Projects Catalyzed

 

Project Advisory and Mentorship

The Boston Tree Partya project of Lisa Gross and Hybrid Vigor Productions, Boston, MA

The Boston Tree Party is an urban agriculture project, a performative re-imagining of American political expression, and a participatory public art project.

Meet Me At The Table, a project of Susan Sakash and the Berwick Research Institute, Boston, MA

During 2007 and through the spring of 2008, the Berwick’s Public Art Incubator Program (PAI) curated Meet Me At The Table, a series of four unique dinner events that brought together artists, community organizers, urban designers, arts administrators, activists and other interested individuals to discuss the potential of socially based, temporary works to activate public spaces in the metro Boston area.

Butterflies Eat First, a project of Lauren Elder and Veronica Wilman’s La Vida Es un Teatro at Nashira, Cali, Colombia, 2010

Butterfly garden and play area initiated and developed by landscape and environmental artist Lauren Elder with the collaboration of Colombian children and families at Nashira, a small cooperative village outside of Cali, Colombia.

Phonebook 3, a project of Threewalls, Chicago, IL, 2011

PHONEBOOK 3 is a directory of independent art spaces, programming, and projects throughout the United States and a collection of critical essays and practical information written by the people who run them.

 

Leadership, Facilitation & Organizing:

The Graduate Consortium in Women’s Studies at MIT, The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, Program Coordinator, Aug. 2005 – Present

Voces de Cambio, Board of Directors, 2008 – present

Women in Film and Video New England, Advisory Boad, 2007 – present

 

Workshops & Teaching :

Growing Exchange –  A month-long workshop at the Boston Boys and Girls Club

The Body as Research Object /El Cuerpo como Material de Trabajo –  A week-log master class at the Museo Bolivariano de Arte Contemporaneo, Santa Marta, Colombia