michael mercil 1382 south 4th street columbus ohio 43207 (614) 445-1082 [email protected]

1954 Born, Crookston, Minnesota.

EDUCATION 1988 The University of Chicago, MFA, Studio Arts. 1978 Minneapolis College of Art & Design, BFA, Fine Arts. 1972-74 Saint John’s University, Collegeville, Minnesota.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 2019 Ingrained: Large Scale Woodcut Prints, Columbus Main Library Carnegie Gallery, Columbus, Ohio. Songs the Plants Taught Us, Anytime Dept., Cincinnati, Ohio. 2018 Counter Current Festival (solo performance of “Reading the Daily News”), Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts, University of Houston, Houston, Texas. Group Exhibition for New Collectors, Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio. Summer Studio Tour, Angela Meleca Gallery, Columbus, Ohio. 20th Anniversary Invitational Exhibition, Phoenix Rising Print Cooperative, Columbus, Ohio. 2017 Covenant (invitational screening), College of Saint Benedict, Saint Joseph, Minnesota. TIGUE: In Concert (self-organized event), featuring “Thoreau’s Desk,” with additional music by David Lang and Jason Treuting, HamMer Studios, Columbus, Ohio 2016 Every Sound (solo), Center for Ongoing Research & Projects (COR&P) Columbus, Ohio. 2015 Brooklyn Bound: Concerts at the So Studio (“Thoreau’s Desk,” performed by TIGUE Percussion Trio), New York, New York. Columbus Documentary Week (featured screening: “Covenant”), Gateway Film Center, Columbus, Ohio. IFPDA Fair (featured artist with Ann Hamilton), Carl Solway Gallery, New York, New York. 2014 Columbus Arts Festival (invitational screenings: “Fair & Square University: Presentation 1” (short), “County Fair” (short) and “Covenant” (excerpts)), Greater Columbus Arts Council, Columbus, Ohio. Columbus Independents Festival (invitational screening: “Covenant” (excerpts)), Greater Columbus Arts Council, Columbus, Ohio. Deem 20: Twenty Years of the Deem Distinguished Artist Lecture, Paul Mesaros Gallery, West Virginia University, Morgantown. Rural Route Film Festival (juried screening and international touring program: “County Fair”), New York, New York. Walden, Revisited, deCordova Sculpture Garden and Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts. 2013 American Documentary Film Festival (juried screening: “Covenant”), Palm Springs, California. Athens International Film Festival (juried screening: “Covenant”), Athens, Ohio. Colorado Environmental Film Festival (juried screening: “Covenant”), Boulder, Colorado. Covenant (invitational screening) Ebert Art Center, College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio. Fargo Film Festival (juried screening: “Covenant”), Fargo, North Dakota. Field & Screen Film Series (premiere screening: “Covenant”), Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio. Food Situations, Banvard Gallery, Knowlton School of Architecture, The Ohio State University, Columbus. Green Unplugged Film Festival (juried online screening: “Covenant”). International Film Festival for Environment, Health and Culture (featured screening: “Covenant”), Jakarta, Indonesia Julien Dubuque International Film Festival (juried screening: “Covenant”), Dubuque, Iowa. Of Land & Local, Burlington City Arts Center and Shelburne Farms, Burlington, Vermont. 2012 Art for the Environment (benefit auction featured artist), Ohio Environmental Council, Columbus. Binary Inventions: Arts and Culture in the Digital Age, University of North Dakota. College of Arts and Sciences with Third Street Gallery, Grand Forks. Ohio Shorts (juried screening: “County Fair”), Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio. Ohio State Fair Fine Arts Exhibition (juried screening: “County Fair”), Ohio Expo Center and State Fairgrounds, Columbus, Ohio. 2011 Farmed: The New Agronomists, SPACES, Cleveland, Ohio. The New Administration of a Fine Arts Education, Bureau for Open Culture at Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, Ohio. Ohio Shorts (juried screening: “Presentation 1”), Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio. 2009 Paradigm Shift: MCAD Alumni & Friends Honor Kinji Akagawa, Minneapolis College of Art & Design.

1 Selected exhibitions continued 2009 Reading Kinji’s Bookshelf: Evening Tribute to Kinji Akagawa (performance with Ann Hamilton), Minneapolis College of Art & Design. (S)edition: Prints as Activism (Juried International Exhibition), Urban Institute for Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, Michigan. 2007 Community-based Art, Allegheny College Art Galleries, Meadville, Pennsylvania. Shadows from the 20th Century, Socrates Sculpture Park, New York, New York. 2006 From the 20th Century (solo), Weston Art Gallery, Aronoff Center for the Arts, Cincinnati, Ohio. 2005 for love or money (solo), Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio. 2004 It’s for the Birds (traveling exhibition), Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, Florida. 2003 Hindsight/Fore-site Revisited, Les Yeux du Monde Gallery, Charlottesville, Virginia. increase: Ann Hamilton/Michael Mercil, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks. On the Wall: Wallpaper and Tableau, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Personal Visions, Richard M. Ross Art Museum, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio. Roots of Renewal, Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa. 2002 Update (screening: “World’s Greatest Sports Video Ever), Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio. 2001 promise (solo), College of Wooster Art Museum, Wooster, Ohio. 2000 Hindsight/Foresite: Art for the New Millennium, University of Virginia Art Museum, Charlottesville. 1998 Material World, SPACES, Cleveland, Ohio. Rifle Sport Show, Intermedia Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota. 1997 Real Estate (solo), Isis Gallery, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana. 1996 Visiting Artists Exhibition, Hopkins Hall Gallery, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. 1995 Clearings (solo), Olin Gallery, Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio. Michael Mercil/Sydney Licht, Hopkins Hall Gallery, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. 1993 Solo, College of Architecture & Landscape Architecture Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. 1992 Home Economies (solo), Bockley Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota. 1991 Bird Homes, Catherine G. Murphy Galleries, College of Saint Catherine, Saint Paul, Minnesota. Eight McKnight Artists (traveling exhibition), Minneapolis College of Art & Design. Minnesota Metaphors, Rochester Art Center, Rochester, Minnesota. Open Studio Day, tour curated by Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota. 1990 Flashbacks, MCAD Gallery, Minneapolis College of Art & Design. For the Birds, Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, Wisconsin. New Accommodations (solo), Bockley Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota. 1989 buildingdialogue (with Kinji Akagawa, Sixto Beltrandi, Cliff Garten and Steven Woodward), Minneapolis Institute of Arts. 1988 Drawingroom (solo), Riflesport Alternative Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Five Jerome Artists, MCAD Gallery, Minneapolis College of Art & Design. Public Art Possibilities (traveling exhibition), Minneapolis Arts Commission. Small Sculpture, The Saint Paul Companies, Saint Paul, Minnesota. Yardwork, Rochester Art Center, Rochester, Minnesota. 1984 M.F.A. Exhibition, David and Alfred Smart Museum, The University of Chicago. 1983 New Talent, N.A.M.E. Gallery, Chicago, Illinois. 1982 The Hausman Years: 1975-82, MCAD Gallery, Minneapolis College of Art & Design.

COMMISSIONS, PUBLIC PROJECTS 2017-ongoing Site set-aside, a project with the Wexner Center for the Arts and The Living Culture Initiative in the OSU Department of Art, Columbus, Ohio. 2008-continuing Reading the Daily News, for The Living Culture Initiative in the OSU Department of Art, Columbus, Ohio. 2009-2011 The Virtual Pasture, a project with the Wexner Center for the Arts and the OSU College of Food, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Columbus, Ohio. 2009 Murmuration (with Ann Hamilton, Ben Rubin and Ned Rosenberg), for Teardrop Park, The Battery Park City Authority, New York, New York. Halos for New York, for The Battery Park City Authority, New York, New York (commissioned 2006). 2008 Forest and Book (with Ann Hamilton), for Des Moines Central Public Library, Des Moines, Iowa (not built). 2006-08 The Beanfield, a project with the Wexner Center for the Arts and the OSU College of Food, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Columbus, Ohio. 2006 Dream of the 20th Century, for Socrates Sculpture Park, New York, New York (commissioned 2003).

2 Commissions, public projects continued 2004 Teardrop Park (with Ann Hamilton, lead artist; and Michael Van Valkenburgh, lead designer), for Battery Park City Authority, New York, New York (commissioned 1999). 2002 Acadia Duplex, for The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Endurance: the Shackelton Adventure (set design), Yellow Springs Kids Playhouse, Yellow Springs, Ohio. 2001 Allegheny Riverfront Park (with Ann Hamilton, lead artist; and Michael Van Valkenburgh, lead designer), for the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust (commissioned 1994). Field of Play and Ballgame, for The Ohio State University. Department of Athletics, Football Stadium Renovation, Columbus (commissioned 2000). 2000 Corvus americanus, for The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 1993 Selby Avenue Bridge, with the City of Saint Paul, Department of Public Works (commissioned 1992). 1988 Lake Harriet Boatpark (proposal), for Minneapolis Public Arts Commission Design Bank. Minneapolis, Minnesota.

AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, RESIDENCIES 2017 Johnstone Fund for New Music Award for TIGUE: Live at HamMer Studio (concert presentation including, “Thoreau’s Desk (requires some assembly), Columbus, Ohio. 2016 Battelle Engineering, Technology and Human Affairs Endowment Award for Wind|Farm. 2014 Avaloch Farm Music Institute Residency, Boscawen, New Hampshire. Rural Route Film Festival, Best of Shorts Selection for County Fair (video short) New York, New York. 2013 Acadia Summer Art Program Residency Award, Northeast Harbor, Maine. International Film Festival for Environment, Health and Culture. Honorable Mention Award for Covenant (documentary film). The Ohio State University. College of Arts and Sciences. Research Award for Creative Activity for Wind|Farm. 2012 Greater Columbus Arts Council. Individual Media Artists Fellowship for Covenant (documentary film). Ohio State Fair Fine Arts Exhibition. Second Best of Show Award for County Fair (video short). Ohio Quarter Horse Association. Choice Award for County Fair (video short). 2011-12 Wexner Center for the Arts. Film/Video Studio Artist Residency Award. 2011 The Ohio State University. President and Provost’s Leadership Initiative. 2010 Columbus City Council. Honor and Recognition Award for The Virtual Pasture. Harpo Foundation Visual Artist Award 2009 American Society of Landscape Architects. Design Honor Award (with Ann Hamilton and Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates) for Teardrop Park, New York City. Batelle Engineering, Technology and Human Affairs Endowment Award for The Virtual Pasture. Columbus Museum of Contemporary Art. Columbus Genius Award. Ohio Arts Council. Individual Excellence Award. The Ohio State University. College of the Arts and Humanities. Diversity Enhancement Award. 2008 The Ohio State University. College of the Arts Research Grant Level 2 for research documentation. 2006 The University of Akron. Myers School of Art, Myers Artist-in-Residence, Akron, Ohio. 2005 Ohio Arts Council. Individual Artist Fellowship. The Ohio State University. College of the Arts Research Grant Level 2 for Dream of the 20th Century. 2004 Finalist, Creative Capital Grants in the Visual Arts for Dream of the 20th Century. The Ohio State University Arts and Humanities Seed Grant for Dream of the 20th Century. The Ohio State University Multi-Disciplinary Grant for Arts and Humanities (with Alan Woods and Ann Hamilton) for “Eleanor Antin in Residence.” Sponsorship, Institute for Collaborative Research and Public Humanities, The Ohio State University, for: “Cultures in Disputed Territory Working Group,” (with Amy Shuman; Galey Modan; Ann Hamilton). 2003 The Ohio State University. College of the Arts Research Grant Level 1 for Dream of the 20th Centur 2002 American Society of Landscape Architects Design Honor Award (with Ann Hamilton and Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates) for Allegheny Riverfront Park, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Environmental Design Research Association Place Design Award (with Ann Hamilton and Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates) for Allegheny Riverfront Park, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Greater Columbus Arts Council Visual Artists Fellowship. 2001 Wexner Center for the Arts. Art & Tech Studio Residency Award. 2000 Acadia Summer Art Program, Northeast Harbor, Maine. Nominee, CalArts/Alpert Award in the Arts. 1997 Progressive Architecture Citation Award (with Ann Hamilton and Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates) for Allegheny Riverfront Park, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

3 Awards, fellowships, residencies continued 1992 Runner-up (with Thorbeck Architects Ltd.) for Nicollet Mall Shuttle Terminal Proposal, Metropolitan Transit Corporation, Minneapolis, Minnesota. 1990 McKnight Foundation Visual Arts Fellowship. 1989 NEA Artist Design Fellowship, Department of Public Works, Saint Paul, Minnesota. 1989 Honorable Mention (with Syd Knight) for Green Hall Plaza Proposal, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. 1986 Jerome Foundation Visual Arts Fellowship.

TEACHING, SYMPOSIA, WORKSHOPS 2001-continuing Professor, Department of Art, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. 2019 Co-panelist, “Peter Huttinger and Michael Mercil on Urban Gardens and Artist Garden Initiatives,” Anytime Dept., Cincinnati, Ohio. Juror, “Confronting Climate Change Through Photography: A Student Exhibition,” Denison University, Granville, Ohio. Juror, “Forested: A Student and Professional Imaginary,” Knowlton School of Architecture, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. Panelist, “Loose Talks: Art as Topology,” Knowlton School of Architecture, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. Presenter, “Inhabiting the AgriCultural Commons,” for “On Food and Faith: Ministry in the Time of Climate Change,” at the Methodist Theological School in Ohio, Delaware, Ohio. 2018 Keynote address, “Linking Art to Ecology, or How to Act Like a Farmer,” at Central Ohio Communities Project on Climate Resistance Chautauqua, Stratford Ecological Center, Delaware, Ohio. Keynote speaker, “The Near, the Low, The Common: An Artist Performs the Public University,” for Counter Current Festival, Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts, University of Houston, Houston, Texas. Panel Moderator, “Beeler History,” CCAD Beeler Gallery, Columbus College of Art & Design, Columbus, Ohio. Presenter and panelist for “Working Group: A Meta-reflection on Interdisciplinarity in the Arts and Humanities,” College of Arts and Sciences, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. 2016 Artist-in-Residence, Capellagården School for Creative Work, Vickleby on Ōland, Sweden. Presenter, Columbus Women’s History Club, Columbus, Ohio. Presenter and panelist, “Land Grant: An Artist in a Public University,” at This is a Test: Landscape as Site for Research, Knowlton School of Architecture, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. Visiting Artist, School of Art and Design, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina. 2015 Juror, “NEST competition,” Neighborhood Design Center, Columbus, Ohio. Panelist, “Spring Into Real Food,” for Local Matters Student Ambassadors with the School of Environment and Natural resources, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. Presenter, “A Report on the Weather from the Living Culture Initiative,” at Climate Change Workshop: OSU Climate, Security, Health, and Resilience Initiative (CSHR), The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. 2014 Docents workshop and studio visit, Education Department, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio. Columbus, Ohio. Juror, ROY G BIV Gallery 25th(?) Anniversary Exhibitions Program, Columbus, Ohio. 2013 Guest presenter, Stratford Ecological Center Enchanted Evening, “How to Teach a Cow to Smile,” Delaware, Ohio. Moderator, Sculpture X Symposium, “From Pedestal to Stage,” Columbus College of Art & Design, Columbus, Ohio. Presenter and panelist, “Talking to animals: the filming of ‘Covenant’,” Wexner Center for the Arts, “Field & Screen Film Series” screening event, Columbus, Ohio. 2012 Juror, Harpo Foundation Visual Artist Awards, Los Angeles, California. 2011 Consultant, Curator of Landscape Search, Isabella Stuart Gardner Museum, Boston, Massachusetts. Deem Distinguished Lecturer in the Arts, College of Creative Arts, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia. Exhibition curator, Hungry planet: local food|global view, Franklin Park Conservatory, Columbus, Ohio. Panelist, “AgriCulture,” for Field & Screen Film Series, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio. Presenter, “Some Notes on Animal Aspect, or . . .” for Gesture at Large, an interdisciplinary conference organized by the OSU Department of Comparative Studies, Columbus, Ohio. Presenter and panelist, “Tending the Virtual Pasture,” Conference of the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 2010 Visiting critic, Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape Architecture at the University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

4 Teaching, symposia, workshops continued 2009 Artist-in-Residence, “Saint Louis Art! Revolution: an experiment in Art, Design and Architecture,” Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri. Guest lecture, “Visual Voices,” Slane College of Communication and Fine Arts, Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois. Presenter and panelist, “Fieldwork” for Beyond the Studio: The New Landscape of Social and Situated Practices, joint ASCA and NCAA conference: “Economies: Art + Architecture,” Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri. Presenter and panelist, “Mapping a Center,” Inland Visual Studies Center Inaugural Symposium, Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois. Presenter and panelist, “Systems of Sustainability; Art, Innovation, Action,” Catherine Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts, University of Houston, Texas. Visiting critic, Jerome Foundation Fellows, Minneapolis, Minnesota. 2008 Panelist, “3D Symposium: On the Road,” Franconia Sculpture Park, St. Croix Falls, Wisconsin. 2007 Lecture, “Beans/talk-Stalking Beans: Lewis Hyde in Conversation with Michael Mercil,” Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio. 2006 Lecture, “Ghosts, Shadows, Stuff” Weston Gallery, Aronoff Center for the Arts, Cincinnati, Ohio. Lecture, “When was the 20th Century: An Artist Looks Forward,” Myers School of Art, University of Akron, Akron, Ohio. Lecture/Performance, “Words, Things and the Work of Art—An Entertainment,” Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio. Presenter, “Cultivating Living Culture at the Land Grant University,” Imagining America National Conference, Columbus, Ohio. Visiting Artist, Department of Art, The University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii. 2005 Moderator, Exhibition Symposium, “Part Object/Part Sculpture,” Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio. On site lecture and tour with Ann Hamilton, “In Place and in Time: Shaping Teardrop Park,” Battery Park City Parks Conservancy, New York, New York. 2004 Juror, Jerome Foundation Fellowship Program for Visual Artists, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Visiting Artist, Minneapolis College of Art & Design, Minneapolis, Minnesota. 2003 Moderator, Urban Housing Symposium, “The Dynamics of Columbus Urban Housing: Current States,” Knowlton School of Architecture, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. Roundtable Discussion, “Michael Van Valkenburgh & Allegheny Riverfront Park,” Knowlton School of Architecture, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. 2002 Artist Consultant, Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative for the Pew Cultural Trust, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Juror, Acme Art Company Exhibitions Program, Columbus, Ohio. Session Summary—Word/Image, “Awake: Art, Buddhism, and the Dimensions of Consciousness,” Green Gulch Farm, Muir Beach, California. 2001 Participant, Stakeholders Forum, “Evoking Histories: Listening Across Cultures and Communities,” Spoleto Festival USA, Charleston, South Carolina. Lecturer, “Making Room for Contemporary Art,” Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio. 2000-01 Distinguished Graduate Critic, School of Art, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia. Distinguished Visiting Artist, Department of Art, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. 2000 Presenter, Fine and Performing Arts Planning Commission Symposium, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia. Visiting Artist, McIntire School of Art, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia. Visiting Artist, School of Art, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio. 1998-2000 Assistant Professor, Director for Foundation Studies, Department of Art, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. 1999 Lecturer, Minneapolis College of Art & Design, Institute for Public Art and Design, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Visiting Artist, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, North Dakota. Visiting Critic, Jerome Foundation Visual Artist Fellowship Program, Minneapolis, Minnesota. 1998 Lecturer, Minneapolis College of Art & Design Institute for Public Art and Design, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Visiting Artist, Oberlin College, Oberlin Ohio. 1997-98 Visiting Lecturer, Department of Art, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. 1997 Lecturer, Wexner Center for the Arts, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. 1996 Visiting Lecturer, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. 1995 Moderator, "Landscape Architecture, Social Ideology and the Politics of Place: A Conference,"

5 Teaching, symposia, workshops continued 1995 Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Visiting Lecturer, Department of Art, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. 1994-95 Adjunct Professor, Visual Arts Department, Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio. 1994 Moderator, "Landscape as Metaphor - New American Sculpture," Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio. Visiting Critic, Urban Design Center, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio. 1992 Adjunct Professor, Department of Studio Arts, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Consultant, Minnesota Capitol Area Planning Board, Roy Wilkins Memorial Commission, Saint Paul. 1991 Workshop Instructor, “Common Places Uncommon Expressions,” Minnesota Museum of Art, Saint Paul. Workshop Instructor, “Why Material Matters,” Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota. 1990 Lecturer, Design Center for American Urban Landscape, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. 1989 Minnesota Governor’s Urban Design Team, Crookston, Minnesota. Visiting Artist Residency, Minneapolis College of Art & Design. 1988 Panelist, NEA Midwest Region Public Arts Conference, Saint Paul, Minnesota. Visiting Artist, Rochester Art Center, Rochester, Minnesota. 1984 Teaching Assistant, Midway Studios Program, The University of Chicago.

BIBLIOGRAPHY 2016 “BETHA funded Wind|Farm to take shape on Oval.” Arts and Sciences College News (August 5) https://artsandsciences.osu.edu/news/betha-funded-windfarm-takes-shape Scott-Canton, Alison. “Putting the ‘Culture’ in Agriculture.” The Agrinaturalist. (Spring 2016). 41-42. http://agrinaturalist.osu.edu/stories/university/InFACT Interactive for Web.pdf 2015 Bowen, Jared (program host). “Open Studio with Jared Bowen: Walden, Revisited.” Boston. WGBH. http://www.wgbh.org/programs/Open-Studio-With-Jared-Bowen-2162/episodes/Walden- revisited--Sienna-Miller-58947 [Duncanson, Alice]“Pondering the Invisible Landscape of Food.” The Ohio State University. InFACT NEWS. https://discovery.osu.edu/focus-areas/infact/news/pondering-the-invisible-landscape-of-food.html Kobasa, Stephen Vincent. “Inventing a Pond.” Big Red & Shiny (8 April). http://www.bigredandshiny.com/cgi-bin/BRS.cgi?article=2015-03-01-1940223283163119 [Lynch, Mark (program host). “Inquiry: Walden, Revisited with Dina Deitsch, Gina Siepel and Oscar Palacio.” Worcester, Massachusetts. WICN (1 February)] 2014 Deitsch, Dina. Walden, Revisited (exhibition catalog). Lincoln, Massachusetts. deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum. 25, 60-61, 75. McQuaid, Cate. “Artists Show Poetic, Playful Takes on Thoreau at deCordova.” Boston Globe. (4 December). ______. “Coming Soon to a Museum Near You: Performance Art.” Boston Globe. (18 October). Olson, Kristina, ed. Deem 20: Twenty Years of the Deem Distinguished Artist Lecture (exhibition catalog). Morgantown, West Virginia. West Virginia University. 6, 26. Shea, Andrea. “Thoreau’s Experiment in Simplicity and Solitude Inspires deCordova Artists.” (includes radio interview). Boston. ARTery:WBUR (7 November). 2013 Barnett, Rod. “Teardrop Park in New York City.” in Emergence in Landscape Architecture. London. Routledge. 118-120. Leonardi, Colleen. “Covenant: A Q&A with Artist Michael Mercil.” Edible Columbus. (4 February) http/::ediblecolumbus.com:item:2323-covenant-a-qa-with-michael-mercil Livingston, Rick. “Covenant” (program notes) Columbus, Wexner Center for the Arts, Field & Screen Series. (7 February). Mikeswell, Terry. “Covenant looks at our relationship with the animals we consume.” The Columbus Dispatch. (7 February): F11-12. Pentak, Stephen, Richard Roth and David A. Lauer, editors. Design Basics: 2D and 3D. Boston. Wadsworth, Cengage Learning, 475. Polston, Pamela. “Art Review: [Back to the Land] ‘Of Land and Local’.” Seven Days. (16 October) Roth, Richard and Stephen Pentak, editors. Design Basics: 3D. Boston. Wadsworth, Cengage Learning, 183. White, Tim. “’Covenant’ Film Shows That Farmers Care.” Ohio Farmer. (March): 10. 2012 Bennett, Katherine. “A Stony Field.” Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture. (Winter): 64, 70-79. Zastudil, Nancy. “Natural Assumptions: ‘The Living Culture Initiative at The Ohio State University.” Temporary Art Review. (13 December). http://temporaryartreview.com/natural-assumptions-the-living-culture-initiative-at-the-ohio-state-university/

6 Bibliography continued 2011 Cajigas, Julie. “Farmed: The New Agronomists @ SPACES—Art and Agriculture.” http://www.coolcleveland.com/blog/2011/05/farmed-the-new-agronomists-spaces/ Grossberg, Michael. “Consumption Culture: Conservatory Exhibit on Food Choices is Designed to Eat at Visitors.” The Columbus Dispatch (16 August): D1-2. Lynn, Christopher. Farmed: The New Agronomists (exhibition brochure) Cleveland, Ohio. SPACES, 4-5. Voorheis, James. The New Administration of a Fine Arts Education. Columbus, Ohio. The Bureau for Open Culture and the Columbus College of Art and Design, 2-7. 2010 Chenowith, Doral. “Editor’s Choice: It’s Agricultural.” The Columbus Dispatch (February 2): A2 + online video. Demartin, Joan. “Sheep in the Meadow.” Ohio State Alumni Magazine. (March-April): 28. Grossberg, Michael. “Exhibit to Connect You with Ewes.” The Columbus Dispatch (January 4): D1-2. Harris, Julia. “Sheeps in the Meadow.” OnCampus [The Ohio State University]. (January 6): 1; 16. Koltack, Peter. “Livestock Return to Their Home on The Oval.” The Lantern [The Ohio State University] (23 February). Pfledderer, Sarah. “OSU professor considers flock of sheep a work of art.” The Lantern [The Ohio State University] (11 November). Ricchiuto, Katy. “Putting the ‘culture’ in agriculture.” OnCampus [The Ohio State University]. (July 15):6. ThinkTV for the Ohio Farm Bureau Federation. “The Virtual Pasture.” Our Ohio Public Television Magazine #508 (6 February): 7:03 minutes. 2009 Baker, Sarah. “U.S. Recent Projects.” Public Art Review (Fall/Winter): 98. Berrizbeitia, Anita, editor. Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates: Reconstructing Urban Landscapes. New Haven, Yale University Press, 26, 67, 77,163n.9, 172, 183. Glassman, Carl. “Strange Sounds Afoot in Teardrop Park.” Tribeca Trib (November) Lauterbach, Ann. “The Thing Seen: Reimagining Art Education for Now.” in Art School: Propositions for the 21st Century edited with and introduction by Steven Henry Maddoff. Cambridge, Mass. MIT Press, 95-96. 2007 Hines, Susan. “Abstract Realism.” Landscape Architecture (February). Moore, Robin, "Critic at Large: Reason to Smile at Teardrop," Landscape Architecture (December): 136. Sculpture. “Itinerary: Socrates Sculpture Park.” (October): 17. Smith, Molly Bean. “Agricultural Arts Appreciation.” Social Responsibility Initiative (SRI) in Food, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, 2006-2007 Annual Report of Progress (July): 5-6. 2006 Blum. Andrew. “The Active Edge.” Metropolis (March): 82-88; 130. Columbus Monthly. “Best of Columbus 2006: Interactive Art.” (July): 45. Hanour, Cigalle. editor. The Cutting Edge of Wallpaper. London. Black Dog Publishing, 170. Mayr, Bill. “More than a Hill of Beans.” Columbus Dispatch (August 20). Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center. “Beanfield Sprouts on Ohio State Campus.” OARDC Report (November-December) Vol. 17, No.6: 3. Ohio State Alumni Magazine. “Circling the Oval: Field of Beans.” (November-December): 16. Simon, Joan. Ann Hamilton: An Inventory of Objects. New York. Gregory R. Miller & Company, 238-239. Simonian, Karen and Martha Filipic. “Beanfield Public Art Project a Result of Unlikely Partnership.” Country Life (Mid-September): 52. Starr, Ann. “Mystery Man.” Columbus Monthly (February): 67-69. 2005 Amidon, Jane, series editor. Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates: Allegheny Riverfront Park (Sourcebooks in Landscape Architecture 1). New York. Princeton Architectural Press. Becker, Jack. “Plan, Plan, Pan, Do.” Public Art Review (Spring Summer): 5. Flanagan, Regina. “Working with Artists . . .” Landscape Architecture (June): 88-97. Gentile, Jordan. “Sparse Second Gallery has Mercil’s Best Work.” The Other Paper (November 24-30): 14. Hall, Jaqueline. “Viewers Might Take Mercil at his Word.” Columbus Dispatch (November 27): G4. Houston, Joe. for love or money: Michael Mercil (exhibition brochure). Columbus, Ohio. Columbus Museum of Art. Mayr, Bill. “Short North exhibit . . . Connect the dots.” Columbus Dispatch Weekender (November 10): 12. ______. “Global Workplace, Columbus Address . . .” Columbus Dispatch (January 2): G1-2. Reuter, Laurel and Robert Silberman. Increase: Ann Hamilton/Michael Mercil (exhibition catalog). Grand Forks. North Dakota Museum of Art. Wittsock, Susan. “Arts Reach: Department of Art at Work . . .” onCAMPUS (January 6): 3; 6. Zollinger-Turner, Tracy. “Words From Above.” alive, music, art and culture in Columbus (November 23): 22. 2004 Dunlap, David W. “A Chip Off the Old Park.” New York Times (September 30): B1; B8.

7 Bibliography continued 2004 It’s for the Birds: A Group Invitational Traveling Exhibition (exhibition catalog). Miami. Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, 21. Ode, Susan. “Roots of Renewal: Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa.” Dialogue, The Art, Architecture and Design Journal of the Heartland (January-February): 48-49. Wright, Lesley, et al. Roots of Renewal (exhibition catalog). Grinnell, Iowa. Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College, 8; 32-33; 48; 75-78. 2003 Davis, Lisa. “From the Mouths of Artists: Mercil, Hamilton Exhibit Works . . .” Grand Forks Herald (August 15): 3C. Freeman, Allen. “Going to the Edge.” Landscape Architecture. Vol. 93, No. 7: 86-91; 106. Fryer-Kohles, Jeanne. “Group Show Examines the Familiar.” Columbus Dispatch (March 23). Grand Forks Herald. “Hamilton, Mercil exhibit opens.” (August 1): 5D. Grinnell Herald Register. “Roots of Renewal exhibit at Faulconer.” (September 1): 1; 5. Hartz, Jill, ed. Siting Jefferson: Contemporary Artists Interpret Thomas Jefferson’s Legacy (exhibition catalog). Charlottesville. University of Virginia Press, 4; 9; 62-63; 73-74; 83-90; 100-101. Murphy, Beth. “Good Questions.” alive, music, art and culture in Columbus (October 30): 28. Ode, Susan. “A Pilgrims Progress Too Far: Roots of Renewal . . .” Review (December 2003-January 2004): 64-65. Spaeth, Catherine. “Personal Visions.” Dialogue, The Art, Architecture and Design Journal of the Heartland (May-June): 58. ______. “Under Construction: Teardrop Park, Battery Park City, New York, NY.” Dialogue, The Art, Architecture and Design Journal of the Heartland (September-October): 41. Tannenbaum, Judith and Marion Boulton Stroud. On the Wall: Contemporary American Wallpaper (exhibition catalog). Providence. Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, 56. Zollinger-Turner, Tracy. “25 People Making A Difference in the Arts in the Midwest.” Dialogue, The Art, Architecture and Design Journal of the Heartland (May-June): 15. 2002 Lowry, Patricia. “Urban Revitalizer: Pittsburgh Cultural Trust Municipal Arts Organization.” Metropolis. (January): 66-67. Moffatt, David. “Allegheny Riverfront Park.” Places, a Forum of Environmental Design, Vol. 15, No. 1: 10-13. Simon, Joan. Ann Hamilton. New York. Harry N. Abrams, 182, 211, 213. 2001 Clarke, Laura. “Two Ohioans Display Talent . . .” Wooster College VOICE (November 1): 11. Landefield, Paul. “Mercil’s Artwork Enlightens Recruitment Center.” The Lantern (October 5): 7. Public Art Saint Paul. New Millennium Report. St. Paul, Minnesota, 9. University of Virginia Art Museum. Annual Report 2000-01. Charlottesville, Virginia, 12-13. Wittstock, Susan. “New Artistic Perspectives.” On CAMPUS (October 11): 7-8. Young, Jenny. “The Erratic Professors.” The Other Paper (November 22-28): 14. Zuck, Barbara. “Talented Teams: Ann Hamilton’s Projects with Husband, Others . . .” The Columbus Dispatch (October 7): F1-2. Zurko, Kitty McManus, What’s in a Promise? (exhibition brochure). Wooster, Ohio. The College of Wooster Art Museum. 2000 “Allegheny Riverfront Park: Lower Level.” Land Forum. (Summer): 70-73. Bayly Art Museum. University of Virginia. Hindsight/Fore-site: Art for the New Millennium (exhibition brochure). Brignano, Mary. Curating the District: How the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust is Transforming the Quality of Urban Life. Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, 62-65. Gilbert, Chris. "Hindsight/Fore-site: Interpreting Mr. Jefferson." 64 (August): 30-31. Latter, Ruth. “Fore-site: It’s a New Way to Look at Art.” Charlottesville Daily Progress (10 August): D1-D2. Pearson, Clifford A. "Michael Van Valkenburgh Takes People for a Walk . . . " Architectural Record (March): 102-105. Sutton, Beth. "Environmental Art with a Social Conscience . . ." 64 (August): 35. Van Valkenburgh, Michael. “Faculty Project: Teardrop Park.” Harvard Design Magazine (Fall): 92-93. 1999 Dawes, Tom, et al. “Allegheny Riverfront Park, Pittsburgh.” The Arup Journal (March): 22-23. 1998 Gutnick, Todd. "Decades-old Vision of Riverfront Park a Reality." Pittsburgh Tribune Review (1 December): B1-2. Intermedia Arts. Riflesport Revisited: Ten Years Later (exhibition catalog). Minneapolis. Litt, Steven. "Spaces Exhibition Less than the Sum of its Parts." Cleveland Plain Dealer (1 April): 1F; 4F. Lowry, Patricia. "Park Utilizes Native Amenities." Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (30 November): B1; B11.

8 Bibliography continued 1998 Miller, Donald. "Part Way to a Park." Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (5 December). Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. "The River Runs By It: Allegheny Riverfront Park Reclaims Part of Our Heritage” (editorial). (14 December). Putre, Laura. "Plants, Parties and Polyester." Cleveland Free Times (March 18-24). Stacklin, Jeff. "Park Design is Rolling Like a River." Pittsburgh Tribune Review (18 October): A21; A29. Utter, Douglas Max. "Material World." New Art Examiner (June): 59-60. 1997 Miller, Donald. "Pittsburgh Riverfront Project." Public Art Review (Spring/Summer): 28-29. “Progressive Architecture Awards: Allegheny Riverfront Park." Architecture (January): 92-93. 1996 Litt, Steven. “Brave New City: Harvard Students Design . . .” Cleveland Plain Dealer (22 December): 1G; 4G. 1993 Anger, David. “Michael Mercil: Social and Urban Histories.” Architecture Minnesota (March/April): 13; 53. 1991 Abbe, Mary. “Critic’s Choice/Exhibition.” Minneapolis Star Tribune (8 February): 12E. ______. “McKnight Artists’ Social Conscience Refreshing.” Minneapolis Star Tribune (16 February): 1E; 12E. Anger, David. “On Michael Mercil: 8 McKnight Artists at MCAD Gallery.” Artpaper (March): 18. Connery, Nancy Rutledge. "The Public Face of Public Works." Public's Capital (Spring): 3; 10. Relyea, Lane. “Public Figures.” In 8 McKnight Artists (exhibition catalog). Minneapolis. Minneapolis College of Art & Design. Walker Art Center. Open Studio Day (exhibition pamphlet). Minneapolis. Walsh, James. "Students Use Art to Create Vision of a New World." Minneapolis Star Tribune (30 March): 1B; 5B. 1990 Billings, Jim. “Conspiring with History: ‘buildingdialogue.’” New North Artscape (December-January): 20. Charles A. Wustum Museum. For the Birds: Artists Examine Aviary Abodes (exhibition catalog). Racine, Wisconsin. Minneapolis College of Art & Design. Flashbacks: An Alumni Exhibition (exhibition catalog). Minneapolis. Wright, Bruce N. “In the Galleries: Furniture as Pieces of Art . . .” Minneapolis Star Tribune (7 June): 1E; 8E. 1989 Abbe, Mary. “In the Galleries: Artists Create Environments . . .” Minneapolis Star Tribune (26 October): 1E; 5E. 1987 McEvilley, Thomas. “Hard Questions: One Critics Reflections.” In Five Jerome Artists (exhibition catalog). Minneapolis. Minneapolis College of Art & Design. 1982 Minneapolis College of Art & Design. The Hausman Years: 1975-1982 (exhibition catalog). Minneapolis.

AUTHORED WRITINGS, REPORTS, INTERVIEWS 2018 “Artists’ Son” and “Columbus, Ohio.” [poetry] Post Road. Number 35: 31-32. 2017 “The Living Culture Initiative: An Interview with Artist Michael Mercil.” Anthropocene. Issue 1: 110-123. 2016 “The Dematerialization of the Art Object—A Conversation.” interview by Amanda Guibizzi in The Cambridge History of Postmodern Literature. edited by Brian McHale and Len Platt. New York. Cambridge University Press. 2014 “Contemporary Voices on Modern Masters: Picasso, Dubuffet, Giacometti.” (video) discussion directed by Xan Paley for The Wexner Center for the Arts. 2013 “Covenant: Q & A with Artist Michael Mercil.” interview by Colleen Leonardi in Edible Columbus. (online) February 4. http://ediblecolumbus.com/item/2323-covenant-a-qa-with-michael-mercil 2011 “Make a T-shirt and It Will Happen.” interview in The New Administration of a Fine Arts Education. Columbus, Ohio. The Bureau for Open Culture and the Columbus College of Art and Design, 18-27. “Tell Me . . .” in Hungry Planet: Juried Art Exhibition (exhibition pamphlet). Columbus, Ohio. Franklin Park Conservatory. 2010 “Local Practice: an Agri/cultural Consideration.” in Edible Columbus. (Summer 2010): 56. 2007 “Listening Harder” in 2007 McKnight Distinguished Artist: Kinji Akagawa. Saint Paul, McKnight Foundation, 26-27. 2005 Amidon, Jane. series editor. Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates: Allegheny Riverfront Park (Sourcebooks in Landscape Architecture 1). New York. Princeton Architectural Press. 2004 “Talking Narrative: A Conversation with David Antin.” edited by Brian McHale in Narrative. Vol. 12, no. 1 (January 2004): 93-115. 2003 “Acadia Duplex.” TriQuarterly. Issue 116 (Summer 2003): 300. “In My Father’s House: An Historical Melancholy in Two Acts.” In Siting Jefferson: Contemporary Artists Interpret Thomas Jefferson’s Legacy. Jill Hartz, editor. Charlottesville. University of Virginia Press. 83-90.

9 Authored writings, reports, interviews 2001 “Ion Discussion” in Reflections on Evoking History: Listening Across Cultures and Communities. Charleston, South Carolina, Spoleto Festival USA, 25; 29; 35. 1997 "Teaching De-design." Public Art Review. Vol. 8, No. 2, Issue 16: 19-21. 1993 "A New Life for the Shortline Bridge." Places: A Quarterly Journal of Environmental Design. Vol. 8, No. 4, MIT Press, 91-93. 1992 “Promises, Promises: of Earthly Power and Heavenly Glory.” Places: A Quarterly Journal of Environmental Design. Vol. 7, No. 4: 74-83. 1990 “Public Art for Public Works: A Report to the City of Saint Paul Department of Public Works.” Saint Paul, Minnesota. Department of Public Works. 1989 (principal drafter) “A City Plan for Public Art.” City Plan Committee, Public Art Saint Paul, Saint Paul, Minnesota. “Public Art on the Capitol Mall.” Saint Paul. Minnesota Capitol Area Architectural and Planning Board. 1988 “Democratic Vistas: American Front Yards as Public Space -- A Landscape History to 1900.” Master’s thesis, The University of Chicago. "Lake Harriet Boatpark." Public Art Possibilities. Minneapolis Arts Commission.

COMMITTEES and ORGANIZATIONS Harpo Foundation, Los Angeles, California. -Board of Directors 2015-continuing -Program Committee 2015-continuing

Minneapolis College of Art & Design, Minneapolis, Minnesota. -Paradigm Shift: MCAD Alumni & Friends Honor Kinji Akagawa Organizing Committee (member) 2009

Minnesota Museum of Art, Saint Paul, Minnesota. -Museum Architect Selection Committee 1991 -Museum Design Committee 1991-1992 -Trustee Committee for Facilities 1990-1993

Ohio Environmental Council, Columbus, Ohio. -Art Auction Benefit Organizing Committee 2012

The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. -Arts District Working Group 2017 Chair -Campus Art & Memorials Committee 2002-2014 -College of Arts and Sciences Ad hoc Roy Lichtenstein Foundation Faculty Advisory Committee Co-chair 2015-2016 Civic Engagement and Service Learning Committee 2010-2011 Discovery Theme Initiative for Science and Technology Studies Team leader 2015-continuing Seed Grants Review Committee 2004-2005 Senate Committee (alternate) 2008-2012 -College of Engineering Knowlton School of Architecture, Landscape Architecture, City and Regional Planning Ad hoc faculty search committee (InFACT representative) 2018-2019 -College of Food, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Kellogg Foundation AgroEcosystems Management Program Executive Board 2016-continuing Leadership Committee 2016-continuing Ohio Sustainable Agriculture Education Network Leadership Committee 2012-continuing -Department of Art Department Chair Search Committee 2003-2005 Diversity, Inclusion, and Recruitment Committee 2018 Executive Advisory Committee 2006-2008

10 Committees and organizations continued The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. -Department of Art Faculty Advisory Committee 2015-2017 Foundations Chair Search Committee (co-chair) 2004-2005 Graduate Studies Committee 2009-2013; 2003-2008 Committee Chair 2010-2013; 2006-2008 Interim Chair 2017-2018; 2013-2014 Painting & Drawing Faculty Search Committee 2009-2010 Promotion & Tenure Committee 2015-17 Roy Lichtenstein Endowed Chair in Studio Art Search Committee 2017 Social Practices in Art/Design Search Committee 2012-2013 -Discovery Themes Initiative Global Arts and Humanities Discovery Theme Initiative Faculty Advisory Committee 2018-continuing Ad Hoc Faculty Fellows Advisory Committee 2019-continuing Initiative for Food and AgriCultural Transformation Executive Board 2014-continuing Faculty Team Leader 2014-continuing -Division of the Arts and Humanities Arts Initiative Programs Oversight and Coordination 2017-continuing Institute for Collaborative Research and Public Humanities Oversight Committee 2002-2005 Lawrence and Isabel Barnett Center for Integrated Arts and Enterprise Director Search Screening Committee 2012-2013 Program for Arts and Humanities Development Executive Committee 2008-2011 Urban Art Space Advisory Board 2008-2010 Exhibitions Committee 2008-2010 Programs Oversight Co-chair 2017-continuing -Faculty and TA Development Advisory Committee 1998-2000 -Graduate School Fellowship Committee, 2010-2011 -University Senate Evaluation of Central Administrators Committee 2015-2019 Panel Leader 2016-2017

Public Art Review, Saint Paul, Minnesota. National Advisory Board 1996-1999

Public Art Saint Paul, Saint Paul, Minnesota % for Arts Ordinance Committee 1989-1990 City Plan for Public Art Committee 1988-1989 Public Space Amenities Committee 1988-1989

Saint John’s University, Collegeville, Minnesota. Arts Center Advisory Council 1991-1993

State of Ohio. Ohio Holocaust Memorial Artist Selection Committee 2012

Union Depot Concourse Task Force, Saint Paul, Minnesota 1989-1990

United States Department of Interior, National Park Service. Mississippi National River and Recreation Area. Working Group on Cultural Resources 1991-1992

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