Curriculum Vitae
Nicole Lavelle
b. 1987 San Francisco, CA
Lives and works in California
(Looking for my resume?)
2016
MFA, Fine Art (Social Practice), California College of the Arts, San Francisco CA
2012
Summer Intensive: D*Crit (Design Research, Writing, and Criticism) MA Program at the School of Visual Arts, New York NY
2010
BA, Fine Art (Graphic Design, minor Social Practice), Portland State University, Portland OR
MFA, Fine Art (Social Practice), California College of the Arts, San Francisco CA
2012
Summer Intensive: D*Crit (Design Research, Writing, and Criticism) MA Program at the School of Visual Arts, New York NY
2010
BA, Fine Art (Graphic Design, minor Social Practice), Portland State University, Portland OR
2024
Artist in Residence at Social Studies Residency, Arbuckle CA
2023
Participant, Writing Days, Winslow House, Vallejo CA
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
Resident Artist at the Prelinger Library, San Francisco CA (Since 2015)
2018
Artist in Residence at Outlet PDX, Portland OR
Designer in Residence with TOKYO SEEDS / Tokyo Moving Round, 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
Contributing Artist, High Desert Test Sites, Green River UT
Remote Residency at Good Press Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
Cabin Time 7, Deer Isle Archipelago ME
2014
Frontier Fellowship at Epicenter, Green River UT
Visiting Artist with Machine Project at Rubin Center, University of Texas El Paso
Artist in Residence at FOR-SITE Foundation (with CCA Social Practice), Nevada City, CA
2013
Artist in Residence at CIVIC SPACE, Broken City Lab, Windsor, Ontario CANADA
Frontier Fellowship at Epicenter, Green River UT
Artist in Residence at Vinewood, Detroit MI
2011
Frontier Fellowship at Epicenter, Green River UT
Artist in Residence at Elsewhere Collaborative, Greensboro NC
2010
Designer in Residence with Project M, Frankfurt/Offenbach, Germany
2009
Artist in Residence at Banford P. Millar Memorial Library, Portland State University, Portland OR
Artist in Residence at Social Studies Residency, Arbuckle CA
2023
Participant, Writing Days, Winslow House, Vallejo CA
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
Resident Artist at the Prelinger Library, San Francisco CA (Since 2015)
2018
Artist in Residence at Outlet PDX, Portland OR
Designer in Residence with TOKYO SEEDS / Tokyo Moving Round, 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
Contributing Artist, High Desert Test Sites, Green River UT
Remote Residency at Good Press Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
Cabin Time 7, Deer Isle Archipelago ME
2014
Frontier Fellowship at Epicenter, Green River UT
Visiting Artist with Machine Project at Rubin Center, University of Texas El Paso
Artist in Residence at FOR-SITE Foundation (with CCA Social Practice), Nevada City, CA
2013
Artist in Residence at CIVIC SPACE, Broken City Lab, Windsor, Ontario CANADA
Frontier Fellowship at Epicenter, Green River UT
Artist in Residence at Vinewood, Detroit MI
2011
Frontier Fellowship at Epicenter, Green River UT
Artist in Residence at Elsewhere Collaborative, Greensboro NC
2010
Designer in Residence with Project M, Frankfurt/Offenbach, Germany
2009
Artist in Residence at Banford P. Millar Memorial Library, Portland State University, Portland OR
The Mystery of Win Ng, Social Studies, Arbuckle CA
The Mystery of Win Ng, Gospel Flat Farmstand and Showspace, Bolinas CA (with Kathleen O’Neill as part of Cassy McGettigan’s SPRINGFORM)
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
(solo and collaborative)
Let’s Hear It, 92.3 San Geronimo Valley, 89.9 Bolinas, 90.5 Point Reyes Station and kwmr.org (host)
Bi-weekly community call-in radio segment on KWMR, West Marin Community Radio.
2015–2021
PLACE TALKS, lecture series at the Prelinger Library, San Francisco CA (founder and co-organizer)
2019
An Incomplete History of Community Publishing at the Edge of the Earth, Jack Mason Museum of West Marin History in Inverness CA (public historian)
History exhibit and event series
Outlaw Builders, Point Reyes Presbyterian Church, Point Reyes Station CA (organizer, host)
Slideshow, lecture, archive collection debut, publication re-release,
Incomplete History... Panel Discussion, Jack Mason Museum, Inverness CA (host, moderator)
Intergenerational panel of local publishers
Community Archive Day, Jack Mason Museum, Inverness CA (host)
2018
Parks for People, Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, San Francisco CA
Participatory mural
2017
COMMONSOURCE, part of Live Practice Series, Third Thursday Public Program, with PLACE TALKS at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco CA (co-host)
2016
Winter House, Lagunitas CA (host)
Artist residency
PLACE TALKS and Wolfman at The Thing,The Thing Quarterly, San Francisco CA (co-host, presenter)
Collaborative public presentation night
2015
AUTOLAND, presented at High Desert Test Sites 2015, Green River UT* (host)
2014
The Green River Magazine, Green River UT* (co-editor)
Summer House, artist residency in Lagunitas CA (host)
House of Everything and More at CUADRO, with Bennett Williamson, El Paso TX (co-host)
2013
The Green River Newspaper, Green River UT* (co-editor)
Spirit of Windsor: An Outsider's Guide, Windsor Ontario, Canada* (co-editor)
2012
This, Here, for Design Week Portland, Portland OR (co-host)
Porch Prints, Wraparound Project, Portland OR
GOOD Ideas for Cities, Portland, OR* (co-host)
2011
Green River Thrift Store Pop-Up, Incline Gallery, with Jack Forinash, San Francisco CA (co-host)
Hometown Lectures, Elsewhere Collaborative, Greensboro NC (host)
The Excitement is Building!, Elsewhere Collaborative, Greensboro NC (co-host)
Hypothetical Development Organization, New Orleans LA (contributor)
Two Fold, Field Work, Portland OR* (co-host)
North South Portland, Field Work, Portland OR* (co-host)
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 (host)
2009
Student Zine Library, Banford P. Millar Memorial Library, Portland State University, Portland OR
*Collaboration with Sarah Baugh and/or Justin Flood aka Sincerely Interested
(contributor unless otherwise noted)
Encyclopedia of Radical Helping, Thick Press
2023
Why This Place?, Epicenter, Salt Lake City Design Week.
2020
OYSTERS #2 (editor and publisher)
2019
The Relation Between Things in a Continuum, Flower Press (author)
OYSTERS #1 (editor and publisher)
New Life Quarterly Magazine, Issue #4: Correspondance. E.M.Wolfman
The Changing Times, Issue #13: Orcas Island. Office of Virtue
2018
The Changing Times, Issue 4: Unincorporated Marin County, Office of Virtue. (co-editor and contributing writer)
2017
PAPER ROAD, Publication Studio San Francisco (author)
New Life Quarterly Magazine, Issue #1. E.M Wolfman
2016
A Call to Place: The First Five Years of the Frontier Fellowship, Epicenter and Utah Division of Arts & Museums
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 Clothes, edited by Heidi Julavits, Leanne Shapton, and Sheila Heti
Day Job, edited by Taryn Cowart and Corbin LaMont
Adventure Club Annual, CCOOLL
2013
Share Document, Ampersand Books. (co-editor)
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 Collective
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.
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
Utah Division of Arts & Museum, Design Arts Award
Southern Exposure's Alternative Exposure Grant, Round 9
Full Merit Scholarship, California College of the Arts
2014
Full 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
Full Merit Scholarship, California College of the Arts
2011
GOOD Magazine 25 Female Designers We Love
Poppytalk 2010 Most Influential
2010
President's Award for Outstanding University Service, Portland State University
Studio 360 Design Challenge, Second Place, WNYC + Public Radio International
2009
SEIU Community and Art Award
Justin Eyerly Portland Trailblazers Award
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, 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
Teaching Artist, Re:Active Program, Portland OR
Adjunct Instructor, School of Art+Design at Portland State University, Portland OR (Courses: Typography, Introduction to Communication Design, Senior Thesis, Design Thinking)
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
Book Reading, PAPER ROAD, Marin County Free Library, Bolinas CA
Book Reading, PAPER ROAD, Bolinas Commons, Bolinas 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
“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)
Library of Cultural Reference at FORM, curated by Sarah Leimbach, Joal Stein, and Corbin LaMont. Arcosanti, AZ
2018
SEEING RURAL, Blue Sky Residency Exhibition, 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
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
“How Detroit-Based Flower Press Elevates + Grows Artists,” The Sill
2019
“Bolinas Reads: Nicole Lavelle,” Bolinas Hearsay News and Marin County Free Library, November 25
“A glimpse of West Marin’s publishing history,” Anna Guth, Point Reyes Light, November 6
2018
“Can This Rural Town Go from a Youth Exodus to an Art Epicenter?” PBS Newshour, April 17
“We Are All We Have: The Practice of Neighboring,” Mary Welcome and Ashley Hanson, Minnesota Artists and WalkerArt.org, July 18
2017
“The Bay Area's Best Not-Always-Visual-Art of 2017,” KQED Arts, December 14
2015
“Uncommon Library Opens its Doors for Artist-Led Talks,” KQED Arts, October 21
“This is Green River,”A Field Guide to Design Arts Utah: Honoring Recipients of the Distinguished Design Arts Award, Randy J. Hunt, September 9
2014
“On Green River Magazine,” Carville Annex Press, September 30
2013
“11 Change-Making Designs that Inspire Action,” Good Magazine, October
“Artists create Windsor travel guide from an outsider's point of view,” Metro News Toronto, April
“A Walkabout Guide to Windsor,” The Windsor Star, April
2012
“Good Ideas for Cities: Making Local Farmers More Profitable” Good Magazine, March
2010
“Oral Histories of North South Portland” FORT PORT December 20
2008
“Nicole Lavelle helps bring alternative media to students through zine group Portland State Vanguard” Portland State University Vanguard April 24
Nicole Lavelle Studio
(2008–PRESENT)
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
(2013)
Art Director
Portland Mercury, Portland OR
(2012)
(please see my resume for more detail)