Collaborating with individuals and communities on aesthetic responses to social challenges, artist and educator Gregory Sale creates and coordinates large-scale and often long-term public projects. For close to 20 years, his work has focused on issues of mass incarceration. System-impacted individuals and communities help conceptualize social-aesthetic structures, co-produce artistic components, and direct the advocacy intention of the work.
Expanded Arts
Cristóbal Martínez, PhD is an artist-scholar who co-founded the artist-hacker ensemble Radio Healer in 2003; joined the internationally acclaimed artist collective Postcommodity in 2009; and co-created, with post-Mexican artist-composer Guillermo Galindo, the experimental electronic music ensemble Red Culebra in 2018. Martínez has dedicated his life and career to interdisciplinary collaboration in contemporary art, and continues his work within these groups.
Adriene Jenik is an artist, educator and end of life doula who resides in the desert. Her computer and media art spans several decades including pioneering work in interactive cinema and live telematic performance.
Ellsworth is a multidisciplinary artist combining traditional and nontraditional art materials primarily in sculpture, painting and performance. The work embodies a wide range of subjects, such as endurance, illness, queerness and social ritual. Ellsworth is interested in art merging with everyday life, where public and private experiences collide in unexpected spaces.
Education
M.F.A. Rutgers State University of New Jersey, Mason Gross School of the Arts
Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
Collins joined the School of Art faculty at Arizona State University in 1989. In addition to teaching courses in intermedia and foundations, Professor Collins is a founding co-director of the PRISM lab, an interdisciplinary 3D modeling and rapid prototyping facility, and coordinator of the foundation program in basic art instruction (artCore). He is also a senior sustainability scholar at the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability.