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Mike Blockstein is a visual artist and educator working in community-based art that explores the intersections of artistic process and civic
engagement. His interdisciplinary public art and education projects utilize a "sense of place" as a mechanism to address social, cultural and built
environments. His extensive background includes his tenure as Executive Director of Southern Exposure, a San Francisco nonprofit artists'
organization, numerous community-based public art projects, including "A Chinatown Banquet," a community-based public art and education project about the forces which shaped and continue to influence Boston Chinatown that he has been working on for the past four years. He is a 2002 recipient of a Bridge residency for artists working in communities at the Headlands Center for the Arts and was recently selected to create a community-based public art project in Seattle through the City's ARTS UP program. Mike is a
graduate of the Mid-Career Masters of Public Administration Program at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and a former Board President of the National Association of Artists' Organizations (NAAO). He is currently working on starting a Los Angeles organization that will combine hands-on art and educational projects about a neighborhood's character, history and functions with GIS and urban planning processes.
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