Alex Arzt
Lecturer
Alex Arzt is an Oakland based interdisciplinary artist interested in the environment whose current work involves making research based projects and collaborative publications and activating them through talks, organized meals, workshops, and group performances. Alex co-edits, designs, prints, and organizes a publication and artist collective called Whiz World with Annie Albagli and Gabbi Ncube. She is a current Affiliate Artist at The Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, CA, where she runs a Risograph press called A Magic Mountain. Her publishing projects are in the collections of libraries such as Stanford, Getty Research Institute, and School of the Art Institute of Chicago and are stocked at Printed Matter.
In 2018, she was awarded grants from The Puffin Foundation and The East Bay Community Foundation towards the completion of The Positions and Situations Project book series. She earned a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University and has since attended residencies at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, PLAYA Summer Lake, Hambidge Center, A-Z West, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Mildred’s Lane, and This Will Take Time.
email: aarzt@berkeley.edu
website: www.alexarzt.com / www.whiz.world