2014 SPE Annual ConferenceSpeakers

Don Russell

Saturday, March 08, 2014 @ 1:00pm, Holiday 2-3

Floating Lab Collective

Don Russell is Cofounder and Executive Director of Provisions Library. Provisions maintains a research library and programming as a special component of George Mason University's School of Art, where Russell serves as research faculty. In 2007 he helped initiate Floating Lab Collective focusing on public art and placemaking. He has directed numerous arts ventures focusing on innovations at the intersection of arts and social change. He has organized more than 100 exhibitions as well as public art commissions, conferences and educational projects. His work spans photography, new media art, social practice, conflict resolution, immigration, the Holocaust, post-colonialism, the environment, AIDS, and Native American culture. He was Executive Director of Washington Project for the Arts and Director of Exhibitions at Visual Studies Workshop, where he also taught Museum Studies. He is also President of Art Resources International, a consulting organization focused on freedom of expression.