Erica Dixon

  CounterPulse is pleased to announce the hiring of a new Executive Director - completing the assembly of the new Executive-Artistic dual-leadership team. New hire, Tomás Riley, will serve as Executive Director in partnership with recently appointed Artistic Director, Julie Phelps. Tomás and Julie will lead the next phases of the organization's commitment to catalyze social action through serving and supporting risk-taking, assumption-shattering art. Tomás brings us nearly twenty years of leadership in creative community engagement and education throughout California

80 Turk in Fall 2014, Photo by Kegan MarlingOur Inaugural Season crowns a remarkable, highly anticipated move to a state-of-the-art facility at 80 Turk Street. Appropriately enough, the season, creations from artists variously working in New York, Austin, Ireland, Berlin, and the Bay Area, offers a kaleidoscopic set of reflections on metamorphosis whether in the context of the immigrating body, the racialized body, or the consumerist body. This process of renovating brick-and-mortar is consonant with a set of artistic inquiries

Our new Community Engagement Fellow: Alexandra Maricich Photo Credit: Chelsea Rodino This story begins long ago in Seattle. Where I met my dear friend and collaborator at Cornish College of the Arts: Mariah Martens. We have confided, confronted, confirmed, collected, constructed, created, condensed, conversed every part ourselves to each other. In between graduating from Cornish and the explosive summer there after, we decided to apply to NextFest NW14 New West. The seed of Ask Me About My Ass, came

As you may or may not know, today is Giving Tuesday. A day where we can repent with our dollar, and generate enough warm fuzzies to obliterate any feelings around what we do with our money every other day of year. Another day where the forces of mass communication can commodify, essentialize, and spin yet another aspect of our lives: our right to community participation. Giving Tuesday is giving us at CounterPulse a moment to reflect. We reject the notion