M. Michelle Illuminato
102 East End Avenue Apt. #1 Pittsburgh, PA 15211 607.661.5300
illuminato@nextquestion.org
http://nextquestion.org
http://michelleilluminato.com
Education
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1992
University of Wisconsin - Madison, Wisconsin, Master of Fine Arts
Carnegie Mellon University - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Honors
Selected awards, funding, honors
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Sprout Fund and Office of Public Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Think Tank 4 Fellowship Award, Institute for Integrative Teaching, one of 12 nationally selected Fellows.
MARK Professional Practice Program, New York Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY
Mellon Park, Katharine Seamans Garden, finalist, Pittsburgh, PA
Pennsylvania Council for the Arts Grant
Puffin Foundation Grant, New Jersey
Research Fellow, Studio for Creative Inquiry, Carnegie Mellon University, invited and received support
A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust Fund, Pittsburgh Foundation.
Best Special Event in Pennsylvania 1994, for Aliquippa Project, Pennsylvania Downtown
Various support for Aliquippa Projects including: Heinz Foundation Grant, Mellon Bank, PNC, Tuscarora Plastics, Aliquippa
Alliance for Unity and Development, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts
Key to the City of Aliquippa and May 15, 1993 named Michelle Illuminato Day for 24 Hours in Aliquippa.
International exhibitions, projects, residencies
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Cite des Arts Internationale, Paris, France, artist residency, (January – March)
Internationales Waldkunst Zentrum (International Forest Art Center), Darmstadt, Germany, 6-week artist residency.
Stadtgarten: Urbanität, Mobilität, Freiheit, Vogelfrei 10, Darmstadt, Germany
Explor-art 2010: International workshop of territory exploration, AreaOdeon, Monza, Italy, one of 16 international
artists from 14 countries, residency and exhibition. International jurors: Smack Mellon, NY, mARTadero: Cochabamba,
Bolivia, Hangar: Barcelona Aksioma: Ljubljana, Slovenia, Kulturni Centar GRAD: Belgrade, Serbia, META: Monza, Italy
Cite des Arts Internationale, Paris, France, artist residency, Project: SLIP (January)
Cite des Arts Internationale, Paris, France, artist residency, Project: SLIP (June-July)
Guide/Vodic, Kontekst Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia, next question + Kim Beck, (solo)
Outside Project: Belgrade, Serbia. Cultural and exhibition program for artists from Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze,
Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, and the Accademia of Fine Arts, Belgrade. Supported by U.S., Italian and Serbian cultural
and educational organizations. I co-organized with Dejan Atanackovic (Serbia) and Edoardo Malagigi (Florence), traveled
to Serbia in November to meet with U.S. Embassy and other organizations, raised nearly 20,000 in funding, facilitated a
bi-lingual (Italian/English) studio workshop for students that culminated in exhibitions at a defunct 17th century bath
house, the SKC radio station, and gallery at the Accademia of Fine Arts. Two weeks included: lectures, tours, studio
workshop, social meetings, meeting with Major of Belgrade, boat ride on the Sava, and culminated in the exhibitions.
MIX: Musical Swap Meet, The Cube (Art Caffe Kocka), Belgrade, Serbia. (solo, event)
Paradise Garden, Vogelfrei 6, Kunstentdeckungen in Privatgärten, Darmstadt, Germany (invited, group)
Living Statues/Statue Viventi, next question, La Corte Arte Contemporanea, Florence, Italy (solo)
Outside Project: Florence, Italy, facilitated/participated, artist residency, group exhibition
Due Settimane/Two Weeks, Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Milano and Ballabio, Italy, artist residency and exhibition,
Junk Is Back/La Spazzatura e Tornata, Organized residency with Maria Teresa Illuminato. Eighteen artists
occupied/worked in large unused former cheese factory, Ballabio, Lake Como
TransitARTen (Ways of Transit), Vogelfrei 5, Kunstentdeckungen in Privatgärten, Darmstadt, Germany
Per Te, un Fotoromanzo, next question, researched, wrote, and ‘performed’ in Florence, Rome, Italy and IKEA, Los
Angeles, CA, resulted in online version, poster-size prints and a photo-story book.
Mapping Florence, next question, interactive installation, SACI, Florence, Italy
The Bread Game/Gra Chlebowa, Skoki Palace, Academy of Fine Arts, Poznan, Poland, residency, exhibition
The Exquisite Corpse, Project of Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
Progetto Cuspide, A.S.P.I.S., Cagliari, Sardegnia, Italy. Six-week community-based collaboration. Created works inspired
by ex-distillery including a 200-foot long granite bowling alley, a giant periscope that looked out upon the community of
Pirri, a live feed to a local café, and a nearly 1000-family bottle archive.
Public projects
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2015
Lost + Found Factory, Three Rivers Arts Festival, Pittsburgh, PA
Mr Rogers’ Neighborhood Revisited, trolley tour inspired by Mister Roger’s Neighborhood factory tours. Featured at
Open Engagement, Pittsburgh, PA
2011-2012
2010 - on-going
2010 - on-going
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Guide: Poughkeepsie, Poughkeepsie, NY Launched project on historic barge
Public Meals: Local Table, self-initiated project, community meal from the bounty of local gardens. For fall 2011, will
become community micro-funding event. Organize, committee, selection of proposals, co-cook. Alfred, NY
Ruralscape, on-going research into ruralness. Includes: photography, guide book, videos, and salon event/s that will
open the dialogue and artmaking opportunity to national artists and thinkers in 2012. (self-initiated, seeking funding)
The DeTour Show, Invited to create live TV show for the much publicized art space, the Waffle Shop in Pittsburgh. Show
included a number of guests including well-known documentarian Rick Sebak and acclaimed animator James Duesing.
Wild Food Cook-Off, MK Gallery, Portland State University, Portland, OR. Selected as featured event for Open
Engagement, the symposium of social practitioners. The public cooked foraged foods and competed in the event for the
title, #1 Wild Cook of Portland. (solo, invited)
Soapbox Workshop, Stations, Community School of Music and Arts Gallery, Ithaca, and The String Room Gallery, Wells
College, Aurora, NY Two galleries hosted the exhibition, with our project using the galleries and the space in between to
walk and talk with local people. (group, invited)
MidPoint, geographical midpoint performance, Danby, NY (self-initiated)
AV Club, a project of next question, Fosdick-Nelson Gallery, Alfred University, Alfred, New York (solo) Invited to
collaborate with 140 freshmen at Alfred University (before hired).
2 Degrees of Separation, a project of next question, included in Unlimited Partnerships, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, New York.
Researched Buffalo’s southern neighborhood, conducted interviews and workshops. Culminated in 7-part installation,
with listening stations, images, video, catalogue, and poetry reading by the Urban Girls. (invited, solo)
A South Side Atlas/Spatial Investigations by Women and Girls, a project of next question, Brew House Space101,
Pittsburgh. A cognitive mapping project that explored Pittsburgh’s South Side culminated in 7-part installation, listening
stations, poetry reading by well-known Pittsburgh poets. Included the results of a 6-month workshop we conducted for
young photographers from Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild (solo)
Points of Entry, What do we win? The Neighborhood Game for All Ages, Three Rivers Arts Festival, Pittsburgh. Invited by
curator Mary Jane Jacob for this 1.5-year project. Worked with 6 organizations and produced 4 public interactive
installations and videos. (featured artist, book)
Adopting Aliquippa, Aliquippa, PA, self-initiated large scale art project and event that involved 150+ artists and residents
exhibiting visual art, poetry, experimental sound and film. Handed over to non-profit, and continued under the name
Aliquippa Embraces the Arts for 11 years.
24 Hours in Aliquippa, Aliquippa, PA, self-initiated large scale art project and event that involved 150+ artists and
residents exhibiting visual art, poetry, experimental sound and film.
Exhibitions
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Exploding Boundaries, Fosdick Nelson Gallery, Alfred University, Alfred NY
Ossuary Project (contributed work), Compendium 2012, Chazen Museum of Art, UW Madison, WI (group)
bookMARKS, Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY (November)
8 Hour Projects, Book Report, Penelec-Megahan-Bowman Art Galleries, Allegheny College, Meadville, PA (invited, group)
The Game Show NYC, Macy Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY (selected)
Ignition 4.0: Natural/UnNatural, The Fuse Factory, Electronic and Digital Arts Lab, Columbus, Ohio (selected, group)
Local Histories: The Ground We Walk On, 523 East Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, NC (selected, group)
Spectra, Fosdick Nelson Gallery, Alfred, New York (group)
To Let, Colonial Left, 111B The Commons, Ithaca, NY. Solo exhibition in downtown storefront (invited)
And Their Allocation, ECONOMICS: Art Gallery at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (invited, small group)
A Book About Death, The Emily Harvey Foundation, New York, NY, (large group, traveling show)
XXXX, Fosdick Nelson Gallery, Alfred, NY (small group)
Some People Alfred, with Harrell Fletcher + Friends, Fosdick Nelson Gallery, Alfred, NY (group)
Double X, Step Gallery, Arizona State University, Herberger College of the Arts, Tempe, AZ (invited)
A.I.R. Birthday Bash, AIR Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA (invited, group)
Art In Transit, PAT buses & SPACE Gallery, a project of next question, Pittsburgh, PA (selected, group)
100% Centennial, Regina Miller Gallery, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA, (invited, group)
Five +, James Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA (invited, small group)
Live Video Karaoke, Warhol Museum, Ti Amo, next question video/performance, Pittsburgh (group)
War Room, Artist Image Resource Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA (invited, group)
Objects in/and Visual Culture, Zoller Gallery, Penn State, State College, PA (invited, group)
Supervalitragilisticexcelluminaceous, Regina Miller Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA (group)
I've got an answer / I've got an anthem, International Arts Group Exposition (I.A.E.) Laurelhurst Theater Portland,
Oregon, USA (selected, group)
Liddle Obsessioniddle / a virtual archive of kiddle kulture, Arizona State University West, Interdisciplinary Arts and
Performance Gallery, Phoenix, AZ (invited, solo)
New Music and Arts Festival, Per Te, un Fotoromanzo, Bowling Green State University, Kennedy Green Room, College of
Music, A project of next question. (invited, solo)
Domestic Affairs, City Arts Venue, Springfield, Indiana (group)
N-Space Gallery, SIGGRAPH, Invisible Places, Los Angeles, CA, next question, (invited, group)
BGSU Faculty Exhibition, Dorothy Uber Bryan Gallery, Bowling Green, OH (group)
Suitcase Exhibition: Digital Secrets, Institute for Studies in the Arts, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
BGSU Faculty Exhibition, Dorothy Uber Bryan Gallery, Bowling Green, OH (group)
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Space Explorations, Sheehan Gallery, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA, (solo)
BGSU Faculty Exhibition, Dorothy Uber Bryan Gallery, Bowling Green, OH (group)
Points of View, Spinning Plate Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA, next question (solo)
Time’s Passages: the journey to (K)now, Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild, Pittsburgh, PA (group)
Visiting and Adjunct Faculty Exhibition, Mesaros Galleries, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV
Alchemy, Oglebay Institute, Stifel Fine Arts Center, Wheeling, West Virginia (group)
Ten x 10 2, Three Rivers Arts Festival, Wood Street Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA (group)
Alchemy, Millworks Gallery, Inc. Akron, OH (group)
JUNK, Pittsburgh Children’s Museum, The Workshop, Game project and exhibition (solo)
Prints & Projects, Foreland Street Studio, Pittsburgh, PA Produced print and exhibition (invited, group)
Alchemy, St. Vincent’s College, Latrobe, PA (group)
Potentiality—Activate the Art, ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL (invited, group)
The Handless Maiden, Marathon Center, University of Wisconsin Wausau, with Emily Blair (selected, solo)
Books, catalogues, publications
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8 Hour Projects: Sustaining Practice, authors: Colleen Toledano, Darren Miller, Penelec~Megahan~Bowman Art Galleries,
Alleghany College, Meadville, PA exhibition catalog
Belgrade GUIDE, 2nd edition, letterpress cover, reprinted by next question at NY Center for Book Arts
Donated By, by Michelle Illuminato and Brett Hunter, 101 pages, self-published
State of Play, Integrative Teaching ThinkTank publication, contributing author, online /print (second edition)
Frontiers, a Journal of Women’s Studies, Vol. 30, #1, Knowledge That Matters: Feminist Epistemology, Methodology, and
Science Studies, Eds. Susan E. Gray, Gayle Gullett, contributing author, cover image, additional images: xv, 65-67, 78-82
Paradise Garden, Vogelfrei 6, Kunstentdeckungen in Privatgärten, Darmstadt, Germany
Per Te, un fotoromanzo, a project by next question, printed and online versions
TransitARTen, Vogelfrei 5, Kunstentdeckungen in Privatgärten, Darmstadt, Germany
SIGGRAPH catalogue, N-SPACE Gallery Exhibition, Los Angeles, CA, website and CD.
Unlimited Partnerships, CEPA Gallery, essays by Grant Kester, next question and other participating artists.
Points of Entry, Three Rivers Arts Festival, Jeanne Pearlman, Mary Jane Jacob, contributing authors: Levi-Strauss, Daniel
Martinez, Group Material, Fred Wilson, Michelle Illuminato, Ann Carlson, Lonnie Graham, RAM Publications, Los
Angeles, CA
Selected articles
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Kunstspaziergang auf fremden Rasen, Echo Online 8/17/13
2,6 Kilometer Kunst, Von Annette Kramer-Alig, Darmstadt Echo, 8/23/13
Performer auf de Rasen, Freizeit, 69 Jahrgang, Nr. 194, Frankfurter Rundschau, 8/22/13
Stadtgarten: Urbanität, Mobilität, Freiheit, Vogelfrei 10, Darmstadt, Germany
Artists to Exhibit Creative Process, Cortney O’Brien, The Campus, V. 136 Issue 2, feature, pgs. 1, 5, photo 9/2
United States of Monza, Vorrei (Cultural Magazine), Monza, Italy, Simone Camassa 11/12
Arte Explor-art 2010: ecco I selezionati di AreaOdeon, il Cittadino, Monza, Italy Alessandra Sala, pg. 52, 10/14
Explor-art ad AreaOdeon, “Siamo pronti a crescere’, Il Cittadino, Monza, Italy, Alessandra Sala, pg. 51, 11/18
Le citta possibili di Explor-art, Il Cittadino, Monza, Italy, Alessandra Sala, pg. 50, 11/11
To AU Art Profs selected for International Workshop in Italy, The Alfred Sun, 11/11/10, pg. 9
‘Open Engagement’ at PSU shines light on emerging art form, The Oregonian, Portland, OR D.K. Row,5/16
Storefronts as Art Exhibits, Tompkins Weekly, Volume 3, No. 40, July 13-July 19, pg. 1, Pamela Goddard
Ruralscape, The Alfred Sun, 4/08
Five Plus, an exceptional exhibit by women artists, Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Mary Thomas 10/12
Exhibition showcases striking imagery…, Kurt Shaw, Pittsburgh Tribune Review 10/05
Fall Arts Preview: Observe and imagine, Mary Thomas, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 9/8
Art in Our Neighborhoods, Lynne Margolis, Pittsburgh Magazine, Spring
Gender Identity…Showcased In Warhol Exhibit, Gina Frey, OIA Newswire
The War Room, New People, Mollie McClelland, November issue, Pittsburgh, p. 18.
Bowling Green Gets Linked, Art Voice.
Art Papers Magazine, Review of 2 Degrees of Separation, Caroline Koebel, November
Art Voice, Multiple Unlimited Collaborations and Urban Girls, M. Smith, June 8-14, 32
Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Points of View, Mary Thomas, July
In-Pittsburgh review of Points of View, July
Pittsburgh Magazine, November issue
Tribune Review, Michele Orner, Lost in Space? Artists ask Women to Explore
Beaver County Times, Hoops!
In Pittsburgh, Manny Theiner, Space is the Place, Feature
New Art Examiner, Richard A. Schindler, Democracy is Fun! Joseph Beuys and the Aesthetics of Activism
The News, Fourth Annual Arts Festival in Aliquippa
In Pittsburgh, Tey Stiteler, A Town Driven by Art, Feature cover
In Pittsburgh, Chris Potter, Unlike the...public art, Points of Entry...
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Donald Miller, Three Rivers Arts Festival Designs New Points of Entry
The Observer, David Kaufman, Squirrel Hill Happening
The Forum, Wausau, WI
City Pages, Wausau, WI Patricia Wyckoff, Visual Art …out of the gilded frame ... of a video camera
Wausau Daily Herald, Wausau, WI Sharon Piller, Review
New Castle News, Trio of Works
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Donald Miller, Artists in Two Cities Work Magic
Pittsburgh Magazine, Mike May, Art Editor’s Pick— Alchemy 1994
In Pittsburgh, Colleen McKay, Gnostics for the Next Century, Cover story
The News, South Edition, Aliquippa, PA, Aliquippa Arts Festival Attracts…
The Times, Beaver, PA, Torsten Ove, Folks give Aliquippa’s image artistic…
The Times, Patricia Connelly Weekend Cover, Three feature articles, and map
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Donald Miller, Aliquippa Artwork Blooming
In Pittsburgh, J. Decker, Adopting Aliquippa: Art as economic development engine
The New Art Examiner, Chicago IL Chris Potter, Group A, Review
The News, Ione Morgan, Changes taking place for downtown Aliquippa
The Times, Saturday begins Adopt a Piece of Aliquippa project
The Times, Bruce Antley, Looking for Volunteers, Community wants to...
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Donald Miller, Fifty Years of Group A
In Pittsburgh, Margie Romero, What you saw in Art 1993
In Pittsburgh, Margie Romero, Perfect 10’s
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Donald Miller, Art Festival Sparkles and Sputters
The Beaver County Times, The Artist’s Life: Using Fantasy… Photos
Beaver County Times, D. Utterback, Artsy Aliquippa: I Never Saw So Many People Here
Beaver County Times, D. Utterback 24 Hours in Aliquippa, City Hosts Show... A1 Photo
The New York Times, Barnaby Feder, Survival a Struggle in a Town the Steel Forgot, C1
Beaver County Times, Torsten Ove, Aliquippa on Parade...
Greenwich Time, Greenwich, CN, Student’s Combine to Help City’s Renaissance
Valley Tribune, Beaver Falls, PA, Art Project to Brighten Aliquippa, A1
Flash Art, Milan, Italy, Progetto Cuspide Review
Il Gazzettino, Venice, Italy, Spazi vuoti recuperati dagli artisti
Il Giornale dell’Arte, Milan, Italy, Sbarco americano e giocattoli cubofuturisti #120
La Unione Sarda, Cagliari, Dagli Stati con (grande)stupore...
Selected radio + television
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Belgrade Environmental News, Belgrade, Serbia, Guide/Vodic Project June, interview
B 92 Radio, Belgrade, Serbia, Guide/Vodic Project interview
WQED, Pittsburgh, PA, Sunday Arts Calendar, Producer: Susan Morris, The South Side Atlas
CBS Radio, New York, National Broadcast, Osgood File (Charles Osgood) Producer, Susan Morris What do we win?
WQED, Pittsburgh, PA Sunday Arts Calendar, Producer: Susan Morris. What do we win?
WMBA Radio Station, Ambridge, PA, Talk Show with Sam Nicatero. Interviews from May - August
WBVP Radio Station, Beaver Falls, PA, Four Interviews from June - August
KDKA Television Station, Channel 2 News, Pittsburgh, PA Covered Adopting Aliquippa, July 30, 1994.
WPXI Television Station, Channel 11 News, Pittsburgh, PA Covered Adopting Aliquippa, July 30, 1994.
KDKA Television, Channel 2 News, Pittsburgh, PA Ralph Ionatti, 24 Hours in Aliquippa, Feature story.
WPXI Television Station, Channel 11 News, Pittsburgh, PA Covered 24 Hours in Aliquippa, April 30
WMBA Radio Station, Ambridge, PA Talk Show with Sam Nicatero
Vidiolina, Sardegnian News Program, Spotlighted, Progetto Cuspide.
Tele Margarita, Venice, Italy, Spotlighted, Progetto Cuspide.
Selected online sites
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Integrative Teaching International, Educators Showcase, featured educator, November 2011
http://integrativeteaching.org/educators-showcase/
PAUSE, Guide: Poughkeepsie Project, http://pauselab.org and Our Hudson http://www.ourhudson.org/
Ruralscape, http://ruralscape.tumblr.com
Wild Food Cook-Off, http://wildfoodcookoff.com
Studio Visits, lecture and talk show (educational project), http://austudiovisits.wordpress.com
The Line Project (educational project), http://thelineproject.wordpress.com
Soapbox Workshop, http://soapboxworkshop.wordpress.com/
Fosdick-Nelson Gallery, Spectra, http://fosdicknelson.alfred.edu/exhibits/0910/spectra/
to Let, http://toletartprogram.blogspot.com
Next Question, www.nextquestion.org
Outside Project site, www.outsideproject.org
LINKS Public Art, (educational project) http://digitalarts.bgsu.edu/links
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Unlimited Partnerships, CEPA, 2 Degrees of Separation, Essays by Grant Kester, and participating artists,
www.cepagallery.org/exhibitions/Unlimited2/u2mainpage.html
Lectures, panels + workshops
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Three Rivers Arts Festival Public Art Panel, Lost & Found Factory, Pittsburgh, PA
Learning to Notice, Conversation, Open Engagement, Pittsburgh
Learning to Notice, panel chair, Foundations Art, Theory and Education conference
Points of View, Grünes Kulturforum: Urbanität, Mobilität, Freiheit, IWZ Symposium, Darmstadt, Germany
Hand-held Camera Obscura Workshop, International Forest Art Center, Darmstadt, Germany
Ruralscape: A Report from Artists Working in Rural and Remote Places with Discussion of Strategies, Troubles and
Delights. Open Engagement, organized panel for international conference on social practice, Portland, OR
Art Work, Bergren Forum, Alfred University, Alfred, NY
8 Hour Projects, Allegheny College, Art, Sustainability and Community Panel Discussion, Meadville, PA
Belgrade: Dexterity Games, Panel: Game Show Artists, Creativity, Play, and Imagination across Disciplines Conference,
Columbia University, Teacher’s College, New York, NY (selected)
Looking Backward while Moving Forward, Panel: Sweeping Changes in Foundations, Foundations Art Theory + Education
Conference, St. Louis, MO (selected)
The Trouble of Eating a Dandelion, Panel: Headlines, facilitated by Linda Weintraub, Open Engagement conference, other
panelists: Brian Collier, Linda Wysong, Portland OR (invited)
Integration of Research Methodologies in Art Practice and Education, Panel: Creative Research in the 21st Century,
College Art Association Conference, Chicago, IL (selected)
Artist Presentation, The Cambridge School, Boston, MA (invited)
Artist Presentation, New York Foundation for the Arts, Smack Mellon, New York, NY, as part of MARK.
Artist Presentation, Divergence, Convergence, Emergence: Expanding Cross-Disciplinary Creativity, Think Tank 4,
Integrative Teaching, University of Georgia, Athens GA
Artist Presentation, New York Foundation for the Arts, Ithaca, NY
Getting Off the Island: Creative ways to build bridges to the world beyond, Panel: Expanding Art Foundations Curriculum in
a Post-Discipline World, Confluence: Foundation, Theory, Art and Education Conference, Portland Oregon (selected, copresented with Angie To)
Artist Presentation, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA (invited)
Next Question: Listening, Bergren Forum, Alfred, New York
Public Art + Mapping, Walking Prague: City as Set course, Marketa Fantova, Chase Angier, Alfred University
NQ Listening, Situations + Interventions, Panel: Public Art in Action, SECAC / MACAA Conference
Nashville, TN (selected)
Artist Presentation, Cornish College of Art and Design, Seattle, WA
Artist Presentation, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
Artist Presentation: Work of Next Question, Outside Project, Academy of Fine Arts, Belgrade, Serbia
Artist Presentation, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Artist Presentation, Academy of Fine Arts, Belgrade, Serbia
Artist Presentation, Columbia College Study Abroad Program, Florence, Italy
Artist Presentation, La Corte Arte Contemporanea, Florence, Italy
Artist Presentation, and 3 day sculpture workshop, Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design, Denver, CO
Artist Presentation, Carnegie Mellon School of Art Lecture Series, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
The Work of Next Question, Panel: Collaboration and the Institution, MACAA Conference, Lincoln, NB
Invisible Spaces, Artist Presentation, Panel: Embodied Spaces, SIGGRAPH Conference, , Los Angeles, CA
The Work of Next Question, Studio Art Centers International, lecture series, Florence, Italy
Artist Presentation and Discussion, Accademia di Belle Arti di Carrara, Carrara, Italy. (invited)
Artist Presentation, Arizona State University West, Interdisciplinary Arts & Performance, Phoenix, AZ
Collaborating with Next Question, Panel: Artists Non-Solo, Performance Studies International Conference, University of
Wales, Aberystwyth, UK (invited)
Panel Discussion with: Street Level Youth Media, Artists & Cities. Citywide Youth Arts Festival, Pittsburgh, PA
What do we win? Process of Interactive Community, Art Madison Art Center, Madison, WI (invited)
Politics, Ethics, and Aesthetics, A Public Conversation: Daniel Martinez, Group Material, Fred Wilson, Michelle Illuminato,
Ann Carlson, Lonnie Graham, Mary Jane Jacob. Three Rivers Arts Festival, Pittsburgh, PA
Academic positions
2012 – Present
2006 - 2010
2003 - 2006
1999 - 2003
Head, Foundations Division, Associate Professor, Alfred University, NYSCC, Alfred, NY
Assistant Professor, Alfred University, New York State College of Ceramics, Alfred, NY
Visiting Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Assistant Professor, First Year Program Coordinator, Bowling Green State University, OH