Burning Man
Burning Man Honorarium Grant Projects and Working for Art Support Services 2004-2017
Since 2004 I’ve attended the Burning Man event in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert as a participating artist and Art Support Services crew member (2017).
As a volunteer for Art Support Services, I worked within the art department, dispatching heavy equipment & resources to artists and their build crews on-site. My duties included: radio communication between various infrastructure on-playa to facilitate heavy-equipment, water, wood and fuel delivery requests for art projects, build crews and art support camps. Attend daily meetings and visit projects in the field, log artists and teams into the database, keep track of build schedules for multiple projects and make sure artists attained requested resources. My primary job was delivering pallets of wood to projects scheduled to burn: I attended Fire Safety (F.A.S.T.) meetings and worked with their team to coordinate and personally deliver large volumes of wood to art pieces according to the burn schedule.
Honorarium projects: In addition to writing grant applications and project proposals, I over-saw various aspects of each project including management / logistics, communication with Burning Man Art Dept. leads regarding ticketing and work passes for crew, camp permits, passes and timeline / deadlines, etc. I also worked post-production, installation & break-down on each project.