Nicole Lavelle
b. 1987 San Francisco, CA
Lives and works in California

Also PLACE TALKS

• 2016MFA, Fine Art (Social Practice), California College of the Arts, San Francisco CA
• 2012Summer Intensive, Design Criticism MFA at the School of Visual Arts, New York NY
• 2010BA, Fine Art (Graphic Design), Portland State University, Portland OR

• 2019Visiting 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
• 2018Artist 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
• 2017Affiliate Artist at the Headlands Center for the Arts (2017-2018)
• 2016Graduate Fellow at the Headlands Center for the Arts (2016-2017)
• 2015High Desert Test Sites 2015, Green River UT
• Remote Residency at Good Press Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland (with Sarah Baugh and Taryn Cowart)
• Cabin Time 7, Deer Island Archipelago ME
• 2014Frontier Fellowship at The Epicenter, Green River UT
• CUADRO, Machine Project and Rubin Center at University of Texas. El Paso, TX
• FOR-SITE Foundation (with CCA SOPR), Nevada City, CA
• 2013CIVIC SPACE at Broken City Lab, Windsor, Ontario CANADA
• Frontier Fellowship at The Epicenter, Green River UT
• Vinewood Residency, Detroit MI
• 2012Re:Active, Portland OR
• 2011Frontier Fellowship at The Epicenter, Green River UT
• Elsewhere Collaborative, Greensboro NC
• 2010Project M, Frankfurt/Offenbach, Germany
• 2009Banford P. Millar Memorial Library, Portland State University, Portland OR

• 2018CYCLES, at Spring Open House, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito CA (collaboration with Daniel Melo)
• CYCLES, part of Soft Center at CENTER, Inverness CA (collaboration with Daniel Melo)
• 2017Five Anxiety Minutes, part of 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, at San Francisco Art Book Fair, San Francisco CA
• FIRE, at Fall Open House, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito CA
• Heaven is a place in California, part of the opening of THE COMMONS at Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito CA
• PAPER ROAD at Embark Gallery, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco CA
• 2016PLANT FAMILY VOL. 5, with Pete Fields on guitar. Fused Space, 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(Since 2015) PLACE TALKS, founder and co-organizer of lecture series at the Prelinger Library, San Francisco CA
• The Changing Times, Issue 4: Unincorporated Marin County, itinerant community newspaper project by Corbin LaMont/Office of Virtue
• 2017COMMONSOURCE, part of Live Practice Series, Third Thursday Public Program, with PLACE TALKS, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco CA
• 2016Winter 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
• 2015AUTOLAND, 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
• 2014The Green River Magazine, Green River UT*
• Summer House, Lagunitas CA
• House of Everything and More at CUADRO, with Bennett Williamson, El Paso TX
• 2013The 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
• 2012This, Here, with Clifton Burt for Design Week Portland, Portland OR
• Porch Prints, Wraparound Project, Portland OR
• GOOD Ideas for Cities, Portland, OR*
• 2011Green 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
• 2010Sincerely 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

SOLO/TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

• 2014"The City", Ritual Coffee Valencia, San Francisco CA (solo)
• 2013There's Gold Here, Third Story Gallery, Detroit MI (with Sarah Baugh)
• Spirit of Windsor, CIVIC SPACE, Windsor Ontario (with Sarah Baugh)
• 2012SLOW NO DUST, Space 204, Vanderbilt University, Nashville TN (solo)
• 2011Points of Interest, Stumptown Coffee Division, Portland OR (solo)
• 2010WEST, Land Gallery, Portland OR (with Sarah Baugh)

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

• 2019Library of Cultural Reference at FORM, curated by Sarah Leimbach, Joal Stein, and Corbin LaMont. Arcosanti, AZ
• 2018Blue Sky Residency exhibition, SEEING RURAL, Squire Foundation, Santa Barbara CA
• 2017No 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, print portfolio curated by Smokey Road Press for SGCI 2017, Murmur Media Gallery, Atlanta GA
• 2016New 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
• 2015What 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
• 2014Love 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 Rothlisberger)
• Full Disclosure, Adobe Books, San Francisco CA
• Substrate: Printed Matter from the Rust Belt, [Scene], East Lansing MI
• 2013Visiting 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**
• 2012Insert 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**
• 2011Shelter, 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
• 2010BOOMSHAKALAKA, Land Gallery, Portland OR
• The Mythical State of Jefferson, Schneider Museum of Art, Ashland OR
• Yearbook, Reading Frenzy, Portland OR
• 2009Forget 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

PUBLICATIONS

• 2020OYSTERS #2, editor and publisher. Magazine about West Marin, California.
• 2019The Relation Between Things in a Continuum, author. Essay/booklet published by Flower Press.
• OYSTERS #1, editor and publisher. Magazine about West Marin, California.
• New Life Quarterly Magazine, Issue #4: Correspondance, contributor. Edited and published by E.M.Wolfman.
• The Changing Times, Issue #13: Orcas Island, contributor. Edited and published by Corbin LaMont/Office of Virtue .
• 2018The Changing Times, Issue 4: Unincorporated Marin County, co-editor and contributing writer, project by Corbin LaMont/Office of Virtue
• 2017PAPER ROAD, author, artist book published by Publication Studio San Francisco
• Interstate Works, author/co-editor of artist booklet/project, made with Sarah Baugh, published in collaboration with Epicenter.
• New Life Quarterly Magazine, Issue #1, edited and published by Wolfman.
• 2016A Call to Place, essay for exhibition catalog published by Epicenter
• Actually People Quarterly, published by Carville Annex
• 2015Cabin Time 7 Field Guide, published by Issue Press
• POSTER SHOW, published by Issue Press
• 2014Treasury of Art/Life Collection, edited by Jen Delos Reyes and published by Museums Press
• O-P-E-N, edited and published by Virginia Commonwealth University MFA in Graphic Design
• Synonym Journal, Issue 3
• Women in Clothing
• Day Job, edited by Taryn Cowart and Corbin LaMont
• Adventure Club Annual, CCOOLL
• 2013Share Document, co-editor with Clifton Burt, published by Ampersand.
• Everything Is Going to Be Okay, Chronicle Books
• Adventure Club Quarterly, Issue 4, CCOOLL
• 2012You Are Loved, Chronicle Books
• These Days Are Marked, Three Fingered Naptime
• Psychiania Publication
• 2011Bracket Vol.3, Education, Anonymous
• Cleveland Stories: Kent State University Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative
• 20101000 More Greetings, Rockport Publishers
• GOOD Magazine: Neighborhood Issue, June
• West, Self-published with Sarah Baugh
• 2009We 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

• 2017National Endowment for the Arts, Rural Arts Grant via Epicenter for Interstate Works
• 2016Graduate Fellowship at Headlands Center for the Arts
• 2015Southern Exposure's Alternative Exposure Grant, Round 9
• Graduate Merit Scholarship, California College of the Arts
• 2014Graduate Merit Scholarship, California College of the Arts
• 2013Sappi: 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
• 2011GOOD Magazine 25 Female Designers We Love
• Quite Strong's Lust List
• Poppytalk's 2010 Most Influential
• 2010President's Award for Outstanding University Service, Portland State University
• Uncle Sam Design Challenge, Second Place, Studio 360, WNYC + PRI
• 2009SEIU Community and Art Award
• Justin Eyerly Portland Trailblazers Award

TEACHING

• 2018Adjunct Instructor, School of Art+Design at Portland State University, Portland OR (Course: Design + Research: Immersive Inquiry and Narrative Form)
• 2014Teaching Assistant, Community Practice Studio: Activate Public Space (Chris Treggiari/Shalini Agrawal), CCA, San Francisco CA
• 2013Workshop teacher, Green River High School, Green River UT
• Guest teacher, C.H.E.E.R. after school program, Green River UT
• 2012Adjunct Instructor, School of Art+Design at Portland State University, Portland OR

SPEAKING

• 2019Artist Talk and Workshop, The Art of Writing (Ansel Klein), UC Berkeley, Berkeley CA
• Artist Talk, Writing for Designers (Denise Newman), CCA, San Francisco CA
• 2018Panelist, 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
• 2017Panelist, 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
• 2015Artist 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
• 2013Artist Talk, Community Arts Studio (Susanne Cockrell), CCA, Oakland CA

COLLECTIONS

• Marin County Free Library
• Center for Art+Environment at Nevada Museum of Art
• The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Wellesley College
• New York Public Library
• Portland Public Library Zine Collection

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

• Independent Graphic Designer, Editor, Researcher, Writer (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)

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