• Project History and Description Artistic inquiry first drew me to the university setting at the Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology, Beaverton, in 2002 under the auspices of the Portland Institute of Contemporary Art [PICA] artist residency program. I have since realized eleven university-based projects, each of which has been exhibited nationally or internationally. In process, I have liaised and collaborated with faculty and students across a broad array of university disciplines, from art and architecture to theoretical physics and mechanical engineering. Recent university-based projects include the “Rammed Earth Sculpture Garden” (2009), a large-scale outdoor installation produced for my solo exhibition at the Museum of Sketches, Archives of Public Art, Lund University, in collaboration with 39 students from the Lund University School of Architecture. Three of these students continued with me to my most recent commission at MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts, working on site for two summers with funding provided by the Swedish government and private Swedish foundations. Joined by another Swedish student from Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, an alum of my 2010 Valand summer course, a brilliant force of international students – converging from Lund, Cambridge (MIT), Gothenburg, and Providence (RISD) – played a vital role in making possible the ambitious scope of the MASS MoCA project against dark odds of limited funding and resources. “The Expanded Field,” a large-scale public artwork commissioned by MASS MoCA, opened September 25, 2011. A site-specific installation, “The Expanded Field” remediates and integrates 1.5 derelict acres of the Museum’s industrial campus in seven discrete projects, including sculpture, landscape, painting, performance, and sound. The residual preparatory work for the project comprises a significant archive of mixed-media models and works on paper. I conducted research for “The Expanded Field” at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, where I have held artist appointments since 2007. Under the auspices of MIT’s Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program [UROP], I work closely with undergraduates in the arts and sciences in the development and production of artworks, while mentoring students with wide-ranging career goals in art, architecture, engineering, science, and government.