RECENT ACTIVITY

*2026: Founding Advisory Board member for newly launched Institute for Sustained Creativity - sustaincreativity.org - a peer to peer service cohort for artists and arts organizations.

*April 11, 2025: Public Lecture: Concept-Plan-Action: Growing a novel art and science organization with Courtney Fink and Phil Ross. The talk is part of a daylong workshop - Defining a Visual Practices Lab at Caltech. This public workshop explores the essential role of diverse visual practices in driving innovative art-science-society collaborations.

*October 19, 2021: Participant and co-facilitator in conversation organized by Living Room Light Exchange and Aggregate Space Gallery featuring Tempestt Hazel (Sixty Inches from Center) and Tracy Drake (Blackivists) on how artist-run organizations use their archives in their programming and how that type of content can help organizations in terms of growth.
*October 19, 2021: Participant and *co-facilitator in conversation organized by Living Room Light Exchange and Aggregate Space Gallery featuring Tempestt Hazel (Sixty Inches from Center) and Tracy Drake (Blackivists) on how artist-run organizations use their archives in their programming and how that type of content can help organizations in terms of growth.
*My portrit was*My portrait was included in So Close Right Now, an online exhibition of new work by Los Angeles-based artist Ian Byers-Gamber featuring more than 100 portrait photographs created by the artist throughout the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic. July 29 - October 23, 2021. Organized by The University Art Gallery at California State University, Dominguez Hills.
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*Publication, Where the Future Came From, Edited by Meg Duguid and Published by Soberscove Press, May 2020. Transcription of Keynote Conversation between Courtney Fink and Lynne Warren. Where the Future Came From focuses on the role of feminist artist-run activities in Chicago from the late 19th century to the present.

*Delegate at For Freedoms Congress, February 27 - March 1, 2020, Los Angeles, CA.

*Conversation on Cries of San Francisco and Bay Area Social Practice at Reading Ours, November 9, 2019, 1:00 PM. Landfill—Selections from the Social Practice Archive, 2011–2014, an exhibition of items remaining from ephemeral social practice art projects.

*Views from Here: Los Angeles. A panel discussion about being based in LA. December 15, 2018, 2:00 - 4:00 PM at Human Resources LA. Moderated by Michelle Grabner with Jennifer Bolande, Neha Choksi, Courtney Fink, Shana Lutker, Forrest Olivo, Paul Pescador, and Paul Mpagi Sepuya. Organized by X-TRA.

*Keynote Conversation, Where the Future Came From Symposium, November 1-2, 2018, Columbia College Chicago. In conversation with Lynne Warren, Adjunct Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. Organized and curated by Meg Duguid, Director of Exhibitions for Columbia College Chicago’s Department of Exhibitions, Performance, and Student Spaces (DEPS).

*Juror, The Velocity Fund (Round 1) Temple Contemporary - Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA. Summer 2018. The Velocity Fund directly supports artists to organize collaborative projects throughout the city of Philadelphia by awarding grants up to $5000.

*The Artist as Culture Producer: Sharon Louden in conversation with Alison Wong, Faina Lerman, Graem Whyte and Courtney Fink. Tuesday, April 3, 2018, 5:30 - 9:00 pm. Eastern Michigan University, School of Art and Design.

*The Feminist Art Project (TFAP), FEMINISM AND THE STATE: ART, POLITICS, AND RESISTANCE at the College Art Association (CAA) Conference, @ MOCA, Saturday, February 24, 2018. Participant in Roundtable Discussion: Curatorial and Artistic Strategies around Activism, Representation, and Collective Space with with Courtney Fink, Kate Johnston, Young Joon Kwak, Cauleen Smith, and Sarah Williams. Curated by Jamillah James and Lanka Tattersall with keynote address by Martha Rosler.

*The #MeToo Age: Power & Gender Equity in the Art World at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Wednesday, February 21, 2018, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm. A town hall forum conversation with Hrag Vartanian, Yasmeen Siddiqui, Alpesh Kantilal Patel, PhD, Zoe Charlton, Tim Doud and Courtney Fink. Moderated by Sharon Louden.

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