I consider teaching, creating class curriculum, consulting, and facilitating classes to be an important element of my practice. By visiting my projects page, you will see that much of my work asks questions about and deals with learning. I wanted this page to focus on work/news that also fits in this subject but would not go into my normal portfolio.
I was a guest teacher at Oregon State University. I asked the students to form groups and work
together to create their own countries. Each group would assign its members various roles and act
them out, they would create maps and documents that explain who they are, and they would perform one ceremony or festivity in public. Click here for more pictures and information.
Paul Butler’s Exhibition in Print - 2010
My work was selected by artist/curator Paul Butler, through a blind-jury process, to be a part of his book, Lateral Learning, an Exhibition-in-Print through Vantage Art Projects. The call was for work that responds to the concept: Community and Collaboration as a Form of Pedagogy.
Foundations in Art: Theory and Education (FATE) Conference - 2009
I was a panelist with Katy Asher at the 2009 FATE Conference. We spoke about our views and experiences of incorporating socially based practices into an art foundations classroom.
Glasgow, Scotland - 2010
I was selected to be the artist in residence at the Market Gallery in Glasgow, Scotland. While there I will lead an experiential class on beer industry and pub culture in Glasgow. The class and I will create a public venue, in the form of a pub for homebrewers at the Market Gallery for the Glasgow International Festival for Visual Art. Visit the project page, or the blog page.
Social Practice Undergraduate Class - 2009
In 2009 I co-taught the undergraduate Art & Social Practice class at Portland State University with Harrell Fletcher. The class focused on exploring public resources. Students became artists-in-residence anywhere in Portland, and they became teachers by creating and leading classes to the general public. Three terms worth of documentation can be found at psuart.blogspot.com, the blog I created for the class.
Art in Social Contexts Class - 2010
In the summer of 2010 I will co-teach a class at Ox-Bow School of the Arts in Saugatuck, Michigan with Harrell Fletcher. The class will focus on creating socially engaged art practices with the town of Saugatuck as a site for exploration.
Public Social University - 2008-2009
Public Social University is a forum for themed workshops, classes, and discussions in Portland, Oregon. They facilitate classes which are, in turn, led by members of the public for the public. I commissioned and collaborated with the group to create a class about dystopias and destruction for my exhibition Building in the Post-Apocalypse. For a different event I gave a presentation on utopian and dystopian science fiction movies.
