Goal: to connect common daily experiences to broader social issues.
Subtext: visual environmental education and urban beautification.
Materials: recognizable site-relevant salvage, native plants.
Strong outreach components invite active local participation.


PROJECTS:

MANDELA ARTSCAPE 1998 (temporary until +/-2001-3). Unique collaboration with multiple West Oakland groups, CALTRANS, City of Oakland, Museum of ChildrenŐs Art. Art landscape of recycled highway materials & native plants on site of 1989 earthquake freeway collapse. A positive "gateway" of renewal. Free eco-Iandscape course taught in neighborhood center by college instructors. Graduates of the course were paid stipends to install Artscape, earning recommendations for future jobs.

CA. AVENUE, CA. NATIVE 1996 (permanent). Median strip native bunch grass meadow for California Avenue, Palo Alto.

URBAN APPLE ORCHARD 1994-95 (one year). San Francisco Art Commission. Blighted lot on Market Street transformed into a demonstration endangered varietal apple orchard. With neighbors, students, & homeless persons.

RIVER OF HOPES & DREAMS 1992 (permanent). For San FranciscoŐs waste transfer & recycling facility. 3-acre sculpture garden as conceptual model for reclamation, recycling, resource conservation & community involvement.


ALSO:

Wrote "Directional Signs: A Compendium of Artists Works," Mapping The Terrain: New Genre Public Art (Suzanne Lacy, editor; Bay Press, Seattle, 1995).

Co-curated &*quot;Living In Balance" exhibit, San Francisco International Airport (1993) and Richmond Art Center (1994).

Complete resume & blo materials available upon renuest.