Amber Hasselbring
Born in Colorado, 1979
Lives & works in San Francisco
Education
2002	Maine College of Art, BFA in Photography, Portland, ME.
2001	California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland and San Francisco, CA.
1998	The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
1996	Colorado Mountain College, Aspen, CO.
Selected Artworks
2007 – present	MISSION GREENBELT in collaboration with Nature in the City, The San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, greenmuseum.org, Sunset Scavenger, The City of San Francisco and many others (ongoing) San Francisco, CA.
	MCLAREN PARK EARTH DAY in collaboration with Nature in the City (ongoing) San Francisco, CA. PLAY A POEM FOR THE EARTH (April 22, 2007) San Francisco, CA.
2006	A TRIMMING START: CHOOSE TO REUSE in collaboration with with Katina Papson and Neighborhood Public Radio (December 9, 2006) at Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA. ANGEL ISLAND ART & ECOLOGY FESTIVAL in collaboration with Chris Giorni, Linda Ann Vorobik, Suzanne Lacy, Cliff Caruthers & Kristin Miltner, Anna Halprin’s Sea Ranch Collective, Katina Papson & Petrushka Bazin, Nicole Krauch, Anthony Carrillo, Minnette Lehmann, Isaac Amala & Liz Simpson, Satoru Nihei, Debbie Au and Lori Gordon (September 16, 2006) Angel Island State Park, CA. SOUND DRAWINGS (ongoing)
2005	ART ON BART: AN ARTIST GUIDED TOUR OF THE BAY AREA URBAN ECOSYSTEM in collaboration with Lori Gordon, Nicole Krauch, Jessamyn Lovell, Bill Owens, Rick Prelinger, Temescal Amity Works, Levana Saxon, Jenny Selgrath and Toph Woodward (October 1, 2005) San Francisco Bay Area, CA.
2004	I STAND in collaboration with Monja Merkel and Rob Yepez (November 6, 2004) San Francisco, CA.
Selected Exhibitions
2008	HOPELESS & OTHERWISE Southern Exposure (May 23 – July 3, 2008) San Francisco, CA. (Reviewed)
2007	MISSION GREENBELT CAMPAIGN HEADQUARTERS San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery (November 10 – December 22, 2007) San Francisco, CA. (Solo exhibition, Reviewed)
	Renaming BUSH Street in collaboration with Jerome Mast Grand, part of Pathogeographies (Or, Other People's Baggage), University of Illinois at Chicago, Gallery 400 (June 15 – July 7, 2007) Chicago, IL. SOUND EXCHANGE in collaboration with Amy Stacey Curtis, Grothaus+Pearl Gallery (January 5 – February 24, 2007) Kansas City, MO. (Reviewed)
2005	Black Market Auction, Independent School of Art, San Francisco, CA.
2004 2003 2002 2001	Epic, Southern Exposure (November 12 – December 16, 2004) San Francisco, CA. Post Postcard, The Lab, San Francisco, CA. Reading Room, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA. Senior Thesis Exhibition, Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, Portland, ME. Next Generation II, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME. Virulence, City of Portland Public Art, Western Promenade, Portland, ME.
Awards & Honors
2007	San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery Winter Workshop, San Francisco, CA.
2004	Anderson Ranch Arts Center Fellowship, Snowmass, CO.
2001	Albert K. Murray Fine Arts Educational Fund, Adamsville, OH. Irving B. Ellis and Judy Ellis Glickman Endowed Scholarship, Portland, ME.
2000	Merit Scholarship, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME.
Bibliography
2007	Perris, A Place to Remember, Donning Company, Virginia Beach, VA. 2007. An Ecosystems Centered Plan for Organizing McLaren Park Earth Day, greenmuseum.org. 2007.