polymathy

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It is a response, she elaborated, “to the despair induced by recognizing, at a deep level, that the human institutions that are supposed to civilize and prepare us for a stable community anchored in shared interests and values are not working, and never have worked, because institutional professions of commitment to those values almost always mask a bottomless pit of need to accumulate, preserve and extend personal power.”

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marginalized group identity

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a respite, however silly and brief, from all the incessant, sophisticated little obfuscations and half-truths most of us must rely on to make adult life bearable.

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played an important gatekeeping role (internships)

 

Odyssey

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 sacred life of the mind

 

social curiosity.

 

irreverant

 

In his introduction to the “Synthesis” catalog, Cherix places Piper alongside Hanne Darboven, Dan Graham and Vito Acconci, “a generation of artists who emerged in New York right after the advent of what is called (much too reductively) Minimalism, in which works of art exist through their spatial surroundings, often completed by the viewer’s physical engagement with them.” But Piper alone found a way to tether her work to many of our society’s most urgent moral questions.

 

 

Patricia Kovic is part of the creative team at Facility, a brand and design consultancy in Los Angeles, as well as a Professor at Otis College of Art and Design, where she focuses on a successful interdisciplinary teaching practice through the Product Design, Artist Community and Teaching and Creative Action programs.

 

She is lead faculty for the Creative Action course NEIGHBORGAPBRIDGE, which received the Design Ignites Change Award, given to designers and architects who want to make a difference. Ms. Kovic was awarded the Teaching Artist in Residence at the Skirball Cultural Center, in conjunction with the Library of Congress exhibition “Creating the United States.”  

She is the recipient of an Otis Curricular Innovation Grant for Blended Learning, in support of her dedication to digitally focused, future learning models.  Patricia enjoys writing about Experimental, Educational Innovation and has published and presented her ideas in a variety of venues, including AICAD and IDSA. Ms. Kovic received her BFA from SUNY Buffalo and pursued graduate studies in painting at Brooklyn College.

GRANTS

OARS Research Grant, Otis College of Art and Design

Otis Faculty Development
 
Otis Curricular Innovation for Blended Learning

Ella Fitzgerald Charitable Foundation

Design Ignites Change

Index: Design to Improve Life/ Nominee

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PAPERS

Chopped Kitchen: Recipe for Future Design Education

 

Ready or not, Here We Come: Play as tool to discover and shape new contexts

 

NEIGHBORGAPBRIDGE Empathy Driven, Community Informed Education in a Knowledge Economy