Richard Kamler
Professor
Richard has received many grants and awards for his work,
which has been exhibited nationally and internationally; among them
a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a California Arts
Council Fellowship, an Alaskan State Arts Council/NEA grant where
he spent 9 months on Baranof Island in Alaska doing "landscape
installations," a Gunk Foundation for Public Art, the Institute of
Noetic Sciences and the Potrero Nuevo Fund. In 1996 Kamler was
awarded the prestigious Adeline Kent award from the san Francisco
Art Institute and in 1999 a major AQrtist fellowship from George
Soros' Open Society institute. Kamler's current
project, Seeing Peace: Artists Collaborate with the United Nations,
a visionary international initiative, seeks to embed the
imagination, through the presence of the artist, at the table of
the General Assembly of the United Nations. He is currently Chair
of the Visual Arts Department and also co-directs with Prof. Sharon
Siskin the Arts Outreach Program, Artist as Citizen, that seeks to
embed student practioners into communities to collaboratively
engage in Community-based art.
Research Areas
Art as a catalyst for social change and cultural transformation
Artist as Citizen engaging in community; community-based art
the role of art in prison and victim's communities
