Arts Ecologies, and Arts Organizations in Society

Fall 2000 –​ present

​Through professional practice and formal education, I have spent the past twenty years broadening my understanding of the arts as a field of engagement, placemaking, and discourse. In addition to work projects, this has included research of arts organization models and contemporary projects, touring arts ecologies and/or working in various milieus. 

site visit to 3331 Arts Chiyoda in Tokyo 2016, research for curatorial project

at artist Işıl Eğrikavuk's class at Universität der Künste Berlin 2019, visiting a final project and exhibition on the theme of Friendship, visitor

site visit for course planning, to Lacuna Labs artist collective Berlin 2019

site visit for curatorial planning (and learning woodblock printing!) at Irregular Rhythm Asylum, Tokyo 2016

presentation and public discussion with Bisi Silva, founder of Center for Contemporary Art Lagos 2017, producer and co-sponsor

presenter at Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Scotland 2015

documentary film production visit to experimental theater group (my hands and arms on the knee of an actor) Ho Chi Minh City, way back in 2004

Vaginas Vote, Chicks Rock performances and rally at the Apollo Theater in Harlem, voting campaign coordinator for V-Day global movement to end violence against women and girls way back in 2004

studio visit with artists Richard Hunt and Faheem Majeed, 2016

studio manager for artist Adelheid Mers, Chicago 2016

visit to Design Festa and HHH Gallery, Tokyo 2016

education and interpretation team for public performance by artist Faheem Majeed, at Millennium Park in Chicago, collaboration with architect Kunlé Adeyemi and the Chicago Architecture Biennial, 2015

co-sponsor with Northwestern University's Block Museum and Hyde Park Art Center, to host curator Bisi in Chicago, 2017

voting campaign coordinator for V-Day global movement to end violence against women and girls, Juarez march, Mexico, 2004 (photo by Paula Allen)