Join us at the Northern Center on the campus of Northern Michigan University November 8 & 9 for two engaging days of networking, keynote speakers, creativity workshops and more.
Organizers of Marquette’s annual Revolve Creative Collaboration Conference have announced the conference will return to Marquette on November 8th and 9th. Conference registration includes access to three keynote speakers and two unique pathways: Ignite and Forge. Ignite is about setting ablaze your creativity with talks and seminar-focused conversations about creative work, while Forge focuses on making and workshop-style sessions. Friday’s conference sessions will be at the NMU Art and Design Building. To view the full 2024 conference schedule click here.
Revolve CC encourages a vibrant, supportive, and collaborative community of creatives in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Its mission is to energize the sustainable growth of our creative community by centering the exploration of broad creative topics, the vitality of collaboration, and opportunities for quality connections that include underrepresented groups.
Tickets will be available at the door on November 8th and 9th, you can also find available tickets now for purchase at https://revolvecc.net/registration/
This year’s keynote speakers bring a variety of creative industry expertise to the conference, from poetry and law practice to video game production.
Nandi Comer, Poet, Educator, Organizer
Nandi Comer is the current Poet Laureate of Michigan. She is the author of American Family: A Syndrome (Finishing Line Press) and Tapping Out (Northwestern University Press), which was awarded the 2020 Society of Midland Authors Award and the 2020 Julie Suk Award. Her poems and essays have appeared in Green Mountains Review, The Offing, Callaloo, Crab Orchard Review, The Journal of Pan African Studies, and others. Nandi has served as a writer-in-residence in Detroit Public Schools and collaborated with organizations, including YArts and InsideOut Literacy Arts. She serves as a poetry editor for Obsidian: Literature Arts in the African Diaspora and is the co-director of Detroit Lit.
Seth Polansky, Creatives Attorney and Documentarian
Seth Polansky is an audio engineer, producer, attorney, and unabashed gamer. He launched his own firm in 2001, and his career is split between his law practice and his independent film work. Seth has over 20 years of experience in intellectual property, corporate, and contract law, with significant experience in the arts and entertainment fields – advising illustrators, filmmakers, production companies, authors, and artists of all types. He counsels small businesses and artists in securing copyrights, trademarks, and intellectual property rights and securing contractual rights.
Mary Hermes, PH.D., Executive Director, Founder Grassroots Indigenous Multimedia
Dr. Mary Hermes, Waabishkiimiigwan, is a mixed heritage queer woman (Chinese, Ft. Peck Dakota descendent and LCO Ojibwe community member). Known for her work in Ojibwe and Indigenous language revitalization, she has worked globally with indigenous peoples. Her local focus is in the Objibwe communities throughout the Great Lakes. She and 15 Indigenous artists, writers and programmers collaborated to create Reclaim! The first point-n-click adventure game in the Ojibwe language (release date January 2026). In her spare time, she is a full professor at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities Multilingual Education and Culture and Teaching.
To learn more on these three keynote speakers, check them out here.
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