Artistic Equipment and Tools Round V
Susan Taber Avila Oakland
Susan Taber Avila, an artist who uses textiles to enhance perception of contemporary culture, is an associate professor of Design (Fashion & Textiles) at the University of California Davis and a Sunshine Scholar at Wuhan Textile University in Wuhan, China. Her innovative machine stitched artwork is exhibited nationally and internationally, and her work has been published in numerous books and periodicals. She will use her grant to purchase a computerized industrial embroidery machine.
Amy Balkin San Francisco
Amy Balkin is a San Francisco-based artist whose work involves land and the geopolitical relationships that frame it. Her solo and collaborative projects, including Public Smog (www.publicsmog.org) and Invisible-5 (www.invisible5.org), consider political and legal borders and systems, environmental justice, and the allocation of common-pool resources. She will use her grant to acquire computer hardware and software to support her artistic practice.
Chris Bell San Mateo
After ten years of post-BFA art practice in Australia, Chris Bell came to the Bay Area for the Stanford MFA program in 2005. He exhibits mainly site-specific installations, in artist-run and non-profit spaces. He will use the grant to acquire needed studio equipment for his artistic research and fabrication.
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Cindy Bernard Los Angeles
Cindy Bernard is a Los Angeles based artist, educator and producer. She is a recipient of grants and fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the J. Paul Getty Trust Fund for the Visual Arts and Creative Capital among others. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and was included in the Whitney and Lyon Biennials. Bernard takes an active interest in instigating social exchange and is the founder and director of The Society for the Activation of Social Space through Art and Sound (SASSAS). Bernard is using her CCI funding to purchase computer equipment to complete Year Long Loop, a 24 hour video documenting the sound and view as experienced from a ridge in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Mt. Washington. Photo credit: Wild Don Lewis www.sound2cb.com
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James Buckhouse Palo Alto
James Buckhouse brings together drawing, animation, and social media to create fictional characters within narrative realities. He has exhibited in museums and galleries around the world including the Solomon R. Guggenheim's Works & Process Series, the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Institute of Contemporary Art in London, the Dia Center, and the University of California Berkeley. He will use his grant to acquire digital equipment to produce fine art animation.
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Heather Bursch Los Angeles
Heather Bursch works in video and installation to explore specific social narratives in American media. She received her education at California Institute of the Arts (MFA) and Skowhegan, and was a MacDowell fellow in 2009. The CCI grant will go towards the purchase of much-needed video equipment for her studio practice and upcoming exhibitions.
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Joshua Churchill San Francisco
Joshua Churchill is a cross disciplinary artist whose work includes immersive site-specific sound and light installation, photography, and experimental music/noise. Regardless of media, Churchill’s dynamic works compel one to become critically aware of their surroundings by exploring the aesthetic, emotive, and structural qualities of the environments they are focused on and/or situated within. Churchill has exhibited and performed extensively throughout the United States and abroad. Joshua Churchill will use his grant to purchase computer, camera, and digital audio recording equipment to further the various facets of his practice. www.joshuachurchill.com
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Binh Danh San Jose
Binh Danh is a photographic artist based in San Jose, CA whose work investigates his Vietnamese/Cambodian heritage and the American collective memory of war through various methods, including his own innovation of "chlorophyll printing" images onto leaves using photosynthesis. His latest body of work re-examines landscapes of the West through the 19th-century Daguerreotype process, which involves "capaturing light" onto mirror-polished silver plates. He will use his grant to acquire a large format field camera for landscape photography. www.binhdanh.com
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David Gurman San Francisco
David Gurman’s installations are spaces for meditative connection to obscure sites that we hear about in mass media but have no way of accessing; In one work light waves rippling across a wall were triggered by recorded gunshots and IED explosions in Iraq, while in another work, a bell tolled according to seismic data from sub-critical nuclear weapons tests in the Nevada desert. Gurman’s current project, “Pax Americana,” is an installation of historical musical instruments mechanically played by real time seismic activity from Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Israel, and the United States. He will use his grant to purchase computer and digital camera equipment to support future artistic projects. www.davidgurman.com
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Taro Hattori Oakland
With backgrounds in theater and psychology, Taro Hattori creates installations examining certain moments and objects in history that are activated by the presence of viewers and the built and intangible elements of a specific environment. Hattori has been awarded his residency at Headlands Center for the Arts, McColl Center for Visual Art, Taipei Artist Village and others. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including Swarm Gallery, Oakland; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; Ssamzie Space, Seoul; Kuandu Museum, Taiwan; Contemporary Art Gallery, Poland. Hattori received his MFA in Time Arts/Video from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He will use his grant to purchase a CAD-based planning system, fabrication and installation tools, and to make studio improvements for larger-scale works. www.tarohattori.com
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Packard Jennings Oakland
Packard Jennings is a visual artist who uses appropriation, humor and interventionist tactics to address political and corporate transgressions against public interests. Working across a wide range of media he portrays fictions of dissent, absurdist morality, and alternate future worlds through subverted advertising tactics and other forms of propaganda. He will use his grant to acquire computer and digital camera equipment for cutting edge mobile art production.
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Larry Kline Escondido
Larry and Debby Kline work as a collaborative team creating artworks that focus on social issues designed to question the status quo and effect change. Elements of social interaction, participation and performance are often present in these works, which use humor or surprising context to address serious and controversial issues. He will use the grant to make capital improvements to enhance the safety and functionality of his studio and to repair existing production equipment.
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Blaine Merker San Francisco
Blaine Merker is an artist working in San Francisco, where he co-directs Rebar, an art and design practice that remixes urban landscapes and explores hidden meanings in everyday environments. His studio is in the Mission District. He will use his grant to purchase wood- and metal-working shop tools to support artistic practice. rebargroup.org
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Kim Stringfellow Joshua Tree
Kim Stringfellow is an artist/educator residing in Joshua Tree, California. Her work and research interests address ecological, historical, and activist issues related to land use and the built environment through hybrid documentary forms incorporating writing, digital media, photography, audio, video, installation, and locative media. She teaches in the Multimedia area as an Associate Professor in School of Art, Design, and Art History at San Diego State University. She will use her grant to purchase photographic equipment and materials to create a fully professional digital studio environment to capture and produce large-format work. www.kimstringfellow.com
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Artistic Innovation Round V
Jeff Chang Berkeley
Jeff Chang is the author of Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation. His new book, Who We Be: The Colorization of America, examines how popular images of race have changed. He will use his grant to create a web-based presentation of artist's new book on visual culture using new software.
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Sara Daleiden Los Angeles
BEING PEDESTRIAN, a cultural tourism campaign based in walking, is a collaboration between artists Sara Daleiden and Sara Wookey and the Community Redevelopment Agency of Los Angeles. With its playful prompts, BEING PEDESTRIAN invites experience of the public space of sidewalks and crosswalks in consideration of the invisible decisions that form the streetscape. In November/December 2010, BEING PEDESTRIAN teams up with HABEAS LOUNGE, a mobile space designated for civic reflection created by Linda Pollack, to offer a series of walks and post-walk discussions to interpret the current redevelopment of Downtown’s South Park. She will use her grant to support the Being Pedestrian project and public programs, conversations and mapping events in the South Park district of downtown Los Angeles www.beingpedestrian.com
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Sergio De La Torre San Francisco
Sergio De La Torre is an artist and educator, and has have worked with and documented the manifold ways by which citizens reinvent themselves in the city they inhabit, as well as site-specific strategies they deploy to move ‘in and out modernity’. His work often invokes collaborations with the subjects and invites both intimate and critical reflections on topics related to housing, immigration and labor. He will use his grant to support an artistic collaboration and a website on a project that looks at the last 20 years of history of undocumented immigration from Latin America to the United States.
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Amy Franceschini San Francisco
Amy Franceschini uses various media to encourage formats of exchange and production, many times in collaboration with other practitioners. An overarching theme in her work is a perceived conflict between humans and nature. Using this as a starting point, she often provides a playful entry point and tools for an audience to gain insight into a deeper fields of inquiry – not only to imagine, but to participate in and initiate change in the places we live. She will use her grant to support research and production of a new work entitled A Variation of the Powers of Ten (Using New Units of Measure). www.futurefarmers.com
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Guillermo Gómez-Peña San Francisco
Guillermo Gómez-Peña's pioneering work in performance, video, poetry, journalism, photography, cultural theory and radical pedagogy, explores cross-cultural issues, immigration, the politics of language, the politics of the body, "extreme culture" and new technologies. A MacArthur Fellow and American Book Award winner, he is a writer for newspapers and magazines in the US, Mexico, and Europe, a contributing editor to The Drama Review (NYU-MIT) and an active member of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics. He will use his grant to create an original audio archive comprising an anthology of performance texts created over the past 20 years.
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Desirée Holman Oakland
Desirée Holman is an interdisciplinary visual artist. Her process involves fabricating (or, less frequently, appropriating) figurative props, which are manipulated in role-playing games. The work questions what games of make- believe can tell us about our behaviors in the ‘real’ world. She will use her grant to complete production on a multi media project that will result in a three-channel video installation and a suite of large-scale drawings. www.desireeholman.com
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Ali Liebegott San Francisco
Ali Liebegott’s award winning books include The Beautifully Worthless and The IHOP Papers. In conjunction with RADAR Productions, Liebegott helped found and facilitate the only free queer writers’ retreat: The RADAR Lab and the annual Eli Coppola Memorial Chapbook Prize. She will use her grant to complete The Heart has many Doors—, the final book in a trilogy of modern-epic hybrid texts through narrative that utilizes poetry, prose, lists, maps and letters.
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Kelly Nipper Los Angeles
Kelly Nipper combines aspects of visual art, dance, the sciences, and theater while mining the experimental practices of the artist Allan Kaprow (1927-2006), choreographer Merce Cunningham (1919-2009) and movement theoretician Rudolph Laban (1879-1958). "North by Midwest" is a film project that will explore the architecture and curriculum of the Cranbook Schools in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan as they relate to nature, specifically the way that the buildings and interiors mirror the growth process of a plant, best seen in the pure geometry and ascension of layered forms that constitute the Kingswood Girls' Middle School on the campus. She will use her grant to make a video titled North By Midwest at the Cranbrook Art Museum with artistic collaborators in dance and costume design.
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Scott Oliver Oakland
Scott Oliver is a sculptor and project-based artist whose work explores the latent potential of familiar objects to express meaning beyond their intended purposes. He received his MFA from California College of the Arts in 2005 and has shown his work nationally and widely in the Bay Area. Currently Oliver is working on a multi-faceted public art project set at Lake Merritt. He lives and works in Oakland California with his wife and their son. He will use his grant to produce a site-specific, multi-faceted, public art project entitled Once Upon a Time, Happily Ever After at Lake Merritt in Oakland, California. Photo: "An Alternative Organization for Institutional Memory," Headlands Center for the Arts Project Space, 2009
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Alison Pebworth San Francisco
Alison Pebworth's work takes the aesthetic prototypes of 19th century traveling shows and combines art, history and anthropology for an investigative look at North American history and contemporary culture. Beautiful Possibility is a traveling exhibition and research project that will take Pebworth and her work across the northern United States and lower Canada on a five-month solo tour. She will use her grant to support Beautiful Possibility.
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Jessica Rath Los Angeles
Jessica Rath uses her immediate natural environment as the inspiration for large-scale sculptures, photographs and immersive sound installations that create metaphors for the beauty of survival and question unchanging ideals about nature. She has recently exhibited solo projects at Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design and at the Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA and is the recipient of two Durfee Foundation ARC Grants, a Metrolab Commission Grant, and the Bridge Residency Award from Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA. She will use her grant to support Apple Shadow, a photographic project documenting extreme genetic diversity in orchard breeding at the USDA Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, NY.
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Philip Ross San Francisco
Philip Ross is an artist, educator and curator, whose work involves research based projects that place natural systems within a frame of social and historic contexts. He is currently focused on growing a building composed of living fungus, and is the founder and director of CRITTER, a salon for art and science based in San Francisco. He will use his grant to advance prototyping and production on a four year long project in which he will create an architectural structure from a living fungus.
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