CCA Lecture: Scott Constable

Wednesday, November 3, 7 pm

CCA San Francisco campus
Timken Lecture Hall
1111 Eighth Street (at 16th and Wisconsin)

Before settling into a dedicated art and design practice, Scott Constable apprenticed in traditional joinery, cooked as a line chef, played drums and guitar in rock bands, served as an "Appropriate Technology Agent" with the Peace Corps, fished as a deckhand on a salmon seiner, and freelanced as a photographer, digital artist, and museum fabricator. Today, his deep interest in vernacular design has led to far-ranging paths of inquiry researching the origins of "invention within tradition."

Soon after moving to the Bay Area in the early 1990s, Constable established Wowhaus, an experimental art and design collaborative working at the intersection of public art, social practice, furniture design, and architecture. In 2007, beginning with a grant from the Center for Cultural Innovation (CCI), he established the hybrid brand/philosophy/manifesto/blog Deep Craft.

Constable lives and works on his rural family compound on California's Sonoma Coast. He grew up on Philadelphia's Main Line, studied at the Rhode Island School of Design, and earned a BFA with a concentration in sculpture and generative systems at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.