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I invited five Portland breweries to make beer inspired by an artwork at the Portland Art Museum. The artwork is an 18th century painting, The Drunken Cobbler, by French artist Jean-Baptiste Greuze.


Beers Made By Walking /// 2013
The Beers Made By Walking program has continued to expand and morph with each passing summer season. In 2013, the program invited more breweries in Colorado and Oregon than ever before...


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Neighborhood Goods /// 2013
Over the summer I moved back to Oregon and to re-familiarize myself with the area I began walking all over the city. During these walks I was overjoyed by the amount of fruit...


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Homebrewed By Design /// 2013
Home Brewed by Design is an event that pairs aspiring homebrewers with independent graphic designers in Portland to design them a label for their beer...


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Beers Made By Walking 2012 /// 2012
BMBW is a program that invites brewers to make beer inspired by nature hikes and urban walks. This year I worked with 16 breweries in Colorado, Oregon, and Washington...


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A Walk to Pikes Peak /// 2012
Commissioned by the Art History Program at UCCS and the UCCS Galleries of Contemporary Art, Harrell Fletcher and I lead a group of roving learners from...


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33 Mile Walk Through Colorado Springs /// 2012
I organized a walk that started in the Northernmost point at Colorado Springs and ended at the Southernmost point in Colorado Springs...


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Performa Brew Pub /// 2011
Created for the HUB space at the Performa 11 Biennial. A two-night exhibition in the form of a pop-up pub that invited twenty-five New York City homebrewers...


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Collective Brew Day /// 2011
Organized for the Performa 11 Biennial, Collective Brew Day looked at the sculptural and social aspects of brewing beer in New York City. Eight local homebrewers...


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Beers Made By Walking 2011 /// 2011
The initial BMBW summer long program where the public goes on a series of hikes, identifies edible pants, and local brewers make beer basaed off what we find...


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Beer Portraits /// 2011
For a group show with Elysia Contreras and Zach Springer in Kansas City, MO at La Esquina through Urban Culture Project. The show, titled "It's All Yours" celebrated...


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Pub School / Market Gallery Pub /// 2010
Pub School was a month long educational beer program created during the International Festival of Visual Art. The program culminated in a one night pop-up pub...


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Slow Beers - Heather Ale /// 2010, 2011
During my research of Scotland breweries and beers I came across a heather ale made by Williams Bros. Brewing. They claim that beer has been made with heather flowers...


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Art and Beer /// 2009, 2010
For Shine A Light at the Portland Art Museum. Each year I work with three local breweries, I give them a tour of the Portland Art Museum, they choose an artwork...


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The Canoedio /// 2009
An artist studio in a canoe and floating alternative classroom space. We took the Canoedio down the Yukon River for 6 days, exploring the geology, landscape...


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The Ghost Corral /// 2009
A Collaborative project with Kate Clark that took the form of a one-night speakeasy with full-service bar, servers, and eleven different $1 homebrewed drinks...


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Early Morning Coffee Tasting and Radical Education Book Club /// 2009
For three weeks, every morning I read aloud John Holt’s book, Instead of Education, and served gourmet French-pressed coffee to students and faculty...


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Cultivate Brew Crew /// 2009
I invited fifteen people to collaborate over the course of three months to: select a type of beer to brew, brew it, bottle it, create labels for the bottles, create beer coasters...


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Buried Syllabus /// 2009
Katy Asher invited me to be a collaborate during a Signal Fire Residency. I cataloged our time and turned our activities into a syllabus for Exploring Environment and Collaboration...


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Building in the Post-Apocalypse /// 2009
The exhibition explores thoughts and visions for rethinking education through community and collaborative learning in a world of skyrocketing tuition and rising unemployment...