Suzanne Lacy is internationally known for her writing and social justice-oriented performances and installations. Her most lengthy work to date was a ten year series of public art works to bring broad public awareness to the conditions facing inner city youth with in Oakland, California, including extensive work with the schools, the police, the city government, and public health. She has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Surdna Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Her book on new genre public art, Mapping the Terrain, was published by Bay Press in 1995 and remains an early explicator of the genre. Lacy has founded and co-founded institutions and curriculum to explore the role of art in social change. She is currently chair of fine arts at Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles.
Artist Website: http://www.suzannelacy.com
Susan Steinman is nationally known for her work in large-scale public project promoting ecological and cultural restoration. She works with community groups, city staff, and environmental specialists to install landscapes of native plants and/or organize community gardens, whose purpose is to celebrate and honor local history, restore and protect ecological health, beautify degraded or underutilized community parks and public spaces, promote community revitalization, and educate youth to value environmental stewardship. As eco-art specialist, she lectures, teaches, curates and is publisher of WEAD, the International Women's Environmental Artists Directory. She won the 2000 Potrero Nuevo Prize for her Gardens to Go project in Oakland.
Artist Website: http://www.steinmanstudio.com
Yutaka Kobayashi has exhibited his sculpture and ecological public projects internationally including Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial 2003. In addition to ecological, site-specific installations in the US, Canada, Turkey and Japan, he has been working in designing and implementing new school and community based art projects. By taking part in the project the community became more conscious of their place within the ecosystem. He has been working in artist-in-residence at Otis College of Art and Design and California College of Arts and Crafts. He is an associate professor of Fine Arts at University of the Ryukyus in Okinawa, Japan, and a member of the mayor's urban planning cabinet for the city of Naha.
Artist Website: http://greenarts.net
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