Friends Who've Walked With Us
Meet the artists, writers, and thinkers who have shaped and been shaped by the Selah House community.
10 friend(s) found.
Kathy Lea
Artist
Gentleness - Nurturing - Fierce Authenticity self taught experimental music weaving prayer, ancient soul and presence flowetry de-industrializing my self re-membering relationship Fluid Insight Practitioner Tea grower Cosmic Bicycle
Idrissa Morehouse
Long Term Community Member
Visual art becomes kinetic play From street art to jungle french food to frisbee jazz Longtime independent practitioner Life Coach Co-producer of the Sacred Sounds sessions at Selah House Dirt - Bunnies - Chalice
Ileana Simone
Steward
Ileana Simone Bell is a Detroit-based fine artist whose oil paintings explore the emotional, spiritual, and psychological landscapes of Black memory and being. She also leads The 126 Project, a faith-based initiative for artists exploring creativity and spirituality.
Ryan Myers-Johnson
Practice-Based Resident
Ryan is a curator and producing of place-based public art, and works across various mediums to address the healing of spatial trauma. Additionally, she is a movement practitioner interested in the intersection of gospel music, Black Americanbhistory and the outdoors.
Stefanie Cohen and Corey Gearhart
Steward
Artists Stefanie Cohen (she/her) and Corey Gearhart (he/him) have been merging, embracing, disrupting, fragmenting and mending our backgrounds, educations, and decades of training in performance art, theatre, dance, somatics, sculpture, writing, drawing, and so on, since 2010. Since then we have presented our performance works and site-specific installations — exploring the inner lives and fantasy worlds of sometimes overlooked objects and activities. We teach workshops in somatic movement and devised performance in studios, festivals, and academic institutions; and have curated performance through our space, Light Box in Detroit.
Sarah Jane Mark
Steward
Sarah Jane Mark is Co-Founder of the Selah House, alongside her husband, Billy Mark. She is a fiber artist & fashion designer dedicated to the Slow/Sustainable fashion movement. She has founded Slow Stitch Detroit, a creative incubator & slow fashion maker space providing support for residents & community education. Sarah being rooted in her neighborhood & loves to bike to Slow Stitch, only a few blocks from Selah House.
Drew Fralick
Writer-in-Residence
Drew is a writer, standup comedian, licensed therapist, ordained pastor, and wonderful friend.
David Johnson
Steward
Background in a variety of mediums, currently working as a liturgist for the Selah House monastic prayer rhythms.
Marcus Elliot Miller
Steward
Marcus is a saxophonist, composer, improviser, and educator based in Detroit, MI
