Alex Arzt (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist, educator, gardener, and grant writer based in Oakland, CA. Rooted in a connection to place and material explorations, she facilitates connections between human and nonhuman spaces by creating projects in the form of publications, interactive objects, workshops, group performances, lectures, videos, and experimental gardens. From 2018-2022, she was an Affiliate Artist at The Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, CA. She is a co-founder of the artist collective Whiz World and runs a Risograph press called A Magic Mountain, and her publishing projects are in the collections of libraries such as Stanford, Getty Research Institute, and School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has been awarded grants from The Puffin Foundation and The East Bay Community Foundation. She earned a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) and has since attended residencies at Ucross, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, PLAYA Summer Lake, Real Time and Space, A-Z West, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Mildred’s Lane, and This Will Take Time. From 2015-2023, she taught courses in photography, time-based media, and book making at UC Davis, UC Berkeley, San Francisco Art Institute, and VCU. Since 2021, she has worked with artists and nonprofits in development and grant writing, and is currently the Senior Grants Officer for the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.
Photo credit: Andria Lo