Amber Haselbring
Born in Colorado, 1979
Lives and works in San Francisco


EDUCATION

2002 - Maine College of Art, BFA, Portlant, ME.

2001 - California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland and San Francisco, CA.

1998 - The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL.

1996 - Colorado Mountain College, Aspen, CO.


ARTWORK

2007 to present - MISSION GREENBELT PROJECT partners: greenmuseum.org, Livable City, Mark Sanchez, Mission Merchants Association, Mission Roots, Nature in the City, PlantSF, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, SF Department of Public Works, SF Environment, SF Parks Trust, SF Recreation & Parks Department, Sangati Center, SOMAarts, Sunset Scavenger Co., University of California Blake & Botanical Gardens and World Savvy.
The Mission Greenbelt Project is an ongoing urban earth artwork of sidewalk gardens, planted with California native and other drought-tolerant plants; the gardens attract urban wildlife, relieve the city’s overburdened water treatment system and encourage volunteerism and cooperation. The proposed route connects Mission District parks and open spaces between Dolores Park (19th & Dolores) and Franklin Square Park (16th & Bryant).

2007 - RENAMING BUSH STREET with Jerome Grand and Eric Savage. This street work involved conducting a survey over four days at four different locations along San Francisco’s Bush Street. The resulting documentation: surveys, photographs and writing, were published as a book and exhibited.

MCLAREN PARK EARTH DAY with Nature in the City (April 22, 2007). On the occasion of the first McLaren Park Earth Day, naturalists, artists, educators and activists transformed San Francisco's John McLaren Park into an outdoor ecological classroom and festival space. The day was complete with activities and events that included habitat restoration and tree planting, music, a history of earth day library, nature walks, performance art, and earth-centered presentations for children and adults.

PLAY A POEM FOR THE EARTH with musical score by Kristen Miltner (April 22, 2007). This sequential list of simple actions was read aloud to participating audience members. The intention of the work was to heighten participants’ sensitivities to the sounds, sights and experiences of one another and the McLaren Park natural environment.

2006 - SOUND DRAWINGS These watercolor drawings are a personal investigation of the effects of sounds in the urban environment.

A TRIMMING START: CHOOSE TO REUSE with Katina Papson and Neighborhood Public Radio at Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA (December 9, 2006).

 ANGEL ISLAND ART & ECOLOGY FESTIVAL with Chris Giorni, Linda Ann Vorobik, Suzanne Lacy, Cliff Caruthers & Kristin Miltner, Anna Halprin’s Sea Ranch Collective, Katina Papson & Petrushka Bazin, Nicole Krauch, Anthony Carrillo, Minnette Lehmann, Isaac Amala & Liz Simpson, Satoru Nihei, Debbie Au and Lori Gordon. Angel Island State Park, CA (September 16, 2006). An ecological artwork / outdoor festival including dance works, performances, artworks and readings created to explore the island’s natural ecosystem and cultural history.

2005 - ART ON BART: AN ARTIST GUIDED TOUR OF THE BAY AREA URBAN ECOSYSTEM with Lori Gordon, Nicole Krauch, Jessamyn Lovell, Bill Owens, Rick Prelinger, Temescal Amity Works, Levana Saxon, Jenny Selgrath and Toph Woodward (October 1, 2005). A daylong artwork onboard Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) that included performances, readings, music and activism. Starting in San Francisco and riding each train line to its end, the artwork investigated the urban ecosystem: commuter towns, radio transmissions, bodies of water, highways and the industrial, rural and natural areas that make up the Bay Area.

2004 - I STAND with video by Monja Merkel and photographs by Rob Yepez (November 6, 2004). A street action intended to amass a group of people at the intersection of 5th and Market Streets in San Francisco. This intersection is a margin between the bustling financial district and an area of homelessness, sex shops and drug trading. I stood at this location from sunrise until sundown, made available markers and adhesive labels printed ‘I STAND’, and participants were asked to write a pronunciation onto a label and hold vigil.

2003 to present - A MAP OF WATER IN ARID REGIONS: SAN FRANCISCO, LOS ANGELES, AND LAS VEGAS An ongoing artwork using photography, audio field recordings, and collage works to document the man-made waterways and cities in California, Nevada and Arizona.


SOLO EXHIBITION

2007 - MISSION GREENBELT CAMPAIGN HEADQUARTERS San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA (November 10 – December 22, 2007) (Solo exhibition, Reviewed)


GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2009 - Art in Storefronts, The Mission (Lower 24^th Street Corridor) Mayor’s Office of Economic and Workforce Development and Triple Base Gallery, San Francisco, CA. (November 20, 2009 – January 31, 2010) (Reviewed)

HOME IS SOMETHING I CARRY WITH ME. 3352 24^th St. / 951 Shotwell St. / 348 Shotwell St., San Francisco, CA (September 4 – 6, 2009) (Reviewed)

Land. Liberty. Sunshine. Stamina. PLAySPACE Gallery, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA (April 6 – 30, 2009) / The Spare Room Project, San Francisco, CA (May 1 – 15, 2009) (Reviewed)

2008 - Overlap in Green THE GARAGE BIENNALE 2008, San Francisco, CA (November 8, 2008)

HOPELESS & OTHERWISE Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA (May 23 – July 3, 2008) (Reviewed)

2007 - Pathogeographies (Or, Other People's Baggage) University of Illinois at Chicago, Gallery 400, Chicago, IL (June 15 – July 7, 2007) (Reviewed)

SOUND EXCHANGE Grothaus+Pearl Gallery, Kansas City, MO (January 5 – February 24, 2007) (Reviewed)

2006 - “What’s The Story” PLAySPACE Gallery, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA (Fall 2006)

2005 - Black Market Auction Independent School of Art, San Francisco, CA

2004 - Epic Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA (November 12 – December 16, 2004)

2003 - Post Postcard The Lab, San Francisco, CA

Reading Room Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA

2002 - Senior Thesis Exhibition Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, Portland, ME

Next Generation II Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME

2001 - Virulence City of Portland Public Art, Western Promenade, Portland, ME


BIBLIOGRAPHY

2010 - Where the Concrete is Cracked. Page work / door tag for IMAGES Nr. 3. Steven Leiber, San Francisco, CA. January 2010.

2007 - Renaming Bush Street. Self-published with Jerome Grand and Eric Savage, lulu.com. 2007.

Perris, A Place to Remember. Donning Company, Virginia Beach, VA. 2007.

An Ecosystems Centered Plan for Organizing McLaren Park Earth Day. Article written by Amber Hasselbring for greenmuseum.org, the online museum for environmental art.

2005 - ART on BART, An artist guided tour of the San Francisco Bay Area Urban Ecosystem. Self-published, lulu.com. 2005.


AWARDS & HONORS

2007 - San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery Winter Workshop, San Francisco, CA.

2004 - Anderson Ranch Arts Center Fellowship, Snowmass, CO.

2001 - Albert K. Murray Fine Arts Educational Fund, Adamsville, OH.

Irving B. Ellis and Judy Ellis Glickman Endowed Scholarship, Portland, ME.

2000 - Merit Scholarship, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME.

amber@art-eco.org
415-786-4957