Selected Performances and Presentations
March 2026 Non-Traditional Venues 101 – Intersection for the Arts (San Francisco)
January 2026 Tax Hacks for Artists – Vital Arts + SELC (online)
June 2025 – Bay Area Arts Spaces Real Estate Problems as the Zodiac Signs – Emergence 2025 (San Francisco)
Feb. 2023 – Executive Assistant – First Church of the Buzzard (Oakland)
May 2022 – Performing Pro Arts Commons w/Nyx Mont – Pro Arts (Oakland)
Feb 2019 – Art + Taxes – San Francisco Art Institute
May 2018 – Wake for Capitalism – Imagining Post-Capitalism Festival (SF Bay Area)
March 2018 – Improvised Music to “The Penalty” presented by Tenderloin Museum & SF Historical Society – The Old U.S. Mint
March 2017 – Safe Spaces: Balancing Arts and Codes – presented by Intersection for the Arts & SPUR
Dec. 2016 – STFE musical performance with prepared percussion and electronics – Chapel of the Chimes, Ghost Ship Memorial Concert (Oakland)
March 2016 – SL Morse Performs “The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus” – Hybrid Series, Pro Arts (Oakland)
Jan 2014 – 100 Performances for The Hole – SoMarts Gallery (SF)
June 2013 – Noise Club BART – 16th St BART Station (SF)
Oct 2008 – SL Morse Ensemble – improvised music and video of Oakland permit forms and planning code sections – Frank Ogawa Plaza, Oakland Art Day
March 2007 – “Coming Soon” public art video screening – Great Wall of Oakland (co-created with Gordon Winiemko)
August 2006 – SL Morse performs Excerpts from The Octopus by Frank Norris (solo drums) – ISEA2006: 13th International Symposium on Electronic Art, San Jose
Sept. – Oct. 2003 – The Visible Hand – Southern Exposure (SF)
Lectures and Publications
2025 Panelist at “Land as Community Capital” – Emerging Arts Professionals Bay Area
2020 Emergency Assistance Workshop – COVID Relief Funds for Artists – presented by Northern California Land Trust
2016 Panelist at “Alternative Histories: Bay Area Alternative Arts Spaces – Pro Arts Gallery
2010 – 2014 Guest Lecturer on Business of Being an Artist —Mills College
2009 Panelist at Symposium for Independent Arts – Berkeley
2004 – 2006 Panelist at Expo for the Artist and Musician – San Francisco
2005 “Form/Reform at the OAG” – stretcher.org
2005 “The Work of Art in the Age of Onerous Dominant Paradigms” – ATA Webzine
2005 Panelist – Independent Art Spaces – CCA (Oakland)
2004 “Sight and Sound” – ATA Webzine
Curatorial Work
Oct. 2023 How to Destroy the Universe Festival – Oakland (co-curated with Ethan Port)
Sept – Oct. 2023 Intergalactic Boulevard with Rigo 23 – East Side Arts Alliance (co-curated with Roberto Martinez and Natalia Mount)
Oct. 2019 How to Destroy the Universe Festival – Oakland/San Francisco (co-curated with Ethan Port)
Spring 2018 – Grant Panelist – San Francisco Arts Commission
Jan. 2018 Brilliant Dilletantes – Music Programming and Local Poster Art Installation – Pro Arts, Oakland
Mar. 2017 – Apr. 2017 New Situationists Exhibition and Public Programs Co-Curated with Natalia Mount – Pro Arts, Oakland
Nov. 2014 – Dec. 2016 Steering Committee Member and Publicist – San Francisco Electronic Music Festival
Dec. 2012 – May 2016 Organizing Committee – LCM Experimental Music Venue (Oakland)
2013 – 2015 Program Manager – Dresher Ensemble Artist Residency for the Paul Dresher Ensemble (San Francisco/Oakland)
Aug. 2013 – Oct. 2013 “Experimental Notations” exhibition & performance series (co-curators Jeff Ray, Ara Jo) – Adobe Backroom Gallery (San Francisco) and Rock Paper Scissors (Oakland)
June 2013 Division of Labor Festival (co-curators Theresa Currie, James Decker, Shannon Madden) – The Lab (San Francisco)
Aug. 2010 – Sept. 2010 Interdisciplinary Arts Juror – Headlands Center for the Arts
Jan. 2009 – Sept. 2009 Avant-Garde Music Monthly – Uptown Nightclub (Oakland)
October 2008 Illuminated Corridor at Frank H. Ogawa Plaza (executive curator – Suki O’Kane) (Oakland)
March 2008 21 Grand on Neighborhood Public Radio – Whitney Biennial (NYC)
Aug. 2006 – Sept. 2006 “Temporarily There” & “Findings” – Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco)
Feb. 2006 – April 2006 “Habitat: We Live Here” (co-curator Darren Jenkins) – Oakland International Airport
September 2005 Illuminated Corridor at Oakland Ironworks (co-curator Suki O’Kane) (Oakland)
Sept. 2003 – Nov. 2003 Neighborhood Public Radio (co-curators: Lee Montgomery, Jon Brumit, Michael Trigilio) at Southern Exposure (San Francisco)
July 2000 – Aug. 2010 Performance Programming Director – 21 Grand (Oakland)
March 2000 – April 2000 Live Art Lab Performance Series (co-curators Laura Brun, Darren Jenkins, Kyle Knobel, Claire Light) – The Lab (San Francisco)
Jan. 1999 – June 2000 Programming Committee Chair – Artists’ Television Access (San Francisco)
Education
2004 San Francisco State University – MA Radio and Television
1996 Brown University – BA Modern Culture and Media
Press Links and Misc.
https://www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/please-do-not-hang-out-in-the-street
https://www.kqed.org/arts/38629/oakland_art_gallery_experimental_music_space_21_grand_set_to
https://scalesofgentrification.wordpress.com/category/art-murmur