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Mt. Hood Walk

On Foot: An Educational Art and Social Practice Journey from Portland to Mt. Hood Portland State University Portland, Oregon 2014 This project was constructed as a summer course with Eric Steen to examine various aspects of Oregon’s regional natural history,...

6.21.14

The question of whether social practice work belongs in museums has been brought up many times recently, partly as a result of several different museums attempting to include social practice in their programming. There are a variety of approaches to include social...

6.3.14

When I was a kid, sometimes at night when I was trying to fall asleep lying in bed I would imagine that my legs stretched out away from my body so that my feet were miles away from my head, it was an interesting sensation. I know that doesn’t have anything to do with...

5.26.14

I’ve often been asked about how to get the ball rolling towards making a living producing art. It’s a tough question. For every artist who somehow figures that question out there are probably a thousand or more who don’t. Imagine if people going to medical school only...

5.19.14

An approach to creating projects that I’ve employed many times (other artists have as well) and that I think is an interesting option generally, but is not often used by emerging artists (I’ve rarely run across MFA projects of this sort), is what I’ll call the...