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Recent:
March 2025
Publication: “Cookbook” (Peach)
Publication with 2024’s annual meal memories
February 26, 2025
Presentation: “Field Conversation: Local Culture Matters“ for the Creative Change Coalition with Springboard for the Arts
Thanksgiving 2024
Event: 12th Annual Friendsgiving (Big Bear Lake, CA)
Planning Committee Co-chair
With Em Johnson
October 24, 2024
Presentation: “Data is sovereignty.“ for the “Heartland, Heartwork” book launch event with Springboard for the Arts (Grand Marais, MN)
October 12, 2024
Presentation: “Jack Forinash and Blue Sky Center“ for the annual Fall Gathering with Tallgrass Artist Residency (Matfield Green, KS)
September 18-19, 2024
Publication: “Man-Eaters”
Zine noting animals that actually have eaten humans
August 2024
Publication: “Heartland Heartwork: A Field Guild to Place and Possibility for Rural Leaders”
With Springboard for the Arts
August 2024
Publication: “Cuyama Futures”
With Blue Sky Center and Quail Springs
June 11, 2024
Event: “’Looking Up’ with Jack Forinash”
Stargazing with a private group
June 6, 2024
Event: “’Looking Up’ with Jack Forinash”
Stargazing with a private group
May 11, 2024
Event: “’Looking Up’ with Jack Forinash”
Stargazing for L88 Inaugural Fly-In
February 2024
Publication: “Cookbook” (Magenta)
Publication with 2023’s annual meal memories
January/February 2024
Publication: “Looking Up” and “A Stellar Lookbook” for the Great Northern Festival
Thanksgiving 2023
Event: 11th Annual Friendsgiving (Idyllwild, CA)
Planning Committee Co-chair
With Em Johnson
September 1, 2023
Presentation: “Creative Approaches to Measuring and Sharing Impact“ for the Rural Placemaking Community of Practice with Springboard for the Arts
July 11, 2023
Event: “’Looking Up’ with Jack Forinash”
Stargazing with a private group
March 11, 2023
Event: “’Looking Up’ with Jack Forinash”
Stargazing with a private group
February 2023
Publication: “Cookbook” (Periwinkle)
Publication with 2022’s annual meal memories
February 2023
Publication: “’Looking Up’ with Jack Forinash” - The February Issue
December 2022
Publication: “’Looking Up’ with Jack Forinash” - The New Year Issue
Thanksgiving 2022
Event: 10th Annual Friendsgiving (Pine Flat, CA)
Planning Committee Co-chair
With Em Johnson
November 2022
Publication: “’Looking Up’ with Jack Forinash” - The Friendsgiving Issue
October 27, 2022
Presentation: “Blue Sky Center” with the CA FWD Annual Economic Summit
October 2022
Publication: “’Looking Up’ with Jack Forinash” - The October Issue
September 16, 2022
Event: “’Looking Up’ with Jack Forinash”
Stargazing with a private group
September 2022
Publication: “’Looking Up’ with Jack Forinash” - The September Issue
August 5, 2022
Event: “’Looking Up’ with Jack Forinash”
Stargazing with the Cuyama Buckhorn
August 2022
Publication: “’Looking Up’ with Jack Forinash” - The Leo Season Issue
February 2022
Publication: “Cookbook” (Yellow)
Publication with 2021’s annual meal memories
Thanksgiving 2021
Event: 9th Annual Friendsgiving (Palm Springs, CA)
Planning Committee Co-chair
With Em Johnson
October 15, 2021
Event: “’Looking Up’ with Jack Forinash”
Stargazing with the Blue Sky Center
October 13, 2021
Event: “’Looking Up’ with Jack Forinash”
Stargazing with the Cuyama Buckhorn
October 2, 2021
Event: “’Looking Up’ with Jack Forinash”
Stargazing with the Cuyama Buckhorn
October 1, 2021
Event: “’Looking Up’ with Jack Forinash”
Stargazing with the Cuyama Buckhorn
September 24, 2021
Event: “’Looking Up’ with Jack Forinash”
Stargazing with the Cuyama Buckhorn
August 17, 2021
Presentation and panel discussion: “Main Street Upper Floor Housing” with the Kansas Creative Arts Industries Commission (Kansas Department of Commerce)
July 2021
Publication: “’Looking Up’ with Jack Forinash” - The July Issue
June 12, 2021
Event: “’Looking Up’ with Jack Forinash”
Private stargazing just after the New Moon
June 11, 2021
Event: “’Looking Up’ with Jack Forinash”
Stargazing with the Cuyama Buckhorn
June 2021
Publication: “’Looking Up’ with Jack Forinash” - The June Issue
May 26, 2021
Event: “’Looking Up’ with Jack Forinash”
Lunada with the Cuyama Buckhorn
May 2021
Publication: “’Looking Up’ with Jack Forinash” - The Moon Issue
May 2021
Publication: “’Looking Up’ with Jack Forinash” - The May Issue
May 8, 2021
Event: “’Looking Up’ with Jack Forinash”
Stargazing with Out of Office and the Carrizo Plain Nat’l Monument
April 2021
Publication: “Sunflower 9”
A short-run zine featuring the roadside attractions of Kansas’ Highway 9
April 2021
Publication: “’Looking Up’ with Jack Forinash” - The April Issue
March 2021
Artist Residency: Time and Place Residency (Detroit, Mich.)
With Flower Press
March 2021
Publication: “’Looking Up’ with Jack Forinash” - The March Issue
February 2021
“Letters into the Wind”
Circumnavigational aid of 52 short letters
With Kelly Gregory
January 2021
Publication: “’Looking Up’ with Jack Forinash” - The January Issue
January 2021
Publication: “___k___k Lookback Lookbook Cookbook” (Blue)
Publication with 2020’s annual meal memories
Thanksgiving 2020
Event: 8th Annual Friendsgiving (Palouse, WA)
Planning Committee Co-chair
With Mary Welcome and feat. Sarah J. Bofenkamp
November 13, 2020
Presentation: “From the Field: Imagining the future of artists as economic developers” - Episode 1
With Springboard for the Arts and Em Johnson (Blue Sky Center)
October 2020
Publication: “Mary’s violet eyes makes Jack sit up nights pondering.”
Informational postcard series of our neighbors in the sky
September 2020
Built Project: Church Street Social Clubhouse (Palouse, WA)
Design/build of a small house behind a bigger house
With Homeboat
September 12, 2020
Event: Cuyama Buckhorn’s “Sunset, Songs, and Supper” (and Stars) event
“’Looking Up’ with Jack Forinash” - The September Issue
Stargazing
August 8, 2020
Event: Cuyama Buckhorn’s “Sunset, Songs, and Supper” (and Stars) event
“’Looking Up’ with Jack Forinash”
Stargazing
January 28, 2020
Event: Enterprise’s Winter Convening
“’Looking Up’ with Jack Forinash”
Stargazing
January 2020
Publication: “Cookbook” (Orange)
Publication with 2019’s annual meal memories
November 26 - 30, 2019
Event: 7th Annual Friendsgiving (Palouse, WA)
Planning Committee Co-chair
With Mary Welcome
October 9-15, 2019
Artist Residency: Time + Place Residency (Detroit, MI)
Design/build renovation project
With Homeboat
October 3-5, 2019
Presentation: Rural Arts & Culture Summit (Grand Rapids, MN)
Convening of rural-based artists
Session Leader: “The After Hours Hours (or, why my bar tab is a reimbursable expense)”
With Homeboat
June 7-9, 2019
Event: Beach Blanket Babylon (Green River, UT)
Convening of social practice artists for the weekend
Organizer and Host
With Homeboat
June 2018 - March 2019
Built Project and Artist Residency: Creative Community Design Build:
- Yes! House (Granite Falls, MN)
- Polos Building (St. James, MN)
Selected Creative Consultant
With SWMHP, Ashley Hanson, Mary Welcome, Kelly Gregory, Spence Kroll, Corbin LaMont, and Zoe Minikes
January 2019
Publication: “Cookbook” (Purple)
Publication with 2018’s annual meal memories
Winter 2018/2019
Ongoing Engagement: Group Deep (online)
Co-founder
24/7 video chat room to help friends through winter holidays (revived for “stay at home” orders in 2020)
November 20 - 24, 2018
Event: 6th Annual Friendsgiving (Palouse, WA)
Planning Committee Co-chair
With Mary Welcome, Heather Kai Smith, Lucia Carroll, Colin Bliss, Lisa Rothlisberger, Kirsten Bauer, Kyle Lefler, Carson Davis Brown, Rick Rothlisberger, Jose Paz, Em Johnson, Zach Runge, “Just Call Jess” Boone, Lauren McCleary-Herbold, David Herbold, Eric Jessup, Alayna Rasile, Alayna’s squeeze Ryan, Zya Levy, Margo Wekenman, Spence Kroll, Tony Giltner, Kyle’s friend Jason, & Kirsten’s friend Colin, with drop-ins by Geoff Holstad and Sarah Darnell
October 29, 2018
Presentation: Conversation with Environmental Design Students and College-wide Lecture
at Auburn University, College of Architecture, Design, & Construction (Auburn, AL)
June - October 2018
St. James Healthy Housing Initiative - Community Advocate Program
Consultant
With Mary Welcome, Kelly Gregory, and Corbin LaMont
April 16-20, 2018
Cook for 555 Artist Residency
at Blue Sky Center (New Cuyama, CA)
March 29-31, 2018
Cook for Space Space Space Conference, Cranbrook Academy of Art
With Zoe Minikes
March 28, 2018
(d) Symposium at Iowa State University College of Design (Ames, IA)
Presenter: “Homeboat”
With Mary Welcome and Corbin LaMont
March 2018
Westbrook Artists’ Site (Winterset, IA)
Design/builder and Workshop Host
With Mary Welcome, Corbin LaMont, and Spence Kroll
November - December 2017
Blue Sky Center (New Cuyama, CA)
Desert Fellow
Assisted BSC with critical resource development to address affordable housing concerns in New Cuyama; published New Cuyama Housing Assessment.
November 18 - 25, 2017
Annual Friendsgiving (Palouse, WA)
Planning Committee Co-chair
With Mary Welcome, Kelly Gregory, Spence Kroll, Tony Giltner, Lucia Carroll, Colin Bliss, Zach Runge, Jeanne Fulfs, Courtney Kroll, Tom Popel, Alayna Rasile, Alayna’s squeeze Ryan, Heather Kai Smith, Kyle Lefler, Kyle’s friend Kayte, Carson Davis Brown, Ashley Hanson, and Brian with an “i”
November 2 - 5, 2017
Common Field Convening (Los Angeles, CA)
Presenter: “Food - Water - Shelter”
With Homeboat crew members Spence Kroll and Kelly Gregory
September 25 - November 12, 2017 (exhibit)
September 27 at 6 PM (film screening and artist talk)
Rabbit Island Works and Research Exhibit at the DeVos Art Museum (Marquette, MI)
With Mary Welcome and Kelly Gregory
September 16, 2017
Palouse Days Photo Booth
With Mary Welcome
September 2-3, 2017
Selected participant for “A Day in the Woods”
Basque Ovens outside Truckee, CA
With Sarah Lillegard
September 2017 - January 2019
Technical Assistance Provider for Habitat for Humanity of Castle Country (Price, UT)
June - July 2017
Selected Artists for Partnership Art (ArtPlace) Healthy Housing Initiative with Southwest Minnesota Housing Partnership (St. James, MN)
With Mary Welcome and Kelly Gregory
November 2008 - June 2017
Co-founder and Principal of Housing at Epicenter (Green River, UT)
2017
Frontier House (Green River, UT)
June 2017
Rural Arts & Culture Summit (Morris, MN)
Presenter for “Reflections on Engaging Arts & Culture in Housing”
With Jose Galarza (DesignBuildBLUFF) and Chelsea Alger (SWMHP)
May 2017
Rural Summit hosted by Blue Sky Center (New Cuyama, CA)
Keynote Presenter for “I’m not alone in this work. We’re not alone in these communities.”
2014 - 2017
Board Member and Rural Committee Co-chair for Utah Housing Coalition
January 2009 - October 2017
Board Member, Program Manager, Family Selection Committee Member, and Resource Development Committee Chairman for Habitat for Humanity of Castle Country (Price, UT)
August 2012 - May 2013
Interim Director at the University of Utah’s DesignBuildBLUFF (Salt Lake City/Bluff, UT)
Additional Work as a Citizen Architect:
Projects of Record
Infographics and Drawings
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