The Office for the Arts and the Lemann Program on Creativity and Entrepreneurship presents Maria Finkelmeier, Associate Professor at Berklee Institute for Creative Entrepreneurship

February 19 at 6pm
Office for the Arts, 74 Mt Auburn St, Cambridge, MA 02138

This workshop welcomes curious students from all disciplines—no arts background required. Composer and multimedia artist Maria Finkelmeier explores how storytelling, collaboration, and creative identity shape entrepreneurial thinking, whether you’re making art, leading a student group, or building something new on campus. Drawing from her interdisciplinary practice, Maria will help students connect everyday creative skills—organizing people, communicating ideas, experimenting, and iterating—to pitching projects, shaping group initiatives, and articulating value. These sessions are open for all students, include those who may not identify as “entrepreneurs,” but want new ways to think about leadership, collaboration, and impact.

Register and learn more here.

About Maria Finkelmeier:

Named a “one-woman dynamo” by the Boston Globe, Maria is a percussionist, composer, new media artist, and Associate Professor of Creative Entrepreneurship at Berklee College of Music. Obsessed with making noise, she transformed Fenway Park into a percussive playground and turned the Roebling Bridge into a sound and light instrument. She's used AI to investigate gender bias through music, flipped a bus into a mobile electronic bucket drumming program, and performed at iconic global venues such as Carnegie Hall, the Smithsonian, and Théâtre des Champs-Elysées. Her cutting-edge work has been featured in the Boston Globe, National Parks Magazine, Boston Magazine, Vulture, SunSentinel, I Care if you Listen and on WGBH, WBUR, and CBS. She is the Founder of the experimental music, art, and technology studio, MF Dynamics, and holds a BM from The Ohio State University and MM from the Eastman School of Music. She is a Yamaha Performing Artist.