Arts Ecologies, Arts Organizations

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 manager for artist Adelheid Mers, Chicago 2016

Through professional practice and formal education, I have spent the past eighteen years broadening my understanding of art as a field of public discourse, capable to propose new frameworks and redraft contexts. This has included participation in and visits to various types of arts organizations and networks in the U.S. and abroad, as well as inviting and co-sponsoring invitations for international guests to come to Chicago. 

ROLE: varies, independent and institutional
SITE: various arts spaces and projects in Chicago, New York, Edinburgh, Tokyo, Berlin, Ho Chi Minh City, et al. 

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

editor-in-chief for multilingual edition of the emerge: Journal of Arts Administration and Policy Fall 2016/Spring 2017

site visits for curatorial research, to arts spaces 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Seibu Shibuya display windows, Design Festa Gallery, (Katsushika), Irregular Rhythm Asylum (Shinjuku), Tokyo 2016

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