I have organized exhibitions, new commissions, temporary public artworks, publications, limited edition multiples, performances, special events, and public programs. I have also lead workshops, audited convenings, and provided expertise.

I have also consulted on artists’ rights, social responsibilities, and public ethics for non-profit arts organizations, museums, philanthropic organizations, and companies such as Facebook, as well as Stanford Graduate School of Business and UC Berkeley’s Department of Architecture, Haas School of Business, and Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation.

My projects have included consulting for nonprofit organizations, commercial galleries, museums, universities, libraries, historic sites, publishers, residencies, private collectors, foundations, technology companies, realtors, and developers, among other businesses.

Selected deliverables

exhibitions —

Take This Hammer: Art + Media Activism from the Bay Area, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco, CA)

Public Works: Artists’ Interventions 1970s - Now, Mills College Art Museum (Oakland, CA)

Present Tense, Headlands Center for the Arts, Golden Gate Recreational Area (Sausalito, CA)

temporary Public artworks —

Taraneh Hemami, Bullet Points, 2013. EMERGENCY U. S. A. | Thoreau Center for Sustainability, Presidio of San Francisco (San Francisco, CA)

Chris Kubick, Shush! Silence, Please, 2010. Oakland Main Public Library (Oakland, CA)

Here and Now, Site-specific Installations in Historic Architecture, organized by Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA (All 2010)

Elaine Buckholtz, Out of the Blue (Mills Hall Reconsidered) Mills Hall (c. 1871) at Mills College

Christine Wong Yap, The Great Balloon Giveaway. Camron-Stanford House (c.1876)

Flor Vahn, Sonic Pardee Home (Reconstituting Memories of Pardee Past). Pardee Home Musuem (c. 1868)

Public Talks —

Artists Who Confront Violence, Intersection for the Art (San Francisco, CA)

Invisible Venue: Visible Alternatives and Other Avenues, San Jose State University (San Jose, CA)

Print + Intervene: An Incomplete Survey of Print Interventions by Contemporary Artists in Public Space, Kala Art Institue (Berkeley, CA)

Commissioned Essays —

“Rex Ray.” Rex Ray. (Chronicle Books: 2020)

“Exercise of a Collective Power: Artists and the Sticky Challenge of Placemaking.” Print Public. (Kala Art Institute: 2015)

“Investing in Artists, Investing in the Greater Good. The Fleishhacker Family Legacy.” Eureka at Thirty Years. (The Fleishhacker Foundation:2017)

“Site-specific installation: Some Historic Context.” Unexpected Art. Global distribution; English, Chinese, Korean. (Chronicle Books: 2015)

“One on One. Christian L. Frock on Doris Salcedo.” SFMOMA Open Space, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Business Retreats —

Workshop Lead, Southern Exposure Board Retreat

Workshop Lead, Montalvo Center for the Arts’ Artists Residency Convening

Respondent, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco Convening

advisor —

Public Storytelling, Public Dialogue, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Artist Selections, Artist-in-Residence Program, Facebook HQ

Social Accountability, Stanford Graduate School of Business Students

Art Advisor — Major Real Estate Agents and Technology Companies (Palo Alto, CA)

Panelist —

Make Your Own Political Art, KQED and The National Writing Project (Webinar)

Open City/Art City, Institute for the Future

The Arts + Public Service, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Who We Be: Art, Protest, and Racial Justice, Bay Area Society for Art and Activism, San Franciso Main Public Library

FAX (Facts): Technology and Protest, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery

Juror/Judge —

Lucas Artists Residency Program, Montalvo Arts Center

Art Moves Festival, City of Torun, Poland

Hung Liu Prize, Mills College

Alternative Exposure Awards, Southern Exposure

Public Art Commission, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

Graduate and Affiliate Residencies, Headlands Center for the Arts

Moderator —

Cultural Policy and Changing Cities, Berkeley Arts + Design, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

On Technology as Public Platform, Mills College Art Museum, Mills College

Real Estate: Creating Land Value and Dispossesion, Headlands Center for the Arts

Public Pecha Kucha, Department of Art & Art History, San Jose State University

On Public Art Practices Today, Kenneth Rainin Foundation

artist talks —

In Conversation with Leah Rosenberg, Irving Street Projects (San Francisco, CA)

In Conversation with Rigo 23, di Rosa (Napa, CA)

In Conversation with Chris Johnson, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (San Francisco, CA)

In Conversation with Megan Wilson, Berkeley Art Center (Berkeley, CA)

In Conversation with Surabhi Saraf, Hosfelt Gallery (San Francisco, CA)

gratis

The Susan O’Malley Public Facing Deed of Gift with San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Advisor, The Estate of Susan O’Malley

FREE DESIGN, a one-year free design project — clients included American Red Cross, San Francisco Symphony, and Berkeley Repertory Theater.

IMAGES: Exhibition installation details, Take This Hammer: Art + Media Activism from the Bay Area at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA, March - August 2016.

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