th, 11th, and 12th 2026 Location: UTC Studio, El Paso Westside Zoom Space is limited This workshop will be followed by a five-month Innovative Team-building Facilitator Certification program. This program will support you in bringing the Singing Tree® Mural Project to any community of your choice, meeting one Saturday a month. https://www.unitythroughcreativity.org/singing-tree-payment-plans-hybrid

We are happy to offer an hybrid Innovative Team-building Facilitator Certification program. On-line Innovative Team-building Facilitator Certification the second weekend of April 10th, 11th, and 12th 2026. Participants will have complete experience of designing and creating a Singing Tree® Mural. This can be a stand alone workshop or completed as a pre-requisite for certification. Time: April 10th, 11th, and 12th 2026 Location: UTC Studio, El Paso Westside Zoom Space is limited This workshop will be followed by a five-month Innovative Team-building Facilitator Certification program. This program will support you in bringing the Singing Tree® Mural Project to any community of your choice, meeting one Saturday a month. https://www.unitythroughcreativity.org/singing-tree-payment-plans-hybrid

Art has the power to cultivate a state of exploration. Giving us the opportunity to choose a new path. In January we had the honor of working with CASA Prescott Auto Dealership in Arizona. We got to experience the care and integrity of those who work there. And to see their creative imagination through the mural they created. In this short Jill shares her experience with the project. To see the full video visit our Youtube channel @unitythroughcreativity Our goal is to increase connection and trust in businesses, schools, and communities. If you are interested in bringing a creative, fun and transformative program to your community, contact us at: hello@unitythroughcreativity.org We also offer a certification program for managers, leaders and organizers who feel called to facilitate outside-the-box and proven Team Building. Next hybrid training is April 10-12th 2026. For more information. hello@unitythroughcreativity.org

What is the purpose of this Innovative Team-Building project? Beautiful response to this question by Justin from CASA Prescott Auto Dealership in Arizona who participated in our Innovative Team Building Program. To see the full video of The Casa Prescott Singing Tree o Family, Faith, and Serving Others visit our Youtube channel @unitythroughcreativity Our goal is to increase connection and trust in businesses, schools, and communities. If you are interested in bringing a creative, fun and transformative program to your community, contact us at: hello@unitythroughcreativity.org We also offer a certification program for managers, leaders and organizers who feel called to facilitate outside-the-box and proven Team Building. Next hybrid training is April 17-18th. For more information. hello@unitythroughcreativity.org

Creativity Changes Everything By Rivera Sun for El Paso’s International Day of Peace 2025

Joe Brewer speaks on Bioregional Regeneration at the International Day of Peace Symposium 2025, El Paso TX.

Unity Through Creativity worked with the League of Business in El Paso

A participant from our latest Innovative Team Building program at CASA Prescott Auto Dealership in Arizona, shares his experience with the project. To see the full video visit our Youtube channel @unitythroughcreativity The Casa Prescott Singing Tree of Family, Faith, and Serving Others Our goal is to increase connection and trust in businesses, schools, and communities. If you are interested in bringing a creative, fun and transformative program to your community, contact us at: hello@unitythroughcreativity.org We also offer a certification program for managers, leaders and organizers who feel called to facilitate outside-the-box and proven Team Building. Next hybrid training is April 17-18th. For more information. hello@unitythroughcreativity.org

The Casa Prescott Singing Tree of Family, Faith, and Serving Others Made with the Casa Auto Prescott dealerships in Arizona.

The Mulberry Singing Tree of What We Love About Our Neighborhood

International Day of Peace Symposium 2025

3日間のチームビルディングワークショップ - 創造性と協働の科学 日本、シンガポール、米国のアズビル社員26名によって作られました

Creative Feminine Leadership Guiding the Singing Tree Project | Japanese

3 Singing Tree Murals made in the Fall of 2023 by students of Piner-Olivet Union School District.

Unity Through Creativity Founder Laurie Marshall interviewed by Kenny Granville.

None of Us Are Ever Alone If We Choose It In November 2023, the World Health organization declared loneliness a "global public health concern. With rapid change swirling around us, strengthening family and community is a health imperative. After completing The CASA Singing Tree of Trust, Love and Community, Comptroller David Canales commented, "What I will take back to my work at Casa Autogroup is to remind myself that none of us are ever alone if we choose it." https://www.unitythroughcreativity.org/singing-tree-murals/casa-singing-tree-of-trust-love-and-community

Making the Casa Singing Tree of Trust, Love, and Community with Casa Auto in El Paso TX.

Over the course of nine days Unity Through Creativity led seven Singing Tree® Mural workshops with the Casa Auto Group based in El Paso, Texas. We took our starting point from the vision Casa Auto Group has of itself: Casa is home, and home is heaven. The Casa Singing Tree project began with a Lead Design Team that included the three owners and twenty managers and executives. They selected the theme of trust, love, and community, designed the mural, and painted the background. Then the five UTC facilitators took the mural to six locations for employees to add leaves, birds, stars—and for this mural, acorns, because the tree the Lead Design Team chose is the Texas live oak, a favorite of Wally’s, a tree that spreads its branches wide enough to include everyone beneath it. The 442 people at Casa Auto Group who created the Casa Singing Tree of Trust, Love, and Community experienced the depth of the connection they have with each other, many for the first time. They began building the wider community of Casa Auto through stepping outside their routines and seeing each other not as sales people, as service people, as accountants or managers or owners—but as human beings. They had an immediate experience that their contribution to the mural and to Casa Auto Group is unique and essential, that each one has something to give that only she or he can give. https://www.unitythroughcreativity.org/the-singing-tree-project