CHRONOLOGY
1947
Born in Forestville, CT into a strict Irish-American Catholic family of nine children. Oldest son, fourth oldest child, six sisters. The entire family spends summers on Huntley Island in Long Island Sound, in East Lyme, CT at aunt and uncles’ summer home, along with their two boys; no electricity or running water. Mentorship with uncle who rebuilds house and rock seawalls with hand tools; creative use of seashells and sand.
1958
The Critchley Sextet - Jay and five of his sisters - appear twice on the nationally televised “Ted Mac and the Original Amateur Hour” in NYC, the American Idol of its day. They sing Barbershop harmony taught to them by their father. Becomes an altar boy and attends Catholic school.
1965
Graduates from St. Anthony High School with high honors. Plays Captain Von Trapp in the “Sound of Music”.
1966
Participates in first anti-war demonstration at Fairfield University (CT), an all-male Jesuit school.
1968
Attends the Democratic National Convention in Chicago; visits Berkeley and San Francisco. Volunteers for Presidential contender Eugene McCarthy.
1969
Graduates from Fairfield University with a BA in English Literature and minors in philosophy and theology. Awarded a summer, student/work exchange opportunity at the Salvation Army’s Booth House in East London, UK.
1970-72
Becomes a VISTA Volunteer (AmeriCorps) in Cottage Grove, Oregon; organizes The People Center for teenagers. Collects naturally found colored sands in Arizona’s Painted Desert.
1973-75
Directs youth program in Southington, CT: RAFT (Reach a Friend Today). Marries Alva Russell.
1975-1980
Moves to Provincetown in 1975; son Russell born. Employed at the Provincetown Drop-In Center, which closes in 1980. Comes out as a gay man. Divorces. Helps organize the Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies. Organizes local Earth Day Celebrations.
1981
Comes out as a “born-again” artist. Installs the summer long Sand Car Series in MacMillan Wharf Parking Lot “Gallery”, Just Visiting for the Weekend, a sand-encrusted Dodge Coronet 500 station wagon; generates widespread media attention and controversy. Attorney Roslyn Garfield successfully represents artist at Board of Selectmen who ask, “Is It Art?” First exhibitions at Café Edwidge, and East End Gallery with Peter Macara.
1982
Mountain Farms Mall Monument & Museum of Modern Archaeology, 1982, A.D., Hadley, MA., a public proposal for historic designation of this dying shopping mall. Installs second in Sand Car Series in MacMillan Wharf Parking Lot “Gallery”, Just Visiting for the Weekend, with the Sand Family - Ron & Nancy Reagan, George & Dawn.
1983
Launches the International Re-Rooters Society (IRS), at Provincetown Dump, creating a “Forest Gump”. Immunity Mandela: A Community Ritual, a performance/ceremony responding to HIV/AIDS, with choreographer Paul Fonseca, Provincetown Harbor. Forms Nuclear Recycling Consultants (NRC) to repurpose structures and facilities of the nuclear fuel cycle to civic use. Creates and hosts radio program, A.R.T. Focus (Artists Reveal Themselves), on WOMR 92.1 FM Radio in Provincetown; interviews 50+ artist on their lives, work and the creative process. Installs the third Sand Car Series in MacMillan Wharf Parking Lot “Gallery”, Just Visiting for the Weekend: A Fullfilling Summer, a sand-filled 1970 Chrysler sedan.
1984
Holds first annual Re-Rooters Day Ceremony, sponsored by the IRS, at Ciro & Sal’s on Commercial Street. Popcorn Super Bowl, performance/installation timed to Super Bowl broadcast, music with Ben Kettlewell and Jacqui Mac, Provincetown Art Association & Museum (PAAM), Provincetown, MA. Forms TACKI (Tampon Applicator Creative Klubs International) to ban plastic tampon applicators washed up on beaches and other marine pollution. Installs the fourth Sand Car Series in MacMillan Wharf Parking Lot “Gallery”, Just Visiting for the Weekend: Blasted! A sand blasted car that slowly rusted over the summer.
1985
Clandestinely buries time capsule at Pilgrim Monument for its 75th anniversary; TACKItown installation, Hells Kitchen Gallery, Provincetown; Boston Arts Festival commission with Jerry Beck, Satellite at Lotta’s Landing on Esplanade. Atomic Equinox, multi-media ritual, ensemble performance, PAAM and Mass College of Art, Boston. Receives MA Council on the Arts New Works grant. First burning of Christmas tree in makeshift boat in Provincetown Harbor at annual Re-Rooters Day Ceremony (IRS) January 7; singing, chanting, purging.
1986
Miss Tampon Liberty installation at PAAM. Invited by Clean Ocean Action to perform as Miss Tampon Liberty at Liberty State Park for a rally, “Freedom for the Environment”, for Centennial of Statue of Liberty; gown made from 3,000 plastic tampon applicators gathered from beaches; appears at State House as Captain TACKI to sponsor legislation banning their manufacture and sale. Video documentary by Maria Manhattan. Public proposal: World's 1st Nuclear Resort Community at Seabrook, NH; meets with realtors and investors, Essex, NH. “Women for Whoppers” appear with Burger King’s promotional character “Herb” (the artist) at a Provincetown Town Hall hearing; fast food chain requests a restaurant license across from Town Hall (eventually denied). (S)Old Cape Cod, musical spectacle about gentrification at first Provincetown Yearrounders Festival, 1986.
1987
Live Free or Die, NRC public proposal/media campaign to establish the National Nuclear Monument & Energy Research Institute at the Seabrook nuclear plant under construction. Billboard installations at Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, and MA and NH highway locations. Files legislation opposing the Seabrook nuclear plant. Re-Rooted Purple Cow, performance/ceremony/rituals with Williams College and the community. Dedication of the World's 1st NRC Community, Phipps Bend, TN; visits abandoned nuclear sites in the mid-west. Real Art Ways residencies: Fusion/Fission (1987); Media Residency (1988), Hartford, CT. Video produced: NRC: Atomic Journey. Whale and Human Evacuation Canal on Cape Cod, a public proposal to provide an escape route for stranding whales and humans from an accident at Pilgrim Nuclear Plant in nearby Plymouth.
1988
Future Earth Corporation, NRC site-specific nuclear cooling tower installation, Boston City Hall outdoor atrium, sound score. Homage To The Atomic Age, NRC installation with performance, Penn State Museum, College Park, PA. Forms the Provincetown Swim for Life with Walter McLean to celebrate Provincetown Harbor and raise funds for HIV/AIDS services. Forms the International Museum of Plastic Archeology, 1988 A.D. “Choices in the Late ‘80s”, panel at PAAM in conjunction with “BiNational Exhibition” of German and American art at Institute of Contemporary Art and the MFA, Boston. Appears at State House as Miss Tampon Liberty to sponsor legislation banning the manufacture and sale of “non-biodegradable feminine hygiene products”; killed by the tampon lobby.
1989
Old Glory Condom Corporation - Condoms with a Conscience, installation, safer sex business and AIDS activist campaign, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA; MIT freedom of expression panel participant. Also, Univ. of Maryland, College Park; Real Art Ways; Hartford Athenaeum; San Francisco Art Institute, 1990, The LAB, 2007; Make Love Not War, 1998. Featured in Newsweek and Playboy magazines and other national media. Art Matters grant. Franklin Furnace, Performance Art Award, NYC. Public Art Fund commission, NYC. PBS news report. Featured in documentary, "Troubled Waters - Plastics in the Marine Environment". Re-Rooted Purple Cow, performance/ceremony/rituals with
Williams College/the community, Williamstown, MA, 1990.
1990
Featured in PBS documentary by Seth Rolbein: "Provincetown, U.S.A."
1991
Art in General (group show, 1992), NYC. Art Matters grant. Atomic Pulpit - Nuke My Lips (ekuN yM spiL), 13' outdoor, site-specific performance/sculpture, interactive nuclear cooling tower, Boston Center for the Arts. The Fertility Project: Cape Cod Bay Tampon Blockade, a public proposal to create a 20-mile string of 52,800 applicators from Provincetown to Plymouth to protest Boston’s planned 9.5-mile sewage outfall pipe into Massachusetts Bay. The National LGBTQ Task Force honors The Compact’s Swim for Life & Paddler Flotilla.
1992
Condomized Living: Smart Accoutrements for An Erotic Planet, Old Glory Condom installation, Berta Walker Gallery, Provincetown. Conn-dom Nation, Old Glory Condom collaborative AIDS project with Hartford teenagers, Real Art Ways’ RAW Specifics Project, with CT Dept of Public Health. TACKI hat commissioned by Women and Environment Education & Development, (WEED), Toronto, featuring US Congresswomen Bella Abzug. Features in Troubled Waters, documentary on plastics in marine environment, 1992. Artist advisor for Big Dig Project, Boston.
1993
Forms the Provincetown Community Compact, The Compact, a non-profit, tax-exempt organization to enhance the arts, economy and environment of the Lower Cape. Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival artist initiative. Granted a US Trademark for Old Glory Condom name and logo after a three-year legal battle, defended by Attorney David Cole from the Center for Constitutional Rights.
1994
Over The Rainbow Rubbers - Worn with Toto Pride for Gay Games NYC; product and installation,
with safer sex kit, Storefront for Art & Architecture and 494 Gallery, NYC. Receives grants from MA Cultural Council and Arts Foundation of Cape Cod.
1995
Playing Games Project: installations in Atlanta, GA and Provincetown, public forum; book, Playing Games - Zoa, the Greek Fertility Goddess, Shoots for the Gold, a paper doll cut-out book of athletes for Olympics, Arts Festival of Atlanta. Blessed Virgin Rubber Goddess - Immaculate Protection, with Lydia Eccles, linking HIV with ecology: installation, DNA Gallery; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; and Boston Center for the Arts, with Jerry Beck and the Revolving Museum, 1994/95; Blessed Virgin Rubber Goddess: Enola/Ebola-Atomic Virus 1945-1995, public proposal on the 60th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bombs by bomber plane, Enola Gay, and the emergence of the Ebola virus.
1996
Olympdick Gold - It's hard to be a man, installation, product souvenirs, DNA Gallery. Receives MA
Cultural Council grant. Featured in film documentary on menstruation, "Under Wraps", by Penny
Wheelwright & Teresa MacInnes (Canada); shown at Margaret Mead Festival at American Museum of
Natural History, NYC.
1997-2003
P-Town, Inc: Formerly Provincetown ─ "You'll swear you were really there," theme park proposal, multi-media
installations: Septic Summer Rental @ Septic Space, artist’s abandoned backyard septic tank; P-Town, Inc. Casket and Capsule Condo Community, installation, DNA Gallery; Visitor Processing Center public proposal, and Septic Christmas installation; Theater in the Ground @ Septic Space, with opera, performance art, music, poetry and installations; Outermost Alms Museum, street facade installation on historic home before demolition (2001), with court charges for trespassing and defacing property, dismissed (2002); museum installation, DNA Gallery 2002). Featured in book, Cultural Battlefield: Art Censorship & Public Funding, Jennifer A. Peter & Louis M. Crosier (Avocus). Holly Folly’s Comin’, Don’t Frown, musical satire performance responding to a gay Christmas themed weekend, Mews Coffee House, Provincetown, 1997.
1998
Big Twig public proposal, an ecological response to Boston’s Big Dig; 1st Prize, National Art & Design Competition for Street Trees from City University of NY, Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, and Trees New York, NYC; award from The Holistic Options for Planet Earth Sustainability Conference (HOPES), University of Oregon.
1999
Harvard University, artist in residence, creates and produces theater piece with students, Olympdick Diatribes (1999-2000). Re-creates the male symbol with a limp arrow and applies for and is granted his second US Trademark. LEF Foundation grant. Survivalist Camp Resort, public proposal, placemat insert in Provincetown Arts Magazine. 100 Artists in the Community, celebrates centennial of the arts colony in Provincetown, sponsored by Provincetown Community Compact; featured on the cover of the Boston Globe arts section.
2000
No With the Flow, witness to and protest of the opening of the 9.5-mile Boston Sewage Outfall Pipe, Miss Tampon Liberty, Race Point, Cape Cod National Seashore, Provincetown. Receives LEF Foundation grant. Scat Chat, a radio program hosted with Jim Vincent, on WOMR.FM Radio, about human waste and the ecology of the human body and the planet.
2001
Tiresome Tabernacle - a sanctuary for our “tired and weary” planet, site-specific, outdoor installation/performance space; found auto tires and pit, mixed media, Provincelands, Cape Cod National Seashore, Provincetown.
2002
Providence Dirt Newsreel, (video/18 min) first video written, directed, produced by artist, AS220 residency, Providence, RI; also screened in Provincetown. Toilet Treatments, (video/39 min); HBO audience award, Provincetown Int’l Film Festival; Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center residency, NYC. Featured in, Ptown - Art, Sex, and Money on the Outer Cape, by Peter Manso. Receives Tanne Foundation Award.
2003
SARS/CARS - Weapons of Gas Destruction, Newsweek, Time, US News & World Report magazine covers, artist changes SARS to CARS, media project, installation, Provincetown. Founds Maskuerade Ball Project, employing tie-string surgical masks, challenges their symbol and cultural effect: video, Christmas Warming Alphabet, YouTube & Provincetown Int’l Film Fest, 2006/07; performance, Hemispheric Institute, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2007); Portland, OR; Provincetown, MA (2010). LETOM SWODAEM (Meadows Motel), installations in one of the last affordable motels in town before its demolition: 11 artists, 8 rooms, 10 days; curated by the artist, sponsored by The Compact. Taught course at Museum School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: Art & Activism.
2004
Big Twig Tunnel Tapes – Boston’s Big Dig Sings, CD and video produced by artist with engineer/musician
Tim O’Keefe and a dozen musicians, singers and engineers, recorded before opening of the tunnels. Receives LEF Foundation grant.
2005
Providence Dirt Newsreel and Toilet Treatments screened at Anthology Film Archives, NYC.
2006
Martucket Eyeland Resort & Theme Park − Trust the magic, public proposal, special award from Boston Society of Architects, design with John Paul Raymond; exhibited in Provincetown and at Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA (2008). Traveled throughout Europe. Christmas Warming Alphabet, (video/2 min), YouTube, Provincetown Int’l Film Fest, (2007).
2007
Maskuerade Ball Project, performance, Hemispheric Institute, Buenos Aires, Argentina.; Portland, OR; Provincetown, MA (2010).
2005-2008
BEIGE Provincetown, Beige Brigade, artSTRAND, Provincetown. Beige Motel, 1955
motel encrusted in sand before demolition; opening ceremony, Twenty-one Gun Salute with 21 vacuum cleaners from motel, artists’ installations (2007); put up for sale on eBay (2008); Beige Motel arrives in Boston at Rose Kennedy Greenway (public proposal, 2008); Revolving Museum installation, Lowell MA; artsSTRAND (2007); installation, PULSE Miami, Art Basil, (2008).
2008
Cryptic Providence, summer long, multi-media project with artists, musicians, dancers, North Burial Ground (circa 1700); Final Passage, mummified 1965 Chevy Impala in underground mausoleum, Providence, RI; funded by Rhode Island Foundation.
2009
Big Tent Theory - Obama's First 100 Days, mixed media installation, DNA Gallery. Deep Bones/Orpheus Descending, Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival commission, DNA Gallery. Ptown Diaries, featured in documentary film on LOGO TV.
2010
Artist in Residence, Milepost 5, Portland, OR; works on video documentary about Wigwam Burners,
architecturally significant incinerators at lumber mills, outlawed in 1970s and disappearing. Insurgent Bodies, Maskuerade Ball Project installations, Milepost5 and DNA Gallery. Twenty-one Gun Salute, Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival commission, festival opening performance, Provincetown Harbor and simulcast on WOMR.FM Radio.
2011
Deep Bones, video & performance installations, Freight + Volume, NYC; reviewed in New York Times, New Yorker & Village Voice. Day Without Oil – Don’t Be Crude, web/multi-platform, commemorating the first anniversary of the BP oil disaster (April 20); videos: BP: Life is Good; BP: Don’t Be Crude; BP: Be My Valentine. Receives Awesome Foundation Grant.
2012
Provincetown Swim for Life & Paddler Flotilla, in its 25th year, reaches $3.5M raised for AIDS, women’s health & the community; initiates and speaks at first World AIDS Day commemoration at the State House in Boston featuring the 2,500 Prayer Ribbons from the Swim for Life; receives an official proclamation from the Massachusetts Legislature as an artist and director of The Compact. Ten Days That Shook the World: the Centennial Decade, the artist conceives and curates project with 50+ artists and performers, Herring Cove Beach Bathhouse (circa 1953) before demolition, Cape Cod National Seashore, Provincetown; sponsored by The Compact. THE iZONE – Archival Interlude, with BabySkinGlove, installation/performance with an historic Cape Cod outhouse in a 48’ tractor-trailer, The Deconsumptionists, Brooklyn, NYC.
2013
Artist in Residences at Fundacion Valparaiso, Mojacar, Spain, and CAMAC, Marnay-sur-Seine, France; works on book project begun in 1990, HIV: Matisse Cuts It Out.
2014
Writes, produces and directs Planet Snowvio at University of California Berkeley Art Museum, musical director, Masis Parunyan; also performs at Provincetown Theater; the meeting of Edward Snowden, Barack Obama, Vladimir Putin and Mario Savio on the 50th anniversary of the Free Speech Movement at UC Berkeley.
2015
First-ever museum survey spanning more than 30 years at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, reviewed in Sculpture Magazine, Art New England and the Boston Globe.
Born in Forestville, CT into a strict Irish-American Catholic family of nine children. Oldest son, fourth oldest child, six sisters. The entire family spends summers on Huntley Island in Long Island Sound, in East Lyme, CT at aunt and uncles’ summer home, along with their two boys; no electricity or running water. Mentorship with uncle who rebuilds house and rock seawalls with hand tools; creative use of seashells and sand.
1958
The Critchley Sextet - Jay and five of his sisters - appear twice on the nationally televised “Ted Mac and the Original Amateur Hour” in NYC, the American Idol of its day. They sing Barbershop harmony taught to them by their father. Becomes an altar boy and attends Catholic school.
1965
Graduates from St. Anthony High School with high honors. Plays Captain Von Trapp in the “Sound of Music”.
1966
Participates in first anti-war demonstration at Fairfield University (CT), an all-male Jesuit school.
1968
Attends the Democratic National Convention in Chicago; visits Berkeley and San Francisco. Volunteers for Presidential contender Eugene McCarthy.
1969
Graduates from Fairfield University with a BA in English Literature and minors in philosophy and theology. Awarded a summer, student/work exchange opportunity at the Salvation Army’s Booth House in East London, UK.
1970-72
Becomes a VISTA Volunteer (AmeriCorps) in Cottage Grove, Oregon; organizes The People Center for teenagers. Collects naturally found colored sands in Arizona’s Painted Desert.
1973-75
Directs youth program in Southington, CT: RAFT (Reach a Friend Today). Marries Alva Russell.
1975-1980
Moves to Provincetown in 1975; son Russell born. Employed at the Provincetown Drop-In Center, which closes in 1980. Comes out as a gay man. Divorces. Helps organize the Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies. Organizes local Earth Day Celebrations.
1981
Comes out as a “born-again” artist. Installs the summer long Sand Car Series in MacMillan Wharf Parking Lot “Gallery”, Just Visiting for the Weekend, a sand-encrusted Dodge Coronet 500 station wagon; generates widespread media attention and controversy. Attorney Roslyn Garfield successfully represents artist at Board of Selectmen who ask, “Is It Art?” First exhibitions at Café Edwidge, and East End Gallery with Peter Macara.
1982
Mountain Farms Mall Monument & Museum of Modern Archaeology, 1982, A.D., Hadley, MA., a public proposal for historic designation of this dying shopping mall. Installs second in Sand Car Series in MacMillan Wharf Parking Lot “Gallery”, Just Visiting for the Weekend, with the Sand Family - Ron & Nancy Reagan, George & Dawn.
1983
Launches the International Re-Rooters Society (IRS), at Provincetown Dump, creating a “Forest Gump”. Immunity Mandela: A Community Ritual, a performance/ceremony responding to HIV/AIDS, with choreographer Paul Fonseca, Provincetown Harbor. Forms Nuclear Recycling Consultants (NRC) to repurpose structures and facilities of the nuclear fuel cycle to civic use. Creates and hosts radio program, A.R.T. Focus (Artists Reveal Themselves), on WOMR 92.1 FM Radio in Provincetown; interviews 50+ artist on their lives, work and the creative process. Installs the third Sand Car Series in MacMillan Wharf Parking Lot “Gallery”, Just Visiting for the Weekend: A Fullfilling Summer, a sand-filled 1970 Chrysler sedan.
1984
Holds first annual Re-Rooters Day Ceremony, sponsored by the IRS, at Ciro & Sal’s on Commercial Street. Popcorn Super Bowl, performance/installation timed to Super Bowl broadcast, music with Ben Kettlewell and Jacqui Mac, Provincetown Art Association & Museum (PAAM), Provincetown, MA. Forms TACKI (Tampon Applicator Creative Klubs International) to ban plastic tampon applicators washed up on beaches and other marine pollution. Installs the fourth Sand Car Series in MacMillan Wharf Parking Lot “Gallery”, Just Visiting for the Weekend: Blasted! A sand blasted car that slowly rusted over the summer.
1985
Clandestinely buries time capsule at Pilgrim Monument for its 75th anniversary; TACKItown installation, Hells Kitchen Gallery, Provincetown; Boston Arts Festival commission with Jerry Beck, Satellite at Lotta’s Landing on Esplanade. Atomic Equinox, multi-media ritual, ensemble performance, PAAM and Mass College of Art, Boston. Receives MA Council on the Arts New Works grant. First burning of Christmas tree in makeshift boat in Provincetown Harbor at annual Re-Rooters Day Ceremony (IRS) January 7; singing, chanting, purging.
1986
Miss Tampon Liberty installation at PAAM. Invited by Clean Ocean Action to perform as Miss Tampon Liberty at Liberty State Park for a rally, “Freedom for the Environment”, for Centennial of Statue of Liberty; gown made from 3,000 plastic tampon applicators gathered from beaches; appears at State House as Captain TACKI to sponsor legislation banning their manufacture and sale. Video documentary by Maria Manhattan. Public proposal: World's 1st Nuclear Resort Community at Seabrook, NH; meets with realtors and investors, Essex, NH. “Women for Whoppers” appear with Burger King’s promotional character “Herb” (the artist) at a Provincetown Town Hall hearing; fast food chain requests a restaurant license across from Town Hall (eventually denied). (S)Old Cape Cod, musical spectacle about gentrification at first Provincetown Yearrounders Festival, 1986.
1987
Live Free or Die, NRC public proposal/media campaign to establish the National Nuclear Monument & Energy Research Institute at the Seabrook nuclear plant under construction. Billboard installations at Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, and MA and NH highway locations. Files legislation opposing the Seabrook nuclear plant. Re-Rooted Purple Cow, performance/ceremony/rituals with Williams College and the community. Dedication of the World's 1st NRC Community, Phipps Bend, TN; visits abandoned nuclear sites in the mid-west. Real Art Ways residencies: Fusion/Fission (1987); Media Residency (1988), Hartford, CT. Video produced: NRC: Atomic Journey. Whale and Human Evacuation Canal on Cape Cod, a public proposal to provide an escape route for stranding whales and humans from an accident at Pilgrim Nuclear Plant in nearby Plymouth.
1988
Future Earth Corporation, NRC site-specific nuclear cooling tower installation, Boston City Hall outdoor atrium, sound score. Homage To The Atomic Age, NRC installation with performance, Penn State Museum, College Park, PA. Forms the Provincetown Swim for Life with Walter McLean to celebrate Provincetown Harbor and raise funds for HIV/AIDS services. Forms the International Museum of Plastic Archeology, 1988 A.D. “Choices in the Late ‘80s”, panel at PAAM in conjunction with “BiNational Exhibition” of German and American art at Institute of Contemporary Art and the MFA, Boston. Appears at State House as Miss Tampon Liberty to sponsor legislation banning the manufacture and sale of “non-biodegradable feminine hygiene products”; killed by the tampon lobby.
1989
Old Glory Condom Corporation - Condoms with a Conscience, installation, safer sex business and AIDS activist campaign, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA; MIT freedom of expression panel participant. Also, Univ. of Maryland, College Park; Real Art Ways; Hartford Athenaeum; San Francisco Art Institute, 1990, The LAB, 2007; Make Love Not War, 1998. Featured in Newsweek and Playboy magazines and other national media. Art Matters grant. Franklin Furnace, Performance Art Award, NYC. Public Art Fund commission, NYC. PBS news report. Featured in documentary, "Troubled Waters - Plastics in the Marine Environment". Re-Rooted Purple Cow, performance/ceremony/rituals with
Williams College/the community, Williamstown, MA, 1990.
1990
Featured in PBS documentary by Seth Rolbein: "Provincetown, U.S.A."
1991
Art in General (group show, 1992), NYC. Art Matters grant. Atomic Pulpit - Nuke My Lips (ekuN yM spiL), 13' outdoor, site-specific performance/sculpture, interactive nuclear cooling tower, Boston Center for the Arts. The Fertility Project: Cape Cod Bay Tampon Blockade, a public proposal to create a 20-mile string of 52,800 applicators from Provincetown to Plymouth to protest Boston’s planned 9.5-mile sewage outfall pipe into Massachusetts Bay. The National LGBTQ Task Force honors The Compact’s Swim for Life & Paddler Flotilla.
1992
Condomized Living: Smart Accoutrements for An Erotic Planet, Old Glory Condom installation, Berta Walker Gallery, Provincetown. Conn-dom Nation, Old Glory Condom collaborative AIDS project with Hartford teenagers, Real Art Ways’ RAW Specifics Project, with CT Dept of Public Health. TACKI hat commissioned by Women and Environment Education & Development, (WEED), Toronto, featuring US Congresswomen Bella Abzug. Features in Troubled Waters, documentary on plastics in marine environment, 1992. Artist advisor for Big Dig Project, Boston.
1993
Forms the Provincetown Community Compact, The Compact, a non-profit, tax-exempt organization to enhance the arts, economy and environment of the Lower Cape. Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival artist initiative. Granted a US Trademark for Old Glory Condom name and logo after a three-year legal battle, defended by Attorney David Cole from the Center for Constitutional Rights.
1994
Over The Rainbow Rubbers - Worn with Toto Pride for Gay Games NYC; product and installation,
with safer sex kit, Storefront for Art & Architecture and 494 Gallery, NYC. Receives grants from MA Cultural Council and Arts Foundation of Cape Cod.
1995
Playing Games Project: installations in Atlanta, GA and Provincetown, public forum; book, Playing Games - Zoa, the Greek Fertility Goddess, Shoots for the Gold, a paper doll cut-out book of athletes for Olympics, Arts Festival of Atlanta. Blessed Virgin Rubber Goddess - Immaculate Protection, with Lydia Eccles, linking HIV with ecology: installation, DNA Gallery; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; and Boston Center for the Arts, with Jerry Beck and the Revolving Museum, 1994/95; Blessed Virgin Rubber Goddess: Enola/Ebola-Atomic Virus 1945-1995, public proposal on the 60th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bombs by bomber plane, Enola Gay, and the emergence of the Ebola virus.
1996
Olympdick Gold - It's hard to be a man, installation, product souvenirs, DNA Gallery. Receives MA
Cultural Council grant. Featured in film documentary on menstruation, "Under Wraps", by Penny
Wheelwright & Teresa MacInnes (Canada); shown at Margaret Mead Festival at American Museum of
Natural History, NYC.
1997-2003
P-Town, Inc: Formerly Provincetown ─ "You'll swear you were really there," theme park proposal, multi-media
installations: Septic Summer Rental @ Septic Space, artist’s abandoned backyard septic tank; P-Town, Inc. Casket and Capsule Condo Community, installation, DNA Gallery; Visitor Processing Center public proposal, and Septic Christmas installation; Theater in the Ground @ Septic Space, with opera, performance art, music, poetry and installations; Outermost Alms Museum, street facade installation on historic home before demolition (2001), with court charges for trespassing and defacing property, dismissed (2002); museum installation, DNA Gallery 2002). Featured in book, Cultural Battlefield: Art Censorship & Public Funding, Jennifer A. Peter & Louis M. Crosier (Avocus). Holly Folly’s Comin’, Don’t Frown, musical satire performance responding to a gay Christmas themed weekend, Mews Coffee House, Provincetown, 1997.
1998
Big Twig public proposal, an ecological response to Boston’s Big Dig; 1st Prize, National Art & Design Competition for Street Trees from City University of NY, Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, and Trees New York, NYC; award from The Holistic Options for Planet Earth Sustainability Conference (HOPES), University of Oregon.
1999
Harvard University, artist in residence, creates and produces theater piece with students, Olympdick Diatribes (1999-2000). Re-creates the male symbol with a limp arrow and applies for and is granted his second US Trademark. LEF Foundation grant. Survivalist Camp Resort, public proposal, placemat insert in Provincetown Arts Magazine. 100 Artists in the Community, celebrates centennial of the arts colony in Provincetown, sponsored by Provincetown Community Compact; featured on the cover of the Boston Globe arts section.
2000
No With the Flow, witness to and protest of the opening of the 9.5-mile Boston Sewage Outfall Pipe, Miss Tampon Liberty, Race Point, Cape Cod National Seashore, Provincetown. Receives LEF Foundation grant. Scat Chat, a radio program hosted with Jim Vincent, on WOMR.FM Radio, about human waste and the ecology of the human body and the planet.
2001
Tiresome Tabernacle - a sanctuary for our “tired and weary” planet, site-specific, outdoor installation/performance space; found auto tires and pit, mixed media, Provincelands, Cape Cod National Seashore, Provincetown.
2002
Providence Dirt Newsreel, (video/18 min) first video written, directed, produced by artist, AS220 residency, Providence, RI; also screened in Provincetown. Toilet Treatments, (video/39 min); HBO audience award, Provincetown Int’l Film Festival; Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center residency, NYC. Featured in, Ptown - Art, Sex, and Money on the Outer Cape, by Peter Manso. Receives Tanne Foundation Award.
2003
SARS/CARS - Weapons of Gas Destruction, Newsweek, Time, US News & World Report magazine covers, artist changes SARS to CARS, media project, installation, Provincetown. Founds Maskuerade Ball Project, employing tie-string surgical masks, challenges their symbol and cultural effect: video, Christmas Warming Alphabet, YouTube & Provincetown Int’l Film Fest, 2006/07; performance, Hemispheric Institute, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2007); Portland, OR; Provincetown, MA (2010). LETOM SWODAEM (Meadows Motel), installations in one of the last affordable motels in town before its demolition: 11 artists, 8 rooms, 10 days; curated by the artist, sponsored by The Compact. Taught course at Museum School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: Art & Activism.
2004
Big Twig Tunnel Tapes – Boston’s Big Dig Sings, CD and video produced by artist with engineer/musician
Tim O’Keefe and a dozen musicians, singers and engineers, recorded before opening of the tunnels. Receives LEF Foundation grant.
2005
Providence Dirt Newsreel and Toilet Treatments screened at Anthology Film Archives, NYC.
2006
Martucket Eyeland Resort & Theme Park − Trust the magic, public proposal, special award from Boston Society of Architects, design with John Paul Raymond; exhibited in Provincetown and at Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA (2008). Traveled throughout Europe. Christmas Warming Alphabet, (video/2 min), YouTube, Provincetown Int’l Film Fest, (2007).
2007
Maskuerade Ball Project, performance, Hemispheric Institute, Buenos Aires, Argentina.; Portland, OR; Provincetown, MA (2010).
2005-2008
BEIGE Provincetown, Beige Brigade, artSTRAND, Provincetown. Beige Motel, 1955
motel encrusted in sand before demolition; opening ceremony, Twenty-one Gun Salute with 21 vacuum cleaners from motel, artists’ installations (2007); put up for sale on eBay (2008); Beige Motel arrives in Boston at Rose Kennedy Greenway (public proposal, 2008); Revolving Museum installation, Lowell MA; artsSTRAND (2007); installation, PULSE Miami, Art Basil, (2008).
2008
Cryptic Providence, summer long, multi-media project with artists, musicians, dancers, North Burial Ground (circa 1700); Final Passage, mummified 1965 Chevy Impala in underground mausoleum, Providence, RI; funded by Rhode Island Foundation.
2009
Big Tent Theory - Obama's First 100 Days, mixed media installation, DNA Gallery. Deep Bones/Orpheus Descending, Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival commission, DNA Gallery. Ptown Diaries, featured in documentary film on LOGO TV.
2010
Artist in Residence, Milepost 5, Portland, OR; works on video documentary about Wigwam Burners,
architecturally significant incinerators at lumber mills, outlawed in 1970s and disappearing. Insurgent Bodies, Maskuerade Ball Project installations, Milepost5 and DNA Gallery. Twenty-one Gun Salute, Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival commission, festival opening performance, Provincetown Harbor and simulcast on WOMR.FM Radio.
2011
Deep Bones, video & performance installations, Freight + Volume, NYC; reviewed in New York Times, New Yorker & Village Voice. Day Without Oil – Don’t Be Crude, web/multi-platform, commemorating the first anniversary of the BP oil disaster (April 20); videos: BP: Life is Good; BP: Don’t Be Crude; BP: Be My Valentine. Receives Awesome Foundation Grant.
2012
Provincetown Swim for Life & Paddler Flotilla, in its 25th year, reaches $3.5M raised for AIDS, women’s health & the community; initiates and speaks at first World AIDS Day commemoration at the State House in Boston featuring the 2,500 Prayer Ribbons from the Swim for Life; receives an official proclamation from the Massachusetts Legislature as an artist and director of The Compact. Ten Days That Shook the World: the Centennial Decade, the artist conceives and curates project with 50+ artists and performers, Herring Cove Beach Bathhouse (circa 1953) before demolition, Cape Cod National Seashore, Provincetown; sponsored by The Compact. THE iZONE – Archival Interlude, with BabySkinGlove, installation/performance with an historic Cape Cod outhouse in a 48’ tractor-trailer, The Deconsumptionists, Brooklyn, NYC.
2013
Artist in Residences at Fundacion Valparaiso, Mojacar, Spain, and CAMAC, Marnay-sur-Seine, France; works on book project begun in 1990, HIV: Matisse Cuts It Out.
2014
Writes, produces and directs Planet Snowvio at University of California Berkeley Art Museum, musical director, Masis Parunyan; also performs at Provincetown Theater; the meeting of Edward Snowden, Barack Obama, Vladimir Putin and Mario Savio on the 50th anniversary of the Free Speech Movement at UC Berkeley.
2015
First-ever museum survey spanning more than 30 years at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, reviewed in Sculpture Magazine, Art New England and the Boston Globe.