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Selected Exhibitions
2009
Lo-Fi. Participant in annual art / performance festival, Smoke Farm,
Arlington WA. Curated by Jed Dunkerly (grass braid).
Headwaters of Industry. With Erin Morrison. Vermillion Gallery, Seattle
(paintings).
2008
Environmental Performance Actions (EPA). Group show at Exit Art, NYC;
now traveling (Watermark project).
Borderlands. Group show at South Seattle Community College
(paintings).
Envisioning A Future. Group show at South Seattle Community College
(the Living Barge).
2007
Motel #1. Group show at the Bridge Motel, Seattle (ghost stumps).
Groundtruthing. Group Show at SOIL, Seattle (Watermark project).
2006
Personally Public. Group show at Crawl Space (R.I.P.), Seattle (Polling).
The Living Barge Project (collaboration with Nicole Kistler). Duwamish River,
Seattle Part community builder, part environmental restoration, and part
art installation, the Living Barge Project was a large-scale temporary public
art project on Seattle's Duwamish River. We planted a barge with the native
plants of the Duwamish, creating a temporary, floating island to comment
on the Duwamish's past, present and future (www.livingbarge.com). We raised
$20,000 in grant funding and over $40,000 in donated goods, services and
volunteer time, including the barge itself, for the project.
2005
Recycled Art Show. Group show at the ReStore, Seattle
Participant in Dead Girls, a performance installation by Nicole Grant and
Ragan Peck, Priceless Works Gallery, Seattle (R.I.P.).
2004
New Work. Solo show at Zeitgeist, Seattle (paintings)
Urban Dwellers. Group show at Priceless Works, Seattle (R.I.P.). Displayed
documentation of Confidential (Information Overlord), Seattle.
New Paintings. With Drew Demeter and Libby Pace. Priceless Works Gallery,
Seattle
2003
Works on Paper - Variations & Themes. Group show at PACE University Gallery,
New York (drawings).
Lo-Fi. With Seth Thomas and Jason Hasenbank. Zeitgeist, Seattle (paintings)
Weapons of Mass Distraction. Group show at The Segway, Seattle (portrait
of Britney)
2002
Off the Page. Group show at SOIL, Seattle (cloud poems)
2001
Blind Date. Group show at Oculus Gallery, Seattle (paintings)
1996
Mixed Media Work. Solo show at Fairleigh Dickinson University Gallery,
Hackensack, NJ
1995
Work on Plywood. Solo show at AFA Gallery, Scranton, PA
Related
Experience, Awards & Grants
2009
Residency at InCUBATE, Chicago, IL
A geography of Illinois Wheat. Info-graphic contribution to
Area Chicago (issue #9, Peripheral Vision).
"Just for Awhile." Presentation on temporary public art at the Americans
for the Arts Conference, June 18-20 2009, Seattle WA.
Residency at radical ecologist Nance Klehm's Urban Homestead, Chicago, IL
Panelist, selection panel for City of Seattle Office of Arts & Cultural
Affairs
2008
$1,500 4 Culture (King County Arts Commission) grant to edit footage from
the Living Barge project
Virtual resident and guest editor for Democracy Guest List, the blog of artist
& cultural critic Anne E. Moore
Nov 2006-Aug 2007 Curator, the Alibi Room, Seattle
2006
Sabbatical in Jakub / Prague, Czech Republic
Finalist, Damen Station Public Art Installation, Chicago Transit Authority
$15,000 City of Seattle Neighborhood Matching Fund Grant for the Living Barge
Project
$5,000 Neighbor 2 Neighbor Fund grant for the Living Barge Project
2003
Guest Editor, THIS Magazine (a project of Anne E. Moore)
2002
Contributing Writer, Illustrator and Arts Columnist, Matte Magazine 1-3
$3,500 City of Seattle CarSmart Grant for Car-Free Seattle
2001
$5,000 City of Seattle CarSmart Grant for Car-Free Fremont
1998
Afterschool art program instructor, NY Settlement School, New York City.
Responsible for developing curriculum and teaching an afterschool art
program for an alternative, community-based school on the Lower East Side.
1995 - 1998
Assistant to visual artists Jane Dickson and Susan Leopold, New York City
1994 - 1995
Art Programs Coordinator, McGlynn Learning Center, Wilkes-Barre, PA
Selected Bibliography
Regina Hackett, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, August 2 2007. Watermark project
featured in the In the Galleries column.
Dan Gonsiorowski, Seattlest, April 27 2006. "Living Barge Tours Eliott Bay
Today."
Laura Cassidy, Seattle Weekly, April 19-25 2006. The Living Barge Project
featured in Arts & Culture This Week column.
Adam Hyla, Real Change News, April 19-25 2006. The Living Barge Project featured
in Change Agent column.
Meryl Schenker, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Friday April 28 2006. "Uprooting
the Artful Planting."
Dan Gonsiorowski, Seattlest, April 7 2006. "The Barge Is Living And The River
Is Dead."
Thomas James Hurst, The Seattle Times, Tuesday March 28 2006. "A Boatload
of Native Plants."
Selected Publications
Frank LD, Kavage, S (2008). Urban Planning and Public Health: A Story of
Separation and Reconnection. Journal of Public Health Management and Practice
.
Frank LD, Kavage S, Appleyard B (2007). The Urban Form and Climate Change
Gamble. Planning, Aug/Sept.
Frank LD, Bradley M, Kavage S, Chapman J, Lawton TK (2007). Urban form, travel
time, and cost relationships with tour complexity and mode choice.
Transportation.
Kavage S, Myers T (2007). Unhappy Birthday: 50 Infamous Years of American
Roadbuilding. Carbusters #29.
Kavage S (2004). Yes, it is About the Artists: The Tacoma Story. The Next
American City 7.
Kavage S (2004). Today's Company Town: Seattle's Boeing Fixation. The Next
American City 4.
Kavage S (2003). Reclaiming the Grid: Portland's City Repair. The Next American
City 3.
Kavage S (2003). Leavenworth, Washington and the Marketing of Place. The
Next American City 2.
Kavage S (2002). Freighted With Meaning or Memory: Jane Dickson Paints the
Domestic Uncanny. Matte Magazine 2
Kavage S, Moore AE (2002). Quit Your Job: An Interview with Greg Lundgren
of Artists For A Work Free America. Matte Mag. 1.
Kavage S (2001). Renee French's Awkward Adolescence. The Comics Journal no.
234.
Urban Planning & Public Service
2005-present: Special Projects Manager, Lawrence Frank & Co., Inc.
Manage multiple applied research projects for a small consulting firm that
does research on the relationships between community design and physical
activity, travel behavior, air quality and climate change. Develop reports,
journal articles and issue papers to summarize research findings for policymakers
and academic audiences.
2003-2006 Member, Board of Directors, Bike Works, Seattle (board president
05-06)
2003-2005 Member, City of Seattle Pedestrian Advisory Board
1999-2005 Transportation Planner, Washington State Department of Transportation
2001-2002: Co-Organizer, Car-Free Days, Seattle (co-organizer Robert Zverina).
Received 2 grants from the City of Seattle to reclaim the streets for people,
not cars, and inspire people to go car-free. Public art andperformance was
an integral part of both events. The 2001 Car-Free Day was the first car-free
day in North America.
2000: Ecological, Incremental Wastewater Treatment in Cantarrana, Havana,
Cuba, University of Washington, Seattle. Examined small-scale, environmentally
friendly alternatives to conventional wastewater treatment for an industrial
neighborhood as part of a group field study in Havana, Cuba. Developed
illustrations and concept drawings for the final report, which received an
Excellence in Planning Honor Award from the American Planning Association
Washington Chapter.
1999-2000: A Heritage Plan for Ketchikan, Alaska, University of Washington,
Seattle. Group field study in Alaska to develop a holistic historic preservation
strategy. Served as principal layout designer for the plan. The plan won
the Urban Design & Planning Department's Historic Preservation Award.
1996-1997: Founder, South Brooklyn Recycle-A-Bicycle, Brooklyn, NY. Established
an afterschool bicycle recycling program at I.S. 142, including funding,
staffing and teaching the program.
Degrees
Master of Urban Planning, University of Washington, August 2000
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Ohio Wesleyan University, May 1994 (magna cum laude)
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