Community Engagement
Empowering
Visionary
Art
Mystic Arts Foundation supports interactive and immersive art experiences that inspire personal transformation and collective participation.
Explore the projects that bring our mission to life.
The Temple of the Moon
James Gwertzman
The Temple of the Moon is inspired by the Queen of the Night flower, a fragrant desert cactus blossom (Epiphyllum oxypetalum) which blooms only once each year, at night, and whose flowers wilt before dawn.
Zarvan
Gazelle Dasti
ZARVAN is a 23 foot interactive sculpture at urban scale that combines art, engineering, and human experience within a single structure.
Do Baskets Dream of Shores or Sea
Luke Lin
An art installation featuring seven Vietnamese thúng chài (basket boats) lost amidst a sea of lanterns, inviting us all to float between what's before and ahead
The Playa AI Foundation
Alex Azzi
A coalition of the brightest minds in AI explore what’s possible when humanity and AI evolve in harmony.
Playa Penguins
Paula Aranda
Playa Penguins is built on the idea that wonder is a radical act. Penguins don’t belong in the desert, yet here they stand—glowing, serene, and impossible. Penguins survive through unity; they huddle, rotate, and protect one another.
Lookout!
Franzi Ponzi and the Homo Erectors
Absurdly disguised as a fire extinguisher, Lookout! is a fire lookout tower that reexamines our role as environmental stewards and blurs the line between the delight of watching a fire burn and the urgent desire to extinguish the flames engulfing our world.
Real Love
Alexander Milov
A new and final project from the Love series to Burning Man. This is more than just a sculpture—it’s a traveling media platform that, after the festival, will spend a year crossing the United States, bringing people together for open conversations about love. The journey will become a documentary exploring a simple but important question: What is love, and how do we preserve it in our relationships?
Correfoc
Daniel Nebot + Miguel Arraiz
A freestanding sculptural installation conceived as a stylized human silhouette inspired by Mediterranean fire rituals. Built in wood and finished in a vibrant red tone, the piece stands as a striking landmark in the desert landscape.
Temple of the Deep
Miguel Arraiz García
Inspired by ancient natural sanctuaries and the movement of Baroque architecture, the Temple invites participants to honor grief, embrace vulnerability, and experience healing through reflection, community, and fire.
NewClear Neural
Gazelle Dasti
Inspired by ancient natural sanctuaries and the movement of Baroque architecture, the Temple invites participants to honor grief, embrace vulnerability, and experience healing through reflection, community, and fire.
Crystallization Code
Selva Bhairavi
A Gateway Orgon Chamber and immersive art installation designed to facilitate meditation, allowing users to reprogram, activate, and align with a Higher Light-Code matrix.
Nova Lua
Lucca Salvatore
A transformative celebration of Brazilian and South American art and culture. Nova Lua provides a platform for artists to showcase their unique talents on a global stage.
The Temple of Together
Caroline Ghosn
In this time of global challenge and conflict, Caroline Ghosn invites each of us to unfurl under her protection and be seen, loved, and inspired.
Burning Man Fire Flow Performance
Edward Cassidy
its purpose being to allow festival attendees to meditate inside, reprogram, activate, and align themselves with the Higher Light-Code matrix enabling a quantum recrystallization of matter and consciousness on Earth.
Lucca Salvatore
DJ/Producer/Film Director
Our history with this artist started during the pandemic when Lucca and his team designed and curated a 3D museum and a dancefloor for Virtual Burning Man – Dusty Multiverse.
Shakti Chakra Shrine
Perry Katz
its purpose being to allow festival attendees to meditate inside, reprogram, activate, and align themselves with the Higher Light-Code matrix enabling a quantum recrystallization of matter and consciousness on Earth.
The Temple of The Moon
Mystic Arts Foundation is honored to partner with Moonlight Collective as fiscal sponsor for the 2026 Burning Man Temple, The Temple of the Moon, led by artist James Gwertzman.
Inspired by the Queen of the Night flower, the Temple of the Moon will offer a sacred space for reflection, remembrance, grief, and rebirth — honoring beauty without permanence or promise.
We are proud to support this extraordinary work for a third consecutive year in service to the magnificence and importance of Burning Man Temples.
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The Temple of The Moon
Mystic Arts Foundation is honored to partner with Moonlight Collective as fiscal sponsor for the 2026 Burning Man Temple, The Temple of the Moon, led by artist James Gwertzman.
Inspired by the Queen of the Night flower, the Temple of the Moon will offer a sacred space for reflection, remembrance, grief, and rebirth — honoring beauty without permanence or promise.
We are proud to support this extraordinary work for a third consecutive year in service to the magnificence and importance of Burning Man Temples.
Community Highlights
Recognizing the artists, collaborators, and supporters who bring our mission to life.
Miguel Arraiz García: Temple of the Deep
2025
A heartfelt recognition to Miguel. We celebrate him and the entire Temple team for creating this sacred space.
Lucca Salvatore: Nova Lua
2023
Building on his earlier participation in the 2020 MysticVerse Virtual Burn, Lucca debuted a vibrant Brazilian DJ experience that energized and inspired Black Rock City.
Selva Bhairavi: Crystallization Code
2023
We would like to thank Selva for her dedication and perseverance in bringing Crystallization Code to Black Rock City. Her unwavering commitment exemplifies the spirit of transformative art and the resilience that drives our creative community.
Supporting
Creative
Communities
We provide support that helps communities thrive through shared artistic expression and collective vision.
Explore the artists whose vision and passion move our mission forward.
Alexander Milov
Alexander Milov is known for creating monumental public artworks that combine ambitious engineering with powerful storytelling and striking symbolism, exploring themes of identity and human connection.
Franzi Ponzi
With nearly 25 Burning Man and regional burn attendances under his belt, Franzi Ponzi brings experience from some of the most ambitious builds on the playa, including multiple Temple and Folly Crew builds as well as 2025’s Sphinx Gate.
Gazelle Dasti
Artist-engineer and immersive technologist whose work merges light, sound, and interactive systems to create transformative sensory experiences.
Luke Lin
"Do Baskets Dream is my way of answering the call that life threw at me. I don't know what's ahead, but I'm brave enough to step off the shore and wade out to sea, to let myself feel the magic of being lost among lanterns that light a path toward something I can't yet see."
Nik Tenney
Originating from Maine, Nik is an artist that is passionate about exploring the beauty and complexity of wild places. My work spans film, photography, sound design, and space design, all rooted in a love for people, deep ecology, and a desire to honor the interconnectedness of life.
Paula Aranda
Paula's work explores the concept that "wonder is a radical act." Her installations rely heavily on the interplay of surrealism, light, and community dynamics.
Alex Azzi
Entrepreneur, technologist, and the founder of the Playa AI Foundation, Azzi leverages the cultural principles of Black Rock City—such as gifting, decommodification, and civic responsibility—to build and shape decentralized AI agent systems.
Auli Uiboupin
Auli Uiboupin is an Estonian artist working at the intersection of environmental awareness, material reuse, and participatory sculpture.
Miguel Arraiz García
Architect and creator from Valencia, Spain, whose work inhabits the space between art, architecture, and ritual, as seen through projects such as Temple of the Deep (Burning Man 2025)
Lucca Salvatore
São Paulo-born DJ, music producer, and founder of MOND Agency, Lucca is known for his immersive electronic sets and cultural events.
Edward Cassidy
“making shapes and sharing flames.”
Edward Cassidy is a fire performer and flow artist, bringing movement and light to life.
Support Transformative Art
Every contribution strengthens our ability to support artists, develop immersive projects, and create spaces for reflection, connection, and growth. Together, we make transformative art possible.
All donations are tax-deductible through Mystic Arts Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.