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Lessa Bouchard 171 Bryant Apt i, Palo Alto, CA 94301 773-627-6038 www.lessabouchard.com www.Arc-Hive.org [email protected] SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE Lessa Bouchard is an interdisciplinary artist exploring varied expressions of memory, identity and community. For 20 years she has addressed a wide range of social issues in her work- gender and sexual orientation, disability rights, immigration history, and environmental issues- through theatre, installation and performance art. She has been a teaching artist and program manager for a variety of arts organizations in Detroit, Chicago, and Palo Alto. She currently maintains a studio as member of the City of Palo Alto Cubberley Artists Studio Program (CASP), and teaches a variety of media classes for the Children’s Fine Arts program at the Palo Alto Art Center. EDUCATION M.F.A., Interdisciplinary Art and Media, Columbia College Chicago B.F.A., Theatre and Performance, University of Detroit Mercy ACADEMIC/TEACHING April 2010-Present Children’s Fine Arts Instructor, Palo Alto Art Center A variety of media art and book and paper classes for ages 4 -14. Classes include Media for Kinders, Digital Photography, Claymation, Cut-out Animation, Digital Video Production, Holiday gift making and Recycled Book and Papermaking. Media classes include introductions to Photoshop, Paintbrush, Frame by Frame, I-Movie, I-DVD, & Final Cut. 1994-Present Drama Instructor, program manager and guest lecturer for various after school, university and summer programs with a particular emphasis on work with adolescents, in southeast Michigan (Matrix Theatre and Mosaic Youth Theatre), Chicago (DramaSmarts, and University of Chicago), and Palo Alto, CA (Dragon Theatre Company). 2007-2009 Graduate Teaching Assistant, Interdisciplinary Arts and Media (Graduate Program) & TV Department (Undergraduate Program), Columbia College Chicago Led selected activities for the “Learning Community,” a multi-class program of the TV Dept. Classes included: Aesthetics, Production and Editing 1 &2, Writing for TV. General Interdisciplinary Arts graduate curriculum support- included Excel and Word documentation of media equipment specs and Mac & Adobe graphics programs. Maintenance of computer labs, including Book & Paper Media Lab. SELECTED EXHIBITIONS/ PERFORMANCE ART and DIRECTING PROJECTS 2014 Reserved for Amy, by Ewa Nowicka. Video designer. MACLA The Woman in Black, adapted by Stephen Mallatrat at the Dragon Theatre. Role of The Woman in Black, dir. By Meredith Hagedorn Arc:Hive presents A Moment (Un)Bound. A full production of a collectively written ensemble performance based on materials collected from books donated to the Friends of the Palo Alto Library. Producer/performer/designer Featured in Dragon Theatre’s Second Stage series, Redwood City. A Moment (Un)Bound. Act 1. Featured in foolsFury’s Factory Parts iii, a festival of new work at the ACT Costumeshop in SF. April Arc:Hivists of A Moment (Un)Bound. 15-minutes of work in progress. Featured in foolsFury’s Factory Parts ii, a festival of new work at the Noh Space in SF. Feb 7 & 8 2013 Whim: Extrapolating from Arc:Hive’s A Moment (Un)Bound, the Meridian Gallery in SF, part of By Mainly Unexpected Means, Dec 7 Bell’s Books Since 1935. Site Specific program of Palo Alto Art Center’s Bibliophilia Exhibit at Bell’s Books, Palo Alto Nov 11- 18 And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little by Paul Zindel. The role of Anna, dir. by Shareen Merriam at the Dragon Theatre. A Moment (Un)Bound by Arc:Hive. A 10-minute ensemble performance based on materials collected from books donated to the Friends of the Palo Alto Library. foolsFury’s Factory Parts: a festival of new work at the Noh Space in SF. July All of This. Collaborative work w/Stacey Stormes. Series of 14 glass prints, 2 original electronic sculptures and a 6 min. diptych animation. Inspired by “Spacebar (a Broadway Play by Kyle Sugarman)” at City Lights Theater Company, San Jose. May/June 2012 Bell’s Books Since 1935. Short video documentary featuring Faith and Val Bell, mother and daughter proprietors of a family run used bookshop in Palo Alto. 25 min. Featured on local Cable Access, won an award for excellence at the Midpeninsula Media Center. Nov Dogwoman in Palo Alto. A diptych of 15” x 15” digital prints mounted on foam documenting Dogwoman at Bell’s Bookstore in Palo Alto, part of Graphite, Ink and Other Means: Cubberley Studio Artists at City Hall Curated by Theres Rohan. Oct Recognition. 15 screen multichannel video and sound installation featuring everyday people around Los Altos, including a live feed of Main Street and Third in Los Altos. Faces of Los Altos Exhibition at the Los Altos History Museum. May-Sept Thicket: The Watershed Scuplture of Daniel McCormick and MaryO’Brien & Gregory Gavin’s Riveropolis: The Orchard River 13 min. 2 short video documentaries documenting the community art process of these featured artists as part of Shaped by Water: Past Present and Future, at the Los Altos History Museum. Curated by Linda Gass Dogwoman in LA. Interactive performance. Dogwoman collects connections with readers of books and startles the locals at an LA party store. Part of the College Art Association ARTExchange. Curated by Lauren Stark. 2011 The Lytton Café. 12 min. a documentary video installation about an independent Palo Alto café- its regulars and how the place changes over time. Cubberley Open Studios, Dec Between the Grapes and Thorns. A series of 3 video still prints, framed. Part of “Bloom: Artists in Residence at Cubberley Center” at Palo Alto City Hall. Curated by Elise DeMarzo. Aug Tongue of a Bird. Directed at the Dragon Theatre in Palo Alto. May/June. Knees (30 s. video excerpt from Widdershins and Back Again) part of 30 Second Spot a New Media Caucus Video screening at the School of Visual Arts, NYC. Curated by Mat Rappaport. Feb 2010 Offline. Installation of swaying bookshelves investigating the instability of text. Oshibana. Translucent artist book series. Mixed Media: plastic, dried flowers, linen thread. Silicon Valley Open Studios, Cubberley Artist Studio E-6. May 2009 The Memory of Water by Shelagh Stephenson. The role of Vi, dir. by Ana-Catrina Buchser at the Dragon Theatre in Palo Alto Dogwomen of Columbia. Tic Toc Performance Art Festival, Manifest, Columbia College Chicago. Widdershins and Back Again, 13 channel video installation, MFA Thesis, Columbia College Chicago. April/May The Going Back Project. Artist Book companion to thesis exhibition. April/May 2008 Hybridity. Original Solo Performance, Artist’s Salon, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago. Nov The Blind, Performance Installation, La Lumiere, IN. Aug Feeding the Moonfish by Barbara Weichmann, produced/directed with Image Unit and Core Project Chicago. The Galaxie, Chicago. Aug Clutch: Skeletonwoman Dreaming. Interactive DVD Screening with Krista Babbitt and Gianina Lockley. Lost and Found, C-Spaces, Columbia College Chicago. Curated by Dax Tran-Cafee and Image Unit 2007 Going Back: a Meditation on Longing. 6 channel video installation, triggered by floor mats. EZIO boards & Director. Columbia College Chicago. Nov Vestiges. Collaborative multichannel video installation with Stacey Stormes and Kristina Gosh, Columbia College Chicago. Oct “Greeting/Farewell.” by Maria Alos, paid performer. Escultura Social: A New Generation of Art from Mexico City, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Aug SkeletonWoman: Dreaming. Video-short Screening, Bagley Street Project and Around the Coyote Arts Festival, Chicago. July – May 2009 Not So Loud. 5 min. w/Jenny Magnus, Prop Theatre. May Floating. 2 min.Video short. Screening, Image Unit Salon. Feb THEATRICAL DIRECTING PROJECTS 2014 Arc:Hive presents A Moment (Un)Bound Dragon Second Stages Series, Redwood City 2013 Arc:Hive work in progress foolsFury Factory Parts, Noh Theatre and ACT Costume Shop, SF 2011 Tongue of a Bird, by Ellen McLaughlin Dragon Theatre, Palo Alto 2008 Feeding the Moonfish by Barbara Weichmann The Galaxie, Chicago 2006 Grey by Grant Stokes, Lessa Bouchard and Garrett Prejean EP Theatre, Chicago 2003-2006 ACCESS Artist Development Showcase Reading Victory Gardens Theatre, Chicago 2002 The Elephant Man by Bernard Pomerance Planet Ant Theatre, Hamtramck, MI *Nominated for Best Play 2002 by Between The Lines (Southeast Michigan GLBT Monthly) 2002 Party Girl adapt. of the novel by Lynne Ewing Matrix Theatre & Alternatives for Girls, Detroit 2001 Night, Mother by Marsha Norman Planet Ant Theatre, Hamtramck, MI *Voted Best 2000/2001 Season by Detroit Free Press 2001 Jimmy’s Getting Better by Joseph Evans Matrix Theatre with Americorps, Detroit 2001/2002 Once Was Paradise by Shaun Nethercott Matrix Theatre and Detroit 300 Team, Detroit 1994/1995 Raincheck and Hannah Free by Claudia Allen POW! Trumbull Theatre, Detroit ARTICLES AND PRESENTATIONS 2009 “Director! Who’s in Charge?” Contribution to Queer Relational Christina McPhee’s conversation on queer relational aesthetics, discussing Carolee Schneemann, Linda Montano and Skeletonwoman: Dreaming.-empyre- is a process based listserv on media art and culture, based in Sydney, hosted at the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, and founded in 2002 by Melinda Rackham. 2005 Recuerdos de los Repatriados: Remembrances of the Repatriated Illegal Deportation, Memory and Performance Music, Performance, and the Racial Imagination New York University, April EthNoise! Music and Cultural PoliticsConference, University of Chicago, November 2004 Colloquium Participant:Mexican Amer Repatriation, el Colegio de Mexico, San Luis Potosi 2001 Recuerdos de los Repatriados: Remembrances of the Repatriated Performance/talk back Beyond Boal Conference Grand Valley State, Grand Rapids, Michigan NOMINATIONS AND AWARDS 2014 Juried into Cubberley Artist Studio Program, City of Palo Alto 2012 Zoomie Award for Excellence at the Mid Peninsula Media Center for Bell’s Books Since 1935 2009 Juried into Cubberley Artist Studio Program, City of Palo Alto; Moved in Jan. 2010 2005 Community Arts Assistance Program Grant from the City of Chicago 2003 Nominated by The Oakland Press for Outstanding Ensemble Play (2002/2003) 2002 Kellogg/Knight Foundation Scholarship for High/Scope Educational Foundation Adolescent Trainer Certification Directed The Elephant Man at Planet Ant Theater- Nominated by Between the Lines (Michigan GBLT monthly) for Best Play 2001/2002 2001 Directed Night, Mother, part of the Best 2000/2001 Season, The Detroit Free Press 2000 Nominated by The Oakland Press for Outstanding Ensemble- David’s Redhaired Death (2000/2001) 1997-2000 Geraldine Regal Memorial Scholarship for Theater, University of Detroit Mercy 1995 Midwest Aids Prevention Project & Michigan's Gay & Lesbian Community Community Service Award for producing and directing gay and lesbian plays as Artistic Director of POW!