Christina Conklin Portfolios

429 Beach Ave, Half Moon Bay, CA 94019

christina.conklin@gmail.com 650-863-1223

Awards, Fellowships, Residencies

Playa Summer Lake Residency, Oregon, 2022

Cerdeira Center for Creativity, Portugal, 2022

Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Canada, 2019

The Arctic Circle Residency, Svalbard, Norway, 2018

Mesa Refuge Residency, Pt. Reyes Station, California, 2018

Finalist, Fulbright/National Geographic Digital Storytelling Fellowship, “Ocean as Mirror: Creative Responses to Sea Level Rise,” 2015

Dennis Leon Scholarship, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, 2014

Thomas J. Watson Fellowship, “The Revitalization of the Gaelic Language and Culture in Scotland,” 1990-91

Writing

The Atlas of Disappearing Places: Our Coasts and Oceans in the Climate Crisis, The New Press, July 2021

* 240 pages, 40 original maps using ink-on-seaweed and digital techniques

* "Read it ... and weep ... and then act." Lucy Lippard

Exhibitions

"When We Were Ocean," M. Stark Gallery, Half Moon Bay, CA 2023

"The Works," Round Weather Gallery, Oakland, CA, 2022

"Really Now," Round Weather Gallery, Oakland, CA, 2021

"The Gang's All Here," Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA, 2021

“Worlds in the Making: New Ecological Rituals,” University of San Francisco, 2016

* Year-long solo exhibition featuring interactive installations, guest teaching, and participatory events

“50/50: 50 Works in 50 Days,” Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA, 2015

MFA Thesis Exhibition, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA, 2014

Public Engagement

"The Human Predicament in 2020: Intersecting Global Crises and the New Normal," webinar designed and hosted for Commonweal.org, 2020

Coastside Crisis Fund, Half Moon Bay, CA 2020

* Developed team that raised $400,000 in response to local COVID crisis

“Ocean as Body” artist talk, Parliament of the World’s Religions, Toronto, 2018, and Deltares Research Center, Delft, Holland, 2018

“King Tides” interactive walk, Exploratorium, San Francisco, 2017

“Laudato Si: One Year Later” interactive walk, University of San Francisco, 2016

“Tideline as Timeline” participatory community walks, 2015-18

* Researched and wrote local shorelines around San Francisco Bay, leading local groups in conversation to consider histories, futures, and individual agency

Artist in Residence, San Mateo Co. Sea Level Rise Vulnerability Assessment Project, 2015-16

* Led community events and walks to engage public in policy dialogues

Career History

2014-present Full-time artist and author

2012-2014 MFA, California College of the Arts

2000-2012 Textile artist showing at juried craft fairs (weaving, dyeing, quilting)

1994-2000 Career in publishing and non-profit fundraising

1990-1993 Thomas J. Watson Fellowship, followed by years living in the UK

1986-1990 Middlebury College, B.A. with high honors in religious studies, psychology and studio art

The Art of Living in the Both/And

07/19/2021

How do we live in the middle: between systems that aren't working that we nevertheless participate in, and the new societies that we are working to create?

Fluid Times: What Coronavirus and the Climate Crisis Have in Common

03/27/2020

Think of the climate crisis as a slowed-down version of the coronavirus crisis. Both are asking us to work together as one humanity, using all our knowledge and effort to build a healthy planet. Let's get started.

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