Resume
I keep a detailed resume of all my work. Selected features are below.
SELECTED EVENTS AND OTHER PROJECTS:
I've created over 250 events and other projects, almost always in partnership with others. A selection is listed below:
I've created over 250 events and other projects, almost always in partnership with others. A selection is listed below:
- Restore and Create: Earth Day Celebrations at Stinson Beach, California. A free public annual event since 2005, in partnership with the National Park Service, Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, Samavesha, and others. Hundreds participate in beach restoration work and arts activities including making ephemeral sculpture with natural materials, dance, and music.
- Group art-making events in the University of California Blake Garden Create-with-Nature Zone in Kensington, California. Dozens of gatherings since 2009, including school field trip groups ranging from preschoolers to college students.
- Co-created curricula, trained teachers, and led art-making sessions for several months each year from 2008 to 2013 in five elementary schools in Oakland and Berkeley, California, in collaboration with ALICE: Arts and Literacy in Children's Education.
- Art to Action on Codornices Creek with Children of the Ursula Sherman Village. Nature walks and ephemeral art-making along a creek adjacent to a transitional housing program for homeless families (Ursula Sherman Village). Funded by Open Circle Foundation and in collaboration with BOSS (Building Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency) and Friends of Five Creeks.
- Art to Action on Berkeley Creeks. Over 40 people of all ages participated in creek restoration and made ephemeral art with nature at the headwaters, mid-creek, and mouth of two creeks. In partnership with River of Words and Friends of Five Creeks.
- Sand Globes Worldwide. Spreading sand-globe making worldwide using a dedicated website, social media, and a "how-to" video that has had over 7000 views.
SELECTED PUBLIC CREATE-WITH-NATURE ZONES AND SIMILAR INTERACTIVE INSTALLATIONS:
- Made or consulted on the building of permanent Create-with-Nature Zones at The Presidio (San Francisco, CA), Redwood Regional Park (Oakland, CA), University of California Blake Garden (Kensington, CA), Park Day School (Oakland, CA), The Berkeley School (Berkeley, CA), Sawtooth Building (Berkeley, CA), and San Jose Parent Participating Nursery School (San Jose, CA).
- Made or collaborated on temporary Create-with-Nature Zones or Create-with-Nature Carts at Bay Area Discovery Museum (Sausalito, CA), Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose (CA), Market Street Prototyping Festival and Tenderloin Recreation Center (San Francisco, CA), Green City Gallery (Berkeley, CA), Lincoln Child Center (Oakland, CA), and Middletown County Trailside Park (Middletown, CA).
SELECTED CONSULTING, TRAINING, AND TEACHING:
- Past clients include Presidio Trust, Outdoor Afro, East Bay Regional Park District, San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department, California Academy of Sciences, Bay Area Discovery Museum, San Francisco Botanical Garden, Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose, San Francisco State University, Peralta Hacienda, NatureTrack, San Francisco Office of Early Care and Education, Children & Nature Network, Children Learning With Nature Training Institute, ALICE (Arts and Literacy in Children's Education), Leap Arts in Education, Mosaic Project, BOSS (Building Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency).
SELECTED SOLO AND GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
- ACCI Gallery, Wright Gallery, Pro Arts Gallery, Sticks Gallery, Gualala Arts Center, Berkeley Art Center, Green City Gallery, Montclair Gallery, MobiTV Gallery, International Visions Gallery, Academy of Fine Arts (Lecce, Italy), Grainery Lane Theater Gallery (Ballarat, Australia).
SELECTED AWARDS, HONORS, AND GRANTS:
- Unrestricted artist grant from Open Circle Foundation, 2015.
- Grant from California Arts Council, Arts and Accessibility Technical Assistance Program: Increasing Physical and Programmatic Accessibility for a Free Annual Multidisciplinary Festival, 2012
- Grants from Open Circle Foundation: Art to Action on Codornices Creek with Children of the Ursula Sherman Village, 2007-2010.
- “Zach Pine Day” in the City of Berkeley, California, Proclaimed by the Berkeley City Council: April 21, 2009.
- The Gualala Arts Annual Environmental Show Award, selected by The Redwood Coast Land Conservancy, 2006.
- Selected Artist, International Competition of Environmental Art, Paradise International Art Center, 2006.
SELECTED PRESS AND PUBLICATIONS (links to some of these are on my Press page):
- KCBS (radio and online): Kids Unleash Their Hidden “Nature” in Popular San Jose Exhibit, Matt Biggar, 1/3/19.
- World Journal (online and print): Children's Discovery Museum: Children interacting with Nature, Li Jialin, 1/3/19.
- Works and Conversations (magazine and online): Life Practice: A Conversation with Zach Pine, Richard Whittaker, Issue #35, Winter 2018. (Reprinted online at DailyGood.org).
- KWMR (radio): Earth Day Stinson Beach, interviews with Peter Asmus for "With Eyes Open," 2008, 2013, 2017, 2018.
- Marinscope Newspapers: Create-With-Nature Earth Day Celebration Inspires Artistic Side, Derek Wilson, 3/19/17.
- KTVU (television): Art in Nature Festival, KTVU Bay Area People, 9/19/15.
- Societe Perrier Blog (online): The world’s 5 most incredible beach artists, Rana Good, 6/10/14.
- PBS Kids / Dinosaur Train Series (television): Nature Art, 8/15/12 (first air date).
- Arts and Healing Network News (online): Connecting to Nature Through Art, Mary Daniel Hobson, 7/18/10