Ted Purves

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Ted Purves
Born 1964
California
Nationality American
Field Art education, Contemporary Art,
Movement Social Practice
Works Temescal Amity Works, Momentary Academy
Awards Creative Capital Foundation, Creative Work Fund, Elise and Walter Haas Foundation

Ted Purves is an American artist, educator, and Independent Curator living in Oakland, California. He is the chair of the first Social Practice graduate program in the US, at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco, California. Central to Purves' interests is the gift economy, and the distribution of free goods and services by artists.

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[edit] Publications

Purves edited What We Want is Free: Generosity and Exchange in Recent Art, was released by SUNY press in 2005. It includes essays by curators Bill Arning, Kate Fowle and Lars Bang Larsen, Mary Jane Jacob and artists Ben Kinmont, Jörgen Svensson, Jeanne van Heeswijk, and an interview with Cesare Pietroiusi by Shane Aslan Selzer. It also includes a Projects Histories section with short descriptions of dozens of related projects.[1]

[edit] Projects

The Momentary Academy was a temporary school realized at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, during the Bay Area Now 4 exhibition. It offered free classes to the public lead by artists in the exhibition. Classes involved practical as well as experimental subjects, and ranged from single workshop sessions to weekly meetings. [2]

Temescal Amity Works is a public project in Oakland, California involving the free distribution of locally grown fruit, and the exchange of information and services in a neighborhood diverse in race and class that is in the process of redefining itself amidst the pressures of gentrification and development. [3]

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  1. ^ Purves, Ted (2005). What We Want is Free. New York: SUNY. ISBN 30791462900. 
  2. ^ (2005) Bay Area Now 4. San Francisco: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. 
  3. ^ Capital, Creative. TED PURVES & SUSANNE COCKRELL: TEMESCAL AMITY WORKS. Retrieved on 2008-01-27.
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