The ACD Class of 2013, catching a ray of sunshine, heading off on a field trip to Lee Kelley’s home and studio.

All presentations, including question and answer, will last approximately an hour and will be held in the graduate exhibition space at 902 SW Morrison (at the corner of SW 9th and SW Morrison).

Monday, May 14:

9am: Larissa Hammond (presentation off-site)
11am: Kathy Bradshaw
2pm: Amanda Brennan
4pm: Jacob Tietze

Tuesday, May 15:

9am: Heather Bromer
11am: W.C. Rueck
2pm: Amber Roelfs
4pm: Karl Ramentol

Wednesday, May 16:

2pm: Killeen Hanson
4pm: Andy Lonnquist

Thursday, May 17:

11am: Jody Dunphy
2pm: Swapna Ketcham
4pm: Sheri Earnhart

You can download a PDF of the presentation schedule, along with descriptions and titles of the graduate Practicum Projects here: http://homeroom.pnca.edu/download/685795.pdf

Hope to see you there!

Anne Crumpacker MFA ACD ’11 is a Portland artist who has found a singular focus in her practice through bamboo, a material that continually supplies her with inspiration and challenges. In choosing bamboo to create her work—which ranges from lacy geometric wall pieces that reveal the intricate cell structure, to substantial undulating grids of cross sections—Crumpacker has embraced centuries-old traditions as well as a 21st century mindfulness of sustainability. In 2011, Crumpacker was in the first graduating class from the MFA in Applied Craft and Design program, jointly run by PNCA and Oregon College of Art and Craft, and her career was immediately launched with pieces selling from her practicum body of work, subsequent commissions, and a recent show in Museum of Contemporary Craft’s Gallery. Next fall she will be part of a group bamboo show at the Portland Japanese Garden with two artists who helped guide her work, Charissa Brock and Jiro Yonezawa.

You can read the rest of the article at: http://untitled.pnca.edu/articles/show/5533/

Photos by Matthew Miller ’11 and Dan Kvitka.

If you have the chance, stop by the Bison Building this Friday, May 4th, from 6 until 9.

Don’t miss this opportunity to enjoy a drink and a bite whilst viewing the fabulous work of AC&D First Year Students.

A few days ago, GOOD magazine printed a short article on the potential and future of lending libraries. They explored the ethos behind the growing trend of, “Have more. Own less.”

Among other projects mentioned, such as swap.com, NeighborhoodGoods and Portland-local Kitchen Share Southeast, GOOD spot-lighted ACD grad Laura Allcorn’s FLUX project.

From the article:

“Last summer, fellow Portland resident, artist, and GOOD Maker finalist Laura Allcorn created FLUX, a lending service that offers fashionistas an alternative to owning. Says Allcorn, “FLUX was born out of a curiosity I had in the future of fashion. It’s clear, given the rising costs due to material shortages, that our current pace of consumption is not sustainable.” She thought about how little she wore some of the garments in her own closet, especially dresses and blouses that seemed to lose their luster after a few wears. After gauging local interest, Allcorn opened a brick-and-mortar storefront for six weeks to experiment with the free service, discovering that women enjoyed the experience almost as much as spending money at a boutique. She remembers, “Many said they loved finding something new to mix into their wardrobe. The pieces they borrowed somehow made their other garments feel new again.” The next FLUX pop-up is set to open in Portland this summer.”

You can read the entire article here.

Before she enrolled in the MFA in Applied Craft and Design program, Killeen Hanson (who will graduate this May), worked as an cartographer, infographic designer and history researcher on Richard White’s recently published book on the history of railroad expansion in the American West.

A few weeks ago, it was announced that Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America, by Richard White, was recently named a finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize in History.

[THE FIRST OF THE THESIS ANNOUNCEMENTS]

MFA Applied Craft and Design candidate Larissa Hammond will debut her graduate work to the public in a large dirt pit. This work explores the relationship of aural to visual language through print; the efforts of which culminate in Aeroplane- an aerodynamic pocket-sized book.

Please join us in The Pit- rain or shine- located at 8335 NW Whitney Ave in Portland Oregon. From Bridge Ave turn onto Springville Rd. Take the first hairpin left turn across from the boat and cannon. Keep ascending and stay left until the road turns to gravel.

For any questions or concerns please feel free to contact chammond@pnca.edu.

Great things are happening around the studio these days, what with the FIRST YEAR SHOW on May 4 in the Bison Building (stay tuned for more details), and the GRADUATE PRACTICUM EXHIBITION on May 18.

Here are a few candid “around-the-studio” shots:

SHANNON, gutting buckets of lightbulbs for her filament sculptures:

ERIC, throwing sparks while he works on another of his steel lounge chairs:

KATHY and JACOB, conferring on how best to divide all those pounds of insulation into representative proportions for a materialized BMI (body mass index).

THERESA, throwing cups with a mighty ferver, all in preparation for the first year show. (May 4th, remember!) If you come, you’ll be able to drink your wine or beer out of a one-of-a-kind Arrison original.

(Look in the upper right… there’s Theresa, hard at work.)

Some chairs and color samples in progress from KILLEEN:

COREN, catching some of the afternoon light in his studio space:

And JJ, with her trusty companion Maya, working her perspective skills on a tablet and laptop:

Visiting Artist Elmar Heimbach spoke a few weeks ago to a reponsive crowd in the Bison Building. He shared with us some of his students’ work from the Akademie für Handwerksdesign as well as examples from some of his own projects, including his recent transformation of a politically desanctified church ruin in Wollseifen, Germany into a space for silence and peace…

... some chairs built by his students in one of Elmar’s design classes…

... and a floating artist-residency/retreat that he designed.

Elmar was in and out of the studio for the next couple days, meeting with students in one-on-one critiques, and speaking to the second year students in their Critique Seminar.

On the horizon? A possible student or teach exchange between OCAC and Gut Rosenberg. Sign me up!

The Biomimicry Student Design Challenge, an annual biomimicry design competition is a project lead by the Biomimicry Institute. A multi-disciplinary team comprising of five MFA students (Laura DeVito, Danielle Olson, Dustin Freemont, Santigie Fofana-Dura from the MFA in Collaborative Design ’13 representing PNCA and Swapna Ketcham, MFA in Applied Craft and Design ’12 representing PNCA and OCAC colleges ) participated in the 2011 contest, which was opened for the first time to students from any international institution . PNCA faculty member Mallory Pratt served as a mentor for the team . The team also sought advice from experts like Cara Wilder, microbiologist; Don Harker, sustainability consultant; Dylan Varekamp, The BikeGallery; Matt Cardinal, Signal Cycles, and Westernbikeworks, a local bike retail store.

The team created a website that would encourage forming networks for bicyclists and have many benefits, both social and environmental which can be adapted to any city. It encourages the use of bicycle lights, a required but often ignored safety device. The team envisioned small swarms of bike commuters meeting in neighborhoods, finding each other by their bikeship lights and growing the network, borrowing from the swarming behavior of bees and green bomber worms.

An abstract submitted by the team for the contest:

Portland, OR is known for its vibrant and growing bicycle culture. In addition to the health benefits of bicycling, cycling to work instead of driving reduces CO2 emissions. The design problem was to devise a plan that would lure a portion of the “interested but concerned” group, who bike irregularly or not at all, into becoming regular bicycle commuters in Portland. Inspired by swarming and bioluminescence, bikeship.org is aimed at growing the Portland bike commuter population, promoting bike safety and decreasing carbon emissions. We achieve this by designing a website and smartphone application that creates a network of bike commuters that utilize a light system that serves as a communication device. The ability to reward others for bikeship (acts of kindness and generosity connected to biking) propagates the system throughout the existing bike community and penetrates beyond into potential bike enthusiasts.

Please join us for a very special upcoming ThoughtShop this Thursday April 19th! In an effort to communicate the collective ideas being explored at ADX and ThoughtShop we present Design for Production: Taking your Product to Market.

A select group of local portland designers and design business owners will be joining us to discuss:

the prototyping process developing a business plan and marketing strategy for your product various approaches for raising money to launch your product their experience with the manufacturing process

PANELISTS
Susanna Holman, Terrazign
Shannon Guirl, Caravan Pacific
Rebecca Pearcy, QueenBee
Lisa Jones Pigeon Toe Ceramics
Michael Wood TinyMeat

FACILITATORS
Karl Ramentol of ThoughtShop
Alexandra Cummings of ADX
Jon James Staton of ADX

Portland is perfectly positioned to train up and tool up for a manufacturing economy that supports more designers moving their products into small run production (generally < 500). ADX is working to better understand how we, as a prototyping facility, can help designers of all stripes with all aspects of taking their products to market and creating profitable businesses that lead to more quality jobs. Portland’s artisan economy creates the perfect opportunity to rethink how and where things are made and to create mutually beneficial relationships between local companies. From coffee, beer, and other food products to bikes, handcrafted items and furniture, Portland can develop a new economy based on making.

ADX is looking to develop a manufacturing facility that can work with other local manufacturers to take a variety of products to market under our Portland Made brand. Our current facility is quickly becoming a training ground for the new manufacturing economy. By touring other manufacturing facilities, we are learning that there is a gap in knowledge and fabrication skills created by the old economy, which was based on outsourcing to the cheapest location and leading to a disconnect between the designer and the manufacturing process.

ADX is working with designers who want to launch their own businesses and product lines to fill the knowledge and skill gap. Through classes and free programming like ThoughtShop, designers and fabricators can reconnect with each other to better understand how things are made. Designing a product for production is very different than one off design. Understanding the manufacturing process for your product will help you come up with a design that allows you to scale up in the most cost effective way.

Info from Karl Ramentol

For Kathy Bradshaw’s (ACD ’12) class engagement she took us out to Oxbow Regional Park for a class on wood-craft with Rewild Portland taught by Executive Director Peter Michael Bauer and Board Director Tony Kimbro. The class covered heightening our sense of nature, debris shelter building and fire starting.

raw material

exploring the space

first stage of our shelter

For more information on wildnerness classes see:
Rewild Portland

Come check out my show in Gallery 214 at PNCA from April 5th to April 20th.
We’ll be hanging out at the opening, first Thursday starting at 6.

More information here: http://cal.pnca.edu/events/394

Allan Wexler led OCAC BFA and joint MFA AC+D students in an intense 2 day design build workshop re-imagining an exterior door inspired by Bachelard’s Dialectics of Outside and Inside.

Former faculty and MFA Collaborative Design co-author Zack Denfeld and Cat Kramer at Science Gallery

The MA in Critical Theory and Creative Research is co-chaired by Anne Marie Oliver and Barry Sanders, two distinguished scholars and theorists who bring a combined 60+ years of iconoclastic research, writing, and teaching experience to the program. Photo: Emily Hyde ‘12

For our final semster of Critique Seminar our instructors asked us to spend a few hours sharing something that informs our practice. I took our class out to the family farm to shoot guns.

Introductions

Kathy and Heather on deck with a couple of 12 gauges

Karl with a .357 Magnum Desert Eagle

Billy with a .30-30 Marlin

In a recent email thread, ACD students shared a few of their favorite blogs. The list is a great one, and reflects some of our eclectic and varied creative interests. Here’s the resulting list, in no particular order:

http://mocoloco.com/
http://www.treehugger.com/
http://www.dezeen.com/

http://www.designboom.com/eng/
http://core77.com/

http://youhavebeenheresometime.blogspot.com/
http://www.sightunseen.com/

http://www.notcot.org/
http://www.fastcodesign.com/

http://www.artjewelryforum.org/
http://thefoxisblack.com/
http://design-milk.com/

http://2or3things.blogspot.com/
http://www.swiss-miss.com/
http://www.thejealouscurator.com/blog/

http://uponafold.com.au/
http://anthologymag.com/blog3
http://boardbook.thehansenfamily.eu/

Portland Specific:

http://dillpickleclub.org/
http://www.portlandartspark.com/
http://pdxseamsters.com/
http://www.fertilegroundpdx.org/
http://www.racc.org/
http://www.handeyesupply.com/

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Made by Hand is a short film series celebrating the people who make things by hand — sustainably, locally, and with a love for their craft.

A project from the Bureau of Common Goods, Made by Hand was created out of the belief that the things we collect, consume, use, and share are part of who we are as individuals. For example, the food that we eat says something about each of us, as do the tools we use and the chairs we rest on. Objects that surround the space we dwell in tell stories, and not just about us. Where did they come from? Who made them? How were they made?

Each film aims to promote that which is made locally, sustainably, and with a love for craft. Based in Brooklyn, the project takes its influence from the handmade movement here and elsewhere.

Watch them all here: http://thisismadebyhand.com/

APPLICATION DUE: APRIL 1

Museum of Contemporary Craft has been awarded $5000 in direct support of a Windgate Museum Intern. This is a competitive opportunity, and the first time MoCC has been invited to host an intern. Each year, the Windgate foundation selects four institutions to support an intern and the Museum is deeply honored to be a part of this year’s selection.

This 6-week internship will take place during July and August, 2012 at Museum of Contemporary Craft.
– Interns will assist with research, planning, writing, editing, exhibition design, and installation of two exhibitions: Erik Gronborg, and Object Focus: The Bowl.
– Students will work with the curatorial staff and other departments to implement projects.
– Students will be expected to document their experience on Untitled, PNCA’s online magazine throughout the internship.
– This internship is open to graduate students enrolled in art history, design, curatorial studies, or critical writing programs.

For more information, or to submit applications contact Namita Gupta Wiggers at namita@MuseumofContemporaryCraft.org

Application Deadline: April 1
Decisions Announced: April 15

More information here: http://mocc.pnca.edu/archives/5312/

One of the Land Arts sites Chris brings students to.

Chris Taylor will be hailing from Lubbock, Texas to lecture at the Museum of Contemporary Craft about his fascinating Land Arts work with students.

Another example of a site.

Chris Taylor is an architect, educator, and director of Land Arts of the American West at Texas Tech University. His lecture, “Testing Perceptual Thresholds with Land Arts of the American West” will present the embodied knowledge created by the immersive field program that brings students across the American southwest each fall. Students camp for two months and travel six thousand miles overland, while making no-trace work and exploring the natural and human forces that shape contemporary landscapes—forces that range from geology and weather, to cigarette butts and hydroelectric dams.

A photo of Chris Taylor himself.

The whittling workshop with Donald Fortescue was a real hit!
Check out some photos below of our time with Donald, just whittling away the time.

Donald instructing students on tools, the various kinds of wood he brought, and his “rules for whittling”.

Billy checking out one of Donald’s whittles.

Even JP joined in on the fun.

Everyone remained this concentrated for 3 hours!

As usual, Matt Williams (resident fellow) going against the grain—and whittling towards himself.

The remains.

Image via ArtNet

Donald Fortescue will be visiting us at the Bison Building this coming Wednesday as a visiting lecturer. His talk is free and open to the public, and begins at 6:30pm. Please join us!

Donald is a Professor of Art and Design at the California College of the Arts (CCA) in San Francisco. He was born in Sydney, Australia, where he studied zoology and botany for his first degree, and worked as a botanical consultant and scientific illustrator for many years. His love of making lead him to further studies in woodworking and furniture design at the Australian National University and then to a Master’s degree in Sculpture. He moved to the US in 1997 to head the Furniture Design program at CCA. Since then he has exhibited extensively in Australia, the US and South America. He received an Experimental Design Award from the San Francisco’s Museum of Modern Art in 2001. His most recent solo exhibition was at the Sonoma Valley Museum of Art in 2010.

Donald will also be conducting a whittling workshop for our students during his visit. The image below shows Donald doing a similar workshop with another group of folks.

Image from Deep Craft

Included here are Donald’s Rules of Whittling, which he has outlined on his blog.
The Technical Rules

Rule 1 – Try not to bleed.

Rule 2 – Always whittle away from your body.

Rule 3 – One tool per whittle – one tool makes it whittling rather than carving in my opinion.

Rule 4 – A blunt tools only cuts you.

Rule 5 – Consider the hard edges, the soft edges and the marks the tool leaves.

Rule 6 – Sandpaper is for wussies!

The Conceptual Rules

Rule 1 – Do not start with a preconceived design or form in mind.

Rule 2 – Let the tool, the wood and your hands think along with your mind.

Rule 3 – The piece also whittles you.

Rule 4 – Stop when it’s finished

Rule 5 – There are no rules!

Photo via Shaking the Tree

The Willamette Week recently reviewed the play, The Tripping Point, currently being performed at Shaking the Tree Studio (Thursday through Sunday, until February 5th), for which our own Sheri Earnhart MFA ’12 designed the sets. Sheri’s hard work—and the play—receives high praise from WW; read the article here.

Swapna Ketcham MFA ’12 has an opening on First Thursday, February 2nd in PNCA’s MFA Gallery Central. Please come support her and see the show!

Image of the show. Photo by Swapna Ketcham.

Check out ACD Practicum student Karl Ramentol’s (‘12) collaboratve design project ThoughtShop.

The group meets twice monthly to workshop ideas, share inspiration, and host demonstrations from from visiting artists and designers. Follow the blog at thoughtshopgroup.tumbler.com

Karl’s felt saddles

You can see more of Karl’s design and paintings at his website

Photo from All Art News

In collaboration with PSU’s MFA Art and Social Practice program, we’ll be welcoming Luis Camnitzer for a public lecture on Monday, January 23rd at 6:30pm.
The lecture will take place at PSU’s Shattuck Hall Annex, located at 1914 SW Park Ave.

Photo from Barcelona Kontext

Luis Camnitzer (b. 1937) is a German-born Uruguayan conceptual artist and academic. His humorous yet biting work has appeared in many exhibitions internationally since the early 1960s.

Photo from Printeresting

Luis Camnitzer was born in Lübeck, Germany and emigrated to Uruguay in 1939 at the age of two. He studied at the School of Fine Arts, University of Uruguay graduating with a degree in sculpture and architecture. In 1957, he received a grant from the German government, which allowed him to study sculpture and printmaking at the Academy of Munich. He moved to the United States in 1964, where he currently lives and works. He has been a professor of art at the State University of New York in Old Westbury, New York since 1969 and regularly contributes articles to various publications. Since the early 1960s Camnitzer’s works have been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States, Latin American, and Europe.

For more information on Luis go to: http://www.alexandergray.com/artists/luis-camnitzer/

Photo via MoCC

Our very own MFA ’11 Alumnus Anne Crumpacker will be showing her bamboo work at the Museum of Contemporary Craft!

Every first Wednesday of the month, The Gallery at Museum of Contemporary Craft opens it doors to visitors, patrons, and artists alike. Avoid the first Thursday crowds by attending this intimate and informative event. Please join the Museum for a preview of Anne Crumpacker’s bamboo sculptures in The Gallery.

Her work interweaves scale and proportion—thin, medium and thick crosscut bamboo sections, the interplay of light and shadow—to create living topographies. Her long immersion in Japanese aesthetics guides her as she works intuitively, following a path of discovery.

Photo via Anne’s website

In developing the crosscut bamboo technique, she is contributing a new approach to a venerable material. Deconstructing bamboo into crosscut slices reveals its cellular makeup and illuminates its natural beauty and strength. Assembling the pieces allows patterns and rhythms to emerge that reflect the interconnection of forces in nature, from microscopic life to wave movement.


Anne holds a bachelor of arts from Scripps College and a master of arts in liberal studies from Reed College, as well as a teaching credential from University of California, Berkeley. She is a member of the first graduating class of the MFA program in Applied Craft and Design from Oregon College of Art and Craft + Pacific Northwest College of Art.

Jason Lee Starin (ACD 2011) is collaborating with Daniel Glendening in a show opening this weekend at PLACE Gallery (700 SW 5th Ave, Portland).

New Function is a collaboration between two Portland artists, Daniel J Glendening and Jason Lee Starin. Glendening presents new objects and images challenging mortality, impotence, hope and prosthetic spirituality. Starin’s practice reconsiders function as being more than utility by extending its meaning into the experiential need to comprehend with our hands. His interest lies in how digital material influences our notion of physical form in reciprocal and possibly reactionary manners.

Check out the Facebook event page at http://www.facebook.com/events/326566994030635/

Alum Leslie Vigeant (ACD 2011) recently won a grant from RACC (Regional Arts and Culture Council) for their Installation Space program in the Portland Building.

From the RACC website: “The Installation Art Series features interactive and experimental media installations in a small space in the Portland Building’s lobby. Each installation is a month long and is selected through a juried process. The program presents challenging and diverse works that encourage the general public to re-examine its expectations and definitions of art through dialogue about the role of art in public spaces.”

Leslie’s solo show, in the lobby of the Portland Building, will go up for August 2012.

Leslie joins three other ACD community members have also received Installation Space grants:

Emily Nachison (Mentor) in 2011, Christina Conant (Alum 2011) in 2010 and Brenda Mallory (Mentor) in 2005.

You can check out more of Leslie’s work on her website at: http://www.leslievigeant.com/

Heather Bromer (ACD ’12) was busy this past winter: her Spring 2011 work was featured in three shows in and around Portland.

First up, a few of Heather’s bears were included in the Beaverton Arts Foundation’s 29th Annual Juried Visual Artists Showcase, which featured about 100 local artists working in a variety of mediums.

Heather also contributed work towards a one-night art party benefiting local artist and “artistic ambassador” Ray Bradley.

Heather’s bears also appeared in a group show (which opened for December’s First Thursday) at the Painting is Dead gallery in Everett Lofts downtown.

Looking for opportunities to exhibit your work? One place to look is CaFE: https://www.callforentry.org/

Poppytalk, a popular design blog, is looking for contributors from the Pacific Northwest who would be interested in reporting on art/craft/design goings on in Portland and in offering original and quality DIY’s for Poppytalk readers.

If you’re interested, visit http://poppytalk.blogspot.com/2012/01/we-are-looking-for-contributors.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FISuVv+%28poppytalk%29.

Eric Trine, ACD class of 2013, was interviewed last month by Ragged Band, an online journal dedicated to exploring the stories, struggles, and creative processes of contemporary artists and thinkers.

In the interview, Eric elaborates a little on how objects can serve a role in welcoming others into our spaces (“My proposal was about the role of the built environment in home-making and hospitality. How the continued use of an object in one’s home changes us and reinforces our personal narratives about ourselves.”) and how people activate objects (“As soon as people show up, all the dynamism and the energy in the room comes alive. I don’t need my furniture to do that. It all comes back how to facilitate relationship and experience and up the quality of life.”). He also reveals a bit about some his early art roots (as art director for a power-tool company) and how Oregon’s weather affects the way we interact with each other and with our environment (“You are spending your time in your own house or someone else’s house or a restaurant or coffee shop. That’s a different kind of proximity.”).

You can read the entire article at Ragged Band . It’s great. And you can browse Eric’s website and portfolio at http://etrine.com/.

Master Papermaker Paul Wong will be lecturing at the Bison Building on Wednesday, January 18th at 6:30pm. Please join us for this free lecture to hear about Paul’s work at Dieu Donne in New York City, and the progression of his work over the years.

Paul Wong is Artistic Director and Master Papermaker for over 32 years at Dieu Donné (Papermill), a non-profit organization for visual artists in NYC founded in 1976. Dieu Donné has moved into a new 7000 sq’ state-of-the-art studio/gallery/archive space in the garment district (2007). He has developed and pioneered ground-breaking technical advances in the field of creative hand-papermaking having collaborated with artists such as Chuck Close, Richard Tuttle, Kiki Smith, Jim Dine, Jessica Stockholder, Jim Hodges, Richard Artschwager, Donald Baechler, Louise Bourgeois, and many others. He has continued to use the paper-process in his own work to create major installations and works in paper for exhibitions such as “Fargo/Far-To-Go”, Plains Museum, Fargo ND, 2003; “Paper Spaces”, Neuberger Museum, Purchase NY, 1997; and has received grants from the Tiffany Foundation (1978), NYFA (1997), and the Joan Mitchell Foundation (1998). He has taught, lectured, and juried exhibitions on hand papermaking through the New School-NYC, at DD, NY Public Library, PBI ’92,‘02,‘08, Columbia College, Banff School of Art, Penland and numerous visiting artist programs across the country.

Tally Locke ’13 and Amy Conway ’13 have recently collaborated on a show being held in The Lodge Gallery at Allied Works. This past First Thursday was the official opening, but the show will be up for a number of weeks. Please take some time to go check it out!

All Together Now

2011 Design/Build Project from PNCA on Vimeo.

The third annual ACD design build was featured in an article authored by the ACD chair JP Reuer in metropolismag.com

Tune in for more posts from this year’s participants

Jody Dunphy

Congratulations to the Applied Craft and Design program. The annual fall Open House was a well attended event showcasing the current work of the classes of 2012 and 2013.

The above image is a highlight from Jody Dunphy’s (‘12) body of work focusing on seed dispersal and methodologies to effect change within the urban flora. In addition to her studies Jody also works at the Museum of Contemporary Craft as a Exhibition Attendant.