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Bio

Jane Tsong's proposals for radical gardens, each growing out of extensive research into local cultural history, have been finalists for public art commissions in Astoria, Oregon and the City of Ventura. A 2006 proposal to substitute community garden plots for the institutionally maintained landscaping around a new South Los Angeles Council District Office was recommended for a commission, but vetoed by the city. Since 2004, she has been creating blessings for the water, air, and biosolids to be treated by the Brightwater Wastewater Treatment Plant in Seattle, which will open in 2011, and will include two blessings written by poet Judith Roche.


Blogs

Poppies in public space... atobcommute.blogspot.com

allcreatureswelcome, a blog on humble and domestic topics


Recent Shows and Projects

Water, CA , an online collection of essays and art projects edited by Nicole Antebi and Enid Baxter Blader, is finally out!

Owen Driggs capsule for Performing Public Space at the Casa del Tunel in Tijuana

Planting poppies on York Boulevard, in the trailer for the Miroslav Mandic film about Johnny Appleseed, Searching for Johnny, which premiered at the Sarajevo Film Festival, 2009, and also showed at a festival in Athens

An Atlas of Radical Cartography edited by Lize Mogel and Alex Bhaghat is a sharp and provocative book, and the related exhibition continues to travel the world

Catalog essay for From A to B... curated by Donna Conwell at Fellows of Contemporary Art, 2007-8

Los Angeles Sustainable Fine Art Fair in Culver City

Grassroots Cartography at SEA Change in Portland


Press

Jocelyn Chui reports on my visit to Colin Lingle's communications class at University of Washington

Peter Frank ties together street art and high art in Angeleno Interiors, Fall 2008.

Margaret Arnold, the Arroyo Seco Journal, July 2008.

Linda Immediato, Angeleno, January 2009.

Michele Roohani records a planting in the Shakespeare garden during her visit to the Huntington, 2008

I'm one of the first 150 artists represented online on Artasiamerica, a historical archive curated by the Asian American Arts Centre in NYC

A mention by Greensward Civitas, an excellent blog on urban planning issues by L Barlow, 2009

My map of LA water cycle is discussed by Doug Hennings of Behind the News and Lize Mogel on WBAI January 10 2008 (starts midway through the clip)

Farmlab Salon with Jane Tsong and curator Donna Conwell, 2008

LA Times article on The Rock as Art project, 2004

Mandarina Duck's writeup, 2000.


Local History, Local Water

Eagle Rock Valley Historical Society

LA Creek Freak

90042, mentions my guest post on Creek Freak

Historical ecology of the San Gabriel River and Floodplain

Plant list for Northeast Los Angeles

Tim Brick's water history focussing on the Pasadena area

Subscribe to local water: from the Arroyo Seco watershed (filtered and bottled)!

A bike highway used to connect downtown LA and Pasadena via the Arroyo Seco. Read more at:

California Cycleways

Cycleway Coffee shop


Other Links

Farmlab

Journal of Aesthetics and Protest

South Pasadena Nature Park

Wild Suburbia

Rambling LA

CICLE: Families On Bikes



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