Ted Purves

Infobox Artist
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name = Ted Purves


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birthdate = 1964
location = California
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nationality = American
field = Art education, Contemporary Art,
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movement = Social Practice
works = Temescal Amity Works, Momentary Academy
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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.

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. [cite book
last = Purves
first = Ted
authorlink = Ted Purves
title = What We Want is Free
publisher = SUNY
location = New York
date = 2005
isbn = 30791462900 ]

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. [cite book
authorlink = Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
title = Bay Area Now 4
publisher = Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
location = San Francisco
date = 2005 ]

"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. [ cite web
last = Capital
first = Creative
title = TED PURVES & SUSANNE COCKRELL: TEMESCAL AMITY WORKS
url=http://channel.creative-capital.org/project_894.html
accessdate = 2008-01-27 ]

External links

* [http://www.amityworks.org/ AmityWorks.org]
* [http://www.cca.edu/academics/graduate/finearts/socialpractices/ Social Practice at CCA.edu]
* [http://books.google.com/books/sunypress?id=t3mwFb2U96EC&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22what+we+want+is+free%22&ei=cMGbR_DzFYjssQPa7c2pCg&sig=JRkGLOITPeyWhu-HXGOQpUiSfLc#PPR9,M1 What We Want is Free]
* [http://channel.creative-capital.org/project_894.html Creative Capital - Amity Works Page]
* [http://www.apexart.org/exhibitions/purves.htm Shadow Cabinets in a Bright Country (at Apex Art (art space), NY)]

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