Profiles - Artists, Organizations, and Projects

BrushFire was an arts initiative showcasing key contemporary artists whose public projects engage crucial social issues such as immigration, the war in Iraq, food, sustainable energy, housing, the electoral process, the economy, health, and the environment. Taking place in highly visible public settings such as state fairs, urban centers, public parks and highly trafficked recreational areas around the United States, BrushFire aimed to enrich the environment for public discussion about the value of democracy in the crucial run-up to national elections in November, 2008.

With the cities of Evanston & Chicago, Illinois, Hartford, Connecticut, and Portland, Oregon as lenses, BUILT explored the changing United States city, and the challenges of housing, infrastructure, neighborhood cohesion, and equity all present as our population continues to exponentially increase in the coming years. The public series of research, installation, dialogue, interview, and performance events of varied scale led up to a culminating theatrical event/production in Portland in September 2008.

The Bush Foundation wants to help shape vibrant communities in Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota and in the 23 sovereign tribal nations that share the same geography. They invest in courageous and effective leadership that significantly strengthens and improves the well-being of people in these areas.

Critical Encounters hosts Café Society meetings at campus galleries and exhibits. Café Society meetings are opportunities for students, faculty, staff, and community members to come together and talk about the larger implications of the images we confront and create.

The California Arts Council has the mission to advance California through the arts and creativity with an emphasis on children and artistically underserved communities. The agency encourages widespread public participation in the arts; helps build strong arts organizations at the local level; assists with the professional development of arts leaders; promotes awareness of the value of the arts; and directly support arts program for children and communities.

California Poets in the Schools is the largest writers-in-schools program in the nation. While encouraging youth self-expression through creative writing and art, the program also seeks to foster cultural diversity by utilizing multicultural teaching materials and hiring poets and artists of color.

Can't Stop Won't Stop is a site that features the work of Jeff Chang, a writer of politics, culture, and the hip-hop movement. One of Chang's works is The Creativity Stimulus, which highlights the impact of the arts or creativity in promoting social change. This profile courtesy of Air Traffic Control.

Cape Farewell pioneers the cultural response to climate change. Working internationally, Cape Farewell brings artists, scientists and communicators together to stimulate the production of art founded in scientific research. Using creativity to innovate, the organization engages artists for their ability to evolve and amplify a creative language, communicating on a human scale the urgency of the global climate challenge. The way that we live our lives has caused the climate to change and the solution to a potentially devastating reality has become a cultural challenge.

My artistic project was interdisciplinary. The project "Carcinoma le deuil impossible" has four stages: first I created installations and performances, Tram-Body (2001) and On the Flesh (2013). This was an interdisciplinary project integrating the arts, philosophy, art history, feminism, journals, poetry as response to my experience of breast cancer to reveal the impact of health disparities, lack of access to prevention, and treatment to the body.