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ORGANIC MAGNETICS

Binding creativity and sustainability to generate urban folklore for the future.

 Based in Harlem, Organic Magnetics (OM) is a cultural arts organization that produces interactive live installations and offers theater arts education. Organic Magnetics is composed of international artists and designers committed to creation, innovation and transformation through cultural dialogue and interdisciplinary collaboration.

Creative director Maija Garcia facilitates collaborations with artists and designers to make interactive theater, exploring themes of urban life, environmental sustainability, and social justice movements.  OM believes art is a universal language that can bridge cultural differences through creative process, live installations, and urban community engagement.

CREATE

Creative Process engages artists in collaboration to communicate across mediums, explore intersections in art and culture and develop a practice of dialogue that informs the work.

INNOVATE

Live Installation expands audiences, making art accessible to a wide range of people. Public exhibitions and site specific performance activates the relationship between artist and observer, increasing awareness and initiating a transformative experience.

TRANSFORM

Urban Engagement cultivates community as collaborating artists become facilitators that empower aspiring artists as creative leaders through a series of workshops, culminating in a community arts exhibit. 

Organic Magnetics is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization. Contributions for the purposes of Organic Magnetics must be made payable to Fractured Atlas and are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.

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Bio

Maija García is a theater director, cultural innovator and advocate for equity in the arts. She recently directed I am Betty, a world premiere new musical at History Theater by Cristina Luzarrága and Denise Prosek; VALOR, a Spanish golden-age play by Ana Caro; and OUR HOOD, a bi-lingual cineplay by John Leguizamo. Director of Movement for Spike Lee's Oscar award-winning Blackkklansman, CHI-RAQ and She’s Gotta Have It on Netflix, and Executive Producer of Art of Dance, a documentary film, García generates original work at the intersection of theater, music, dance, film and tv. Having worked alongside Bill T. Jones to choreograph FELA!, the Tony award winning musical on Broadway and at the National Theater of London, she became Creative Director of FELA! world tours in the US, Europe, Africa, Australia and New Zealand. Directing credits include CRANE: on earth in sky by Heather Henson and Ty Defoe and Salsa Mambo Cha Cha Cha in La Habana Cuba. Regional Theater credits include original choreography for West Side Story at the Guthrie Theater; Kiss My Aztec by John Leguizamo and Tony Toccone at Berkeley Rep, and La Jolla Playhouse; Snow in Midsummer by Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig at Oregon Shakespeare Festival; Cuba Libre by Carlos Lacámara at Artists Repertory Theater (PAMTA Award); and Fats Waller Dance Party with Jason Moran and Meshell N’degeocello at Harlem Stage, SF Jazz and the Kennedy Center. Garcia founded Organic Magnetics in 2007 to generate urban folklore for the future. She wrote, directed and produced Ghosts of Manhattan: 1512-2012 - an interactive history and immersive experience in Fort Tryon Park, and I Am NY: Juan Rodriguez at El Museo del Barrio. Director of Education and Professional Training at the Guthrie Theater since 2018, Maija curates programming for UMN/Guthrie BFA Acting and leads A Guthrie Experience for MFA actors and theatermakers. Maija earned a degree in Sustainable Development from the California Institute of Integral Studies in 2002. Member of SDC since 2009, Tony Nominating Committee and McKnight Foundation Panel, she serves on the advisory boards of Melrose and Toro Center for Principled Leadership and Latiné Musical Theater Lab, and is an original signatory of We See You White American Theater.