Selected Projects
2001
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Stones River History
Markers; Nashville, TN
- Designed historical
markers and trailhead plaza for the Stones River Greenway.
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LFMI
- Group project presented
as part of the Paradise Lost? web show at Betty Rymer Gallery, Chicago, IL
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Pas de Deux, redux;
SAIC Graduate Exhibition
- Interactive sound installation
that reacts to participants’ breathing pattern
2000
-
Last,
First, MI
- Co-created a show at
the 1926 Gallery in Chicago. Visitors to the gallery fill out a computer survey,
which is used to create "personalized" artworks.
Blind Spot was included in the exhibit.
-
Pas
de Deux
- Two belts monitor participants'
breathing patterns, which controls computer-generated video projections. Chosen
to be part of the Sony's Heart Young Artists Competition.
1999
-
Metro
Center Greenway: Nashville, TN
- Lead artist on a project
to create a greenway on a Cumberland River levee. Designed walls, paving patterns,
fences, and sculptural shade structures for the three-mile-long park. Construction
date:Spring, 2001.
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Downtown Greenway:
Nashville, TN
- Lead artist for a future
greenway connecting two downtown parks. Art on the trail will be used to interpret
the layered history of the area. Construction date: Fall, 2001.
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Trace:
Nashville, TN
- Temporary installation
for Sarratt Gallery at Vanderbilt University. A pine-mulch path winds through
a campus, intersecting paved walkways.
- 12
South: Nashville, TN
- Lead artist on the 12
South revitalization project, which includes artist-designed street furniture.
- Can-Do:
Nashville, TN
- Lead artist on a community
art project where young and elderly members of the neighborhood weave telephone
wire into perforated street trash receptacles, creating designs inspired by
traditional basket designs. Installation date: March, 1999.
- 15
December 1997: Nashville, TN
- Long-term installation
of suspended ink drawings on stretched fabric, for the Carell Woodland Sculpture
Trail at the Cheekwood Museum of Art.
Installation date: May, 1999.
1997
- Bubble
Light: Memphis, TN
- Temporary installation
with bubble machine and street lights. Part of the X Marks the Spot
series sponsored by the art quartlerly Number:
and the University
of Memphis Art Museum.
-
1996
- Townbrook
Alley: Quincy, MA
- Collaboration with Ross
Miller. Permanent lighting, paving design, and temporary banners as part of
a downtown revitalization project. Installation date: Spring, 1998.
- Leaf
Benches: Massachusetts Turnpike, various locations
- Leaf Benches; Massachusetts
Turnpike. Collaboration with Ross Miller. Benches and picnic tables designed
to reflect the shapes of surrounding trees' leaves.
- Emily
Benches: Massachusetts Turnpike, Ludlow, MA
- Collaboration with Ross
Miller. Traditional picnic tables with poems by Emily Dickinson carved in
them, located at the service area nearest the poet's lifelong home.
- Memorial: Boston
Police Headquarters, Boston, MA
- Collaboration with Ross
Miller. Commissioned propoosal for a memorial to all who have worked for the
Boston Police Department.
1995
- Original
Shoreline Marking: Samuel Adams Park, Boston, MA
- Collaboration with Ross
Miller. A line made of illustrations of local seashore vegetation and wildlife
sandblasted into the granite paving of a pedestrian plaza to mark the original
location of the Boston Harbor shoreline, circa 1630.
- New Sign Language:
Massachusetts Turnpike, various locations
- Collaboration with Ross
Miller. Series of humorous signs based on conventional highway sign vocabulary.
Winner of competition, but never built.
1994
- Build a Better Boston:
Downtown Crossing, Boston, MA
- Collaboration with Sarah
Kuehl. Designed an environment created to celebrate the kickoff of Boston
Do Something, a non-profit service organization for teens. Advised members
of local youth groups who were asked to design and build models of buildings
that would symbolize their vision for the future of their city.
- Lighting Installation:
Portland, ME
- Collaboration with Ross
Miller. Winter light displays made of fishnets woven with patterns of lights.
The 28-foot long nets are stretched above the city's streets November through
February each year.
- HOPE Project: Rhode
Island Convention Center, Providence, RI
- Collaboration with Ross
Miller. For a commissioned proposal, designed a series of metal banners echoing
the state's motto to be installed on the Convention Center, greeting drivers
on the interstate highway.
Teaching
- Tucson/Pima
Arts Council, Tucson, AZ
- Fall, 2001
- Taught computer graphics
and animation in an after-school program for underprivilaged teens..
- School
of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
- Fall, 2000
- T.A. for the Art and
Technology Seminar, taught by Shawn Decker.
- Columbia
College, Chicago, IL
- Summer, 2000
- Prepared and taught
Programming fro the Web: Javascript and DHTML.
- School
of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
- Spring, 2000
- T.A. for www.experimentalprogramming.edu,
taught by Shawn Decker. The course covered JavaScript and Macromedia Flash.
[class
web page]
- Belmont
University and David Lipscomb University,
Nashville, TN
- Spring, 1998
- Artist-in-Residence
for Public Art courses in conjunction with 12 South revitalization project.
[project web site with student project
images]
- Cumberland
Science Museum, Nashville, TN
- August 1996-March 1998
- Taught computer-aided
art, movie-making, web site design, and beginning computer skills in a 30-station
Macintosh computer lab.
Education
2001 MFA, School
of the Art Institute of Chicago
Department in Art and Technology
1994 BA, cum laude, Wellesley
College, Wellesley, MA
Double major in Architecture
and Russian Area
Studies
