Conversation Series

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Janet Owen Driggs is a writer, artist and curator who, along with Matthew Owen Driggs, frequently participates in the collective identity “Owen Driggs.” Her interests focus on those physical sites where one meets the other, which may be a public street, a garden that buffers public sidewalk and private interior, or the skin that holds ‘me’ in and mediates between ‘us.’

Janet’s work has been exhibited internationally, including in the United States, Europe, Scandinavia, and Brazil. She has curated exhibitions and screening programs in the United Kingdom, United States, People’s Republic of China and Mexico. As part of Owen Driggs (with Matthew Driggs), she curated Performing Public Space at Tijuana’s Casa del Tunel (February 2010), and generated “Mapping Biointimacy,” a series of workshops, conversations, and a combined mobile ‘phone app/guided walk at Montalvo Art Center and the ZERO 1 Garage (2013)

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Atsu started working for Campus Rec in July 2008. As the Associate Director of Business Services, she enjoys having the opportunity to work with students and a supportive team of coworkers. After living in New York, Chicago, and Tokyo, she is enjoying the great expanse of the West. She has started a long-delayed outdoor pursuit in hiking, camping, and rock climbing, while keeping up with her lifetime passion of yoga.

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Trained as a biologist, Rex Burkholder worked as a science teacher and in the Northwestern forests. He started the bicycling revolution in Portland, Oregon as a founder and policy director of the Bicycle Transportation Alliance. An early leader in sustainability and equity, Burkholder also co-founded the Coalition for a Livable Future, bringing together over 100 diverse NGOs in the greater Portland region.

He was elected to the Metro Council in 2000, serving 12 years, where he led efforts to reform regional transportation policy and to integrate climate change into the decisions of all levels of government in Oregon. He has served on key task forces as well as national boards including Rail~volution and the Association of Metropolitan Planning Organizations. Recipient of numerous local awards, his work has been recognized internationally as well, being invited to speak in countries throughout Latin America on sustainable transportation and climate change. He was honored in 2010 as a Global Ambassador forCiclovia, an international movement to reclaim cities from the automobile.

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Robert Bellows is an artist engaged in creating a sculptural park that symbolizes the journey every soldier must take the return to civilian life. The park, a gathering space and a field of expression for both civilians and veterans will be called the Warrior Storyfield.

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Inspired by the idea that collaborative art projects can move culture, Robert is inviting a number of veterans and civilians to bring in their own creative process into the building of this project. As a founder of Focus 12 Inc, Robert has a business background in public relations, product development, marketing and distribution.