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Todd has been developing prophetic music and art for sharing Christ with student culture for over 13 years. In 1997, Todd and his wife Laurel made a decision to focus on leading worship events that sponsor intimacy and facilitate the prophetic flow through the arts. They enjoy creating multi-art events where a fusion of visual art, dance, acoustic instrumentation, and electronica come together for an intense time of worship. Todd and Laurel have a passion for ministering to students and love to partner with campus ministries leading Enter the Worship Circle events. Todd enjoys his local role as Worship Arts Director for multi-cultural NewSong Church and as missionaries with Wake Arts Collective, Todd and Laurel are pioneering a creative community with missional partners Ryan and Jennifer Lott and Doc and Anne Harrill in their hometown of Cleveland, OH.
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Ryan grew up studying diverse compositional and performance styles, from classical to rock to jazz. He earned his Bachelor of Music in Composition at the Indiana University School of Music in 2001. He now lives in Cleveland with his wife, Jennifer, where he actively composes, performs, and produces multimedia art events. Although Ryan performs as a solo pianist, he has developed a reputation as an intuitive, versatile, and zealous collaborator. His work, unbounded, composed for NYC's Gina Gibney Dance, received critical acclaim in the New York Times. Ryan's audiovisual installation, bornwaking, created with area video and performance artist Mike Jones, was recently featured in SPACES gallery's Beautiful Dreamer exhibition. Two events, both titled CONNECT: A Multimedia Party in 3 Acts, were Ryan's latest large-scale collaborative productions, involving over 30 Cleveland-based artists from a variety of disciplines at Cleveland Public Theatre. His recent creative partnerships with choreographers and dance companies include Gina Gibney Dance (NYC), Cleveland Contemporary Dance Theatre (Cleveland), At Marah Dance Theatre (Philadelphia), Steve Rooks (formerly of the Martha Graham Dance Co., NYC), Inlet Dance Theatre (Cleveland), Groundworks Dance Theater (Cleveland), and Dance Ad Deum (Houston). In 2005, Ryan was awarded an Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship, and his music was featured in the Works & Process Series at the Guggenheim Museum, NYC. This year, Ryan became the Cleveland Arts Prize Emerging Artist Award Recipient.
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