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✨ Lincoln City Fellow Spotlight — RuBen Permel ✨

We’re honored to highlight — an interdisciplinary storyteller & artist whose creative life has spanned stage, costume design, painting, photography, puppetry, and more. Born in Virginia, RuBen began making art with an 8-color crayon box and has since built a remarkable career both on and offstage.

For over 30 years he’s worked across the U.S. and Canada, including 16 years leading teams and creating with MGM Resorts and Cirque du Soleil.

RuBen’s work brings together visual impact and lived experience — from dynamic costumes and stage designs to award-winning paintings and evocative photography. He believes that doing what you’re passionate about is not a job but a calling, and his art reflects a lifetime of curiosity, craft, and generosity.

We’re grateful for RuBen’s voice in the Lincoln City Fellowship community and for the way his practice inspires wide-open creative possibility and wonder. 🌟

May NYC forever shine brighter from these brilliant artists who showed up so fully for themselves and each other during our Lincoln City Fellowship Fall Retreat.

Thank you for sharing your beauty and grief, your play and your challenges, your laughter and your powerful stories in progress. Your willingness to ask bold questions and respond with deep curiosity and softness reminds us what art can do.Your creativity is exactly what the world needs right now.

Lincoln City Fellowship Spring Retreat 2025

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What could these artists possibly have in common?

- performance duo donning oversized boy masks .seely

- minstrel man sharing light

- mesoamerican painter

- comedic mariachi

- vulnerable clown (photo credit: )

- southern gothic rock & roll band

- elegant poet

- piano playing composer

- re-purposed materials textiles artist

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Join nationwide artists in the Lincoln City Fellowship production cohort as they unite for this one-night-only experience, embracing a fusion of artistry, performance, and storytelling to delight the senses at - the historic six-story, multi-concept wonderland in downtown Los Angeles.

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