Guest Speakers

ALBO JEAVONS

Panelist
Installation Artist ~ Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
www.albojeavons.com

“I was born in Lower Merion PA in 1959. In elementary and primary school I hated Gym and loved Art, and, according to many report cards; "did not work up to his potential”. As a college undergraduate, I was nearly kicked out of The Philadelphia College of Art for creating an unauthorized installation in an empty building on campus. Soon after this I transferred to The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, which I liked, but because they wanted me to pay for it and it just didn't seem worth going into debt for, I dropped out.

Since dropping out of art school I've spent most of my adult life working and playing in Philadelphia's lively anarchist community; figuring out how to use my creativity to help in the struggle for a better, more just world.

Supporting myself since the late '80s as an independent artist, I have produced posters, stickers, t-shirts, zines, books, and Websites that have been distributed widely and freely throughout the world. My sculptural investigations of corporate-personhood have been shown in galleries in the US and Canada, and on the streets of Philadelphia.”