The Good of the Hive — 50,000 Quick and Easy Steps to Global Change | Matt Willey | TEDxTullahoma
World-renowned muralist discusses his life-altering encounter with a honeybee. Matt Willey is the creator of The Good of the Hive, a company at the intersection of art and planetary health. In 2008, he had an experience with one honey bee that would alter the direction of his life forever. This experience eventually set him on a personal mission to hand-paint 50,000 individual honey bees—the number necessary for a healthy thriving hive—around the world.
Matt has painted 26 murals and 5,250+ bees in buzzing hives at Smithsonian’s National Zoo in Washington DC, Dag Hammarskjold Plaza in NYC, Burt’s Bees Global HQ, schools, farms and community buildings. He has collaborated with the World Council of Peoples for the United Nations and NYC Parks’ Art in the Parks Public Art Program. He has presented at the United Nations, the FAO, Smithsonian, the Planetary Health Alliance Meeting in Edinburgh, MIT, Duke University, Georgetown University, the German and French Embassies and beyond.
He has a BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Tufts University. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx