Bio Jane Tsong works in the
intersection of landscape, art, and quotidian space. Her 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.
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.
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.
She is currently working through Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs to design a public artwork for a swimming pool renovation in Reseda.
Recent Shows and Projects
Domus publishes images of WaterLAB, a project for the Steven Kanner Education Center at the Architecture and Design Museum, by Leigh Jerrard and Jane Tsong
Opening night at A+D and
adventures in collecting water in preparation for WaterLAB, a project for the Steven Kanner Education Center at the Architecture and Design Museum, by Leigh Jerrard and Jane Tsong
Circle of Blue reports on Brightwater
Brightwater at the AIA Seattle Design Festival
Public Art 4Culture : Brightwater Art & Utility
These photos on Mithun's website beautifully convey the essence of this large scale engineering project
1/4 of the wastewater of metropolitan Seattle will be blessed before returning to Puget Sound.
Public Art 4Culture reports on the installation of the water blessings at Brightwater
A site-specific installation of The Los Angeles Water Cycle
represents An Atlas of Radical Cartography at Campo y Ciudad, curated by Emiliano
Valdes at the Centro Cultural de Espana/Guatemala, 2010 Water, CA, an online collection of essays and art
projects edited by Nicole Antebi and Enid Baxter Blader, 2010 Owen Driggs capsule and photos from Performing
Public Space at the Casa del Tunel in Tijuana, 2010 Planting poppies on York Boulevard, in the
trailer for the Miroslav Mandic film about Johnny Appleseed, Searching for Johnny, which
has shown at film festivals in Sarajevo and Athens
An Atlas of Radical Cartography edited by Lize Mogel and
Alex Bhaghat is in its third printing and soon to be released in Spanish translation
Poppies in public
space... atobcommute.blogspot.com
The catalog
for Off the
Map, curated by Jill Hardy, at the Kirkland Arts Center, 2010
Press Martin Patrick,
"Performative tactics and the choreographic reinvention of public space" in Art & the Public
Sphere, 2011.
Blog 90042 mentions Creek Freak and my research into the streams of Northeast Los Angeles,
2010
Jocelyn Chui reports on my visit to Colin Lingle's communications class at
University of Washington, 2009 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
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