Lead Artist
Marcus Young is a multidisciplinary conceptual and behavioral artist. Recent works include Don’t you feel it too?, an aspiring spiritual technology of dancing one's inner life in public places, and Everyday Poems for City Sidewalk, a process of imprinting poetry integrated into Saint Paul’s Department of Public Works’ standard methods of fixing sidewalks. Young studied music at Carleton College and theater at the University of Minnesota. He founded the behavioral art studio Grace Minnesota in 2009, and since 2006 has worked for Public Art Saint Paul as Saint Paul’s City Artist in Residence.