Nicole Lavelle
b. 1987 San Francisco, CA
Lives and works in California
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EDUCATION
2016
MFA, Fine Art (Social Practice), California College of the Arts, San Francisco CA
2012
Summer Intensive: Design Research, Writing, and Criticism MFA Program at the School of Visual Arts, New York NY
2010
BA, Fine Art (Graphic Design), Portland State University, Portland OR
RESIDENCIES / FELLOWSHIPS / VISITING ARTIST
2019
Visiting Historian at the Jack Mason Museum of West Marin History, Inverness CA
Artist in Residence at This Will Take Time, Point Arena CA
(Since 2015) Resident Artist at the Prelinger Library, San Francisco CA
2018
Artist in Residence at Outlet PDX, Portland OR
Designer in Residence with TOKYO SEEDS, Tokyo Japan
Artist in Residence at Blue Sky Center, New Cuyama CA
2017-2018
Affiliate Artist at the Headlands Center for the Arts
2016-2017
Graduate Fellow at the Headlands Center for the Arts
2015
High Desert Test Sites 2015, Green River UT
Remote Residency at Good Press Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
Cabin Time 7, Deer Island Archipelago ME
2014
Frontier Fellowship at The Epicenter, Green River UT
Machine Project at Rubin Center at University of Texas. El Paso, TX
FOR-SITE Foundation (with CCA), Nevada City, CA
2013
CIVIC SPACE at Broken City Lab, Windsor, Ontario CANADA
Frontier Fellowship at The Epicenter, Green River UT
Vinewood Residency, Detroit MI
2012
Re:Active, Portland OR
2011
Frontier Fellowship at The Epicenter, Green River UT
Elsewhere Collaborative, Greensboro NC
2010
Project M, Frankfurt/Offenbach, Germany
2009
Banford P. Millar Memorial Library, Portland State University, Portland OR
PERFORMANCE LECTURES
2018
CYCLES, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito CA (with Daniel Melo)
CYCLES, CENTER, Inverness CA (with Daniel Melo)
2017
Five Anxiety Minutes, 3X performance series at E.M. Wolfman No More Cops Free Healthcare New Life Bookstore, Oakland CA
BREATHE PURE MOUNTAIN AIR: New Age and Leisure in the Emerald Bathed in Blue, San Francisco Art Book Fair, San Francisco CA
FIRE, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito CA
Heaven is a place in California, opening of THE COMMONS at Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito CA
PAPER ROAD, Embark Gallery, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco CA
2016
PLANT FAMILY VOL. 5, with Pete Fields on guitar. Fused Space, San Francisco CA
PUBLIC PROJECTS AND WORKSHOPS (solo and collaborative)
2021
(since 2015)
PLACE TALKS, founder and co-organizer of lecture series at the Prelinger Library, San Francisco CA
2019
An Incomplete History of Community Publishing at the Edge of the Earth, history exhibit and event series presented at the Jack Mason Museum of West Marin History in Inverness, CA
2018
The Changing Times, Issue 4: Unincorporated Marin County, itinerant community newspaper project by Corbin LaMont/Office of Virtue
2017
COMMONSOURCE, part of Live Practice Series, Third Thursday Public Program, with PLACE TALKS, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco CA
2016
Winter House, Lagunitas CA
PLACE TALKS and Wolfman at The Thing, presentation night organized by Justin Carder of E.M. Wolfman Books at The Thing Quarterly in San Francisco
2015
AUTOLAND, presented at High Desert Test Sites 2015, Green River UT*
PLACE TALKS, founder and organizer of lecture series at the Prelinger Library, San Francisco CA
2014
The Green River Magazine, Green River UT*
Summer House, Lagunitas CA
House of Everything and More at CUADRO, with Bennett Williamson, El Paso TX
2013
The Green River Newspaper, Green River UT*
Spirit of Windsor: An Outsider's Guide, Windsor Ontario, Canada*
Share Document, with Clifton Burt for Design Week Portland, Portland, OR
2012
This, Here, with Clifton Burt for Design Week Portland, Portland OR
Porch Prints, Wraparound Project, Portland OR
GOOD Ideas for Cities, Portland, OR*
2011
Green River Thrift Store Pop Up, Incline Gallery, with Jack Forinash, San Francisco CA
Hometown Lectures, Elsewhere Collaborative, Greensboro NC
The Excitement is Building!, Elsewhere Collaborative, Greensboro NC
Hypothetical Development Organization, New Orleans LA
Two Fold, Field Work, Portland OR*
North South Portland, Field Work, Portland OR*
Alabamboo Make and Ride, Greensboro, AL to San Francisco, CA
2010
Sincerely Interested, Field Work, Portland OR*
DO!, Reading Frenzy, Portland OR*
Hometown Lectures, MK Gallery, Portland State University, Portland OR
2009Student Zine Library, Banford P. Millar Memorial Library, Portland State University, Portland OR
*Collaboration with Sarah Baugh and/or Justin Flood aka Sincerely Interested
PUBLICATIONS
2020
OYSTERS #2, editor and publisher. Magazine about West Marin, California.
2019
The Relation Between Things in a Continuum, author. Essay published by Flower Press.
OYSTERS #1, editor and publisher. Magazine about West Marin, California.
New Life Quarterly Magazine, Issue #4: Correspondance, contributor, publisher E.M.Wolfman.
The Changing Times, Issue #13: Orcas Island, contributor, publisher Office of Virtue
2018
The Changing Times, Issue 4: Unincorporated Marin County, co-editor and contributing writer, publisher Office of Virtue
2017
PAPER ROAD, author, artist book, Publication Studio San Francisco
New Life Quarterly Magazine, Issue #1, contributor, E.M Wolfman
2016
A Call to Place, Epicenter
Actually People Quarterly, Carville Annex
2015
Cabin Time 7 Field Guide, Issue Press
POSTER SHOW, Issue Press
2014
Treasury of Art/Life Collection, edited by Jen Delos Reyes, Museums Press
O-P-E-N, Virginia Commonwealth University
Synonym Journal, Issue 3
Women in Clothing
Day Job, edited by Taryn Cowart and Corbin LaMont
Adventure Club Annual, CCOOLL
2013
Share Document, co-editor with Clifton Burt, Ampersand Books
Everything Is Going to Be Okay, Chronicle Books
Adventure Club Quarterly, Issue 4, CCOOLL
2012
You Are Loved, Chronicle Books
These Days Are Marked, Three Fingered Naptime
Psychiania
2011
Bracket Vol.3, Education, Anonymous
Cleveland Stories, Kent State University, Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative
2010
1000 More Greetings, Rockport Publishers
GOOD Magazine: Neighborhood Issue, June
2009
We Need to Know Where We Have Been to Know Where We Are Going: A Collaboratively Written History of Socially Engaged Art, Portland State University. Edited by Jen Delos Reyes.
AWARDS AND NOTABLE FUNDING
2017
National Endowment for the Arts, ArtPlace America Grant via Epicenter for Interstate Works
Affiliate Artist at Headlands Center for the Arts
2016
Graduate Fellowship at Headlands Center for the Arts
2015
Southern Exposure's Alternative Exposure Grant, Round 9
Graduate Merit Scholarship, California College of the Arts
2014
Graduate Merit Scholarship, California College of the Arts
2013
Sappi: Ideas that Matter Grant Recipient with Sarah Baugh for the Green River Magazine
Finalist, Design Ignites Change AIGA Professional Fellowship Award, with Sarah Baugh for the Green River Newspaper
Graduate Merit Scholarship, California College of the Arts
2011
GOOD Magazine 25 Female Designers We Love
Poppytalk's 2010 Most Influential
2010
President's Award for Outstanding University Service, Portland State University
Studio 360 Uncle Sam Design Challenge, Second Place, WNYC + Public Radio International
2009
SEIU Community and Art Award
Justin Eyerly Portland Trailblazers Award
TEACHING
2018
Adjunct Instructor, School of Art+Design at Portland State University, Portland OR (Course: Design + Research: Immersive Inquiry and Narrative Form)
2014
Teaching Assistant, Community Practice Studio: Activate Public Space (Chris Treggiari/Shalini Agrawal), CCA, San Francisco CA
2013
Workshop teacher, Green River High School, Green River UT
Guest teacher, C.H.E.E.R. after school program, Green River UT
2012
Adjunct Instructor, School of Art+Design at Portland State University, Portland OR (Courses: Typography, Introduction to Communication Design, Senior Thesis, Design Thinking)
SPEAKING
2019
Artist Talk and Workshop, The Art of Writing (Ansel Klein), UC Berkeley, Berkeley CA
Artist Talk, Writing for Designers (Denise Newman), CCA, San Francisco CA
2018
Panelist, Book release for Piney Wood Atlas, E.M. Wolfman Books, Oakland CA
Artist Talk, Show + Tell Lecture Series, Portland State University, Portland OR
Artist Talk, Writing course, personal narrative section (Jordan Karnes), Oakland School for the Arts, Oakland CA
Artist Talk, Environmental Studies: Senior Capstone (Melinda Stone) University of San Francisco, San Francisco CA
2017
Panelist, Making Space. The Performativity of Embodied Networks, or the Big Question: Can Third Spaces Benefit from Institutional Structures? at Common Field Convening 2017, Los Angeles.
Artist Talk, MFA Social Practice Workshop (Susanne Cockrell), CCA, San Francisco CA
Artist Talk, Personal Publication (Brian McMullen) CCA, San Francisco CA
Artist Talk, MFA Social Practice and Public Forms (Amy Balkin) CCA, San Francisco CA
2015
Artist Talk, Understanding Media (Rick Prelinger), UC Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA
2014
Artist Talk, Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery at UC Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz CA (with Bennett Williamson, part of DOC/UNDOC exhibition)
Artist Talk, Introduction to Community Arts (Aaron Gach), CCA, Oakland CA
Artist Talk, Collaborative Practices (Aaron Gach), San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco CA
2013
Artist Talk, Community Arts Studio (Susanne Cockrell), CCA, Oakland CA
SOLO/TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2014
“The City”, Ritual Coffee Valencia, San Francisco CA (solo)
2013
There's Gold Here, Third Story Gallery, Detroit MI (with Sarah Baugh)
Spirit of Windsor, CIVIC SPACE, Windsor Ontario (with Sarah Baugh)
2012
SLOW NO DUST, Space 204, Vanderbilt University, Nashville TN (solo)
2011
Points of Interest, Stumptown Coffee Division, Portland OR (solo)
2010
WEST, Land Gallery, Portland OR (with Sarah Baugh)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019
Library of Cultural Reference at FORM, curated by Sarah Leimbach, Joal Stein, and Corbin LaMont. Arcosanti, AZ
2018
Blue Sky Residency exhibition, SEEING RURAL, Squire Foundation, Santa Barbara CA
2017
No End in Sight, the Headlands Center for the Arts Graduate Fellowship Exhibition, Embark Gallery, San Francisco CA
This Place: Selections from the Frontier, curated by Epicenter, Tahoe Gallery at Sierra Nevada College, Incline Village NV
Assembly Required: Making Room for Women in Print, curated by Smokey Road Press for SGCI 2017, Murmur Media Gallery, Atlanta GA
2016
New Quarters at Hayes Valley Art Works, San Francisco CA
ALMA MATER, CCA Alumni Show, Hubbell Street Gallery, San Francisco CA
Frame(s) (a screening), Embark Gallery, San Francisco CA
California College of the Arts MFA Thesis Exhibition: Part 3, Fused Space, San Francisco CA
Thesis, Antithesis, Synthesis end-of-year MFA group show at the California College of the Arts, San Francisco CA
A Call to Place: The First Five Years of the Frontier Fellowship, Rio Gallery at Utah Department of Arts and Heritage, Salt Lake City UT
2015
What Grows Here, Embark Gallery, San Francisco CA
POSTER SHOW curated by CCOOLL, Korel, Antwerp, Belgium
StARTup Art Fair, Hotel del Sol, San Francisco CA (via Embark Gallery)
Hatch Resides Here, San Anselmo, CA
Embodied Place: Observations and Notations, Sierra Nevada College, Incline Village NV
2014
Love For Sale, Land Gallery, Portland OR
SHEROS, LAMP GALLERY, Shibuya-Ku, Toyko, Japan
Something Completely Different, City Limits Gallery, Oakland CA
I THINK OF YOU ON MOUNTAINTOPS, New Gallery, Calgary Alberta (Mary Welcome)
Full Disclosure, Adobe Books, San Francisco CA
Substrate: Printed Matter from the Rust Belt, [Scene], East Lansing MI
2013
Visiting Artist Benefit Auction, MK Gallery, Portland State University, Portland OR
Emerging Tactics: Public Schools (RECESS), Swigert Commons, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland OR
Rabbit Island Benefit Auction, 981 Dean Street, New York NY
Road Trip, WORK/DETROIT Gallery, University of Michigan, Detroit MI
As You Are: A Decade of You Are Beautiful, Green Exchange, Chicago IL
Spontaneous Interventions, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago IL**
2012
Insert Change Here, Wieden+Kennedy, Portland OR
ADX@UNIONPINE, Union Pine, Portland OR
Deadstock, Compound Gallery, Portland OR
Support, Coalition Gallery, Chicago IL
Spontaneous Interventions, Venice, Italy**
2011
Shelter, Incline SF Gallery, San Francisco CA
Landgrabber!, Pump Project Gallery, Austin TX
10-22-38 Astoria, Fictilis Gallery, Seattle WA
2-for-1, Autzen Gallery, Portland OR
X Marks the Spot, Reading Frenzy, Portland OR
Heavy Metal, Land Gallery, Portland OR
2010
BOOMSHAKALAKA, Land Gallery, Portland OR
The Mythical State of Jefferson, Schneider Museum of Art, Ashland OR
Yearbook, Reading Frenzy, Portland OR
2009
Forget Me Not, Reading Frenzy, Portland OR
Love What You Do, MK Gallery, Portland State University, Portland OR
**Contributions to Hypothetical Development and GOOD Ideas for Cities included in American Pavilion at the 13th International Architecture Exhibition at the Venice Biennale
COLLECTIONS
Marin County Free Library
Center for Art+Environment Library at Nevada Museum of Art
The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Wellesley College
New York Public Library
Portland Public Library Zine Collection
Prelinger Library
SELECT PRESS
2018
“Can this Rural Town Go from a Youth Exodus to an Art Epicenter?” PBS Newshour, April 17, 2018
“We Are All We Have: The Practice of Neighboring” Mary Welcome and Ashley Hanson, Minnesota Artists, July 18, 2018
2017
“The Bay Area's Best Not-Always-Visual-Art of 2017” KQED Arts, December 14, 2017
2015
“Uncommon Library Opens its Doors for Artist-Led Talks” KQED Arts, October 21 2015
2014
“On Green River Magazine” Carville Annex Press, September 30 2014
2013
“11 Change-Making Designs that Inspire Action” Good Magazine, October 2013
“Artists create Windsor travel guide from an outsider's point of view” Metro News Toronto, April 2013
“A Walkabout Guide to Windsor” The Windsor Star, April 2013
2012
“Good Ideas for Cities: Making Local Farmers More Profitable” Good Magazine, March 2012
2010
“Oral Histories of North South Portland” FORT PORT December 20, 2010
2008
“Nicole Lavelle helps bring alternative media to students through zine group Portland State Vanguard” Portland State University Vanguard April 24, 2008
PROFESSIONAL CREATIVE EXPERIENCE
Nicole Lavelle Studio, Independent Graphic Designer, Editor, Researcher, Writer, Strategist (2008–current)
Art Director | Open Engagement Conference (2011–2016)
Adjunct Instructor | School of Art+Design, Portland State University, Portland OR (2012 and 2018)
Editor at Large / Creative Projects | Pinball Publishing/Scout Books, Portland OR (2010–2014)
Researcher and Archivist | Atelier Ace, Portland OR (2012)
Art Director | Portland Mercury, Portland OR (2012)
(please see resume)
Contact:
nicolelavelle@gmail.com