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Laura DuBois
Laura DuBois is a lifelong artist/activist.
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Laura DuBois
lauradubois@sbcglobal.net
Education
1998 MA University of Creation Spirituality/ Naropa Oakland. Spiritual Studies w/ focus on Sacred Geometry
1988 BFA San Francisco Art Institute. Photography Major, Silkscreen Minor
Exhibitions & Projects
2005 Rituals in the Journey of Life and Death, SomArts Cultural Center, San Francisco CA
2005 artSFest, San Francisco Design Center Galleria Atrium, San Francisco, CA
2005 United Networks On the Road, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
2004 Offerings of Passion, Miracles and Peace SomArts
Cultural Center, San Francisco CA.
This is a Wedding, This is a Memorial
Collaborative Installation memorializing Iraqi dead as a result of the
US war on Iraq. With Annamarta Dostourian and Richie Pattison. A part
of SomArts annual Dia de los Muertos exhibition. Transparencies and Projections,
and Photographs of the installation by Laura DuBois.
2004 Open Heart Surgery Oakland Box Theater Gallery. Collaborative mixed media show with Andrew Juris and Annamarta Dostourian. Paintings and Projections.
2001-2002 Multimedia Sound Temple with Russill Paul. Oakland Box Theater. A series of four events focusing on aspects of Russill Paul’s the Yoga of Sound. I created custom video projections and slide dissolves reflecting the theme of each event.
2001 Shakti Awakenings Black Box Gallery, Oakland CA. Photographs of shrines to the goddess in nature, India and Nepal. With large scale paintings by Jennifer Jones.
2000-2004 Co-founder/Director Oakland Box Theater, Oakland CA. Started out as the Black Box. Became Oakland Box Theater in summer 2003. Incorporated as a 501(C-3) November 2003. In November 2004, the organization lost its space due to an inability to raise enough funds for code compliance work required by the City of Oakland. It is now homeless, and is currently a fiscal sponsor for Oakland’s arts community.
Oakland Box Theater hosted a broad spectrum of events ranging from avant guard jazz shows to hip hop, rock’n’roll, folk, spoken word to sacred events honoring yearly seasonal cycles, to theater. Performers ranged from Aya de Leon, Profits of Rage, OMaya, Fred Frith, Tim Barsky, Sherry Glaser, Ledisi, Goapele, Jenna Mamina, Alix Olson, Moe! Sataiano, Carlos Mena, Russill Paul, Felonious, and more. Organizations who presented events ranged from Youth Speaks, Oakland Poetry Slam, Health thru Art, NatYa Dance Company, Magical Acts Ritual Theater, Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, the Lysistrata Project and more.
An archive of events dating back to December 2002 is available
on the website.
www.oaklandbox.com
1999-2001 Visual Director Techno Cosmic Mass. Sweets
Ballroom, Oakland CA. A monthly
multicultural, multimedia celebration led by radical theologian Matthew
Fox. I created unique slide and video projections to compliment the theme
of each event.
1998 Traveling on Threads of Memory to the Heart of the Web. University of Creation Spirituality/ Naropa Oakland. Hand painted traditional Celtic and Islamic mandalas. Gouache on paper. And a 50-page masters thesis on the subject.
1994-1997 Multi-Image slide dissolve shows for local bands and Dance Jam. Berkeley CA
1989-1994 Agit-Prop around San Francisco. Photocopies on billboards.
1988 The Writing’s on the Wall. Diego Rivera Gallery
San Francisco Art Institute. Large scale black & white gelatin silver
prints depicting random image juxtapositions found on construction site
walls and bill boards around San Francisco.
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