Marnie Muller
Specializes in sharing "hands-on" experiential
principles of this ancient geometry with participants of all ages
Marnie Muller, MLA, has immersed herself in the love of geometry
and the ancient mystery traditions since the 1960's. In particular,
she is interested in how kinesthetic /body wisdom awareness of these
universal geometric forms and their interpenetrating and metamorphic
qualities help stabilize the possibility for the human to exist as
Body-Soul-Spirit and be in conscious co-participation and resonance
with Heaven Above, Earth Below. She extensively studies ancient sacred
geometry with Keith Critchlow, Randall Carlson, Robert L. Powell,
Sr. and others and also includes the ancient Sophianic Wisdom tradition
in her orb.
She lives in the Asheville, North Carolina area and
exchanges on a regular basis with a number of sacred geometry colleagues.
Marnie specializes in sharing "hands-on", experiential
principles of this ancient geometry with participants of all ages
as well as in designing and constructing large, life-size geometric
forms for exploring the beauty, grace, and kinesthetic awareness
of moving within these powerful, universal forms, both indoors and
outdoors. Her body wisdom studies include contact improv, continuum,
tai chi, primordial chi kung, classic eurythmy, and choreocosmic
eurythmy.
She has worked as research associate at the Foundation
for Mind Research, as Project Director of Art/Environment at the
Savannah Science Museum, as a Math-Science Teacher, and as an editor
and as an author. Her UNCA Masters thesis was on The Classical
Seven-Circuit Labyrinth as Transcultural Phenomenon. Presently
she is Director of The Universe Story Journey and is a founding
member of the EarthVoyage Team which focuses on developing and
presenting interdisciplinary, inter-generational "hands-on" programs
and multi-media on a giant, geometric Dymaxion map projection of
the world designed by R. Buckminster Fuller.
Her cosmological studies include the work of
Rudolf Steiner and Thomas Berry, who has been a main mentor. Her
focus is the Sacred Story of the Universe and its time-developmental
processŠwith
the inquiry: "How best do humans participate in the sacred community
of the Universe"? As Project Director of The Universe Story
Journey, she encourages others in their own inquiry process as cosmic
citizens.
The Universe Story Journey is a large, permanent outdoor
museum quality exhibit which she co-designed, developed and directed
its installation as a 60-foot wide spiral timescale Walk in the woods
on the hundred acre-plus campus of a private, international high
school. On the spiral path which winds back to the Origin of the
Universe, every 36 feet equals approximately one Billion years. Along
the way, one experiences large timescale stations with NASA color
images portraying key "moments" in the story of the emergent
Universe. Marnie also designs and guest teaches original curricula
for the site including Ancient and Contemporary Cosmologies & Creation
Myths from around the World, Exploring the Biological Kingdoms and
their Place in the Universe Story, Origin of the Chemical Elements
of the Periodic Table, and the Living Geometries of Nature.
Recently her schedule has included teaching a
5-day Course at the North Carolina Center for the Advancement of
Teaching to teachers from around the state. She designed a "DaVinci-Style" Studio
space where teachers in that residential-retreat setting could come
and work/play with "hands-on" materials, even into the
wee hours of the night. She invited colleagues Mark Hanf and Thomas
Belisle to join her and together they invited participants to see
geometry in a whole new light.
For the Black Mountain College Museum & Art Center's exhibit,
Ideas + Inventions: Buckminster Fuller and Black Mountain College/Exploring
the genius of R. Buckminster Fuller in 2005, Marnie designed, constructed
and installed a range of 3-D geometric forms based on Fuller's work.
In addition, she designed and conducted an experiential, inter-generational
workshop, Great Circles + Spaceship Earth which included hands-on
construction of geometric forms. She also coordinated a benefit concert
as a tribute to Fuller, Music from the Dymaxion Dimension.
Marnie Muller has a B. A., Cum Laude, in Philosophy with Interdisciplinary
Studies, from Marymount College, Tarrytown, New York and an MLA from
The University of North Carolina, Asheville. For over 20 years Marnie
has studied and worked with the renowned cultural historian Thomas
Berry, author of The Dream of the Earth, The Universe Story, and
other works and has collaborated with educators from the US and Canada
to develop innovative, experiential learning models for sharing his
work with broad communities. Her UNCA Masters thesis was on The Classical
Seven-Circuit Labyrinth as Transcultural Phenomenon.
In the 70's, Marnie has worked with the Savannah
Science Museum in Savannah, Georgia as Project Coordinator of the
Art/Environment Awareness Project in collaboration with Telfair
Academy of the Arts & Sciences.
She also designed and taught environmental education classes, conducted
experiential nature walks for teachers and hundreds of students,
and collaborated in planning the conversion of the museum from a "behind
glass"museum to a "hands-on" museum (Boston Children's
Museum/SF Exploratorium style ). She also helped create the Resource
Center Library on Sustainability and Environmental Education and
authored the regional environmental education handbook: Let the Environment
Become Your Classroom for The Coastal Office of the Georgia Conservancy,
Savannah, GA. Her experience as an educator includes developing and
teaching original, hands-on curriculum in Science and Mathematics.
From 1983 to 1992 she was co-founder/editor and contributor for Katuah:
Bioregional Journal for the Southern Appalachians, which focused
on preserving the cultural and ecological diversity of the Southern
Appalachians. She also served on the Board of Directors of the Appalachian
Consortium, dedicated to celebrating and preserving the ecological
and cultural heritage of Southern Appalachia.
