Being:Art

Being:Art was founded by artists/teachers Anne J. Froning and Sean Murphy. Our mission is to foster Creativity and expression are not priceless.

Being:Art is one of the few companies in the Unites States creating musical instruments for permanent outdoor installation. Our instruments are designed for ease of play by the non-musician and musician alike and they are highlighted as a unique piece of craft-art in outdoor classrooms across the country. The designs and material choices (including sustainably harvested hardwoods) must withstand the rigors of existing in an outdoor environment for years with a minimum amount of maintenance. Our first installation was installed in 2006 at the Arbor Day Farm’s Nature Explore Classroom in Nebraska City, NE and is still played by thousands every year! The service branch of Being:Art is unique because of our fusion of multiple art forms. These combinations include dance, music, design, yoga, craft, film, theatre, etc. Our performances, workshops, classes, and residencies seek to inspire others to find and develop their own creativity and self-fulfillment. Energy, time, love, and money are all needed to bring creative ideas to fruition!

01/17/2026

A few months back Being:Art obtained a truckload of Honduran Mahogany cutoffs and over the course of a couple months turned a small portion of it into this table for our family!

We have another table in the works and countertops for our house planned but we’re also taking commissions! We have a lot of this wood as well as many other woods available to us. If you’ve ever wanted an heirloom quality handmade table (or some other piece of furniture) reach out to us and we’d be happy to discuss options with you!

This series of photos and videos show much of the process of creating this gorgeous table!

09/18/2025

Shop Kitty, Joie, overseeing the instruments were shipping out!

4 go out tomorrow to OR, OH, TX, WV. 4 more will go out in the next couple of business days to CA.

Way down from where we should be but at least we’re making it so far.

06/22/2025

Working on a Sunday to get out 3 Marimbas in the Heat!

04/28/2025

Pretty incredible to revisit our public installations occasionally. Today the Zylobench & Zylorqble at V&E Greenline got the newly redesigned mallets (designed in collaboration with ) and I got a chance to sit & play with the instruments.

They still look and sound amazing after 11 years outdoors in a public space in Memphis!

02/08/2025

One of the most difficult aspects of building marimbas & xylophones for public outdoor spaces has always been mallets! Early on we produced them ourselves with minimal success.

About a year ago through an introduction by we began working with to develop new mallets for our instruments. Now when you buy one of our instruments you’ll get a nice set of their mallets as part of the purchase.

But there are still those special situations where you need something truly strong to stand up to daily unsupervised public use by thousands of kids and adults.

Today I installed the latest iteration of what we hope ends up being the perfect mallet for public installations. It’s a collaborative mallet between dragonfly & being:art. Silicone head with a solid aluminum shaft, a heavyweight lifting eyebolt with an industrial threadlocker attached to 3/16” stainless steel aircraft cable!

It’s on the Zylobench at Rainbow Lake Playground. Please go check it out, take the kiddos, use the mallet and play the instrument. Let’s see if this is THE mallet!

01/21/2025

If you’re interested in an instrument for your school, park, institution, neighborhood, backyard, etc. NOW is a perfect opportunity to order a Being:Art Marimba or Akambira at a discounted price through Nature Explore!

09/11/2024

Finishing up a bunch of instruments that are going out this week. Shipping to Los Angeles CA, Charlotte NC, Bloomington IN, Morgantown WV, & Killeen TX!

08/25/2024

Event Announcement!

Sacred Herbs + Sound Healing

9/7/24
5-6.30p

Join holistic practitioner and master musician as they gently lead you into the soothing world of herbs and sound massage.

You’ll sample seasonal elixirs of homegrown and wild harvested herbs including a warm mullein chai and ArtPhFarm Elderberry Syrup. Then you’ll receive reiki while bathing in the deeply vibrational, overtone rich sounds of the didjeridu and other instruments.

Finally, we’ll end the evening with a delicious chocolate truffle dusted in ceremonial cacao.

Sign up now! Link in bio.

08/14/2024

Hey Memphis: our musical installations in town are growing and improvements are happening on some of the already existing installations!

Rainbow Lake Playground is being renovated and our newly redesigned Zylobench is being incorporated into the design! Not sure when it’ll be installed so keep an eye out…

Also, 2 of our other in town installations now have our new and improved mounted mallets we developed in collaboration with The V&E Greenline (pics 3&4) have the original Zylobench & Zylotable as well as several installations at The Big Backyard Both of these installations have the new mallets.

Please go check them out, play around on the instruments, let us know how you like the improvements, and tag us in your photos/videos!

06/21/2024

Zylobench installation at coming soon!

Today we’re working on our mounted mallet design.

When we’ve made these in the past we’ve had a lot of reports of the mallets being torn free and lost. So we’ve decided to dramatically bulk up the design:

Custom aluminum handle mallets from mounted to 3/16” stainless steel aircraft cable!

05/29/2024

Super excited to receive our first batch of custom mallets from

This new design sounds better than our previous mallets and has multiple adhesive points so should last significantly longer than our old design!

Thanks for the introduction and to Dinesh for the beautiful work!

05/21/2024

Scenes from the shop today.

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Memphis, TN

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http://beingart.com/

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