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NICK TOBIER everydayplaces.com

E d u c a t i o n

1998-2000 Landscape Architecture, Harvard Grad. School of Design, Cambridge, MA

1997 MFA, Sculpture, Milton Avery Grad. School/ Bard, Annandale, NY

1989 BA, History/Art, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA

A c a d e m i c A p p o i n t m e n t s2011- Director of National Engagement, Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design

2012- AffiliateFaculty,CenterforNon-PofitManagement,UniversityofMichigan

2010- AffiliateFaculty,CenterforEntrepreneurship/CollegeofEngineering,UniversityofMichigan.

2009- Associate Professor, Stamps School of Art & Design, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

2003-2009 Assistant Professor, School of Art & Design, University of Michigan

1999-2003 Assistant Professor, Foundations, School of Art, NYSCC/ Alfred, NY

1998-99 Lecturer, 3D Foundations, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston

P u b l i c a n d C o m m u n i t y P r o j e c t s

2016 Brightmoor MakerSpace (in collaboration with the Stamps School of Art & Design, Detroit Community Schools, Brightmoor Community Center, Sidewalk Festival and Brightmoor Alliance.)

2015 Community Lantern, Arbor Oaks Park, in collaboration with Community Action Network and Bryant Community Center, Ann Arbor

Design for Public Action: A Stand for Action, El Mercato (FleaMarket, southwest Detroit)

2014 maintenance works, Ball State University, Muncie, IN (November)

In the Neighborhood, Dorchester Projects /REBUILD Foundation, Chicago

My Way, NYC Department of Transportation commission, August 2014

Murray Avenue Kosher, sign painting residency, Pittsburgh, PA

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Design for Public Action : Contemporary Carpas, People’s Community Services/ Boulevard House, Detroit. Public structure / programs.

2013 Music Box Marching Band, Communite d’Ixelles and Espace Buktabop, Brussels, Belgium

SongsforTraffic,partofSpontaneous Interventions: Design Actions for the Common Good, curated by Cathy Ho, Chicago Cultural Center

2012 Moving Plants, in cooperation with the NYC Water Taxi, and IKEA Brooklyn, NY

A Train for Detroit, Building Movement, Detroit

2011-present Brightmoor Cycles and Trikes, design/build of a community based utility cycle business.

2012 street car, UICA Grand Rapids

2011 Marvelous Guests, siteLAB, and locations throughout the city of Grand Rapids, MI

Brightmoor Bikes, designed, founded and operate a bamboo-bike trailer project/business in collaboration with Detroit Community Schools.

2010 New Newsstand for New News, Detroit

ArtWork/Detroit (exhibition and publication)

2009 Detroit Bureau of Tourism

F.O.O.D./ Field of Our Dreams, design, building and operation of a mobile produce market designed with and operated with guests of the Capuchin Soup Kitchen to distribute produce to under-served neighborhoods.

A Shadow Cabinet for sanluche, a collaboration with a Beijing taxi driver turning his taxi into a mobile shadow puppet theater, featuring rider/passenger participation.

Voyage to the Moon, residency/public program with Ben English, 826 Michigan

2008 Outdoor Classroom, EarthWorks Urban Farm, Detroit, MI. Design and building of an outdoor classroom in collaboration with EarthWorks, Meldrum Street residents.

2007 Street Car Attendant, Toronto, CA. A street performance commissioned by and in collaboration with the Parkdale Liberty Economic Development Corporation and the TTC (Toronto Transit Commission.)

2006 Small Cascade for a Large City, performance, commissioned collaboration with the City of Toronto Parks Department, the Friends of Dufferin Grove Park.

Bus Attendant, commissioned by citySPACE in collaboration with Muni and with the cooperation and contributions of the drivers and riders of the 22 Fillmore bus line.

2004 Frimangron: a cultural neighborhood. Paramaribo, Suriname. Series of pamphlets, tours

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and public projects created collaboratively by graduate students from the University of Michigan School of Art and Design and graduate students of IOL (Instituut voor Opeliding van Leraren), Paramaribo, merchants and residents of the Frimangron District.

S o l o E x h i b i t i o n s a n d P e r f o r m a n c e s

2015 Terrain Gallery, Chicago

A Stand for Action, Museo Antiquoa, Medellin, Colombia

2014 City of Carts, Queens Museum of Art, New York

Marvelous Guests, Public ONE + Exuberant Politics, Iowa City, IA

Public Lettering, Incident Report, Hudson, NY (November)

2013 Music Box Marching Band, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC

Brightmoor Bikes, Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit/ MOCAD

2012 North End System, Building Movement, Detroit

2011 NewNews, Detroit, CAID/ The Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit

2009 Garden Party With Interruption, Le Petit Versailles, New York, NY

2008 everyday amazing, exhibition and performance, University of Indiana/Kokomo, Kokomo, IN

Crossing Guards for Crossing Cultures, performance, Art in Odd Places, New York, NY 2007 Play/GROUNDS, public performance, Parkdale Liberty, Toronto, ON

Ship Notes, performance, Big Jar, Philadelphia Fringe Festival

The Impossible Task, performance, William Simon School of Business, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY

2006 eh-hem, performance, Marygrove College, Detroit. MI

Small Cascade for a Large City,wade2006,sitespecificinstallation/performancespectacularin a public wading pool in Toronto, ON

Street Corner Society, performance, Edinburgh Fringe Festival

22 Fillmore, public performance City|Space, San Francisco, CA

Presto’s Traveling Lecture Series, performance, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Edinburgh, Soctland

Street Corner Society, performance, Philadelphia Fringe and Live Arts Festival, Philadelphia, PA

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G r o u p E x h i b i t i o n s / P e r f o r m a n c e s

2015 “lying-siting-standing-walking-jumping-flying/falling,” KunstlerForum, Bonn, Germany Post Facto Future, Public Space One, Iowa City, IA

FORM2015,collaborationsbetweenartistsandfloraldesigners,SnowCityArts,Chicago

shuffle,InstitutfurAllesMogliche,Berlin

Off the Shelf, iklektik Lab, London, UK

Monster Drawing Rally, MOCAD/ Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit.

2014 Displacements, Renmin University, Beijing, China, curated by Gunalan Nadarajan

Dream Drawing Factory, Regent Estates, London

InPrint, Work : Detroit

The Development, Bard Center for Curatorial Studies, Annandale, NY

2013 Spontaneous Interventions, City of Chicago, Department of Cultural Affairs

Rights of Way, BSA/ Boston Society for Architecture, Boston, MA

cityDRIFT, Kunsthalle, Detroit, MI

Monster Drawing Rally, MOCAD/ Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit.

Exchange Archive, MOMA Studio, Museum of Modern Art, New York

2012 Urbanity, UICA, Grand Rapids

Emergency Index, The Kitchen, New York, NY

2011 Signs on the Road, Winkelman Gallery, New York, NY

Institute for Wishful Thinking, Momenta ART, Brooklyn, NY

Existence, Melbourne, Australia

2010 Reclaiming the Street, Rookajpe Gallery, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Variable Economies, ArtSway, Sway, England

Wallpaper, Art+ Design, Barcelona, Spain

Spontaneous Architecture, Rapid Response, New York

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ArtWork/US: A National Conversation on Art, Labor & Politics, travelled from Mess Hall Gallery 400, Chicago to Regina Miller Gallery, Pittsburgh, CentralTRAK, Dallas, Cell Space.

2009 City Spinning, exhibition, Sristhi Institute of Technology, Bangalore, India

Rustbelt Revival, Links Hall, Chicago

Vaudeville 100, greenroom, Manchester, England

Open Phoenix, Brighton, England

2008 Wish You Were Here, public project and exhibition, citySPACE, San Francisco, CA

Urban Actions, exhibition, Foundation Noordkaap, Dordect, Netherlands

Rebranding Acts, Prague Contemporary Art Festival, Prague, Czech Republic, traveled to Parsons School of Design, New York, NY

ICON, Work/ Detroit, Detroit, MI

NewLife, exhibition, Wooloo Productions, Berlin, Germany

The Sandwich Box Project, exhibition, Overgaden Institute for Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Village Building Convergence, exhibition, Portland, OR

Interrupt/Intervene: Rethinking Art as Social Practice, exhibition, University of California Santa Cruz, with public screenings in San Francisco, San Jose, CA

Creative Activism, exhibition, Toronto Free Gallery

2007 NYNYNY, exhibition, FluxFactory, New York, NY

Holiday Shopping, exhibition, Emily Harvey Foundation, New York

ParfymeDeluxe vs. Flux Factory, exhibition and public projects, Flux Factory, New York, NY

2006 *7a11d, exhibition, International Festival of Performance and Video, Toronto, ON

Copilandia, exhibition, Centro de Arte de Sevilla, Seville, Spain

Traversing Tableaux, exhibition, Modern Fuel, Kingston, ON

Get on the Bus, exhibition, city|SPACE, San Francisco

SpringTides, exhibition, Salzau, Germany

Game Show, exhibition, Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit, Detroit, MI

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The Experimenters, exhibition, ArtPool, Budapest, Hungary

In Place of Fear, IMAF, Odaczi, Serbia

2005 Video Biennial, exhibition, Museum of New Art (M.O.N.A.), Detroit, MI

Peripheral City,incollaboration,RedDive,site-specificperformanceprojectforLowerManhattan, New York, NY

Great Small Works: Toy Theater, exhibition, St. Ann’s Warehouse, Brooklyn, NY

Down the Garden Path: Artists and the Garden After Modernism, exhibition, Queens Museum of Art, New York.

AB/OVO, Performance: In the Beginning, exhibition, Belgrade, Serbia

Potential Energy, exhibition, Mess Hall, Chicago, traveled to Pond, San Francisco, CA

SiteLines: Fall Open, public performance. LMCC/ Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York, NY

The 4th Dimension, exhibition, ArtPool, Budapest, Hungary

G r a n t s / A w a r d s

2015 National Endowment for the Arts, in collaboration with Community Action Network, Ann Arbor

Knight Arts Challenge for Brightmoor Makespace, lead faculty, Stamps School of Art &

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Residency, artFARM, Marquette, NE

Faculty Seed Grant, Stamps School of Art and Design

2014 Knight Arts Challenge (for Stamps School of Art and Design and the Brightmoor Maker Space)

Andrea vonBraun Foundation, Munich, Germany, production grant for Utopia Toolbox University of Michigan OVPR/ Publication Subvention Grant for the production of Utopia

Toolbox

2012 MCube for Building a Bigger, Broader Creative Class, Univ. of Michigan

2010 Harpo Foundation Grant, Los Angeles, CA

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2009 Ernest Lynton Award for the Scholarship of Engagement

CitySpinning,shortlistedfinalistforthedesignofamobileculturalcenter,Bangalore,India.

Communities in Schools (CIS), Detroit,. Project Recognition, for the collaboration between my Detroit Connections course and Butzel Elementary School.

2008 Gilbert Whitaker Faculty Development Grant (for the development of the FestiFools project),OfficeoftheProvost,UniversityofMichigan

Michigan Campus Compact Grant for Detroit Connections.

2007 Michigan Campus Compact Award for Individual Achievement in Community Service Learning

FacultyResearchGrant,OfficeoftheVice-PresidentforResearch(OVPR),UniversityofMichigan for Garden Party.

Grant for public project, Parkdale Liberty Economic Development Corporation, Toronto, ON

S e l e c t e d w r i t i n g b y N i c k To b i e r

2016 Looping Detroit, ed. by Nick Tobier, Stamps School of Art + Design and University of Michigan Press

2015 Utopia Toolbox, Vol II, ed. By Juliane Stiegele + Nick Tobier, University of Michigan Press + Toolbox Books, Ann Arbor and Munich

Collected Lots(forthcoming,October)infinitemile,Detroit

The Ideal Place, in Ways to Wander, Triptych Press, UK, ed. by Claire Hind

“smallloopforalargecity,”infinitemile,Detroit,January,2015

“Artist as Guest,” MARN (Milwaukee Artists Network)

17 Haikus for Innovation, v2v, Institute for Unstable Media, Rotterdam, NL + RISK Institute, ed. By Andrew Maynard and Michele Krapsyck

co-editor,“Art+Gentrification,”Series,infinitemile+StampsSchoolofArt&Design

2014 Utopia Toolbox, Nick Tobier, editor, ToolBox Books, Munich, Germany.

“An Elephant Story,” Wonder, Stimulus Respond, London, UK

2012 “Open Goal for Reds” in Architectural Inventions, ed. by Matt Bua and Maximillian Goldfarb, Laurence King Press, London

2010 Field of Our Dreams, FUSE, Journal of Art & Culture, Toronto

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Detroit Bureau of Tourism, Volume (#22) Netherlands

“Getting Off the Bus,” Journal of Metropolitan Universities

2009 “Detroit: We Fix Flats,” in ArtWork US, A National Conversation on Art, Politics and Labor, Half Letter Press & Temporary Services, Chicago

Tobier, Nick, “Why is that park so quiet? A call for clamor,” in FutureParks, practice and practice, San Francisco.

2008 Tobier, Nick, Lose an Elephant, Find a Needle, EVENTS, Danish Academy of Design, Copenhagen

2007-2010 thedetroiter.com, selected reviews on art and theater in Detroit

2006 Tobier, Nick, Irrigation and Social Movements, Higginson Block Press, Salem, MA

2003 Tobier, Nick, “From Cathedrals to Computer Screens: Glass in Architecture, “ Journal of Glass Science, Winter

S e l e c t e d w r i t i n g a b o u t N i c k To b i e r ’ s w o r k

2014 Plath, Tara, “The Myth of Participation,” The Seen, Chicago, February

Dunn, Gabriella, “Marvelous Guests at Exuberant Politics,” The Daily Iowan, March 31

2013 Czaja, Wojech, Wir Sind nicht am Ende, Der Standard, Vienna, AU, 8/17/2013

Wetil,Patty,“SongsandSoundsforCarsTurnsTrafficintoArt,”DNAChicago,8/7/13

Stiegele, Juliana, “Field of Our Dreams: Nick Tobier’s Food,” Utopia Toolbox, Toolbox Books, Munich, Germany

Warren, Tamarra, “Anti-Auto Show Focusing on Alternative Transportation,” NYTimes 1/16

Shields,David,“DetroitWantstogototheProm”May16.2013HuffingtonPost

2012 “Field of Our Dreams,” in Ethical Foods, by Eden CannonDesign Observer, by Lamster, Mark, “Nick Tober Will Make You Smile”, 10/15/12

Herscher, Andrew, Nick Tobier’s F.O.O.D. in “The Unreal Estate Guide to Detroit,” University of Michigan Press

2011 Walsh, Tom, “Micro Loans Deserve Praise, “Detroit Free Press 7/1/11 Tonight at The CAID, (tv appearance, 5/15/11)

Thomas, Nancy, Educating for Deliberative Democracy: New Directions for Higher Education, John Wiley & Sons,

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2010 RedefiningDreamland (feature length documentary on Detroit), SidePorch Productions

2008 Reyhan Harmanci, “Wish You Were Here’ Souvenirs feel like home, “ San Francisco Chronicle, 2/28/08

Tamir, Chen, NYNYNY, catalogue, Flux Factory Press, NY

2007 Kiriloff,Vera,“NickTobier,profile,”Locus Suspectus, Journal of Visual Culture, Calgary, AL, Canada

Philp, Drew, “Focus on The City,” Detroit Free Press, 3/12/08

Liu, Karon, “Bus Attendant has the right Idea,” National Post, Canada, 9/13/07

Mazzei, Rebecca, “Teaching the Terrain,” Metro Times, Detroit, 9/28/07

Sandals, Leah, “Wet Art,” Spacing Magazine, Toronto, Summer/07

Yuen, Jenny, “Art at the Edges,” NOW Weekly, Toronto, 9/16/07

Annis,Barbara,“MarchesforCars:NickTobier,aprofile”Ann Arbor Observer, 9/01/07

Bielski, Zozia, “City-wide project will let you wade into some art,” National Post, 7/05/06

“Small Cascade for a Large City,” Toronto Sun, Globe and Mail, 7/03/06

“Small Cascade for a Large City,” 401 News, Toronto, 7/15/06

“Small Cascade for a Large City,” YYZine, 7/01/06

2006 Rzepka, Maryanne, “A New Gateway: Welcome Band for Cars, “ Ann Arbor News, 11/01/06

2005 Lippard, Lucy, Site Matters, Routledge/ London and New York

Diament, Michelle, “Great Courses,: Food from Farming to Feasts, “ Chronicle of Higher Education 2/13/05

Nesbit, Joanne, “Food from Tiller to Table, “ University Record, University of Michigan, February 2005

Bogdavic, Nenad, IMAF, In the Beginning, catalogue for the exhibition, AB/OVO, Belgrade, Serbia

Soddu, Celestino, ed., Generative Art, 2004, Politecnico di Milano, Milan

2004 Osman, Jena, ‘Nick Tobier: Public Projects,” Chain, Fall 2004

Site Matters, ed. by Carol Burns, Routledge

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Beck, Kim, Not Exactly, catalogue for the exhibition

2002 Lowry, Patricia, ‘ Orphaned Spaces Dream up New Places,’ Pittsburgh Post Gazette, 4/19/02 Hannegan, Barry, “New Designers Look at an Old City,” History and Landmarks Foundation News, Spring 2002

2001 Hull, James, Turnscope, catalogue and CD for the exhibition, Green Street, Boston

McQuaid, Kate, “ Take a Turn through the Neighborhood,” The Boston Globe, 2/25/01

Parcellin, Paul, “Radial Understanding, “ Retro-Rocket, 2/18/01

Giuliano, Charles, “Circling on the Orange Line,” Maverick Arts, 2/28/01

Lowry, Patricia, “New Ideas for Public Life,” Pittsburgh Post Gazette 10/9/01

2000 Silver, Joanne, “Tobier’s Oddities Enchant,” Boston Herald, 7/28/00

Lippard, Lucy, On the Beaten Track, New Press

1999 Dineen, JK, “Designers Tackle the Alley” Salem Evening News, 7/5/991997

Yang, Christina, “Conversation: Nick Tobier/ Christina Yang at Mary Barone,” Zing Magazine, 9/1/97

S e l e c t e d C u r a t o r i a l P r o j e c t s

2015 Lettering in Public, Signal Return, Detroit

Natives + Pioneers, The Carr Center, Detroit

2014 In My Neighborhood, Dorchester Projects, Chicago, IL

2013 City Speculations, for Detroit Design Festival, Work:Detroit, The Carr Center, Compas, and Brightmoor Alliance, Detroit

2011 Highland Park Integrated Media, Curator of Exhibitions, City of Highland Park

2010 Art/Work Detroit, CAID/ Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit

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P r e s e n t a t i o n s a n d C o n f e r e n c e s

2015 “Artist as Disruptive Guest,” MARN (Milwaukee Area Artists Network) salon roundtable, commissioned speaker.

Global India, Keynote speaker, School of Information, Univ. of MichiganKeynote speaker, Sanger Leadership Institute, Ross School of Business

2014 “A Stand for Action” (with Ludmilla Ferrari) Re:The City, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI

Responsible Innovation Think Tank, co-sponsored by v2_Institute for Unstable Media, Rotterdam and RISK Institute/School of Public Helath, University of Michigan

“Aesthetics and Hegemony,” College for Creative Studies, Detroit

Marvelous?Guests, “The Myth of Participation” CAA, College Art Association, moderated by Ted Purves and Shane Aslan Selzer

Open Engagement, Queens Museum of Art

“Building a Bigger, Broader Creative Class: mCube, “ Featured Project Speaker, Rackham Graduate School, Univ, of Michigan

Urban Entrepreneurship Forum, Ford Library, Univ of Michigan

Social Impact Forum, Ross Business School, Univ. of Michigan

Design Inquiry/ Design Cities, Ponyride, Detroit

2013 “The Neighborhood School Connection” MACAA, Mid-West Regional Conference, Detroit, MI

“Engaged Scholarship,” NERCHE, University of Massachusetts/Boston

2011 “A New Art School,” Bruce High Quality Foundation and Detroit SOUP, Detroit, MI

2010 “Art and Urban Development,” NetIMPACT, National Conference, Ross Business School, Panel Moderator.

“Engineering and Social Change, “ College of Engineering, University of Michigan.

Art, Race and the Image of the City, Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit/ CAID

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2009 Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities (CUMU), National Conference, Philadelphia, PA “Starts in the Streets”

2009 Creative Actions for Managed Care, University of Wisconsin/ Milwaukee, Peck School for the Arts.

2007 “Lose a Needle,” Events and Event Structures, Danish Design Academy, Copenhagen.

2005 “plam” Politecnico di Milano, Italy, Generative Art Conference.

2004 “Background or Starring Role,” SPE National Conference, Newport, RI

2003 “Learning from Las Vegas: Photo Collage and the Strip,” SPE National Conference, Las Vegas, NV

“Don’t Throw Stones: Glass Facades from Cathedrals to Computer Screens,” Glass and The Photonics Revolution, NYSCC/ Glass Science conference, University of Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany.

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SERVICE:

Penny W, Stamps School of Art & Design:

2014-15 Engagement Committee, Stamps School of Art & Design

InterArts Committee

2013-2014 National Engagement Committee, chair, Stamps School of Art & Design.

InterArts Committee

2012-2013 Stamps School Executive Committee

Undergraduate Curriculum Committee

2011-2012 Executive Committee. elected member

Chair, National Engagement Council (faculty and staff committee) Deans Advisory Council, presentation on National Engagement, Fall 2011

Staff Council Undergrad Portfolio reviews

2009-2010 InterArts Committee

Design Ignites Change, worked to establish Stamps as institutional partner to a national collaboration between Adobe Youth Voices and Worldstudio, engaging college students in multidisciplinary design projects that address pressing social issues.

2008-2009 Edibles, WORK Gallery, Ann Arbor, faculty advisor Worked with student curators to create and publicize call for entries, review of submissions.

Academic Courses Committee, Chair.

InterArts, committee member.

On Campus Portfolio reviews, prospective applicants to the School of Art and Design

Member, Academic Courses Committee

Member, Faculty and Staff Commencement Planning Committee

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2004-05 Outreach Studios Committee

Graduate Admissions Interviews

Undergraduate Portfolio Reviews (on campus)

Presentation to Dean’s Advisory Council-Fall 2005

2004-05 Faculty Studio Committee

Academic Services Committee

2003-04 Coordinator, Drawing III

Portfolio Reviews for prospective undergraduates

Graduate Admissions Interviews

University of Michigan:

2014-2015 Keynote Speaker, Detroit Undergraduate Research Opportunity Commencement

Panelist, Insititute for Social Change, Arts of Citizenship

Keynote Speaker, Ross Impact Challenge, Ross School of Business

Chair, CECE, Council on Engaged Civic Education, brings faculty and staff from Public Policy, TCAUP, Medical, Public Health, LS&A to work on broad policy and practices around Civic Engagement’s opportunities and impacts. Large focus this year on Detroit and Grand Rapids, as well as collaborations with U of M Flint and Dearborn.

Planner/Facilitator/Speaker: Provost’s Seminar on Teaching: Unscripted Challenges for High Impact Pedagogy

Presenter, New Faculty Orientation.

Presenter,, University Libraries Forum

Juror, Engaged Pedagogy Projects Exhibiotion, Hatcher Library

2013-14 Council on Engaged Civic Education.

optimize, Advisor/Mentor, Student organization in collaboration with Menlo Innovations. Led monthly Saturday workshops for 250 plus students each month working on innovation projects (projects ranged from furniture designs from used tires to renewable home energy solutions and international education programs.)

2012-13 Citizen Alumni Task Force Team. Worked with faculty and staff from across the University

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to develop vision and action plan for a national initiative on engaging alumni as doers, not just donors.

2011-12 Center for Research on Learning and Teaching (CRLT); speaker for staff retreat in Detroit.

Advisor, Michigan Student Caucus (a statewide organization, I worked with student groups from U of M, MSU, Eastern Michigan and Wayne State to prepare and present Social Entrepreneurship and Community Development proposals to the State Legislature in Lansing.)

Appointedfacultyaffiliate,CenterforNonProfitManagement,ajointventureoftheRoss School of Business and the Ford School of Public Policy.

M-Heal/ Blue Lab, presenter and advisor to Engineering student group.

2010-11 Executive Committee, Arts of Citizenship. Led University-wide workshops on Engagement pedagogy and creative research, led reviews of faculty and graduate students’ proposals for funding.

Urban Farming and Engagement, University of Michigan/Dearborn, visioning, planning and facilitator

Center for Entrepreneurship Advisory Board; advisor and juror for student projects including University-wide mentoring for Dare to Dream and Toy Competitions.

MHeal, Advisory Board for student-initiated projects centered on global health initiatives

2009-10 Arts of Citizenship, Executive Committee

Semester in Detroit, Faculty Planning and teaching for the pilot semester this past Winter.

Lectures and presentations of my reseach across campus: Shipman Scholars and Human Resources Harvest Celebration, Motown Past Present and Future (Residential Colege and LS & A for Semester in Detroit)

GIEU,Facultyselectionpanelforthe2009fieldsitesfortheprogram.

2008-09 Executive Committee, Arts of Citizenship Panelist/Presenter, Spring Welcome Day for Under-represented prospective students,

Michigan Union. Planning Committee: Semester in Detroit , Worked with student leaders and faculty across

campus. Led tours in Detroit, spoke extensively with members of the Detroit community and the press about potential partnerships for a residential term in Detroit.

Dragon Boat Festival Board Member, Center for Chinese Studies

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Presenter, Priocessions and Social Change, Arts of Citizenship

2007-08 Arts Of Citizenship Planning Group: Arts of Citizenship Conference--University-wide and regionally based. Arts of Citizenship December Breakfast: Presenter/organizer for this session devoted to A&D Engagement work.

2005-06 Cultivating Community/ Matthei Botanical Gardens and SNRE. Planning and action around sustainable food resources and local community connections.

Faculty Participant, NCID (National Center for Institutional Diversity). November colloquium and served on follow up planning committees in January 06.

Juror, We Read, This program selects an undergraduate children’s book for publication and distribution to Detroit public schools.

Arts of Citizenship, Planning Committee Presentation, Second Friday breakfast : A& D Engagement, Arts of Citizenship

Community:

2014-15 Detroit Community Schools, Executive Board.

Executive Board, POPX, Ann Arbor Art Center, visioning, planning and selection committee for a major new public art and design event (premiering October 2015) in Ann Arbor.

Invited Mentor/selector, NERCHE Lynton Award, 2015,

Reviewer/Selector, JM Kaplan Fund for Social Innovation

Reviewer, Harpo Foundation, Los Angeles and Coral Gables, FL.

Arts as Economic Engine, board member, led by Brightmoor Alliance, Detroit.

2013-2014 Detroit Community Schools Executive Board.

Janes Walks/Ann Arbor District Library/Downtown Historical exhibitions/ City of Ann Arbor. I worked with the City’s Public Art Commission and a legion of residents to design and lead walking tours training high school students in Ann Arbor public history through architecture and design. I initiated, coordinated, facilitated and led the inaugural Jane’s Walks Ann Arbor as part of an international (and re-occurring festival) devoted to the street level observations of Jane Jacobs.

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2012-13 Detroit Community Schools Executive Board.

Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit, Executive Board.

2011-12 Executive Board and Community Engagement, CAID

NERCHE/ (New England Research Center for Higher Education, University of Massachusetts/Boston) Panelist, peer reviewer for Ernest Lynton Award, seminar leader and mentor for nation wide network of junior faculty in engaged scholarship. Tenure Reviews, outside reviewer for tenure applicants (James Madison University, University of Florida, University of Buffalo) 2010-11 Executive Board/ Public Art and Exhibition committees/Grant Writer, Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit (CAID.)

Festifools, Executive Board. Worked with faculty, Ann Arbor Police & City Council, visiting artists

EarthWorks, Detroit, designer and dialogue facilitator for social enterprises including community bike shop, value added agriculture and local food access projects. of local and regional discussions, panels and large conference.

2009-10 Youth Farm Stand, & Growing Healthy Kids programs, EarthWorks Urban Farm, Detroit

FestiFools Executive Committee. Presentation to City Council, meetings with Mayor, Library, Main Street Merchants Association, Outreach events, community volunteers, media.

Ann Arbor Art Center, Advisory Board. Selection of potential exhibitions, artists and proposals for 2010-11 season of programs.

2007-08 Advisory Board Member, Ann Arbor Art Center, Ann Arbor, MI

Festifools Advisory Board, Monthly meetings with business and civic organizations, Mayor’s Office.

Teacher and Design Advisor, Youth Farm Stand, EarthWorks Garden, Capuchin Soup Kitchen, Detroit, MI (urban agriculture program for 11-16 year olds.)

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2006-07 Saturday video workshops for Detroit High School students, Horizons: Upward Bound

2005-06 Installation Coordinator, Ann Arbor Film Festival

2004-05 Maize and Blue Mile- Part of a joint investigation with Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning (TCAUP) with input from University planning and the City of Ann Arbor to reconsider the physical form(s) of the approach to Central Campus along State Street. Analysis stage and preliminary proposals completed and presented to the City/University representatives for feedback