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EDUCATION |
M.F.A.
High Distinction, Sculpture, California College of Arts &
Crafts, Oakland.
Undergraduate art, non-degree, California College of Arts &
Crafts, Oakland.
B.A., Journalism, University of Maryland |
FEATURED
ARTIST EXHIBITS and PUBLIC ART INSTALLATIONS |
| 2002 |
ONE
STRAW REVOLUTION, community food garden, Federal Reserve
Bank Plaza, Cincinnati, OH |
| 2001 |
GARDENS TO
GO, portable community garden, 2000 Potrero Nuevo
Fund Prize, Oakland, CA.
WATERSHED,
Berkeley Art Center, site specific outdoor public installation,
Berkeley, CA. |
| 2000 |
MARKING THE MILLENIUM, permanent park bench tile
project collaboration, Oakland, CA |
| 1999 |
ST. ANDREW'S PLAZA, permanent park remodel design w/sculptural
components, Oakland, CA.
COMPOST & OTHER STORIES, Project Space/With the Earth,
Gallery Rt One, Pt. Reyes Stn, CA |
| 1998 |
MANDELA
ARTSCAPE, multi-agency + community (w/art grants)) public
project, Oakland, CA |
| 1997 |
CALIFORNIA
AVE., CALIFORNIA NATIVE. Permanent public commission,
Palo Alto, CA.
NATURE
SEEING NATURE (46 DOORS), installation, Connemara Land
Conservancy, Dallas, TX. (3 mo.)
LOOKING FOR THE CREEK ON STEVENS CREEK BOULEVARD, installation,
Euphrat Museum, Cupertino, CA.
SEEING
NATURE (FRUIT), envir. installation, Paradise Ridge
Sculpture Park, Santa Rosa, CA. (one year) |
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| 1994-97 |
EARTH ARK, sculpture installation; Chavez Waterfront
Park, Berkeley Art Commission.
BIRDS, window installation, Jack London Sq., Oakland Chamber
of Commerce honoree. |
| 1996 |
GARDEN FOR ROSE DR, installation at home built
on toxic landfill. Arts Benicia, Benicia, CA.
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| 1995 |
URBAN
APPLE ORCHARD, public art installation, with elements
of community participation; San Francisco Art Commission's Market
Street Art in Transit Program (one year).
FOR
THE BIRDS, environmental public art installation; collaboration
with AS Thompson for City of Concord Public Art Program, Todos
Santos Plaza, Concord, CA. (6 months).
POWER
TOWER, sculpture installation, Oakland Museum sculpture
garden (10 months)
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| 1994 |
SPATIAL POLITICS: A GARDEN, atrium installation,
Contract Design Center, S.F.
WORLD WEB, interactive public installation, "REcycle" Festivals,
downtown Oakland & Palo Alto
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| 1993 |
TRASH, 3 installation pieces, 3 person show,
Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco.
BACK TO THE GARDEN,
interactive public installation, w/AS Thompson. Berkeley, CA.
WORLD WEB, interactive installation, (1) Stanford University
, Palo Alto, CA, for Earth Day; (2) Festival of the Lake, Oakland,
for Merritt College Horticultural Department.
CLEAN SWEEP, Earth Day Exhibit, The Exploratorium, San Francisco.
ENTRY ARCH, Intern. Healthy Cities Conference, SF; for World
Health Organ., CA Pub. Health, et al
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| 1992 |
RIVER
OF HOPES AND DREAMS, permanent reclamation garden, NORCAL
Sanitary Fill Co., SF.
ART FROM THE WASTE STREAM, solo exhibit, NORCAL S.F.C. Art in
Residence Program, SF.
BIG MOUNTAIN, installation with video with S Girot. " For
the Earth," Gallery Route One, Pt. Reyes, CA.
PERMANENT outdoor sculpture for Garbage Reincarnation, Inc.,
Sonoma County Landfill.
MENORAH, SF City Hall, for City of SF Recycling Program; re-exhibited
December 93 & 94.
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| 1991 |
SUCCAH/SEEKING SHELTER, outdoor installation,
Judah Magnes Museum, Berkeley, CA.
INSIDE THE WAVE, installation w/ video w/S. Girot. San Jose
State University Gallery.
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| 1990 |
SCULPTURE exhibit, U.O.P. Gallery, University
of the Pacific, Stockton, CA.
MARKING TIME, interactive installation w/J. Foosaner, "Seeing
Time" Program, KALA Institute, Berkeley.
THE TREE MUSEUM, Addison Street Public Window Site, Berkeley
Art Commission. |
GROUP
EXHIBITS & INSTALLATIONS |
| 2003 |
CREATIVE INTERVENTIONS, Janet McCulloch, University of Oregon,
Eugene, OR.
SHAPING POSSIBILITY, Gallery 555, Oakland Museum @ City Center,
Oakland, CA. |
| 2002 |
ECOVENTION,
The Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH.
BEING THERE: 45 OAKLAND
ARTISTS, Phil Linhares, Oakland Museum of CA, Oakland,
CA.
NO THEME, Rene di Rosa, Curator; Contract Design Center,
San Francisco, CA. |
| 2001 |
WHAT WE DO & WHY WE DO IT, Gallery Route One, Point Reyes
Station, CA.
ECO-ART=ECO-ACTIVISM, JFK, University Arts & Consciousness
Gallery, Berkeley, CA. |
| 2000 |
SCULPTURE/USF/2000, Richard Kamler, Curator; site specific
outdoor installation, U. of San Francisco.
ENVIRONMENTAL PERSPECTIVES: BEAUTY & THE BEAST, Koret
Gallery, Palo Alto, CA. |
| 1999 |
MONUMENTS, Contract Design Center, San Francisco.
Terri Cohn, curator.
WHAT IS ART?, Oakland Museum of CA., Oakland, CA; curators Wm.
T. Wiley & Mary Hull Webster.
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| 1998 |
WINTER SHOW, Michael Schwager, curator; Contract
Design Center, San Francisco.
PASSING THE FLAME—Artists Who Teach, Museum of Children's
Art, Oakland.
WATER SHED EXHIBIT, Santa Clara Art Center, Cupertino, CA.
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| 1997 |
ECLECTIC ECOLOGIES, Terri Cohn, curator; new
SF Main Public Library's Stegner Env. Center.
MAKING WAVES, Andree Thompson, curator. Richmond Art Center,
Richmond, CA
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| 1996 |
EMPIRE
FULTON FERRY STATE PARK sculpture exhibit, Brooklyn,
New York.
POSTWASTE: IMPERATIVE FOR NEAR FUTURE, Arts Benicia, Benicia,
CA.
SCULPTURE, Central Sierra Arts Council Gallery, Sonora, CA.
PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE, Oliver Art Center, California College
Arts & Crafts, Oakland.
REFOUND, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Rental Gallery,
SF
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| 1995 |
ECO-NATION, Bedford Art Gallery, Regional Center for Arts, Walnut Creek,
CA.
LEFTOVERS, Works Gallery, San Jose, CA.
WEATHER WORKS, Contract Design Center, San Francisco; Phil Linhares,
curator.
THROUGH THE DOOR, Contract Design Center, S.F.; Marian Parmenter,
curator. |
| 1994 |
IMPROMPTU
SCULPTURE SHOW, Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA.
PUBLIC ART EXHIBITION: A MINDFUL GEOGRAPHY, SF Art Commission
Gallery, S.F.
LIVING IN BALANCE, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA.
WOMEN MENTORS SHOW, SF Art Commission Gallery, S.F.
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| 1993 |
LIVING IN BALANCE, International terminal, San
Francisco International Airport
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| 1993 |
NATURAL DIALOGUE, Baile Oakes, curator; California
Crafts Museum, S.F.
EARTH DAY EXHIBIT, The Gap Co. Headquarters, San Francisco
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| 1992 |
RESIDUE IMMORTALIZED, Linda Evans, curator;
Security Pacific Bank, SF.
SOURCES, faculty exhibit, CA. State University Hayward Art Gallery.
ARTISTS USING REFUSE AS THEIR PALETTE, Student Union Gallery,
SF State Univ.
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| 1991 |
ISSUE: EARTHART, Brandstater Gallery, Loma Linda
University, Riverside, CA.
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| 1990 |
ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS, Marian Parmenter, juror;
Gallery Rt. One, Pt. Reyes, CA.
CURATORS CHOICE--East Bay Open Studios tour; sponsored by Art
House & Pro Arts.
SMALL SCULPTURE, Terry St. John, juror; Mendocino Art Center,
Mendocino, CA.
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| 1989 |
WOMEN ARTISTS '89, national juried show, Matrix
Gallery, Sacramento, CA.
NEW WORK, Peter Selz, juror; Modesto Lanzone, Opera Plaza, San
Francisco.
CHASM, Gallery 44, Oakland. |
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SELECTED
PUBLIC PROJECT COLLABORATIONS |
| 2003-2003 |
National
Park Service, River & Trails Program, collaboration
with New York artist Jackie Brookner. Work in 3 sites: WA, OR,
ID. Sponsor: National Endowmend for the Arts, National Park
Service, New England Foundation of the Arts. |
| 2001-02 |
Project co-designer/director with artist Suzanne
Lacy, Elkhorn City,
Kentucky participatory community eco- project.
Sponsor, American Festival Project, Appalshop, Whitesburg, KY. |
| 1994 |
Project designer/director, 3 permanent elementary
school "recycle" sculpture gardens. Oakland: Prescott &
Garfield schools for MOCHA, Oakland School District and CALARTS.
Pt. Reyes, CA: for West Marin Arts grant & Gallery Rt. One
art in schools program.
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| 1993-94 |
Co-curator with Jo Hanson & Patricia Sanders,
LIVING IN BALANCE, environmental art exhibit originating at
San Francisco International Airport, and traveling to Richmond
Art Center.
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| 1993 |
Project artist, CELEBRATION OF THE ENVIRONMENT
THRU ART, Dublin Fine Arts Foundation; student workshop to create
"recycle sculptures" for Dublin (CA) Civic Center Lobby.
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| 1991 |
Planning team & site coordinator, MAPPING
THE TERRAIN: New Public Art; artists & critics forum and
symposium on public interest art. Suzanne Lacy, director. SF
Museum of Modern Art & Napa, CA.
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| 1990 |
Project coordinator, ACROSS TIME & SPACE,
international radio art performance by 3 older women from Finland,
Russia & USA. Suzanne Lacy, designer/director. Joensuu,
FINLAND.
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| 1989 |
Planning assistant & coordinator, CITYSITES–Artists
& Urban Strategies, public art lecture/event series sited
at relevant community settings, Oakland, CA. Designer/director
Suzanne Lacy. |
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PANELS,
HONORS, ETC. |
| 2001 |
Panelist/Lecturer, "Art for Life’s Sake: The New
Aesthetics of Participation," The New York Open Center,
NYC, NY, co-sponsors ecoartspace & plaNetwork
Speaker, New School/Parsons College, NYC, NY
Panelist, "Bridging the Binaries," WASTE Summit,
Chatham College, Pittsburgh, PA
Organizer/speaker, "Eco-Art=Eco-Activism" Symposium/Exhibit,
JFK University, Berkeley, CA, co-sponsor Women Environmental
Artist Directory.
Plenary speaker, Society of Teachers of Family Medicine,
Charleston, SC.
Speaker, "Taking Nature Seriously" Conference,
U. of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon.
Speaker, Art/Nature/Culture conference, Flagstaff, Arizona. |
| 2000 |
Potrero Nuevo Prize, San Francisco, for "Gardens
to Go" scheduled Summer 2000, for Oakland, CA. |
| 1999 |
College Art Assn. Conf. panel Co-Chair, "Out
of the Mainstream, Into the Mainstream." Los Angeles.
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| 1998 |
Grants, LEF Foundation and Nancy Gray Foundation.
For environmental public art project, Oakland.
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| 1997 |
Residency,
Connemara Land Conservancy, Plano (Dallas), Texas.
Panelist, "Re-Viewing Our Environment," SECAC/MACAA
College Art Conf, Richmond, VA.
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| 1995-97 |
Affiliate Resident, Headlands Center for the
Arts, Ft. Barry, Sausalito, CA.
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| 1996 |
Eureka Fellowship nominee, Fleishhacker Foundation,
San Francisco.
SFSU symposium: Public Artists Working in Non-Traditional Ways
in Civic Spaces.
Speaker, Arts & Healing Network, Sausalito.
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| 1995 |
Earth Day speaker, Wayne State College &
Northeast Community College, Nebraska.
Speaker, "Reclaiming the Landscape," de Young Museum, San Francisco.
Speaker, "Urbanism & Transformation," 2AES/Center for Critical
Architecture, Capp St Arts, SF.
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| 1994 |
Panelist, Discussion of Recent SF Public Art
Projects, SF Art Commission Gallery.
Nominee, Arts Education Advocate Award, Oakland Chamber of Commerce.
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| 1993 |
Panelist, "Environmental Imperative for Art,"
San Jose State University.
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| 1992 |
Artist
in Residence, NORCAL Sanitary Fill Co. waste transfer
& recycling facility, SF.
Speaker, "Nature, Culture & Crisis" Symposium, Pt. Reyes,
CA.
Speaker,"Art & Ecology," 2nd International Conference of
Visual Artists, SFSU, SF.
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| 1991 |
"The Crime of Candor", critical paper presented
at the Annual Feminist Conf., U.C. Berkeley.
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| 1990 |
Panelist/lecturer, "Art and the Ecocity," International
Ecological City Conference.
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| 1989 |
High Merit Award, "Women Artists '89," national
juried show, Sacramento, CA. |
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SELECTED
TEACHING |
| 1995-96 |
Faculty, Visual & Public Art Institute, California State
University Monterey Bay.
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| 1992-95 |
Faculty, Art Department, California State University at Hayward.
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SELECTED
COLLECTIONS |
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NORCAL Sanitary
Fill Company, San Francisco, CA.
City of Palo Alto,
CA.
Garbage Reincarnation, Sonoma County, CA.
City of Oakland, CA
Oakland
Museum of California (long-term loan)
Rene Di Rosa Foundation, Napa, CA.
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