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CEO, McColl Center for Visual Art; and JoelSlayton, Executive Director, ZERO1.Location: ZERO1OPEN EXCHANGE: ROUNDTABLEDISCUSSIONSPropose your own roundtable or sign up fora discussion! (Sign-up sheet at registrationtable.) With three packed days we can’talways fit all the conversations we wantwithin the regular conference schedule.OPEN EXCHANGE is a time to connect withother attendees around shared areas ofinterest through proposed-topic roundtablediscussions. Topics can be submitted at anytime during or leading up to the conferenceand will be announced Friday morning. Preapprovedtopics listed below.(1) The Artist in 2040: Progressive CommunityEngagementBuilding off the Alliance of ArtistsCommunities’ 2012 Urban ResidencyPreconference in Kansas City, this roundtablefocuses on what defines and will defineprogressive community engagement forartist communities. What do we see as therole of the individual artist in the future?What is the opportunity for the artist to claimand be recognized as a valuable contributorto the dialogue about and the solutions forsocial, political, environmental, and ethicalissues? Are there art forms and disciplinesthat lend themselves more readily to actingin this space of engagement than others?Finally, what does this mean for the kinds ofsupport and opportunities that artists willneed in the future and how can residenciesmeet these needs? With Clayton Campbell,artist and consultant; Archana Horsting,Director, Kala Art Institute; and Lisa Hoffman,Director of Environmental Art & CommunityEngagement, McColl Center for Visual Art.(2) Residency AbroadA discussion hosted by the Residency AbroadAffinity Group – a network of US-basedorganizations running residencies abroad.This first conversation will explore thechallenges and opportunities of this model,including how programs might collaborateto gain increased funding and how to betterreach artists in developing nations.Location: MACLA Black Box + Gallery12:00 pm - 1:00 pmKEYNOTE :: GUILLERMO GÓMEZ-PEÑAWith introduction by Craig Watson, ExecutiveDirector, California Arts CouncilLocation: San Jose Stage1:00 pm - 2:00 pm LUNCHLocation: Café Stritch2:15 pm - 4:30 pmTours + Workshops + AdventuresSpace is limited for tours; please seeregistration desk to change or add tourselections.MONTALVO ARTS CENTERExplore the Sally and Don Lucas ArtistsResidency Program at the Montalvo ArtsCenter! Located in the foothills of the SantaCruz Mountains, Montalvo encompasses175 stunning acres of forest, orchards, andmanicured gardens, a Mediterranean-inspiredvilla built in 1912, and one of the oldest artistresidency programs in the US. You will visitartists from a variety of disciplines in theirstudios. Culinary Fellow Andrea Blum willtalk about her latest projects and invite youto sample delicious artisan pizza straightfrom the oven. Kelly Sicat, Director of theLucas Artist Residency and Donna Conwell,Montalvo’s Associate Curator, will leadparticipants on tours of art works on thegrounds as well as the current exhibition inthe Project Space Gallery. Tour bus will leave from MACLA and returnto the Sainte Claire Hotel Light food will be served during the tourTLINGIT WEAVING WITH TERI ROFKARJoin Alaska Native artist Teri Rofkar at theSan Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles toexperience the ancient art of Tlingit weaving,a form of traditional native weaving thatpredates the pyramids of Egypt by over6,000 years. Tlingit baskets and robes are areflection of the rugged coastline of glaciersand towering mountain peaks that skirtSoutheast Alaska. Using all your senses,explore the very tops of the mountains andthe deepest forest floors during an afternoonopen artist studio and demonstration.0.2 miles from Café StritchZERO1 GARAGE + ARTIST FELLOWSHIPZERO1 is an art and technology think tankin downtown San Jose that works with someof the world’s most creative minds from thefields of art, science, design, architecture, andtechnology to produce the internationallyrenowned ZERO1 Biennial, Artist Fellowshipprogram, and hundreds of exhibitions andevents throughout the year.Come explore ZERO1’s industrial, 10,000square-foot studio, exhibition and officespace known as the ZERO1 Garage. Viewthe fall exhibition Patent Pending, a groupshow that uses patents as a starting pointto investigate the relationship betweenartists, ownership, and invention. Learnabout ZERO1’s unique Artist Fellowshipprogram that connects artists with leadingtech companies, cultural institutions, andacademic research centers to address currentinnovation challenges.0.1 miles from Café Stritch5:30 - 7:30 pmCLOSING RECEPTIONAnno Domini Gallery Beer/wine and hors d’ouevresWrap up the conference and begin yourevening with a closing party at Anno DominiGallery. This former downtown cinema nowserves as a 4,100 sq. ft. arts mecca celebratingstreet art and counterculture. Free forattendees!0.1 miles from the Sainte Claire Hotel1314
keynotesconference speakers + presentersFALLEN FRUITWhat began as creating maps of public fruittrees in Los Angeles has grown into a seriesof photographic portraits, experimentaldocumentary videos, public art installations,and curatorial projects across the globe.Using fruit as a lens to see the world, FallenFruit explores themes of urban space,neighborhood and place, and new formsof citizenship. The collective’s works havebrought the attention of local communitiesand the global art community alike.David Burns is a new media artist working inSouthern California, whose work has shown atThe Getty Center, The Tate Modern/Tank.tv,The Armenian Museum of Experimental Art,Seoul Museum of Art, The Athens Biennale,The Ghetto Biennale, Ars Electronica, LosAngeles County Museum of Art, Yerba BuenaCenter for the Arts, and elsewhere.Austin Young is a portrait photographerand video artist based in Los Angeles since1985. He has created an encyclopedicdocumentation of sub- and trans-culture inNew York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco,and his work has expanded to includeperformative collaborations with the public.He is co-founder of the art collectives FallenFruit and Tranimal. Young’s work has beenfeatured in Vogue, Rolling Stone, Flaunt, andInterview Magazine, and shown at LACMA,Matadero Madrid, Ars Electronica, WOWStorefront Gallery, Berkeley Art Museum, theHammer Museum, and Stephen Cohen.GUILLERMO GÓMEZ-PEÑAGuillermo Gómez-Peña is a performanceartist, writer, activist, radical pedagogue,director of San Francisco-based performancetroupe La Pocha Nostra, and one of the“most provocative and dynamic artists on thecontemporary art scene.”Gómez-Peña was the first Chicano artist to beawarded the MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship,is the recipient of a Bessie and an AmericanBook Award, and on the UTNE Reader’s15“List of 100 Visionaries.” Gómez-Peña isa regular contributor for newspapers andmagazines in the US, Mexico, and Europe anda contributing editor to The Drama Review(NYU-MIT). His work pushes boundariesand mixes genres, exploring cross-culturalissues, immigration, the politics of language,“extreme culture,” and new technologiesin the era of globalization and has beenpresented at over 700 venues across theglobe, including the Tate Modern and WhitneyBiennial.In 2012, Gómez-Peña received the FreeCulture Award from AS220, which includedthe commission of a mural collaborationbetween Gómez-Peña and Providence artistJoan Wyand entitled “The New Barbarians: ToThe Lords Of Censorship.”TERI ROFKARTeri Rofkar is an internationally renownedfiber artist from the Sitka Tribe of Alaska. Forover 25 years Teri has been weaving exquisitebaskets and textiles from cedar, sprucetree roots, ferns, and mountain goat woolwhich she collects in the woods and alongthe shoreline of her Northwest coast home.“I was introduced to Tlingit weaving by myGrandmother, when I was a child. She livedin Pelican, AK, where I spent many summersfishing and playing in Lisianski Inlet. The funof traditional gathering as a child continuesto fuel my investigations of climate, geology,and chemistry today as an adult. I harvest andweave in Tlingit methods passed down forthousands of years, following the steps of myAncestors.”Rofkar has served as an Artist in Residenceat the Alaska Native Heritage Center inAnchorage and at the Southeast Alaska IndianCultural Center in Sitka. She has received anumber of celebrated awards including theBuffet Award for Indigenous Leadership,a Creative Capital project award, the NEANational Heritage Fellowship Award, theUnited States Artist Fellowship, and theRasmuson Distinguished Artist Award.Andrea Avery | Community Arts Coordinator,John Michael Kohler Arts Center (Sheboygan,WI)Jamie Badoud | Executive Director, TheHambidge Center for Creative Arts & Sciences(Rabun Gap, GA)Jim Baker | Executive Director, Pilchuck GlassSchool (Stanwood, WA)Anne Beck | Artist and Co-Founder, Lost CoastCulture Machine (Fort Bragg, CA)Sita Bhaumik | Artist and Research Fellow,Institute for Art and Olfaction (Los Angeles,CA)M.J. Bogatin | Co-President of the Board,California Lawyers for the Arts (Oakland, CA)Ann Brady | Director - RauschenbergResidency, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation(Captiva, FL)Clayton Campbell | Artist and consultant (LosAngeles, CA)Donna Conwell | Associate Curator, MontalvoArts Center (Saratoga, CA)Jennifer Wright Cook | Executive Director, TheField (New York, NY)Dianne Debicella | Senior Program Manager -Fiscal Sponsorship, Fractured Atlas (New York,NY)Lauren DiCioccio | Artist (San Francisco, CA +Brooklyn, NY)Mario Garcia Durham | President/CEO,Association of Performing Arts Presenters(Washington, DC)Linda Earle | Executive Director, New York ArtsProgram (New York, NY)Jennifer Easton | Project Manager - Public ArtProgram, City of San Jose (San Jose, CA)Candace Elder | Senior Programs Manager,National Music Centre (Calgary, AB)Suzanne Fetscher | President/CEO, McCollCenter for Visual Art (Charlotte, NC)Andy Fife | Independent consultant, coach,teacher, writer (Puget Sound Region, WA)Lisa Folsom-Ernst | Fund DevelopmentDirector, Becoming Independent (Santa Rosa,CA)Linda Gass | Environmental artist, CubberleyResidency (Palo Alto, CA)Michal Gavish | Multi-media artist, CubberleyResidency (Palo Alto, CA)Barbara Goldstein | Consultant and formerPublic Art Director, City of San Jose Office ofCultural Affairs (San Jose, CA)Tony Grant | Director, Sustainable ArtsFoundation (San Francisco, CA)Suzanne Hackett-Morgan | Artist andExecutive Director, Goldwell Open Air Museum& Artist Residency (Ryolite, NV)Anjee Helstrup-Alvarez | Executive Director,MACLA/Movimiento de Arte y Cultura LatinoAmericana (San Jose, CA)Keith Hennessy | Dancer/Choreographer andDirector, Circo Zero (San Francisco, CA)PJ Hirabayashi | Artistic Director Emeritus, SanJose Taiko (San Jose, CA)Roy Hirabayashi | Founder, San Jose Taiko(San Jose, CA)Lisa Hoffman | Director of Environmental Artand Community Engagement, McColl Centerfor Visual Art (Charlotte, NC)Archana Horsting | Director, Kala Art Institute(Berkeley, CA)Regin Igloria | Director of Residencies andFellowships, The Ragdale Foundation (LakeForest, IL)Franco Imperial | Artistic Director, San JoseTaiko (San Jose, CA)Brian Karl | Program Director, HeadlandsCenter for the Arts (Sausalito, CA)Margot H. Knight | Executive Director,Djerassi Resident Artist Program (Woodside,CA) 16
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