CURRICULUM VITAE
Current Academic Position: Professor of Graduate Fine Art, California College of the Arts
Tenure at CCA: 2003-2027
Areas of Expertise: Social Practice, Conceptual Art, Ecological Practices and Community Engagement.
My social and documentary projects consider the ways people live into specific places over time, amplifying the emergent choreography of landscape, shared experience, and participatory actions in shaping collective and civic life. Early research in experimental dance, environmental studies, and eastern philosophy continue to shape my craft with attention to landscape, ecology of place, ephemeral encounters and poetics of daily life.
Social Projects • Films • Exhibitions
2026 THERE IS A WORLD BEHIND THE WORLD, experimental 16mm film, trt:5min.
Lyrical portrait of the landscape and memory.
2026 O’DE TO THE SPIRIT OF VARIED THRUSH, video, trt:14 min. Contribution for social project Disappearing Birds of North America organized by Jen De Los Reyes. ~370 artists represent North American birds threatened by climate change, book and on-line presence to be published by the Audubon Society in fall 2027.
2017-2027 WE PLACE OURSELVES IN THESE MOUNTAINS : film exploring Marsha Stone, Mary Moore and Jennifer Crosby's vision to chronicle 50-years of celebrations and struggles in 12 embroidered panels stitched by their community on the San Juan Ridge. Completed in 2022, the San Juan Ridge Tapestry Project is a contemporary example of traditional women’s handwork that has frequently, and often subversively, documented community life, political upheaval, and the natural world through thread. Initially inspired by the Bayeux Tapestry, the ambition, scale, and cultural significance of this project embodies the ethos of the back-to-the-land community that arrived in California’s Sierra Mountains in the 1960s. Their stories, stitched in wool on linen, narrate the community’s history, voice ecological and political concerns, chronicle the bioregion’s flora and fauna, and celebrate the communal nature of their existence; likewise, the tapestries offer a blueprint for sustainable futures.
2025 TEACHING AS PRACTICE, group exhibition, 120710 Gallery, Berkeley, CA. Curated by: Joshua Moreno. Teaching Practice brings together the work of artist–professors from thirteen Bay Area colleges, situating their production within the fertile space where pedagogy and personal practice converge. Together, these works present a compelling portrait of contemporary Bay Area college art education, highlighting the ongoing dialogue between teaching and artistic practice, where pedagogy and creation inform and enrich one another.
2020-2025 A RADICAL THREAD, trt: 71 min. documentary, Project Creator and Executive Producer. The film examines the struggles of an activist community in the Sierra foothills whose 50-year commitment to collective stewardship of the land is told in twelve embroidered panels measuring 84 feet. 2025 Screenings: Wild and Scenic (CA) People’s Choice Award, DocLands (CA), Mendocino Film Festival (CA), More than One Delmar The Sea Ranch (CA), Zion Canyon Arts and Humanities Council, Utah, North Columbia Cultural Center (CA) Detroit Independent Film Festival (MI) Tokyo Women’s Film Festival (semi-finalist), Other Cinema, San Francisco (CA) Roxie Theater, San Francisco (CA).
2018-19 CIVIC WOMEN: Suite for Building a Forest, performance action engaging local women and their contributions to civic life in rural Bohemia, curated by Lydia Matthews; ArtMill: Center for Sustainable Creativity, Horaždovice, CZECH REPUBLIC. Residency ’18; KINO Exhibition ’19.
2019-21 WE ARE HERE: Alterations, performance/installation in collaboration with Lacy + Britta Kathmeyer; Suzanne Lacy Retrospective curated by Rudolph Frieling, Lucia Sanroman and Dominic Willsdon; Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo, Sevilla, SPAIN October 16, 2020 - March 4, 2021; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, April 20-August 4, 2019. Catalog.
2018 YOU HAD TO BE THERE: A Living Archive: Temescal Amity Works, Swissnex Gallery, Pier 17, San Francisco, CA.
2017 #EXSTRANGE: stick with history of affordance, on-line auction, created for eBay, curated by Maria Laura Ghidini and Rebekah Modrak. Catalog.
2015 FORMS FOR ENCOUNTER AND EXCHANGE: A Field School for Socially-Engaged Artists: Lead Artist/Faculty with Ted Purves, 10-day Residency exploring School as Social Project, Laughing Waters Artist Residency, curated by Marnie Badham; in affiliation with the University of Melbourne, AUSTRALIA.
2014 ROOTING (India): THE KNOWLEDGE PROJECT: Collateral Project for the Kochi Biennial in conjunction with 6018 North in Chicago and the Rhizome Alliance, Kochi, INDIA.
2014 MOUNTAINS IN MY SPOON: ARTISTS AND FOOD AT THE LUCAS ARTIST RESIDENCY: in a time of surplus :: an archive of food, memory and landscape, curated by Donna Conwell; Montalvo Art Center, Saratoga, CA.
2013 MANZANITA, YARROW, NETTLES, SWEET GUM AND JADE: new works exploring plants and plant- based medicine, curated by Suzanne L’heureux; Interface Gallery, Oakland, CA.
2012 GREEN ACRES: ARTISTS FARMING FIELDS, GREENHOUSES AND ABANDONED LOTS: Red Bank Paw Paw Circle, Public Commission, curated by Sue Spaid; Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH. Catalog.
2012 TASTE CULTIVAR: Pomelo Lime Neighborhood Marmalade: Temescal Amity Works, curated by Bill Basquin and Amy Cancelmom; Root Division, San Francisco, CA
2011 LIVING AS FORM: SOCIALLY ENGAGED ART FROM 1991-2011, Temescal Amity Works, Archive of Socially Engaged Art from 1991-2011, curated by Nato Thompson; Creative Time, NYC.
2010 DIG UP MY HEART: ARTISTIC PRACTICE IN THE FIELD: PEI, the Ferry and Away: Meadow Network #3, curated by Shauna McCabe; Confederation Centre Gallery, Prince Edward Island, CANADA.x
2009 AGRI ART: COMPANION PLANTING FOR SOCIAL AND BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS, Temescal Amity Works, curated by Mark Cooley and Ryan Griffis; George Mason University, Fairfax,Virginia.
2009 THIS SHOW NEED YOU: Lemon Everlasting Backyard Battery, curated by SusanO’Malley San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA.
2008 THE GATHERERS: GREENING OUR URBAN SPHERES: The Meadow Network (newspaper issues: #1 Among Farmers and Gatherers + #2 Drawn from Rural Backgrounds) + Rural Background Workshop with myvillages.org), curated by Berin Golonu and Veronica Wiman Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA. Catalog.
2008 ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE ACTIONS (EPA) S.E.A. (SOCIALENVIRONMENTAL AESTHETICS) Temescal Amity Works, curated by Exit Art and ecoartspace, Exit Art, NYC.
2007 ALLISON SMITH: NOTION NANNY, Neighborhood Marmalade Workshop, curated by Elizabeth Thomas, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA.
2004-2007 TEMESCAL AMITY WORKS: three-year social project which facilitated and documented the exchange of backyard produce, conversation, and collective biography within the Temescal Neighborhood of Oakland, CA.
2007 INFINITE GALLERY EXCHANGE: Conversions Project, Kensington Art Project atNuite Blanche, Toronto, CANADA.
2006 HYBRID FIELDS: ARTISTS EXPLORING OUR FOOD SYSTEMS: SonomaCounty Preserve, curated by Patricia Watts; Sonoma County Museum, Santa Rosa,CA. Catalog.
2006 WWW DOT CREATIVE CAPITAL DOT ORG: Temescal Amity Works, NathanCummings Foundation, NYC.
2005 WHITE BOX FUNDRAISER: Lemons from Amity Works, Triple Base Gallery, SanFrancisco, CA.
2005 ACTS OF CREATIVE & CRITICAL RESISTANCE IN THE SAN FRANCISCO BAYAREA: Temescal Amity Works, Art Caucuses: Actual Art Convention, curated by LydiaMatthews; Tbilisi, GEORGIA.
2005 ART ON THE BART: ARTIST GUIDED TOUR OF THE BAY AREA URBAN ECOSYSTEM: Temescal Amity Works, curated by Amber Hasselbring, San FranciscoBay Area Transit Corridor, CA.
2002 THE EARTH: sit here-- all this is to know, curated by Anthony Marcellini, PotreroGardens, San Francisco, CA.2002 MFA FACULTY EXHIBITION: Flock, Arts and Consciousness Gallery, JFKUniversity Arts Annex, Berkeley, CA.
2001 EPHEMERAL: knithoughts, juried exhibition, Kellogg University Art Gallery,Pomona, CA. Catalog.
2001 ARTIST’S PAGES FROM THE DJERASSI RESIDENCY PROGRAM: stable, SanFrancisco Art Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2001 FREESTYLE: knithoughts, Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1999 SUSANNE COCKRELL + CURTIS HSIANG, NEW WORK: IdiosyncraticMethodologies for Nothing in Particular, curated by Matt Pawlowski, ESP Gallery, SanFrancisco, CA.
1999 MFA FACULTY EXHIBITION: Just this Moment, Just a Moment Ago, Arts andConsciousness Gallery, JFK University Arts Annex, Berkeley, CA.
1998 MARKET STREET-IN-TRANSIT: Sighting, public commission, collaboration withNina Ackerberg, San Francisco Public Art Commission, San Francisco, CA.
1998 NEW ACQUISITIONS TO THE PERMANENT COLLECTIONS: Tracking A Certain Calm, curated by Larry Rinder, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA.
1998 ALTERNATIVE LIGHT: running up a hill, holding camera running, 3 screen projection + print edition give away, curated by Steve Anker, The Lab + CinemathequeSan Francisco, CA.
1996 OPEN HOUSE: Leap, installation, Affiliate Artist, Headlands Center for the Arts,Sausalito, CA.
1996 PROJECT PAPER ROAD: We Will Go to Nature, with Ted Purves, Danish PostalMuseum, DENMARK.
1996 SEQUENCE: San Francisco State University Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
1996 ECSTASY, SICKNESS, CONFUSION: TRAVEL-BASED ART: juried exhibition,We Will Go to Nature, Columbus Art League, Ohio.
1996 OPEN HOUSE: knowd, installation, Affiliate Artist, Headlands Center for the Arts,Sausalito, CA.
1995 OLD GLORY, NEW STORY:RE-FLAGGING THE 21ST CENTURY: Alterations,with Suzanne Lacy & Britta Kathmeyer, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica,CA.
1994 OLD GLORY, NEW STORY:RE-FLAGGING THE 21ST CENTURY: Alterations,with Suzanne Lacy & Britta Kathmeyer, Capp Street Project, San Francisco, CA.
1994 OPEN HOUSE: level: drawing no.1, Affiliate Artist, Headlands Center for the Arts,Sausalito, CA.
1993 ARTICULATED SILENCE: Logos Interruptus, curated by Michael Damm, VictoriaRoom, San Francisco, CA.
1993 OPEN HOUSE: Contemplation of Impurity, installation, Affiliate Artist, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA.
1993 MOMENTS OF PERCEPTION, co-curator with Annette Goodfriend, Gallery Here,Oakland, CA.
1993 BARCLAY SIMPSON AWARD EXHIBITION, Barclay Simpson Gallery, Lafayette,CA.1993 MFA EXHIBITION: acumen bent persistence time, Three Sisters Storehouse,Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA.
1993 MFA EXHIBITION, Bird Woman ll, Oliver Arts Center, California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA
Editions and Publications
2025: BOOK ArtMill: A Story of Sustainable Creativity in Bohemia, Barbara Banish, Chapter 10: Seeds Global to Local, Civic Women.
2023 CATALOG: 40th Anniversary Publication, selected artist, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA.
2022 CATALOG: Walking as a Question, International Walking Encounters/Conference, walking the water’s edge, woolgatherers’ collective ( Susanne Cockrell, Deborah Valoma, Angela Hennessey, Rebekah Edwards) Prespa, GREECE Eds. Geert Vermeer + Yannis Ziogas, Prespa, Greece.
2021 BOOK CHAPTER: Digging in the World: Art and Emergent Forms for Living, Routledge Companion to Art in the Public Realm, editors Cameron Cartiere (Emily Carr University, Vancouver, CANADA) & Leon Tan (UIT, Auckland NEW ZEALAND; Routledge, NYC/London.
2020 CATALOG: Digging in the World: Transforming Spaces of Public Life to Attune and Reconnect. Art Practical, The Inner Workings of Public Art Practice, Open Spaces Symposium, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA.
2019 RECOLLECTION: Steven Leiber: Catalogs, Inventory Press LA + Rite Editions San Francisco, CA.
2018 BOOKLET: the only possible sitework i could conceive is to express my desire to somehow become one, a fieldfaring project with Susan Eslava; Birding Walk in memory of Ted Purves organized by Randall Szott for Open Engagement Conference, NYC.
2017 CATALOG: #exstrange, a curatorial intervention on ebay, 7-day artwork/auction, curated by Maria Laura Ghidini and Rebekah Modrak, Maise Books, Michigan Publishing, MI.
2015 ARTICLE: Unlikely: Journal for Creative Arts, issue no.2, Forms for Encounter and Exchange: Field School as Social Form, Laughing Waters Artist Residency, co-authored with Marnie Badham, Amy Spiers, Kate Hill and Ted Purves, editors, Lucas Ihlein and Brogan Bunt, Victorian College of Art, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA.
2014 BOOK: Temescal Amity Works 2003-7, What We Want is Free: Critical Exchanges in Recent Art, 2nd edition; edited byTed Purves and Shane Aslan Selzer; SUNY Press, NY
2013 BOOK: Service Media: Is it Public Art or is it Art n Public Space?, Bad at Sports:An Interview with Ted Purves at Open Engagement at PSU, Oregon, The Green LanternPress, Chicago, Ill
2012 CATALOG: Green Acres: Artists Farming Fields, Greenhouses and AbandonedLots, Cincinnati Art Center, Cincinnati, OH
2011 BOOK CHAPTER: The Parent Material, Images of Farming by Waapke Fenstra+Anjte Schemers
2008 NEWSPRINT EDITION: The Meadow Network: Issue #1:Among Farmers andGatherers, Issue #2: Drawn from Rural Backgrounds, Issue #4: PEI, the Ferry andAway, ongoing, self-published
2000 STAMP WORK EDITION: everything/everywhere/everyday, self-published,Oakland, CA
1999 PRINT EDITION/100: beinglikeneverbeforebeingbefore, self-published, Oakland,CA
1998 VIDEO EDITION: waiting for birds, Earth Project Meeting, 0,0 Editions, SanFrancisco, CA
1997 16MM FILMM EDITION/100: running up a hill holding camera running, filmaction #1, self-published, Oakland
1996 PHOTO EDITION/100: leap, self-published, Berkeley, CA
1996 ARTIST BOOK: a glossary of pod dynamics, Contributions to Knowledge #1, 0,0Editions, SF
1996 ARTICLE: Alterations: A series of Conversations, w/Suzanne Lacy,Fiber Arts, sept/oct
Lectures/Conferences/Juror
2026 GALLERY TALK: In conversation with artist Annette Goodfriend, Phenotype, La Haye Art Center, Sonoma, CA
2025 JUROR: Impact Awards, Center for Art and Public, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2021 VIRTUAL PROJECT and PRESENTATION: International Walking Encounters/Conference, walking the water’s edge, woolgatherers’ collective ( Susanne Cockrell, Deborah Valoma, Angela Hennessy, Rebekah Edwards) Prespa, GREECE
2021 CONFERENCE: Barcelona Decolonial Summer School, Attended as member of leadership cohort of the CCA Decolonial School curricular initiative. July 5-9
2020 PANEL: Online Learning Through Activism grantees: Presenting class project, We’ave the People, Creative Citizen's in Action, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2020 LECTURE: Graduate Lecture Series for SACI (Studio Arts College International, Florence) organized by MFA director Kirsten Stromberg and the College of Art and Design, Firenze ITALY
2019 JUROR: Ann Chamberlain Award for merit working in the discipline of social practice, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
2019 JUROR: Visual Arts Review Committee for artists and nonprofit organizations to create new art works through collaborations, Walter & Elise Haas Creative Work Fund, San Francisco, CA
2019-20 JUROR: American Arts Incubator/Creative Cultural Exchange Review Committee, ZERO1: The Art and Technology Network, American Arts Incubator/Creative Cultural Exchange San Francisco, CA
2018 PANEL: Commemorating “What We Want is Free”: Remembering Ted Purves,organized by Matias Viegener, College Art Association, LA
2017 LECTURE: Art as a Social Practice, The Urban School, SF
2016 CONSORTIUM TEAM: Open Engagement Conference: Power to Engage: Whatare Artists and Art Museums Learning from One Another? Local thought leader inorganizing national conference on Socially Engaged Art, organized by Jen de losReyes, Oakland, CA
2016 LECTURE: Socially Engaged Art and Feminism: As far as I am concerned,everything in which a feminist is involved becomes feminist in some sense, organizedby Marnie Badham, University of Melbourne Community Practice Program, Oakland, CA
2015 LECTURE: Close Encounters: Storytelling as a Way to Reveal Life and Bend the World, Forms for Encounter and Exchange at Laughing Waters Residency Program, bushland in Eltham, Victoria, AUSTRALIA
2015 PUBLIC TALK: Fieldfaring Projects with Ted Purves, Eltham Performing ArtsCentre, Nillumbin, AUSTRALIA 5.22.15
2015 PUBLIC RECAP: Forms for Encounter and Exchange with Susanne Cockrell, Ted Purves + Marnie Badham, Federation Hall, Victorian College of Art, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA
2015. PANEL: Creating a Global Network: Social Practice in Higher Education, OpenEngagement Conference, Pittsburgh, PA
2015 PRESENTATION/PANEL: Fieldfaring Projects with Ted Purves: Questioning Aesthetics Symposium, Arts Research Center organized by Shannon Jackson, UCBerkeley, CA 3.13.15
2015 JUROR: Impact Awards, Center for Art and Public Life, California College of theArts, Oakland/San Francisco, CA
2013. PRESENTATION: Can Artists Heal Nature?, Zero1+ Montalvo Arts Center, SanJose, CA
2013. PRESENTATION/PANEL: Ruralscape: A Report from Artists Working in Rural and Remote Places + Discussion of Strategies, Troubles and Delights, OpenEngagement Conference: Making Things, Making Things Better, Making Things WorsePortland, OR
2012 KEYNOTE: M12 Collective’s The Big Feed, Byers, CO
2011 ARTIST TALK + GRADUATE STUDIO VISITS: Department of Art Practice, UCBerkeley, CA
2011 MODERATOR: Forage, Oakland Standard, Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, CA
2011 PANEL: Underground Food Movement, Studio for Urban Projects, SF, CA
2008 PANEL: Intervene! Interrupt! Rethinking Art and Social Practice, University of California Santa Cruz, SF
2007 PRESENTATION: The Green Language: Rural Logic and Urban Practice, Seminar on Arts and Social Engagement, Annual Meeting of the Cultural Studies Association, Portland, OR
2007 JUROR with Rene Priniken: Look Forward to Seeing It: The Discipline of Anticipation, Annual Exhibition, The LAB, San Francisco, CA
2007 ARTIST TALK: Fieldfaring Projects, University of Michigan, School of Art andDesign, Ann Arbor, MI
2006 PRESENTATION: The Production of Temescal Amity Works, Creative CapitalGrantees Retreat, NY
2005 PANEL: Eco-Art Activists: Making the Invisible Visible, Bioneers, San Rafael CA
2005 PRESENTATION: Conception of Temescal Amity Works, Creative Capital Retreat,Wells College, NY
2004-6 ARTIST TALK + TOURS: Temescal Amity Works, Fieldfaring Projects, numerous class visits, public meetings, group foraging adventures, at our Temescal Alley storefront + neighborhood, Oakland, CA
2000 JUROR: ARTS UP: Public Art Commissions, Seattle Arts Commission, Director,Barbara Goldstein, Seattle, WA
2001 BIRTH: delivered Oliver Heron Purves on August 2, 7:50 pm.12 hours Labor, Leo Sun, Capricorn Moon.
1999 ARTIST TALK: Film department, San Francisco Art Institute, Mary Tsiongas instructor, San Francisco, CA
1999 ARTIST TALK: Film/Video/Performance Seminar, Gail Wight instructor, CaliforniaCollege of Arts, Oakland, CA
1998 CURATOR/PRESENTER + PUBLIC SCREENING: Alternative Visions:Experimental film from the Bay Area, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA
1998 LECTURE: Histories of Installation Art, Undergraduate Fine Art, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA
1997 LECTURE with Nina Ackerberg: Sighting Art in Transit, San Francisco Camerawork,San Francisco, CA
1996 JUROR: Visual Arts Residency Awards 1997-8, Djerassi Foundation Fellowship, Woodside, CA
1994 PANEL + SCREENING: Not A Fixed I, UC Berkeley Symposium organized by filmmaker Lynne Sachs, Berkeley, CA
Awards/Grants/Residencies
2026 GRANT: Investing in Artists, Center for Cultural Innovation, quick grant, Los Angeles, CA (pending)
2025 GRANT: Investing in Artists, Center for Cultural Innovation, quick grant, Los Angeles, CA
2025 SABBATICAL: 2025-26 academic year, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2021 SABBATICAL: Spring 2021, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2023. GRANT: Maple Leaf Family Foundation, Boston, MA
2020 PRODUCTION GRANT: A Radical Thread, Documentary Film, Roberts FamilyFoundation, Berkeley, CA
2020. GRANT: Curriculum Development, Creative Citizens in Action, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2018 FACULTY TRAVEL GRANT: research trip for project Civic Women, Horaždovice, Czech Republic, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2018 SABBATICAL: Spring, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2014 RESIDENCY: LUCAS ARTIST FELLOWSHIP, Montalvo Art Center, Saratoga, CA.
2012 SABBATICAL: 2012-13, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2012 FACULTY TRAVEL GRANT: Keynote: Big Feed, Byers CO, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2011 GRANT: Seed Fund, curriculum grant: Intercultural Gardens: class at CCA, San Francisco, CA
2010 GRANT: Seed Fund, for Meadow Network Newspapers, San Francisco, CA
2010 FACULTY TRAVEL GRANT:Symposium Presentation: Images of Farming, Nordhorn, GERMANY, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2008 GRANT: Investing in Artists, Center for Cultural Innovation, Fieldfaring Projects, San Francisco, CA.
2007 FACULTY TRAVEL GRANT: Research: Community Situated Social Projects inSweden, Denmark, Netherlands, Muenster Sculpture Festival with Ted Purves, California College of the Arts, San Francisco - Oakland, CA
2006 FACULTY TRAVEL GRANT: Presentation: Cultural Studies Association, Portland OR, California College of the Arts, San Francisco - Oakland, CA
2005 GRANT: Individual Artist Project for Temescal Amity Works, Oakland Cultural Arts, Oakland, CA
2005 GRANT: Creative Capital for Temescal Amity Works, Creative CapitalFoundation, NYC
2004 GRANT: Creative Work Fund for Temescal Amity Works San Francisco, CA
1998 SECA AWARD NOMINATION, with Nina Ackerberg, Matt Pawlowski, ESP Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1998 PURCHASE AWARD: Berkeley Art Museum, Curator Larry Rinder, Gerbode Foundation, Berkeley, CA
1996 RESIDENCY: John D. and Susan P. Deikman Fellowship, Djerassi Foundation,Woodside, CA
1994 AWARD + TOUR: Director’s Choice for 16 mm film “Bywandering Fields”, BlackMaria Film Festival, NJ
1994 AWARD + TOUR: Honorable Mention for “Bywandering Fields”, Ann ArborExperimental. Film Festival, MI
1993 RESIDENCY: Three-year Affiliate Artist Residency, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
1993 AWARD: Barclay Simpson Award, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
1991 AWARD: Cadogan Murphy Merit Award, San Francisco Foundation, San Francisco, CA
Film Screenings + Performance
2020-2025 FILM: A Radical Thread, Executive Producer, Original concept and community collaborator.
2025 Screenings: Wild and Scenic (CA) People’s Choice Award, DocLands (CA), Mendocino Film Festival (CA), More than One Delmar The Sea Ranch (CA), Zion Canyon Arts and Humanities Council, Utah, North Columbia Cultural Center (CA) Detroit Independent Film Festival (MI) Tokyo Women’s Film Festival (semi-finalist), JAPAN, Other Cinema, San Francisco (CA) Roxie Theater, San Francisco (CA)
2007 FILM: Bywandering Fields, 16mm film, California College of the Arts Centennial Screening, Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
2001 FILM: just this moment, just a moment ago, 16mm film, Ann Arbor Film Festival, AnnArbor, MI
1998 FILM:running up a hill, holding camera running, three screen projection + print edition give away, ALTERNATIVE LIGHT: curated by Steve Anker, The Lab + CinemathequeSan Francisco, CA
1996 SET DESIGN: Left and Rights, directed by Annice Jacoby, Dixon Place Theater, NYC
1995 SET DESIGN: No Exile, performance by Ingeborg Weinmann White, Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
1995 FILM: Bywandering Fields, 16mm, Semena De Cine Experimental Madrid, SPAIN
1994 FILM: Bywandering Fields, 16mm, Black Maria Film Festival + Tour Jersey City, NJ
1994 FILM: Bywandering Fields, 16mm, Ann Arbor Film Festival + Tour, Ann Arbor, MI
1993 FILM: Bywandering Fields, Interior Landscapes + Tour, PMS Postmodern Sisters, Chicago, IL
Selected Screenings; 1993-95: Millenium, NYC, Media Arts Center,Seattle, WA, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC, Rhode Island School of Design,Artist Television Access, SF, Cleveland Art Institute, Los Angeles Film Forum, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Filmmakers, Pacific Film Archive, University of California, Berkeley, Films Arts Festival, San Francisco, CA.
1993 PERFORMANCE: Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka. Directed by Miroslaw Kocur of the Polish Theater Laboratory; Adapted and produced by Colin Wood. Theater Bernice, San Francisco, CA
1992 SOLO PERFORMANCE: Hard Balls, produced by Brava! For Women in the Arts, Life on the Water Theater, Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA
1991 SOLO PERFORMANCE: Rosemary Figg, produced by San Francisco Solo Mio Festival, San Francisco, Directed by Amy Mueller, San Francisco, CA
1988 PERFORMANCE: 3OUTS-POKEN: Works by Susanne Cockrell, Rebecca Weiner + Diviana Ingravallo, developed in workshop with Nina Wise, Fobbo Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1988 ASSISTANT DIRECTOR: Jones and The Bird, by Stephan Rappaport, ClimateTheater, San Francisco, CA
Bibliography
2021 BOOK: HONORABLE MENTION: The Lure of the Social: Encounters with Contemporary Artists, Gretchen Coombs, Intellect Press, Chicago,UK
2021 BLOG: Give It Away: Means and Ways of Artistic Generosity. Beautiful Eccentrics, Pablo Halguera 6.10.21
2019 CATALOG: We Are Here: Suzanne Lacy’s Retrospective, Alterations, Edited by Frieling, Sanroman, Willsdon, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Del Monico Books, Munich, London, New York
2017 CATALOG: “#exstrange”Maria Laura Ghidini and Rebekah Modrak, seven-day series of artworks as auctions created for eBay, Maize Books, Michigan Publishing, catalog dedication to Ted Purves. ARTICLE: The Value of Exchange: The Agora, The Flea Market, and ebay, Rob Walker.
2013 REVIEW: Green Acres: Artists Farming Fields, Greenhouses and Abandoned Lots, Cincinnati, Jennie Klein, Art Papers vol 37 no2 (March/April 2013)
2013 REVIEW: Madisonville Foraging Woodland Garden, Civic Garden Center of Greater Cincinnati, OH
2013 HIGHLIGHT: Oakland Gallery Turns into Medicinal Herb Workshop and lab for April, MANZANITA, YARROW, NETTLES, SWEET GUM AND JADE, Oakland local.com, Oakland, CA
2012 CATALOG: Green Acres: Artists Farming Fields, Greenhouses and Abandoned Lots, Contemporary Art Center, Ed.Sue Spade, Cincinnati, OH
2012 REVIEW: Sculptures Bloom in Madisonville, The Community Press and Reporter, Cincinnati, OH
2012 ARTICLE: Issue #4: Dinner Discussion 33: Some people collect material possessions Chef Leif Hedendal collects dinner companions by Twilight Greenaway, Kinfolk Magazine, Copenhagen, DENMARK
2011 BLOG FEATURE: The Culinary Underground, Nicola Twilley, Edible Geography
2011 ONLINE REVIEW: Living as Form: Creative Time’s Summit and exhibition in the old Essex St. Market, Andrea Hirsch, The Art Blog, 9/29/11
2011 ONLINE REVIEW: Activism as an Art Form, Urban Omnibus: The Culture of City making, urbanomnibus.net, Mercedes Kraus, 10/2011
2011 REVIEW: Creative Time's Living as Form Measures Artistic Validity in Terms of the Greater Good, Christian L. Frock, KQED Arts, 10/ 2011
2011 ARTICLE: The Art of Community Engagement, Daniel Grant, New York Times,7/22/11
2010 ONLINE FEATURE: Serving, Cooking, Giving It Away: Food, Art, and the Places in Between, Twilight Greenaway, Art Practical, 11/14/2010
2010 ONLINE FEATURE: Farm Fresh Art: Food, Art, Politics, and the Blossoming of Social Practice, Liena Vayzman, Art Practical, 11/14/2010
2010 ONLINE FEATURE: Dig Up My Heart: Agricultural Aesthetics, Gabrielle Moser, Canadian Art (www.canadianart.ca), Summer
2010 ARTICLE: The Good Guide to Better Neighborhoods: Create a Neighborhood Clubhouse, Eric Smilie, Good Magazine, April
2009 ONLINE INTERVIEW: Susanne Cockrell/Ted Purves, Fieldfaring Projects, Center for Collective Wealth (www.collectivewealth.org), Melbourne, Australia, Sept
2009 REVIEW: Sustainable Economics in Current Agriart, Ron Graziani, yougenics.net, May
2009 ARTICLE: Urban Gardeners, Marcia Tanner, Art Ltd. Magazine (artltdmag.com),May
2008 CATALOG: The Gatherers: Greening Our Urban Spheres, curated by BerinGolonu and Veronica Wiman, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2008 E-FLUX: Environmental Performance Actions at Exit Art, NYC
2008 INTERVIEW: Susanne Cockrell/Ted Purves on Lemon Everlasting Backyard Battery, NYFA Current, New York Foundation for the Arts (www.nyfa.org), Summer
2008 ARTICLE: Lemon Art, San Jose Mercury News, 4/30/2008
2008 ARTICLE: When Life Gives You Lemons, Make Them Art, Silicon Valley Business Journal, 4/25/2008
2008 ARTICLE: Art in Your Face, San Jose Metroactive, 4/23/2008
2007 ARTICLE: Local Food Outside Your Door, Terri Coles, Reuters,11/22/2007
2007 ONLINE FEATURE: The Modern Harvest, Stephanie Beechem, Culinate 8/2007
2007 REVIEW: Gastronomica Magazine, Spring 2007
2006 REVIEW: Dystopia Now: Hybrid Fields Anything But Bucolic, Gretchen Giles, North Bay Bohemian, 9/13/2006
2006 CATALOG: Hybrid Fields-Artists Exploring Our Food Systems, Sonoma County Museum, Santa Rosa, CA
2006 FEATURE: Waste,Glorious, Waste, John Birdsall, East Bay Weekly, Berkeley, CA 9/ 20-26/2006
2006 ARTICLE: Being There, Matt Dibble, Oakland Magazine, January, Oakland, CA
2005 ARTICLE: Performance Artists Star in Art on Bart, Berkeley Daily Planet,10/14/2005
2005 VIEWPOINT/REVIEW: David Spalding, Artweek Magazine, San Fransisco, CA
2005 FEATURE ARTICLE: Backyard to Bountiful, Romney Steele, Edible East Bay Magazine, (Autumn) Oakland, CA
2005 KALW NEWS FEAURE: The Money Saving Edition, Temescal Amity Works,KALW Public Radio, SF 5/29/
2005 CATALOG: Acts of Creative & Critical Resistance in the San Francisco Bay Area, Lydia Matthews, Art Caucuses, Tbilisi, Georgia
2001 CATALOG: Ephemeral, Patrick Merrill and Mary Cecile Gee, Kellogg University Art Gallery, California State Polytechnic University. Pomona, CA
1999 REVIEW: Where the Kids Are, Ruttenberg, SF Weekly, April1
1999 ONLINE REVIEW: Susanne Cockrell: Idiosyncratic Methodologies for Nothing inParticular, Colin Berry, CitySearch.com, Feb/Mar
1998 REVIEW: Sighting, Andrew Dunbar, Art Papers, March/April vol.22 issue 2
1995 REVIEW: A Flap Over..., Christopher Knight, LA Times,7/9/1995
1994 REVIEW: Bywandering Fields, Manhola Dargis. LA Weekly, 11/25-12/1/1994
1993 REVIEW: An Extraordinary Look at Things, Carol Fowler, The Times, 5/21/1993
1993 REVIEW: Small-Town Romance: Highlights from the '93 Film Arts Festival. Kurt Wolfe, SF Bay Guardian
Collections
Stick Gun, 2017 Joshua Stulen, San Francisco, CA Private Collection.
Lowt ide, 1992 William Banyai, San Francisco, CA. Private Collection.
Tracking A Certain Calm, Berkeley Art Museum ad Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA.
Museum of Modern Art Library, NYC, Artist book collection
Tate Gallery Library, London, Artist book collection
SF Museum of Modern Art Library, San Francisco, Artist book collection
Archive Geza Pernecsky, Cologne, Private Artist book collection
Related Activities
2023 AICAD Faculty Facilitator, Decentering Whiteness in Curriculum
2019-20 Ted Purves Memorial Scholarship Committee, Chair
2019-2023 Co-Founder and Leadership Team, Decolonial School, CCA
1999-2001 President, Board of Directors, Canyon Cinema, San Francisco, CA.
1996-2005 Core Faculty, MFA Arts+Consciousness Program, JFK University, Berkeley.
1993-96 Art Assistant to Suzanne Lacy
1993-6 Project Coordinator: Suzanne Lacy’s public projects; Auto On The Edge of Time for Snug Harbor Cultural Center, State Island, 1995, Roof is on Fire, Oakland 1995, Underground for Three Rivers Arts Festival, Pittsburgh 1994.
1991 Intern, Installation Crew, Places with a Past, curated by Mary Jane Jacobs, Charleston, SC
1983-5 Administrative Assistant, Mayor’s Arts Council, Bernie Sander’s Administration, Burlington, VT.
Degree Education
1993 MFA, Film/Video/Performance, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland,California, Awarded High Distinction
1985 BA, Transpersonal Psychology and Movement Studies, Burlington College,Burlington, Vermont.
1981-83 Course work in environmental studies and anthropology, University ofVermont.
Continuing Studies in Consciousness and Well being
Yoga and Ayurveda1976-present
Thankful to my teachers over the years: Leigh Evans, Sarah Powers, Katchie Ananda, Ana Forrest/Innerstellar Yoga, Annie Carpenter, Nivedita Rajendra, Gitte Bechsgaard
Transcendental Meditation 1981-present
Clairvision School of Meditation 2005-19
Ridhwan School 1989-1994
Body work & Acupressure Studies, 1987-90
Tai Chi Chuan, Inner Research Institute, Martin Inn, Tim White