Jules Rochielle Sievert

Experience

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  Miscellaneous Productions

  Dec 1999 - Sept 2005

  Co-Founder and Artistic Producer

  Miscellaneous Productions (founded by Elaine Carol, Jules Rochielle and a volunteer board of directors)- We worked with youth and elders using models of anti-racism and anti-violence training combined with community based art as a vehicle for social change. All projects were created in collaborate with community. Sited in Promising Practices for Addressing Youth Involvement in Gangs Research Report prepared by Mark Totten, PH.D April 2008 In support of the Strategy, Preventing Youth Gang Violence in BC: A Comprehensive and Coordinated Provincial Action Plan Appendix B: Promising Canadian Gang Prevention and Intervention Initiatives (revised and updated list based upon as a Primary Prevention Programs 2003 – 2006 B.C. primary prevention initiatives (educational videos, primary and secondary classroom education, parent information, community collaboration) http://www.pssg.gov.bc.ca/crimeprevention/shareddocs/pubs/totten-report.pdf Show less

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  Family Services of Greater Vancouver

  Jan 2001 - Jan 2002

  Interim Director of Communications

  -I served 1 year of service at FSGV. During my time I created and implemented a branding strategy to assist FSGV in gaining national accreditation with National Family Services Corporation. Co-developed printed and online communication materials for 40 programs. Raised resources for various FSGV youth programs. Participated in a National Family Services Conference. I participated in strategic revisiting of FSGV during challenging funding cutbacks. I networked with and developed relationships with community groups and associations. I created two agency wide annual reports with the FSGV management team. I conducted site visits with programs supported by Family Services of Greater Vancouver. I managed and attended to the day-to-day administrative duties. I reported weekly to a Senior Management team, Chief Financial Officer and incumbent Executive Director. Show less

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  Arts and Cultural Consulting and Research

  Oct 2001 - now

  Freelance

  As a cultural worker, I have developed an extensive number of partnerships with a range of community groups and cultural organizations. I have networked and developed relationships with city officials, arts institutions, funders and associations I have solid grant writing and fund development skills and, I am also capable of generating successful final reporting to national arts councils and other types of funders. I have managed contractors, performers, organizations and staff members. I have applied for various city permits. I have created and managed performer databases and artist contracts. I have conducted a board/staff visioning retreats and organizational reviews. I have conducted board development and recruitment. I have maintained budgets, cash flows and payroll. I have developed opportunities on a local, national and international scale. Show less

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  Otis College of Art and Design

  Aug 2007 - Dec 2008

  Integrated Learning Teaching Assistant/Graduate Program Assistant & Media Archival Assistant

  Skills: 1.5 years experience• Provided in-classroom support to undergraduate students in the Integrated Learning Program while facilitating a series of collaborative experiences that extended beyond the boundaries of their majors, skills and knowledge, and are sited within a public context.• Oversaw and managed video documentation, production, and social/online media production.• Developed an online conference wiki site for The Association of Independent Colleges of Art & Design.

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  Metabolic Studio/Annenberg Foundation

  Dec 2008 - Jan 2011

  Studio Manager

  I was the studio manger to the large studio practice of artist Lauren Bon. Metabolic Studio was physically located in large warehouse situated in East Los Angeles but our projects occurred in various sites in Los Angeles and around the globe. I was responsible for managing the facility and the LA studio team.I served as a studio liaison and reported to various Annenberg Foundation representatives, staff members, the legal team, the trustee, and community members. I provided studio leadership; work with Annenberg Foundation Senior Managers and Financial Officers. I managed external and internal studio contracts and vendor contracts. I reported on budget, cash flow, and payroll. I participated in community based philanthropic giving through community grant-making a community outreach on behalf of the Trustee. As a member of the studio’s unique design team, I worked with the artist to implement and produce her creative vision and to raise awareness regarding the challenges of returning soldiers and to share the historic significance of the VA grounds, the Studio created a living sculpture and hands-on experience that includes veterans and the community at large. The project called Strawberry Flag was a response to and in support of the enormous population of veterans, the largest in the U.S., who live in the greater Los Angeles area. LA veterans worked on various aspects of Strawberry Flag which included tending to the growth of the plants, harvesting, preserving and packaging the fruit. Veterans from the VA Compensated Work Therapy program and the VA Domiciliary, and other groups are instrumental with all parts of this project. As the studio manager, I developed key external art world relationships with the College of Fine Arts (COFA), National University of New South Wales, NIEA the National Institute for Experimental Arts, Sydney Australia, Otis College of Art and Design, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Show less

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  Social Practices Art Network

  Jan 2011 - Dec 2019

  Founder, Researcher, Curator and Cultural Worker

  In 2011, (SPAN), Social Practices Art Network became a international grassroots resource for individuals, organizations, community groups and institutions that are interested in new genre arts forms and practices.Conduct research about creative practices geared toward social justice. Outreach to artists, art communities and colleagues around the globe. Conducted Interviews and created podcasts have been conducted with artists and designers Facilitate online community dialogue consisting of over 2000 global users. (SPAN) launched an international research project focused on the needs of socially engaged and community engaged artists. Developed an international survey and study that has reached and engaged over 500 artists from around the globe that participate in socially engaged art practices. For the survey, (SPAN) partnered with Open Engagement, Arts Quest (a program of University of the Arts London, an educational charity), and DotToDot (UK) Arts. Participated in arts conferences around the globe. Published material and research in a variety of journals, blogs and online resources. Co-edited a special section of the Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy called Perspectives, that illustrates how artists, curators, cultural workers, designers, and educators activate what has been defined as a thirdspace; a space created so that cross-disciplinary relationships and collaborations can flourish; these practices create neutral zones that encourage open exchanges of ideas from a range of perspectives, we focus specifically on ways in which artists, designers, and educators create, inhabit, and use third spaces to navigate the liminal boundaries that exist among artistic production, participatory design, education, social justice, economic justice, ecology, and conflict resolution. Show less

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  Forecast Public Art Review

  Jan 2012 - Jun 2012

  Writer

  For this writing contract, I wrote and published an article for Issue 46 spring / summer 2012— Food for Thought. This issue explored the theme of Food for Thought and how what we eat affects public art (and vice versa) on a global scale. The publication covers the topic from a holistic lens of the entire food cycle — revealing how public artists address the topics of growing and raising our food within fragile ecosystems, the infrastructure of the global food business, the culture of eating and sharing food within our communities, and ultimately the politics that influence our food system — again, all from the angle of how public artists shape and communicate these processes to their audiences. Released and Published: June 2012 Show less

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  Native Public Media

  Jan 2012 - Jul 2012

  Development Consultant, Media Excellence Curriculum Writer and Media WorkshopTeacher

  For this research and teaching contract, I acted as a research and fund-raising consultant for the roll-out of the first Media Excellence Program for Native American Public and Community Radio Producers. I worked with Dr. Traci L. Morris and with NPM founder/Director, Loris Taylor. I was a co-teacher and night lab instructor for the Media Excellence Program at the Institute of American Indian Arts. I also co-wrote the online digital journalism curriculum for this Media Excellence Program, which was a 3-credit college course at the Institute of American Indian Arts. Native Public Media’s signature Media Excellence Program was designed to help bridge the media and digital divides in Indian Country. The program included the Annual Native Media Summit, the Digital Journalism and Storytelling Intensive, Station Services and the Native Media Landscape Report. The participants learn how the platforms of print, video, audio, new media, and more can be effectively and creatively employed to tell important stories; including practical skills such as equipment use, digital editing and production, basic reporting techniques, and best practices that journalists and citizen storytellers face when employing new media in their reporting work and while engaging new technologies that will empower themselves and their communities with voice. This intensive encourages the Native American perspective and storytelling in tribal languages. I created an interactive WIKI platform that supported in class learning. I also created student handbook and class tutorial. Show less

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  Artist in Residence

  Feb 2012 - May 2013

  Grand Central Art Center

  In 2012, I was given an initial $11,000 grant to work with the Grand Central Art Center, a Southern California contemporary art institution with a mission focused on creating collaborative and mutually beneficial outcomes through creative process. The Artist-in-Residence program provided me with a dedicated apartment and studio to work in thus provided me with time and space away from my normal work environment and community, creating the opportunity for expanded collaboration, exchange, growth, resources, knowledge and discovery. For an aspect of my residency, I worked as a community organizer, project advisor, researcher and media mentor for The Raitt St. Chronicles: A Survivors Oral History. In a team structure, we co-developed an oral histories project that dealt with stories of the survivors of violence, in a neighborhood known as the Townsend District in Santa Ana. This was designed through a collaboration with the Santa Ana Public Library Teen Space program “young historians” and Sharon Sekhon PhD, Professor, CSUF American Studies. We received a $10,000 California Community Stories Grant to initiate the project. This grant was raised in addition to the artist’s fee I was given to as resident artist. As a critical aspect of my residency, I conducted outreach to and developed working relationships with the City of Santa Ana, SACReD - Santa Ana Collaborative for Responsible Development, El Centro Cultural de Mexico, the Mayday Coalition, the Kennedy Commission, OC OCCORD, Santa Ana Public Library, United Artist of Santa Ana and Garfield Elementary School. This residency led to another grant in the form of public art commission within the City of Santa Ana. During my residency, I created the Social Design Collective LLC to help administer a $100,000 public art commission. Show less

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  DLux MediaArts

  Jul 2012 - Nov 2012

  Artist In Residence at Dlab

  This was a residency with dLux Media Arts. For this project, I was given a grant to work with the DLUX team in Australia. DLux is one of Australia’s key screen and media arts organizations, committed to supporting the development, engagement and experience of contemporary screen and digital media culture. Their program and activities include research into emerging technologies and media arts practices, partnership development between public and private sector, curation and touring of digital media arts exhibitions and digital skill development and inclusion. DLux Media Arts was the successful recipient of the Australia Council, Community Partnerships Initiative allowing the program to extend into the beginning of 2017. More here: http://www.dlux.org.au/cms/dLab/dlab-national-program.html. As an organization, Dlux develops partnerships, which contribute to new opportunities for digital media practitioners locally and in remote and disadvantaged communities through social media and software technologies. For this project, we took a mobile digital lab to hard to reach youth in regional Australia. The program traveled to four primary regional locations: WaggaWagga, Broken Hill, the Blue Mountains, Wilcania, Darwin, and varied communities on the outskirts of Sydney. In Australia, I worked with local agencies arts councils and community groups to schedule and plan for the workshops. I also worked with Dr. Gareth Jenkins of Save Our Children (Australia) on the Mobile Youth Van (M.Y.Van). This provides young people living in remote, isolated and marginalized communities with access to culturally appropriate and educational activities specifically designed for their age and community. http://www.dlux.org.au/cms/images/mediarelease/dLab%20Media%20Release%20Jan%202014.pdf Show less

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  Northeastern University

  Apr 2013 - now

  Creative Director, Nulawlab, Northeastern University School of Law

  12 years ago, Nulawlab began as a start up organization embedded within a law school. Hired because of my creative and social justice background. Within three years we gained international recognition and several national awards. Use design methodologies to identify and cultivate new approaches to transform legal education, the legal profession, and the delivery of legal services. Generated cross-sector partnerships and designing interdisciplinary projects. Worked with a team of designers/coders to envision, develop, design, test and launch NULAWMaps, a new GIS mapping platform blending data with storytelling. Our Webby-nominated NuLawMaps platform was recently used by the Raoul Wallenberg Institute for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law to map informal settlement evictions in Sweden, and by the Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health to map ten years of workplace deaths. Both projects exemplify the use of digital media to tell the human stories behind legal disempowerment. Used competitive intelligence to identify marketing needs and recommend marketing tactics and strategies as they for the Lab’s and law school’s current and future educational program.Researched charitable prospects, forged new relationships with potential funders and expanded our partnerships with MIT Open Docs Lab, Rev Studio, Legal Service Corporation, MassCosh, SNELL Digital Scholarship Group, Brazilian Immigrant Center and Veteran Service Organizations across the USA. Strategically built alliances on the Northeastern campus and at the College of Art Media and Design. These new contacts offer the lab a new pool of interdisciplinary academics and design professionals to collaborate with as we forge ahead with the implementation of new projects and research inquiries.Our lab was nominated as a finalist for the HiiL Innovating Justice Awards and Living Wage Innovation Challenge 2014. Show less

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  Journal of Education and Pedagogy

  Oct 2014 - Aug 2015

  Co-Editor- Perspectives Section Spring 2015

  This Perspectives section in the Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy will explore how artists, curators, cultural workers, designers, and educators activate what Homi K Bhabha, has defined as a thirdspace; a space created so that cross-disciplinary relationships and collaborations can flourish. For the purposes of this proposal abstract we are defining a third space as a site of learning formed when educational, artistic, creative, and other cultural practices intersect and move outside traditional paradigms and norms. As such, these third space practices are in effect hybrid practices which are often collaborative and encourage cross-disciplinary dialogue and citizen engagement. Third spaces and hybrid practices create neutral zones that encourage open exchanges of ideas from a range of perspectives. For this Perspectives, we will focus specifically on ways in which artists, designers, and educators create, inhabit, and use third spaces to navigate the liminal boundaries that exist among artistic production, participatory design, education, social justice, economic justice, ecology, and conflict resolution. Show less

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  NYC MAYOR’S OFFICE OF VETERANS’ AFFAIRS AND DEPARTMENT OF CULTURAL AFFAIRS

  Nov 2015 - Sept 2016

  (2015) Artist-in-Residence

  (2015) Artist-in-Residence with the Social Design Collective, Working with Female Veterans to Engage them More Closely in Services and Resources of the Vet Center, Residency with NYC MAYOR’S OFFICE OF VETERANS’ AFFAIRS AND DEPARTMENT OF CULTURAL AFFAIRS ARTIST RESIDENCY AT THE HARLEM VET CENTER

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  Arizona State University

  Nov 2017 - Nov 2019

  Creative Placemaking Policy Fellow
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  Paradox Fine Art Forum

  Jan 2020 - Dec 2022

  Steering Committee Member
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  Stroom Den Haag

  Mar 2020 - Oct 2020

  Artist, Uncertainty Seminar Fall 2020
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  School of the Museum of Fine Arts

  Apr 2020 - May 2021

  Lecturer, Art and Social Justice
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  PolicyLink

  Nov 2020 - Oct 2021

  Health Equity Ambassador

  Fellowship

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  Foundation We Are

  Mar 2021 - now

  Board Member
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  College of Arts, Media and Design (CAMD) at Northeastern University

  Aug 2022 - now

  PhD Candidate, Interdisciplinary Design and Media
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  University of Westminster

  Jul 2023 - now

  Guest Fellowship

  This fellowship is a central aspect of my PhD And design research on Spatial Justice, Entanglement, and Feminist Materialism. https://www.westminster.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/directory/philippopoulos-mihalopoulos-andreas

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  The Burnes Center for Social Change

  Sept 2023 - Dec 2023

  Research Assistant

  I codeveloped a series of case studies with the Equitable Engagement Lab. This was done in the context of enhancing my PhD research skills and academic development. It was an excellent experience and a great network of professionals.