Mark Steele
Mark Steele is a professional artist, musician and creative director. He spends Summer and Fall on Sheepscot Lake in Palermo, ME and Winter and Spring in Boulder, CO. He is an avid stand-up paddle boarder, mushroom forager, and telemark skier. His permaculture design certificate training informs much of his perspective in all aspects of life. As a singer-songwriter and painter, Mark is always creating. (To view his painting portfolio, visit MarkSteele.art, and hear his music at ConradSteele.com.)
In addition to his freelance design business New Moon Multimedia, Mark has spent 20 years working with a dozen non-profits, including a decade as creative director for Blue Planet Network, a global non-profit he helped launch in 2004. He has served as virtual art director or web master for great orgs including KOTO Community Radio, Shining Mountain Waldorf School, The Ride Festival, and the Telluride Jazz Festival. For the Valley Floor Preservation Partners, he designed the identity system and web site that were instrumental in raising $25 million in just three months to preserve open space in Telluride, Colorado. He was a co-team leader of 350 Boulder County before helping found and build the eco-portal Boulder dot Earth, which has evolved into the Climate Justice Hive, a 501(c)3 coordinating community in the face of climate chaos with the goal of organizing systemic change. Mark serves on the board of directors for the Sheepscot Lake Association and as an advisor for the National Emergency Childcare Network.
