Revolve Creative Collaboration Conference

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2025

NOV

7-8

2025 Keynotes

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Gaelynn Lea

Musician & Public Speaker

Gaelynn Lea won NPR Music’s Tiny Desk Contest in 2016. Since then, she has captivated audiences around the world with her haunting original songs and traditional fiddle tunes. Over the years, she has collaborated and performed with many notable artists such as Michael Stipe (REM), The Decemberists, Wilco, LOW, and the industrial rock supergroup Pigface. In early 2022, Gaelynn composed, recorded, and performed the music for Macbeth on Broadway, which starred Daniel Craig and Ruth Negga. This original soundtrack was released in May of 2025. Gaelynn also co-wrote a musical fable for the stage called “Invisible Fences” with the disabled author and playwright Kevin Kling in 2023; so far it’s had three sold-out runs.

Music aside, Gaelynn Lea is a sought-after public speaker and disability activist around the topics of disability culture, inclusion, and accessibility in the arts. In 2021, she co-founded the organization RAMPD [Recording Artists and Music Professionals with Disabilities] with fellow artist-activist Lachi. In 2024, she was awarded both the Disability Futures Fellowship and the Whippoorwill Arts Fellowship for her music and disability advocacy. In 2025 she was featured on the Eames Institute’s prestigious list, The Curious 100. She is currently finishing up her debut book, due out in 2026. It Wasn’t Meant to Be Perfect will be a love-letter to every body — a warm, funny and deeply-felt memoir about disability, music, and the messy creativity of an artist’s life.

Kendyll Hillegas

Illustrator

Kendyll Hillegas is a commercial illustrator and fine artist who has worked with clients large and small, from A24 Films and Coca-Cola, to innovative brands like Jukebox and Good Culture. A former YouTuber and occasional podcaster (ArtLab), Kendyll is passionate about exploring creative practice and the complex emotional realities that come with it. As a recovering serial-project-abandoner, she brings hard-won insights on building a fulfilling creative practice that actually sticks.

Meg Loeks

Portrait Photographer

Meg Loeks is a portrait photographer based in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, where she lives on a hobby farm with her family. Her work is rooted in classic Americana and home life, but not the polished ideal. She leans into the mess, the beauty, the humor, and the contradictions of domesticity, using color and nostalgia not just as aesthetic choices, but as tools to challenge the status quo. Though Meg’s love for photography began in childhood, hand-developing film in a darkroom, she initially pursued a degree in advertising and public relations. She returned to photography in a deeper, more personal way after becoming a mother, and it became her way of reclaiming time, space, and story. Today, Meg teaches workshops throughout the U.S. and internationally, encouraging artists to find voice in the everyday. She is honored to serve as a Imagen, Sigma and Profoto Ambassador, as well as a 2022 Lightroom Ambassador. Meg is also a volunteer with The Gold Hope Project, offering portrait sessions to families facing pediatric cancer.

The Revolve CC creative collaboration conference has been an excellent addition to our community here in Marquette, Michigan. The conference is unique for bringing creative professionals from various creative fields together to share ideas and present the projects they are working on. The conference is a helpful resource for fostering potential collaborations and sharing valuable life experiences for young professionals in creative fields.

Create

Take an idea and fashion it into something you can hold.

Collaborate

Join the energy of a room filled with creatives.

Connect

Cultivate relationships to grow beyond the conference.

Partners

Innovate Marquette SmartZone was created to help coordinate, inspire, promote, and lead business, government, academic, and community leaders to transform Marquette County and the Upper Peninsula into a world-class entrepreneurial ecosystem. The SmartZone supports technology-based innovations, new businesses, new job creation, and existing business expansion by leveraging the unique set of resources, experiences, and advantages available in Marquette.

The mission of Innovate Marquette is to position Marquette as a premier city for innovation and business development through their process of identifying, nurturing, and cultivating the growth and success of technology-based innovators, entrepreneurs, small businesses, and startups throughout our community. They aim to uplift Marquette’s unique business ecosystem by offering access to important resources, funding, workforce talent, and network collaboration.

For more information, visit www.innovatemarquette.org.

Since 1966, the State of Michigan has recognized the value and importance of a vibrant arts and cultural sector. The Michigan Arts and Culture Council was established to maintain and nurture its cultural and artistic riches. The Council reaffirms and believes in our enabling doctrine:

Arts and culture enrich our lives and are vital to the well-being of our society.
Arts and culture bring important benefits to Michigan’s economy, to our efforts to attract business to this state and to our tourism industry.
Arts education is a critical part of the education of our youth in that it opens new worlds to them, encourages creativity and presents opportunities for careers.
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This activity is supported by the MICHIGAN ARTS AND CULTURE COUNCIL and the NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS.

For more information, visit www.michiganbusiness.org/industries/macc/