Timothy Collins
Resume (PDF)Collins' experiences include extensive teaching, research, writing, fundraising and administrative duties. In his current role, he is charged with research and graduate program development at the University of Wolverhampton. In his previous role as an artist-research fellow, he directed 3 Rivers 2nd Nature, a five year project with primary funding from the Heinz Endowments and the Warhol Foundation. He managed a team of artists, scientists, designers and students working together on issues of public space and ecology along the post-industrial waterfronts of Allegheny County, PA. In the fall of 2005, he began the process of organizing and initiating a series of public programs, a conference and an exhibition that will elucidate international approaches to art, ecology and planning. He co-directed the Nine Mile Run project from 1997-2000. The Nine Mile Run project was presented at the "Ecoventions" exhibition at the Contemporary Art Center, in Cincinnati, Ohio. Prior to moving into the full time research position, Tim served as an Associate Professor of Art at Carnegie Mellon University from 1993-1997. Current projects with his partner and colleague Reiko Goto include; Green Visions – Grey Infrastructure a project class, curriculum module in its fourth year of development. Reiko and Tim will be participants in Cultura 21, an agriculture and art program in Saxony, Germany, with curator Heike Strelow and is currently developing a project with the Israeli Forum for Art and Ecology and the Jacob Blaustien Center for Desert Research, at the University of the Negev in Israel. Other projects include Charlotte - Second Nature, the Tryon Center for Visual Art, Watermark at the Ludwig-Forum Museum in Aachen Germany and, A Liquid Evaluation of the Brooklyn Waterfront for Creative Time, N.Y. Collins has previously been awarded a Eureka Fellowship, and a California Arts Council Fellowship. He has been an artist in Residence at the Capp Street Project in San Francisco, Ca. the Headlands Art Center in Marin, Ca., and The Tryon Center for Visual Art in Charlotte North Carolina.
Recent Publications
- Collins, T., Goto, R., (2005 - Forthcoming) "An Ecological Context" in "New Practices/New Pedagogies: Emerging Contexts, Practices and Pedagogies in Europe and North America" Editor, Malcolm Miles. Swets and Zeitlinger, Lisse, Netherlands
- Collins, T., (2005- Forthcoming) "Art Nature and Aesthetics in the Post Industrial Public Realm" in "Healing Nature, Repairing Relationships: Restoring Ecological Spaces and Consciousness", Editor Robert France, MIT Press, Boston MA.
- Collins, T., (2004) "aesthetic diversity" in "Herman Prigann – Ecological Aesthetics: Theoretical Practice of Artistic Environmental Design," ed., Strelow, Heike, Berkhäuser Verlag, AG, Berlin, Germany.
- Collins, T., (2004) "Lyrical Expression, Critical Engagement, Transformative Action: An Introduction to Art and the Environment" Ed., Burnham L., Community Arts Network: Reading Room, http://www.communityarts.net/readingroom/archive/intro-env.php (Translated into German, Hagia Chora Magazine, Dietzenbach, Germany. #17, 1/2004)
- Collins, T., Goto, R., (2003) "Art, Landscape, Ecology and Change" Hall, T., and Miles, M., (eds) "Urban Futures, Routledge, London.
Projects and Exhibitions
2006
- Israel EcoArt Biennale
Negev Desert
Israel - c u l t ur a 21 - art and sustainability in rural spaces
Großenhainn
Saxony Germany - GROUNDWORKS
Miller Gallery
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA
2004
- Geumgang Nature Art Biennale
South Korea
2002
- Eco-Vention
Contemporary Art Center
Cincinnati, OH
2000
- Conversations in the Rust-Belt
Miller Galleries
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA
1999
- Natural Realities
The Ludwig Museum
Aachen Germany
RCB 006, Compton Park