M12  is a collective of artists and creative professionals based in Colorado on the American High Plains. The group creates interdisciplinary site-based art works, research projects, and education and outreach programs. Working in the fields of sculpture, architecture, and public art and design, M12 favors projects that are centered in rural areas and which can be developed through dialogical and collaborative approaches. Many of M12's projects explore community identity and the value of often under-represented rural communities and their surrounding landscapes. M12 strives to be stewards of effective local and global creative problem solving, and a community resource for evolutionary thinking and innovative communication. M12's organizational philosophy has a holistic approach that fuses creative practice, cultural institutionally, and education.