CURRICULUM VITAE
JEN BERGER
Winooski, VT • [email protected] • 802.862.8127 • www.attherootvt.com
Areas of Focus: Community Engaged Art, Art as Social Practice, Public Art, Art and Activism, Visual and Performance Art, Art and Public Places, Student-Centered Pedagogy
EDUCATION
2012 Goddard College — MFA in Interdisciplinary Art
2006 Burlington College — Self-designed BA in Community-Based Art and Social Change
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
2026 New England Foundation for the Arts / Forecast Public Art — Making It Public, 5-week workshop for public artists
2014 St. Michael's College — Arts Connect, Arts Integration training
2006-2009 Theatre of the Oppressed. TopLab, NYC
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Academic Faculty Positions
2022-Present The University of Vermont — Full-time Lecturer, Studio Art
• Foundations: How Artists Respond to Socio-Cultural Events
• Foundations: Found Object Art/Climate Justice
• Foundations: Drawing I
• Public Art
• Community Engaged Art
• Making Political Posters
2018-Summer 2022 Champlain College — Adjunct Faculty
• Making the Family Meal
• Making Political Posters
• Beyond Banksy
• Art History
• Bodies - Representation Matters
• Aesthetic Expressions; Making it Public (Public Art)
• Concepts of Community
• Concepts of Self
2015-2019 Community College of Vermont — Adjunct Faculty
• Reading and Writing for College
• Dimensions of Freedom
2014-2016 Burlington College — Adjunct Faculty
• Integration Seminar
• Re-Purposed Art
• Media Activism
• Self and Society
• Public Art
2013-2016 Degree Project Advisor
• Worked with students to develop, guide, and implement their capstone project
Teaching Artist / Workshop Facilitation
2026 Downtown and Historic Preservation Conference, Preservation Trust of Vermont — Teaching Artist
• Offered a printmaking workshop at the annual conference in St. Albans, VT.
Spring 2026 Winooski High School — Teaching Artist
• Worked with high school students to develop People's History Posters for a unit on civic service.
Spring 2022, 2023, 2024 Capstone - Adult Learning Program, Barre, VT — Teaching Artist
• Worked with high school students using multiple mediums, exploring self-portraiture.
Summer 2022/23 Smith College - Pre-College Program — Teaching Artist
• Offered a printmaking workshop on the topic of Reproductive Justice.
Fall 2021 Winooski High School — Teaching Artist
• Worked with high school students on a group project focused on the stages of the creative process.
2008-2014 Homebase Arts & Movement Class — Teaching Artist
• Taught a multi-media art class for adults with developmental disabilities.
2007-2015 VSA Arts of Vermont Adult Arts Program — Teaching Artist
• Taught a multi-media thematic visual arts class
COMMUNITY ART PROJECTS, PUBLIC ART, AND INSTALLATIONS
2019-present At the Root - A Community Engagement Project. www.attherootvt.com
• Founder & Director
2025, 2026 Fall of Freedom - National Day of Artistic Action
• Participated in a nationally coordinated call to artists to create and share art on designated day(s) of action.
2025 Words of Joy - An interactive magnetic poetry installation. Burlington, VT
• Co-designed with two collaborators; facilitated a community workshop to generate words uplifting trans, non-binary, and genderqueer joy. Presented at Generator Makerspace, UVM's Translating Identity Conference (2025), and UVM's Rainbow Graduation (2025-2026).
2024 What Was It Before It Was Gone?
• A site-specific memorial for “now” - created through the Generator Artist in Residence program.
2022 Concentric Creatives
• Co-Produced a series of artist talks/feedback sessions.
September 2022 “Viscosity: Breaking the Binary.” Burlington, VT
• A collaborative participatory immersive installation at the South End Art Hop that explores the binaries in our society, and creates opportunities to explore third, or other, options.
September 2021 “From COVID to Community.” Burlington, VT
• A participatory installation at the South End Art Hop that asks questions about reshaping our future, and the role that artists and arts organizations could play.
April 2021 “The Opposite of Hate is Mending.” Burlington, VT
• A participatory performance and installation that brings us together to think about shaping our post-pandemic future.
2020 Community-Engaged Mural Project, We Didn't Expect This to Happen. Burlington, VT
• Created a mural from community input about the first two months of the COVID-19 pandemic. Originally a larger project funded by the BCA Community Art Grant, pivoted to meet the current situation in our community.
2019 Coordinator - CVOEO's HeART & HOME Community Art Project. Burlington, VT
• Created a participatory art project asking “What does Home mean to you?” at the Fletcher Free Library as part of CVOEO's Fair Housing Month's activities.
2019 Co-Coordinator - Art Build with Vermont Women's March. Burlington, VT
• Hosted VT Women's March organizers and community members to make banners and art for the Women's March.
2017-2018 Selected Community Banner & Sign-Making Projects. Burlington, VT
• Includes: Make Your Own Signs (of Resistance) and Banners drop-in series, The Hive Studios (2017); Let it Bloom Festival banner, VT Women's March (2018); Community-Engaged Paint by Numbers project, Art Hop/Evolution Yoga (2018).
2018 Co-Coordinated a workshop and talk by Guerrilla Girls at the Hive and the Fleming Museum. Burlington, VT
2018 Installation for the Feverish World Symposium's Tent City “Navigating and Rerouting.” Burlington, VT
• Created a community-engaged audio immersion tent with opportunities to respond in writing on the inside of the tent, while a podcast discussed barriers to creating social movements around climate change, looped on the headphones.
2018 Facilitator - People's State of the Union. Burlington, VT
• Part of the US Department of Arts & Culture national project; this was the first year Burlington, VT participated, sharing local takes on the state of our union.
2015 Co-Producer/Performer at The South-End Pop-Up Performance Project. Burlington, VT
• Curated, organized, and performed in a one-night performance installation, consisting of 10 ongoing performances, educating and highlighting concerns of development in the South End.
2014 Founder, Producer, Performer. Kitsch'n'Tips. Burlington, VT
• A series of performative cooking demonstrations at the Old North End Farmers Market.
2014 Facilitator - Group Banner Painting. Burlington, VT
• Facilitated and designed a banner for a media action with Rising Tide VT.
2014 Facilitator of “Listen Up!” Drop-in Art Groups at the Wellness Co-op. Burlington, VT
• Weekly art drop-in groups for participants struggling with mental health, designed to build skills and creative self-expression.
2014 Producer/Performer at The Snowflake Ball. Burlington, VT
• Designed all publicity, coordinated food, drinks, and entertainment, and performed with Brass Balagan in a fundraiser/dance-off-the-winter-blues event.
2013, 2015 Producer of Decaturfest. Burlington, VT
• Produced and designed the theme and activities for an annual street festival, as part of The Ramble festival.
2009-2013 Founder, Producer, Performer of ‘Salmagundi: A Stage Where Change Takes Place.’ Burlington, VT
• A series of thematic variety show fundraisers for community-based non-profits.
2013 Co-organizer and Artist/Performer, “One Billion Rising Burlington.” Burlington, VT
• Co-organized a day of events including workshops, a march, community performances, a community dinner, and a theatre presentation hosted by Salmagundi.
• Collaborated and presented a contestoria on contemporary struggles for women globally.
• Collaborated and presented a works-in-progress theater piece about reproductive choices.
2011 Community-Based Mural Project, Integrated Arts Academy. Burlington, VT
• Coordinated and facilitated a mural project with students and parents to create a visual piece sharing collective visions for the future of the Old North End.
2003-2007 Selected Early Work - Additional community-based mural, performance, and event projects. Burlington, VT
• Includes: Give Peace a Dance (2003); IMAGINE Fund community mural and political performance coffeehouse series (2004); International Women's Day Celebration and Transgender Day of Remembrance Art Show (2005); Old North End community mural (2006); Dream Program youth mural project (2007).
EXHIBITIONS
2026 Colburn Gallery, University of Vermont — What Do We Do With What's Left Behind? Solo exhibition of mixed media work creating conversations about social, political, and ecological grief.
2026 SEABA Curated Exhibit - ‘Piece de Résistance.’
2026 S.P.A.C.E. Gallery - Member Show
2025 Catamount 560 Residency - Art as a Tool. Solo show.
2025 S.P.A.C.E. Gallery - Small Works Show
2025 The Hive on Pine - Group show
2025 SEABA Curated Exhibit - ‘Abstraction.’
2025 S.P.A.C.E. Gallery - All the Feels
2025 S.P.A.C.E. Gallery - Member Show
2024 Main Street Landing - What Was It Before It Was Gone? Solo installation.
2024 S.P.A.C.E. Gallery - All the Feels
2024 The Generator - What Was It Before It Was Gone? Solo installation.
2023 Fleming Museum - PRAXIS: Recent Work by Studio Art Faculty at UVM
2022 Sparrow Art Gallery - 6”x6”
2022 S.P.A.C.E. Gallery - Small Works Show
2021 S.P.A.C.E. Gallery - All the Feels
2021 S.P.A.C.E. Gallery - Member Show
2020 Not My America. Group show. Winooski, VT
2019 Running Through the World Like an Open Razor. Burlington, VT
2018 What Happens Outside of the Kitchen, The Gallery at the Hive Studios
2015 South End Pop-Up Performance Project, Howard Space Art Studios
2015 Amplifying Voices. Arts Riot
2012 Loaves and Fishes. Video projection project.
2011 Moments of Liberation. City Hall Park, Burlington, VT
2010 The Art of Revolution
2007-2021 Art Hop, Burlington, VT
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2020 Tell Me What's Really Going On. Curator. TW Wood Gallery, Montpelier.
• Curated a show of over 10 artists showcasing art and social justice in Vermont.
2019 Re-Constructing Climate Change. A Diorama project.
2015 BCA Plan BTV Community Art Grant — South End Pop-Up Performance Project.
• A one-night curation of local residents and artists sharing concerns and observations about development through multiple performance-based mediums.
BOARD MEMBERSHIP
2020-2022 Vermont Dance Alliance
2018-2019 Congregation Ruach haMaqom
2011-2023 House of Hildegard Housing Co-op
2011-2015 Thelma Maple Housing Co-op
2011-2015 Fool's Gold Artist Fund
2010-2017 The Ramble
2004-2006 Park Place Housing Co-op
GRANTS, AWARDS, AND RESIDENCIES
Grants
2025 Public Art Learning Fund - NEFA
2025 UVM Faculty Development Grant — to support the development of “Walking Winooski: Art, Activism and the Micro-local.”
2024 UVM Community Engaged Learning Faculty Fellowship
2023 UVM Faculty Development Grant — to support the development of “Feeling in Public is a Radical Act.”
2021 Public Art Learning Fund - NEFA
2019 BCA Community Art Grant
• “Who are the People in our Neighborhood?” — a mural project creating 6 portraits of long-standing residents of the Old North End / “We Didn't Expect This to Happen.”
2015 BCA Plan BTV Community Art Grant
• Funded two components: (1) Community Voices mural project, in collaboration with Vermont Affordable Housing Coalition, sharing the stories of low-income housing residents in shaping the Plan BTV development project; and (2) South End Pop-Up Performance Project, a one-night curation of local residents and artists sharing concerns about development through performance-based mediums.
2011 Neighborhood Community Arts Grant — Community-Based Mural Project, Integrated Arts Academy. Burlington, VT
• Coordinated and facilitated a mural project with students and parents to create a visual piece sharing collective visions for the future of the Old North End.
2008 Flynn Theatre N.A.S.A. Grant
• Developed a work-in-progress that shared the lives of three active duty and veteran service members of the Iraq war.
Awards
2006 Vermont Campus Compact/TD Banknorth Commitment to Service and Engagement Award
Residencies
2026 Catamount Arts - Artist in Residence program
2025 Catamount Arts - Artist in Residence program
2024 Artist in Residence - Generator Makerspace, Burlington, VT
2019 New City Galerie
2016 Integrated Arts Academy
2014 Rising Tide Vermont - Action Camp
2013 Vermont Studio Center - Vermont Week
Funding Panels
2023-2026 Vermont Community Foundation Arts & Social Cohesion Fund Grant Reviewer
2023 Burlington City Arts Community Fund
2016 Burlington City Arts Community Fund
PRESENTATIONS
Panels and Presentations
2026 NEFA Public Art Impact Convening. New Bedford, MA.
• Panelist: The Role of Imagination in Public Art
2026 Vermont Creative Network's Creative Sector Convening. St. Albans, VT.
• Co-presenter for panel: Participatory Art in Action — presentations on the Vermont Monuments Project.
2026 UVM Humanities Center Research Week.
• Presentations on the Vermont Monuments Project.
2026 UVM School of the Arts, Hidden Figures Symposium.
• Presentations on the Vermont Monuments Project.
2022 The Chandler Center for the Arts — The History of Activist Art in Vermont
2021 Panel member, University of Vermont — “On the Consequences of Hate Speech.”
2019 Presenter, Pecha Kucha Burlington — Community Engagement: The Art of Creating Resistance
2019 Lecturer, The Fleming Museum — The History of Activist Art in Vermont
2015 Presenter, Pecha Kucha Burlington
Invited Guest Lecturer
2013 Burlington College — Media and Activism
2013 Burlington College — The History of the City
2011 Burlington College — South American History, Politics & Culture
2011 University of Vermont — Creating Change through Intentional Community
2008 Sterling College
2008 Burlington High School
THEATRE OF THE OPPRESSED FACILITATION
2013 Theatre for Educators Workshop, Burlington
2011 Performing Activism Workshop, Flashbulb Institute
2009 Theatre for Social Change Workshop, Flynn Center for Performing Arts
2008 Theatre of the Oppressed Workshop, Peace & Justice Center's Youth Activist Institute
2008 Theatre of the Oppressed Workshop, Vermont Workers Center
2006, 2009 Theatre of the Oppressed Workshop, Vermont Activist Skills Share (5th Annual, 2006)
2006 Theatre of the Oppressed 8-week Workshop, U-32 Public High School. Plainfield, VT
CONSULTING
2021 Steering Committee for 311 Poetry Walk Project
2018 Taskforce Member for the City of Burlington “Everyone Loves a Parade” Task Force
PUBLICATIONS
The Alternatives Book. Created for the Peace & Justice Center in Burlington, Vermont in 2008 and updated in 2009.
“Think Before You Act; Know Before You Serve.” A compilation of interviews filmed at 2008's Winter Soldier: Iraq & Afghanistan conference, with veterans and active duty soldiers. Created for the Peace & Justice Center in Burlington, Vermont, 2009.
JEN BERGER
Winooski, VT • [email protected] • 802.862.8127 • www.attherootvt.com
Areas of Focus: Community Engaged Art, Art as Social Practice, Public Art, Art and Activism, Visual and Performance Art, Art and Public Places, Student-Centered Pedagogy
EDUCATION
2012 Goddard College — MFA in Interdisciplinary Art
2006 Burlington College — Self-designed BA in Community-Based Art and Social Change
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
2026 New England Foundation for the Arts / Forecast Public Art — Making It Public, 5-week workshop for public artists
2014 St. Michael's College — Arts Connect, Arts Integration training
2006-2009 Theatre of the Oppressed. TopLab, NYC
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Academic Faculty Positions
2022-Present The University of Vermont — Full-time Lecturer, Studio Art
• Foundations: How Artists Respond to Socio-Cultural Events
• Foundations: Found Object Art/Climate Justice
• Foundations: Drawing I
• Public Art
• Community Engaged Art
• Making Political Posters
2018-Summer 2022 Champlain College — Adjunct Faculty
• Making the Family Meal
• Making Political Posters
• Beyond Banksy
• Art History
• Bodies - Representation Matters
• Aesthetic Expressions; Making it Public (Public Art)
• Concepts of Community
• Concepts of Self
2015-2019 Community College of Vermont — Adjunct Faculty
• Reading and Writing for College
• Dimensions of Freedom
2014-2016 Burlington College — Adjunct Faculty
• Integration Seminar
• Re-Purposed Art
• Media Activism
• Self and Society
• Public Art
2013-2016 Degree Project Advisor
• Worked with students to develop, guide, and implement their capstone project
Teaching Artist / Workshop Facilitation
2026 Downtown and Historic Preservation Conference, Preservation Trust of Vermont — Teaching Artist
• Offered a printmaking workshop at the annual conference in St. Albans, VT.
Spring 2026 Winooski High School — Teaching Artist
• Worked with high school students to develop People's History Posters for a unit on civic service.
Spring 2022, 2023, 2024 Capstone - Adult Learning Program, Barre, VT — Teaching Artist
• Worked with high school students using multiple mediums, exploring self-portraiture.
Summer 2022/23 Smith College - Pre-College Program — Teaching Artist
• Offered a printmaking workshop on the topic of Reproductive Justice.
Fall 2021 Winooski High School — Teaching Artist
• Worked with high school students on a group project focused on the stages of the creative process.
2008-2014 Homebase Arts & Movement Class — Teaching Artist
• Taught a multi-media art class for adults with developmental disabilities.
2007-2015 VSA Arts of Vermont Adult Arts Program — Teaching Artist
• Taught a multi-media thematic visual arts class
COMMUNITY ART PROJECTS, PUBLIC ART, AND INSTALLATIONS
2019-present At the Root - A Community Engagement Project. www.attherootvt.com
• Founder & Director
2025, 2026 Fall of Freedom - National Day of Artistic Action
• Participated in a nationally coordinated call to artists to create and share art on designated day(s) of action.
2025 Words of Joy - An interactive magnetic poetry installation. Burlington, VT
• Co-designed with two collaborators; facilitated a community workshop to generate words uplifting trans, non-binary, and genderqueer joy. Presented at Generator Makerspace, UVM's Translating Identity Conference (2025), and UVM's Rainbow Graduation (2025-2026).
2024 What Was It Before It Was Gone?
• A site-specific memorial for “now” - created through the Generator Artist in Residence program.
2022 Concentric Creatives
• Co-Produced a series of artist talks/feedback sessions.
September 2022 “Viscosity: Breaking the Binary.” Burlington, VT
• A collaborative participatory immersive installation at the South End Art Hop that explores the binaries in our society, and creates opportunities to explore third, or other, options.
September 2021 “From COVID to Community.” Burlington, VT
• A participatory installation at the South End Art Hop that asks questions about reshaping our future, and the role that artists and arts organizations could play.
April 2021 “The Opposite of Hate is Mending.” Burlington, VT
• A participatory performance and installation that brings us together to think about shaping our post-pandemic future.
2020 Community-Engaged Mural Project, We Didn't Expect This to Happen. Burlington, VT
• Created a mural from community input about the first two months of the COVID-19 pandemic. Originally a larger project funded by the BCA Community Art Grant, pivoted to meet the current situation in our community.
2019 Coordinator - CVOEO's HeART & HOME Community Art Project. Burlington, VT
• Created a participatory art project asking “What does Home mean to you?” at the Fletcher Free Library as part of CVOEO's Fair Housing Month's activities.
2019 Co-Coordinator - Art Build with Vermont Women's March. Burlington, VT
• Hosted VT Women's March organizers and community members to make banners and art for the Women's March.
2017-2018 Selected Community Banner & Sign-Making Projects. Burlington, VT
• Includes: Make Your Own Signs (of Resistance) and Banners drop-in series, The Hive Studios (2017); Let it Bloom Festival banner, VT Women's March (2018); Community-Engaged Paint by Numbers project, Art Hop/Evolution Yoga (2018).
2018 Co-Coordinated a workshop and talk by Guerrilla Girls at the Hive and the Fleming Museum. Burlington, VT
2018 Installation for the Feverish World Symposium's Tent City “Navigating and Rerouting.” Burlington, VT
• Created a community-engaged audio immersion tent with opportunities to respond in writing on the inside of the tent, while a podcast discussed barriers to creating social movements around climate change, looped on the headphones.
2018 Facilitator - People's State of the Union. Burlington, VT
• Part of the US Department of Arts & Culture national project; this was the first year Burlington, VT participated, sharing local takes on the state of our union.
2015 Co-Producer/Performer at The South-End Pop-Up Performance Project. Burlington, VT
• Curated, organized, and performed in a one-night performance installation, consisting of 10 ongoing performances, educating and highlighting concerns of development in the South End.
2014 Founder, Producer, Performer. Kitsch'n'Tips. Burlington, VT
• A series of performative cooking demonstrations at the Old North End Farmers Market.
2014 Facilitator - Group Banner Painting. Burlington, VT
• Facilitated and designed a banner for a media action with Rising Tide VT.
2014 Facilitator of “Listen Up!” Drop-in Art Groups at the Wellness Co-op. Burlington, VT
• Weekly art drop-in groups for participants struggling with mental health, designed to build skills and creative self-expression.
2014 Producer/Performer at The Snowflake Ball. Burlington, VT
• Designed all publicity, coordinated food, drinks, and entertainment, and performed with Brass Balagan in a fundraiser/dance-off-the-winter-blues event.
2013, 2015 Producer of Decaturfest. Burlington, VT
• Produced and designed the theme and activities for an annual street festival, as part of The Ramble festival.
2009-2013 Founder, Producer, Performer of ‘Salmagundi: A Stage Where Change Takes Place.’ Burlington, VT
• A series of thematic variety show fundraisers for community-based non-profits.
2013 Co-organizer and Artist/Performer, “One Billion Rising Burlington.” Burlington, VT
• Co-organized a day of events including workshops, a march, community performances, a community dinner, and a theatre presentation hosted by Salmagundi.
• Collaborated and presented a contestoria on contemporary struggles for women globally.
• Collaborated and presented a works-in-progress theater piece about reproductive choices.
2011 Community-Based Mural Project, Integrated Arts Academy. Burlington, VT
• Coordinated and facilitated a mural project with students and parents to create a visual piece sharing collective visions for the future of the Old North End.
2003-2007 Selected Early Work - Additional community-based mural, performance, and event projects. Burlington, VT
• Includes: Give Peace a Dance (2003); IMAGINE Fund community mural and political performance coffeehouse series (2004); International Women's Day Celebration and Transgender Day of Remembrance Art Show (2005); Old North End community mural (2006); Dream Program youth mural project (2007).
EXHIBITIONS
2026 Colburn Gallery, University of Vermont — What Do We Do With What's Left Behind? Solo exhibition of mixed media work creating conversations about social, political, and ecological grief.
2026 SEABA Curated Exhibit - ‘Piece de Résistance.’
2026 S.P.A.C.E. Gallery - Member Show
2025 Catamount 560 Residency - Art as a Tool. Solo show.
2025 S.P.A.C.E. Gallery - Small Works Show
2025 The Hive on Pine - Group show
2025 SEABA Curated Exhibit - ‘Abstraction.’
2025 S.P.A.C.E. Gallery - All the Feels
2025 S.P.A.C.E. Gallery - Member Show
2024 Main Street Landing - What Was It Before It Was Gone? Solo installation.
2024 S.P.A.C.E. Gallery - All the Feels
2024 The Generator - What Was It Before It Was Gone? Solo installation.
2023 Fleming Museum - PRAXIS: Recent Work by Studio Art Faculty at UVM
2022 Sparrow Art Gallery - 6”x6”
2022 S.P.A.C.E. Gallery - Small Works Show
2021 S.P.A.C.E. Gallery - All the Feels
2021 S.P.A.C.E. Gallery - Member Show
2020 Not My America. Group show. Winooski, VT
2019 Running Through the World Like an Open Razor. Burlington, VT
2018 What Happens Outside of the Kitchen, The Gallery at the Hive Studios
2015 South End Pop-Up Performance Project, Howard Space Art Studios
2015 Amplifying Voices. Arts Riot
2012 Loaves and Fishes. Video projection project.
2011 Moments of Liberation. City Hall Park, Burlington, VT
2010 The Art of Revolution
2007-2021 Art Hop, Burlington, VT
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2020 Tell Me What's Really Going On. Curator. TW Wood Gallery, Montpelier.
• Curated a show of over 10 artists showcasing art and social justice in Vermont.
2019 Re-Constructing Climate Change. A Diorama project.
2015 BCA Plan BTV Community Art Grant — South End Pop-Up Performance Project.
• A one-night curation of local residents and artists sharing concerns and observations about development through multiple performance-based mediums.
BOARD MEMBERSHIP
2020-2022 Vermont Dance Alliance
2018-2019 Congregation Ruach haMaqom
2011-2023 House of Hildegard Housing Co-op
2011-2015 Thelma Maple Housing Co-op
2011-2015 Fool's Gold Artist Fund
2010-2017 The Ramble
2004-2006 Park Place Housing Co-op
GRANTS, AWARDS, AND RESIDENCIES
Grants
2025 Public Art Learning Fund - NEFA
2025 UVM Faculty Development Grant — to support the development of “Walking Winooski: Art, Activism and the Micro-local.”
2024 UVM Community Engaged Learning Faculty Fellowship
2023 UVM Faculty Development Grant — to support the development of “Feeling in Public is a Radical Act.”
2021 Public Art Learning Fund - NEFA
2019 BCA Community Art Grant
• “Who are the People in our Neighborhood?” — a mural project creating 6 portraits of long-standing residents of the Old North End / “We Didn't Expect This to Happen.”
2015 BCA Plan BTV Community Art Grant
• Funded two components: (1) Community Voices mural project, in collaboration with Vermont Affordable Housing Coalition, sharing the stories of low-income housing residents in shaping the Plan BTV development project; and (2) South End Pop-Up Performance Project, a one-night curation of local residents and artists sharing concerns about development through performance-based mediums.
2011 Neighborhood Community Arts Grant — Community-Based Mural Project, Integrated Arts Academy. Burlington, VT
• Coordinated and facilitated a mural project with students and parents to create a visual piece sharing collective visions for the future of the Old North End.
2008 Flynn Theatre N.A.S.A. Grant
• Developed a work-in-progress that shared the lives of three active duty and veteran service members of the Iraq war.
Awards
2006 Vermont Campus Compact/TD Banknorth Commitment to Service and Engagement Award
Residencies
2026 Catamount Arts - Artist in Residence program
2025 Catamount Arts - Artist in Residence program
2024 Artist in Residence - Generator Makerspace, Burlington, VT
2019 New City Galerie
2016 Integrated Arts Academy
2014 Rising Tide Vermont - Action Camp
2013 Vermont Studio Center - Vermont Week
Funding Panels
2023-2026 Vermont Community Foundation Arts & Social Cohesion Fund Grant Reviewer
2023 Burlington City Arts Community Fund
2016 Burlington City Arts Community Fund
PRESENTATIONS
Panels and Presentations
2026 NEFA Public Art Impact Convening. New Bedford, MA.
• Panelist: The Role of Imagination in Public Art
2026 Vermont Creative Network's Creative Sector Convening. St. Albans, VT.
• Co-presenter for panel: Participatory Art in Action — presentations on the Vermont Monuments Project.
2026 UVM Humanities Center Research Week.
• Presentations on the Vermont Monuments Project.
2026 UVM School of the Arts, Hidden Figures Symposium.
• Presentations on the Vermont Monuments Project.
2022 The Chandler Center for the Arts — The History of Activist Art in Vermont
2021 Panel member, University of Vermont — “On the Consequences of Hate Speech.”
2019 Presenter, Pecha Kucha Burlington — Community Engagement: The Art of Creating Resistance
2019 Lecturer, The Fleming Museum — The History of Activist Art in Vermont
2015 Presenter, Pecha Kucha Burlington
Invited Guest Lecturer
2013 Burlington College — Media and Activism
2013 Burlington College — The History of the City
2011 Burlington College — South American History, Politics & Culture
2011 University of Vermont — Creating Change through Intentional Community
2008 Sterling College
2008 Burlington High School
THEATRE OF THE OPPRESSED FACILITATION
2013 Theatre for Educators Workshop, Burlington
2011 Performing Activism Workshop, Flashbulb Institute
2009 Theatre for Social Change Workshop, Flynn Center for Performing Arts
2008 Theatre of the Oppressed Workshop, Peace & Justice Center's Youth Activist Institute
2008 Theatre of the Oppressed Workshop, Vermont Workers Center
2006, 2009 Theatre of the Oppressed Workshop, Vermont Activist Skills Share (5th Annual, 2006)
2006 Theatre of the Oppressed 8-week Workshop, U-32 Public High School. Plainfield, VT
CONSULTING
2021 Steering Committee for 311 Poetry Walk Project
2018 Taskforce Member for the City of Burlington “Everyone Loves a Parade” Task Force
PUBLICATIONS
The Alternatives Book. Created for the Peace & Justice Center in Burlington, Vermont in 2008 and updated in 2009.
“Think Before You Act; Know Before You Serve.” A compilation of interviews filmed at 2008's Winter Soldier: Iraq & Afghanistan conference, with veterans and active duty soldiers. Created for the Peace & Justice Center in Burlington, Vermont, 2009.
