Name:
Paul Bonin-Rodriguez
Unit and Program Area:
Performance as Public Practice
Classes you teach (have taught):
The Working Artist (Sr. Seminar); Languages of the Stage; Community-Based Performance (Graduate).
Favorite thing about Austin:
Outdoors.
Current projects/research/interests/hobbies:
I continue to research the material aspects of artists lives. Currently, I am converting my dissertaton, Aritists Material Practices: the Ideology of Funding and Support for Independent Performing Artists, into a book. As a writer-Performer, I will premiere Higher Planes, a play, in San Antonio (Jump-Start Performance Co.) in October, move it to Houston (Diverseworks) in November, and Anchorage, AK (OutNorth) in January. I sit on the Artist Council for Leveraging Investments in Creativity, an organization supporting new forms of support for artists in the United States.
The biggest risk you have taken to date (can be career-related or not):
* I was a working artist who went to graduate school to research the material aspects of my field.
Something about yourself that we wouldn't know from reading your professional biography:
www.paulbonin-rodriguez.com
My partner owns San Angel Folk Art, an internationally acclaimed gallery that supports the work of outsiders, visionaries, and folk artists from across the U.S., Mexico, Latin America, Europe, and Africa. www.sanangelfolkart.com
