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Selected Public Projects, one-person

2021 The Historic Jarvisburg Colored School "Songlines on Site"  site specific audio installation 

2019-20 “The Historic Jarvisburg Colored School Project” in research Jarvisburg, NC

2016-17 Public Notice Vernacular, NYC, NY

2015 performance “Books Through Bars”  Out Loud, Philadelphia, PA

2013-15 “The Blackwell School” Marfa Repetición 2014-15, Marfa, Texas

2012-2014 May - Dec “Next Year” Installation, Eastern State Penitentiary, Philadelphia, PA

2010 May - Sept “Wetlands-Mausolea" The Savings Bank of New York, 8th Avenue, NYC,

National Resource Conservation Society

2010 Jan Feb “The Book Cart” Plato’s Cave @ Eidia House, Brooklyn, New York

2009 July - Sept “Buy Less!” The American Billboard Project, Jarvisburg, NC

2009 May - July “Arbor Vitae” Public project, Installation , LMCC and Economic Development Corp NYC

555 West St. NYC

2005-06 April – June “The Periscope Project”, sponsored by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council

2001 June - August The Container Project, “Mirari 7” Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and NYC Parks

Sandra Survida, curator

1999 performance protest, The Brooklyn Museum The Designated Mouner for “Sensations” opening, April, 

1995  PACC and Bedford Stuyvesant public art / Installation, Halsey houses, Brooklyn

1995-99  MTA Arts for Transit, Aqua Regia Sandra Bloodworth, curator  8th Avenue, Brooklyn

 

Selected group Exhibitions

2013, May w/ The Uni Project @ New Museum’s IDEA CITY, New York, NY

2011 Oct - Nov “Censored", The Book Cart” Shaffler Gallery & Pratt Library Brooklyn, Pratt Institute

2006 Union University, Atrium Installation, New Jersey, Robert Costa, Curator.

2004“Rencontres International Video Festival, Paris-Berlin  Paris, France, “What She Said” 

1999 “Vivesection”  Location One with Janene Higgins, Luther Price and Carolee Schneemann

 

Curatorial/Archive

2014  The Banned Book Cart  Pratt Institute Library, Brooklyn campus, 58 artists

2013  Fales Library, NYU, the Jack Smith files: http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/fales/leffingwell/dscref1.html

2000-10 Project Manager/curator for the Jack Smith archive The Plaster Foundation, Jim Hoberman,

curatorial director

2001-01 Vivisection, Location One, NYC with Carolee Schneemann, Janine Higgins, Luther Price

1995-99 P.S.1 Museum of Contemporary Art, retrospective exhibition “Jack Smith- Flaming Creature”  

Project manager for the exhibition and co-editor catalogue 

1995-7 Curator, Drawings: “Wait for Me at the Bottom of the Pool” collected writings of Jack Smith,

with J Hoberman and High Risk press, NY

1995-97 Curator of Jack Smith’s oeuvre with Carol Kismaric, Ed Leffingwell and Marvin Heiffernan for

exhibition catalogue “Flaming Creatures, The Life and Times of Jack Smith”

 

Awards

2019-2021 NC Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Songlines projects

2019 Pratt Institute Faculty Fund "Songlines" The Historic Jarvisburg Colored School, audio installation

2014-15Humanities Texas for "Marfa Repetición" community conversations and oral histories

2013-14 Pratt Institute Faculty Fund “The Blackwell School”  research and development 2014

2010-11 Pratt Institute Faculty Fund, ATINER Visual Arts Conference, Athens, Greece.

2007-08 Pratt Institute Faculty Art Fund Award, Arbor Vitae NYC, NY

2006-07 Manhattan Community Arts Fund and LMCC, for Arbor Vitae, NYC

2001-02 Pollock Krasner Foundation, individual Artist grant

2000-01 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and the Manhattan Arts Fund, grant for “The Container Project”

Sandra Skurvida, curator

1995-96 Brooklyn Arts and Cultural Association, grant for Bedford-Stuyvesant Public Arts project

1995-96 Vista Federal Grant and Pratt Area Community Council, grant for Public Arts Project, Bed-Stuy Brooklyn, NY

1993-98 MTA Arts for Transit, The New York Aquarium Public Arts project

1990-92 Skira Artist Residency, Barcelona and Cadaques, Spain

1982 MacDowell Colony Residency

 

Experience

2017-18 Inclusive Pedagogy Scholar, Pratt Institute, New York

2006-2021Associate Professor CCE of Fine Arts, BFA/MFA Drawing/Installation & Painting Pratt Institute,NY

2008-09 MFA MFA Studio Professor, Maine College of Art,

2000-06 Adjunct Assistant Professor, Drawing/Installation and Painting, Fine Arts, Pratt Institute

2005-21 Fellowship Coordinator, Skowhegan, Ox-Bow and Yale/Norfolk Fellowships BFA and MFA program,

Fine Arts, Pratt Institute

2002-03 Acting Assistant Chair, Fine Arts, Pratt Institute, NY

1993-1996  MFA Studio Thesis advisor and faculty Vermont College of Art

1995-98 Special Projects Manager, The Jack Smith project and Flaming Creatures PS1 Center for Contemporary Art, Long Island City, NY

1993-1994 BFA Assistant Professor, Fine Arts, Syracuse University, NY

1992-1993  MFA Visiting Artist, Studio Arts Syracuse University  Syracuse NY

1990-1992 Foundation Art, visiting Lecturer, Pratt Institute, New York

 

LECTURES, PANELS

2019 Tate London, Exchange Intensive January 2019, Interview with curator Sarah Cullen and program leaders The Case for Action

2017 Pratt Institute Fine Arts, Faculty Lecture Series, NY

2014 AIA New York, Center for Architecture “Invisible Histories: "The Social Practice of Civic Engagement”  Mark Gardner, AIA LEEDS panel moderator

2013 Pratt Manhattan Gallery MFA exhibition critique and live radio interview with Terrance McKnight

"Look and Listen" festival 

2011 ATINER Visual Arts Conference, Pratt Institute Drawing/Installation  Athens, Greece

2009 The University of Fine Arts, MFA critiques and Artist lecture, Trondheim, Norway

2009 The Royal College of Art, Oslo,Norway Graduate MFA Fine Arts Department, Artist lecture

2009 The Stavanger Museum of Art, Artist lecture, Stavanger, Norway

2000  Pratt Institute Panel moderator, David Little MoMA, Toyshop Swoon, Tim Rollins KOS, Jeffrey Peabody/Mathew Marks Gallery, 16 Beaver "What We Need to Make it in the Art World" 

1999  Pratt Institute Panel moderator "Visiting Alumni" Micki Thomas, Sheila Moss and Carrie Moyer

1998 The Fine Arts Museum, Artist lecture, Haugesund, Norway

1998 Stavanger KunstSkolen MFA Painting and Drawing critiques & lecture, Stavanger, Norway

1996 International Studio Artists Panel and Jury, PS1, New York

1995 PS1 National Studio Artsits Residency Panel and Jury, PS1, New York

1995 “Women Artists As Mentors” New York Coalition for the Arts, NY

1995 Bennington College Fine Arts Department, Artist lecture and critiques