Recent:

February 2024
Publication: “Cookbook” (Magenta)
Publication with 2023’s annual meal memories

January/February 2024
Publication: “Looking Up” and “A Stellar Lookbook” for the Great Northern Festival

Thanksgiving 2023
Event: 11th Annual Friendsgiving (Idyllwild, CA)
Planning Committee Co-chair
With Em Johnson


September 1, 2023
Presentation: “Creative Approaches to Measuring and Sharing Impact“ for the Rural Placemaking Community of Practice with Springboard for the Arts

July 11, 2023
Event: “’Looking Up’ with Jack Forinash”
Stargazing with a private group

March 11, 2023
Event: “’Looking Up’ with Jack Forinash”
Stargazing with a private group

February 2023
Publication: “Cookbook” (Periwinkle)
Publication with 2022’s annual meal memories

February 2023
Publication: “’Looking Up’ with Jack Forinash” - The February Issue

December 2022
Publication: “’Looking Up’ with Jack Forinash” - The New Year Issue

Thanksgiving 2022
Event: 10th Annual Friendsgiving (Pine Flat, CA)
Planning Committee Co-chair
With Em Johnson


November 2022
Publication: “’Looking Up’ with Jack Forinash” - The Friendsgiving Issue

October 27, 2022
Presentation: “Blue Sky Center” with the CA FWD Annual Economic Summit

October 2022
Publication: “’Looking Up’ with Jack Forinash” - The October Issue

September 16, 2022
Event: “’Looking Up’ with Jack Forinash”
Stargazing with a private group

September 2022
Publication: “’Looking Up’ with Jack Forinash” - The September Issue

August 5, 2022
Event: “’Looking Up’ with Jack Forinash”
Stargazing with the Cuyama Buckhorn

August 2022
Publication: “’Looking Up’ with Jack Forinash” - The Leo Season Issue

February 2022
Publication: “Cookbook” (Yellow)
Publication with 2021’s annual meal memories

Thanksgiving 2021
Event: 9th Annual Friendsgiving (Palm Springs, CA)
Planning Committee Co-chair
With Em Johnson


October 15, 2021
Event: “’Looking Up’ with Jack Forinash”
Stargazing with the Blue Sky Center

October 13, 2021
Event: “’Looking Up’ with Jack Forinash”
Stargazing with the Cuyama Buckhorn

October 2, 2021
Event: “’Looking Up’ with Jack Forinash”
Stargazing with the Cuyama Buckhorn

October 1, 2021
Event: “’Looking Up’ with Jack Forinash”
Stargazing with the Cuyama Buckhorn

September 24, 2021
Event: “’Looking Up’ with Jack Forinash”
Stargazing with the Cuyama Buckhorn

August 17, 2021
Presentation and panel discussion: “Main Street Upper Floor Housing” with the Kansas Creative Arts Industries Commission (Kansas Department of Commerce)

July 2021
Publication: “’Looking Up’ with Jack Forinash” - The July Issue

June 12, 2021
Event: “’Looking Up’ with Jack Forinash”
Private stargazing just after the New Moon

June 11, 2021
Event: “’Looking Up’ with Jack Forinash”
Stargazing with the Cuyama Buckhorn

June 2021
Publication: “’Looking Up’ with Jack Forinash” - The June Issue

May 26, 2021
Event: “’Looking Up’ with Jack Forinash”
Lunada with the Cuyama Buckhorn

May 2021
Publication: “’Looking Up’ with Jack Forinash” - The Moon Issue

May 2021
Publication: “’Looking Up’ with Jack Forinash” - The May Issue 

May 8, 2021
Event: “’Looking Up’ with Jack Forinash”
Stargazing with Out of Office and the Carrizo Plain Nat’l Monument

April 2021
Publication: “Sunflower 9”
A short-run zine featuring the roadside attractions of Kansas’ Highway 9

April 2021
Publication: “’Looking Up’ with Jack Forinash” - The April Issue

March 2021
Artist Residency: Time and Place Residency (Detroit, Mich.)
With Flower Press

March 2021
Publication: “’Looking Up’ with Jack Forinash” - The March Issue

February 2021
“Letters into the Wind”
Circumnavigational aid of 52 short letters
With Kelly Gregory

January 2021
Publication: “’Looking Up’ with Jack Forinash” - The January Issue

January 2021
Publication: “___k___k Lookback Lookbook Cookbook” (Blue)
Publication with 2020’s annual meal memories

Thanksgiving 2020
Event: 8th Annual Friendsgiving (Palouse, WA)
Planning Committee Co-chair
With Mary Welcome and feat. Sarah J. Bofenkamp


November 13, 2020
Presentation: “From the Field: Imagining the future of artists as economic developers” - Episode 1
With Springboard for the Arts and Em Johnson (Blue Sky Center)

October 2020
Publication: “Mary’s violet eyes makes Jack sit up nights pondering.”
Informational postcard series of our neighbors in the sky

September 2020
Built Project: Church Street Social Clubhouse (Palouse, WA)
Design/build of a small house behind a bigger house
With Homeboat


September 12, 2020
Event: Cuyama Buckhorn’s “Sunset, Songs, and Supper” (and Stars) event
“’Looking Up’ with Jack Forinash” - The September Issue
Stargazing

August 8, 2020
Event: Cuyama Buckhorn’s “Sunset, Songs, and Supper” (and Stars) event
“’Looking Up’ with Jack Forinash” 
Stargazing

January 28, 2020
Event: Enterprise’s Winter Convening
“’Looking Up’ with Jack Forinash” 
Stargazing

January 2020
Publication: “Cookbook” (Orange)
Publication with 2019’s annual meal memories

November 26 - 30, 2019
Event: 7th Annual Friendsgiving (Palouse, WA)
Planning Committee Co-chair
With Mary Welcome

October 9-15, 2019
Artist Residency: Time + Place Residency (Detroit, MI)
Design/build renovation project
With Homeboat 

October 3-5, 2019
Presentation: Rural Arts & Culture Summit (Grand Rapids, MN)
Convening of rural-based artists
Session Leader: “The After Hours Hours (or, why my bar tab is a reimbursable expense)”
With Homeboat

June 7-9, 2019
Event: Beach Blanket Babylon (Green River, UT)
Convening of social practice artists for the weekend
Organizer and Host
With Homeboat 

June 2018 - March 2019
Built Project and Artist Residency: Creative Community Design Build:
- Yes! House (Granite Falls, MN)
- Polos Building (St. James, MN)
Selected Creative Consultant
With SWMHP, Ashley Hanson, Mary Welcome, Kelly Gregory, Spence Kroll, Corbin LaMont, and Zoe Minikes

January 2019
Publication: “Cookbook” (Purple)
Publication with 2018’s annual meal memories

Winter 2018/2019
Ongoing Engagement: Group Deep (online)
Co-founder
24/7 video chat room to help friends through winter holidays (revived for “stay at home” orders in 2020)

November 20 - 24, 2018
Event: 6th Annual Friendsgiving (Palouse, WA)
Planning Committee Co-chair
With Mary Welcome, Heather Kai Smith, Lucia Carroll, Colin Bliss, Lisa Rothlisberger, Kirsten Bauer, Kyle Lefler, Carson Davis Brown, Rick Rothlisberger, Jose Paz, Em Johnson, Zach Runge, “Just Call Jess” Boone, Lauren McCleary-Herbold, David Herbold, Eric Jessup, Alayna Rasile, Alayna’s squeeze Ryan, Zya Levy, Margo Wekenman, Spence Kroll, Tony Giltner, Kyle’s friend Jason, & Kirsten’s friend Colin, with drop-ins by Geoff Holstad and Sarah Darnell

October 29, 2018
Presentation: Conversation with Environmental Design Students and College-wide Lecture
at Auburn University, College of Architecture, Design, & Construction (Auburn, AL)

June - October 2018
St. James Healthy Housing Initiative - Community Advocate Program
Consultant
With Mary Welcome, Kelly Gregory, and Corbin LaMont

April 16-20, 2018
Cook for 555 Artist Residency
at Blue Sky Center (New Cuyama, CA)

March 29-31, 2018
Cook for Space Space Space Conference, Cranbrook Academy of Art
With Zoe Minikes

March 28, 2018
(d) Symposium at Iowa State University College of Design (Ames, IA)
Presenter: “Homeboat”
With Mary Welcome and Corbin LaMont

March 2018
Westbrook Artists’ Site (Winterset, IA)
Design/builder and Workshop Host
With Mary Welcome, Corbin LaMont, and Spence Kroll

November - December 2017
Blue Sky Center (New Cuyama, CA)
Desert Fellow
Assisted BSC with critical resource development to address affordable housing concerns in New Cuyama; published New Cuyama Housing Assessment.

November 18 - 25, 2017
Annual Friendsgiving (Palouse, WA)
Planning Committee Co-chair
With Mary Welcome, Kelly Gregory, Spence Kroll, Tony Giltner, Lucia Carroll, Colin Bliss, Zach Runge, Jeanne Fulfs, Courtney Kroll, Tom Popel, Alayna Rasile, Alayna’s squeeze Ryan, Heather Kai Smith, Kyle Lefler, Kyle’s friend Kayte, Carson Davis Brown, Ashley Hanson, and Brian with an “i”

November 2 - 5, 2017
Common Field Convening (Los Angeles, CA)
Presenter: “Food - Water - Shelter”
With Homeboat crew members Spence Kroll and Kelly Gregory

September 25 - November 12, 2017 (exhibit)
September 27 at 6 PM (film screening and artist talk)
Rabbit Island Works and Research Exhibit at the DeVos Art Museum (Marquette, MI)
With Mary Welcome and Kelly Gregory

September 16, 2017
Palouse Days Photo Booth
With Mary Welcome

September 2-3, 2017
Selected participant for “A Day in the Woods”
Basque Ovens outside Truckee, CA
With Sarah Lillegard

September 2017 - January 2019
Technical Assistance Provider for Habitat for Humanity of Castle Country (Price, UT)

June - July 2017
Selected Artists for Partnership Art (ArtPlace) Healthy Housing Initiative with Southwest Minnesota Housing Partnership (St. James, MN)
With Mary Welcome and Kelly Gregory

November 2008 - June 2017
Co-founder and Principal of Housing at Epicenter (Green River, UT)

2017
Frontier House (Green River, UT)

June 2017
Rural Arts & Culture Summit (Morris, MN)
Presenter for “Reflections on Engaging Arts & Culture in Housing”
With Jose Galarza (DesignBuildBLUFF) and Chelsea Alger (SWMHP)

May 2017
Rural Summit hosted by Blue Sky Center (New Cuyama, CA)
Keynote Presenter for “I’m not alone in this work. We’re not alone in these communities.”

2014 - 2017
Board Member and Rural Committee Co-chair for Utah Housing Coalition

January 2009 - October 2017
Board Member, Program Manager, Family Selection Committee Member, and Resource Development Committee Chairman for Habitat for Humanity of Castle Country (Price, UT)

August 2012 - May 2013
Interim Director at the University of Utah’s DesignBuildBLUFF (Salt Lake City/Bluff, UT)


Additional Work as a Citizen Architect:

Projects of Record

Infographics and Drawings

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