ALISON CROCETTA
E-mail: alicrocetta@gmail.com


Education

1993
MFA in Sculpture · Tyler School of Art, Temple University · Philadelphia, PA

1992
Skowhegan School of Art · Skowhegan, ME

1991
BFA · NYSCC at Alfred University · Alfred, NY

Selected Solo Exhibitions / Film Screenings / Concerts

2012

Atlas Performing Arts, Washington, D.C., the film Gather in concert with janus trio as part of an evening-long performance, April.    

2011           

A Circus of One, A 16 mm film in collaboration with composer Jason Treuting.

Framed Events

Clear / Fill / Reveal in the Bijou Theater, curated by Ryan Holliday

Moving Images

Gather / Shed / Lift in concert with janus trio.

2010                                   

Purchase Contemporary Ensemble

Purchase College, Purchase, NY, Lift in concert, Dec.

Galapagos Art Space

Brooklyn, NY, Screening of Lift as a prelude to janus concert, Feb.

2009           

National Flute Convention

NY, NY, Lift with janus in concert, August

Monkeytown

Brooklyn, NY, Gather / Shed / Lift with janus in concert, June

Aspen Music Festival and School

Gather / Shed / Lift with janus in concert, February

2008           

Gather / Shed / Lift Debut

Princeton University, Princeton, NJ. Films performed in concert by janus, October. Film trilogy in collaboration with composer Barbara White.

2005
Lift
Film commission and collaboration with composer, Barbara White and Boston Musica Viva Debut at Tsai Performance Center at Boston University, Boston, MA

2004
Clear / Fill / Reveal
CEPA Gallery · Buffalo, NY · Single Channel Installation of Super 8 mm Films

Clear/Fill/Reveal
Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center · New York, NY · Film Screening, Nov. 10.

2001
Beyond No
The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University · Cambridge, MA · Installation and performance

1998
Maintenance
CSPS Gallery · Cedar Rapids, IA · Installation and performance with poetry by Elisa Graff

1996
The Map is Not the Territory
Forum for Contemporary Art · St. Louis, MO · Installations and performances

1994
Exercise in Perception, Capacity, and Projection
Denison University Gallery · Granville, OH · Installation and performance

1993
Visible Breath, An Exercise in Suspended Respiration
The Lower Aquatic Garden · Brookside Gardens, MD · Impermanent Outdoor Sculpture

Selected Group Exhibitions

2012

united states: Artist’s Projects, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, 

Ridgefield, CT · curated by Richard Klein and Mónica Ramírez-Montagut

Hanji Project / New York: Hanji Metamorphoses, The Highline Loft, New York

NY · curated by Yu Yeon Kim

2011                       

Failure: Aspect-EZ Video Screening and DVD Publication                      

MIT List Center for Visaul Arts, Boston, MA · April 7th.

2010                       

The Mythical State of Jefferson,                        

Schneider Museum of Art, Southern Oregon University, Ashland, OR · curated by Michael Crane

Rehearse, Rewind, Repeat: Photography, Video and Performance                       

Seigfred Gallery, Ohio University, Athens, OH · curated by Kelli Connell

2009
Wild Things
Annmarie Garden: Sculpture Park & Art Center, Solomons, MD

2005
Inside / Out: Sculpture At Evergreen
The Evergreen House and Estate · Baltimore, MD · curated by Julie Courtney · Impermanent Outdoor Sited Sculpture

Meditating America
CoCA (Center of Contemporary Art) · Seattle, WA · curated by Ernesto Pujol · Super 8 mm Film

2003
AIM 23
The Bronx Museum of the Arts · Bronx, NY · Super 8 mm Films

1999 - 2000
Atmospheric Conditions
Spaces · Cleveland, OH · Installation and Performance

Swing-O-Matic
part of Beginning a New Century, Emerging Artists in Western New York Burchfield-Penney Art Center · Buffalo, NY · Installation


Grants / Awards

2011                                               

Franklin Furnace Fund 2011-2012 · in support of A Circus of One (Act II) · Brooklyn, NY

Fiscal Sponsorship · A Circus of One (Act II) · New York Foundation for the Arts · New York, NY

2010                                               

EMPAC DANCE MOViES Commission 2010-2011· EMPAC: Experimental Media & Performing Arts Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute / Supported by the Jaffe Fund for Experimental Media and Performing Arts · Troy, NY

Arts and Humanities Grant-In-Aid · OSU · Columbus, OH

Fiscal Sponsorship · A Circus of One  · New York Foundation for the Arts · New York, NY

2006 - 2007
Wexner Center for the Arts · Art and Technology · Artist in Residence · Columbus, OH

Seed Grant · College of the Arts and Humanities · OSU · Columbus, OH

Level II Faculty Grant · College of the Arts · OSU · Columbus, OH

2005 - 2006
Level I Faculty Grant · College of the Arts · OSU · Columbus, OH

Asian Cultural Council · Individual Artist Grant for Travel in Japan · NY, NY (declined by artist)

2002 - 2003
Harvestworks · Funded Artist Residency in film, sound, and video · NY, NY

AIM  23 Fellowship · The Bronx Museum of the Arts · Bronx, NY

2000
Bunting Fellowship · The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study · Harvard University · MA

1999
Summer Research Grant · Alfred University · Alfred, NY

1995
NEA Fellowship Award in Sculpture · Mid America Arts Alliance · St. Louis, MO

1992
Skowhegan School of Art · scholarship · Skowhegan, ME


Selected Reviews

2011
City Beat: Moving Pictures · by Matt Morris, June 25 - July 5.

2006
Baltimore City Paper: Garden State · by J. Bowers, July 5.

The Baltimore Examiner: Ever Fresh Evergreen Art · by Marie Gullard, June 10.

The Towson Times: Art On The Side· by Mike Giuliano, May 28.

The Baltimore Sun: Outsider Art · by Glenn McNatt, July 5.

2005
Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Artists Muse on America with Mostly Positive Results · by Regina Hackett, November 11.

The Boston Globe: Musica Viva Goes Back to the Future · by David Weininger, October 10.

2004
The Buffalo News: CEPA exhibition captures range of consortium artists, by Richard Huntington, November 12, 2004.

2003
The Village Voice: Statements and Strategies...· by Karen Rosenberg, August 27.

2001
The Boston Globe: Beyond No Moves Beyond Trauma and Toward Recovery · by Cate McQuaid, March 2, pg. D12

2000
Cleveland Scene: It’s All in Your Head · by Charles Yannopoulos, March 23, pg. 49

The Plain Dealer: Elevating the Everyday · by Dan Tranberg, March 25, Art Section

1997
The Riverfront Times: RFT Annual Report · by Eddie Silva, January, pg. 33

New Art Examiner · by Debra Parr, December · January, pg. 44

1996
St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Mysterious Territory · by Robert W. Duffy, September

The Riverfront Times: Terra Incognito · by Eddie Silva, September 25, pg. 43


Exhibition Catalogs and Brochures

2011
Moving Images · Weston Art Gallery · Cincinnati, OH · brochure essay by Nell Andrew, Ph.D.

2006
Inside / Out: Sculpture At Evergreen · The Evergreen House and Estate · Baltimore, MD · catalog essay by Julie Courtney

2003
AIM 23 · The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY · Catalog Essay by Lydia Yee, Senior Curator and Amy Rosenblum Martin, Curatorial Associate

2000
Beginning a New Century: Emerging Artists in Western New York · Burchfield-Penney Art Center, Buffalo, NY · Catalog Essay by Sarah Kellner, Executive Director, DiverseWorks, Houston, Texas

1998
St. Louis: The City Series · Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, Iowa · Catalog Essay by Donald B. Doe, Ph.D. and Leslie Wright, Ph.D.


Selected Artist Talks 

2011
Lamar Dodd School of Art, invited lecture with support from the Wilson Center for the Humanities & Arts, University of Georgia · Athens, GA

Columbus Museum of Art, in conjunction with the Art of Concern symposium entitled High Anxiety · Columbus, OH

2006
Princeton University, Woolworth Center of Musical Studies · Princeton, NJ

2003
Harvestworks · Soho, NY

2002
Montserrat College of Art · Beverly, MA

Kalamazoo College · Kalamazoo, MI

Princeton University, Woolworth Center of Musical Studies · Princeton, NJ

2000
Harvard University, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study · Boston, MA

Colgate University · Hamilton, NY


Presented Papers / Conference Participation / Panel Discussions

2010

From Stillness to Action to Moving Image as part of the Sculpture and the Televisual

panel · SECAC & MACAA Joint Conference entitled, Curiouser: Where Cerebellum Meets Antibellum hosted by Virginia Commenwealth University · Richmond, VA, October.

THINK TANK 5 · Integrative Teaching International · Facilitator for the Cultural, Conceptual and Historical Frameworks working group · University of Georgia · Athens, GA · June.

2009                                               

THINK TANK 4 · ITT (integrative Teaching International · Invited Participant as a Master Educator · University of Georgia · Athens, GA · June.

2006                                               

Future Art Faculty of America: Supporting the Pedagogy of Up-and-coming Teachers The College Art Association, FATE Panel (Foundation in Art: Theory and Education). College Art Association Conference · Boston, MA.

2001
Talking About Text and Image, Roundtable at the Bunting with Yvonne Rainer, Visiting Lecturer on Visual and Environmental Studies and Bunting Fellows: art historian Martha Buskirk, filmmaker Charlene Gilbert, and visual artist Ann Messner.

1996
The Evolution of Performance Art · Forum for Contemporary Art · St. Louis, MO with Joan Lipkin and Mel Watkin


Employment
2012 - Present

Associate Professor in the Sculpture Area, Director of Foundations Studies · Department of Art · The Ohio State University · Columbus, OH

2005 - 2012
Assistant Professor in the Sculpture Area,  Director of Foundations Studies · Department of Art · The Ohio State University · Columbus, OH

2004
Artist-in-Residence (Installation / Performance) · Fine Arts Department · Ringling School of Art and Design · Sarasota, FL

2001 - 2003
Associate Chair · Foundation Department · Parsons The New School for Design New York, NY

2001 - 2001
Bunting Fellow · The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University · Boston, MA

1998 - 2001
Assistant Professor · Foundation Division · NYSCC at Alfred University · Alfred, NY

1997 - 1998
Education Director · COCA (The Center of Contemporary Arts) · St. Louis, MO

1994 - 1997
Visiting Artist / Lecturer · Sculpture Department · School of Art · Washington University · St. Louis, MO

1992
Freshman Foundation Faculty · Sculpture Techniques · Tyler School of Art · Temple University Philadelphia, PA