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Michael Tank is an interdisciplinary artist, musician, writer, communications professional and ecological designer based in the coastal Mediterranean climate of North America.

UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture '08, B.A. in Design | Media Arts, min. Geography | Environmental Studies, Regents' Scholar. Permaculture Design Certificate, Living Mandala, Berkeley, 2010. Further study in coaching with the Academy for Coaching Excellence and advanced permaculture design at Oregon State University.

From 2006-2011, Tank freelanced as a print, web, identity designer for a variety of non-profit campaigns. His enduring design work includes the logo and branding for the California Student Sustainability Coalition (2009), a communications campaign designed to introduce the International Eco-City Standards at the UN (2011) and other global clients of EcoCity Builders, and the published anthology Stories Between Us, a collection of elders’ oral histories from the Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists, in which he was also a featured essayist and advisor to the project.

An avid cyclist and co-founder of the Santa Monica Critical Mass bicycle ride in 2005, Tank later found a business niche and sit-spot in the micro-mobility startup scene in San Francisco at Scoot Networks, Bird Rides and Ridepanda.

Tank was on the production team for a planned film rendition of Starhawk’s The Fifth Sacred Thing, worked with Tree Media Group on the campaign for Leonardo DiCaprio’s The 11th Hour, and was on set for Nasser Abouelazm's documentary American Dialectics.

As an artist, Tank integrates design, photography, sculpture and illustration practices into simple, tactile images and installations that engage viewers in the state of our world and consciousness. Tank’s written work centers around universalist spirituality, ecological activism, and social transformation. He self-published a poetry collection, Landscapes of Possibility, and a home-recorded EP Pure Light and the Children’s Foundation in 2013 while working at the Red Victorian Peace Arts Center on Haight Street in San Francisco.

Tank has been a part of farm planning, intentional communities, and natural building in New England, California, Thailand, Costa Rica and Oregon. Tank has been leading song circles for over a decade and was certified as a leader in the Dances of Universal Peace in 2020.