Curriculum Vitae

Selected Projects & Documentation

• Co-Founder: Stars & Moon Art Park, residency program and exhibition site, 2022 | Sacramento Delta

• Performing Artist: “Minetta Creatures,” large-scale immersive “nature” procession, 2020-2022 | West Village * with Shadow Parks Department

• Lead Artist/Producer: "New Water Music," exhibit at Contemporary Arts Center, 2019-20, original event, 2017 | Lake Pontchartrain * Video

• Lead Artist: “Trans-National,” for Sharjah Art Foundation, at Sharjah Biennial 14, 2019 | Umm Al Quwain, UAE * Catalog * Video

• Site Host & Artist: “Remember Us” installation, performance and event, Prospect.4 Biennial, 2018 | New Orleans * Press * Video

• Creator: "Porch Life" Music Box Tour, 2018 | Jazz Fest, Eaux Claires WI, Detroit MI, Coney Island, Brooklyn NY, Kennedy Center DC * Video

• Curator/Producer: 8 Performance Seasons in the Music Box Village,
  2016 - 2020 | New Orleans

• Founder: Music Box Village Acquisition, 2016 | New Orleans

• Co-Creator/Producer: "Splish," 2015 | New Orleans * Website

• Owner/Designer: Ex Voto, 2015 | New Orleans

• Costume Design: “The Dreary Coast,” 2014 | Brooklyn NY * Press

• Lead Artist, Bounce Vs. Vogue Ball, 2014 | New Orleans * Video

• Co-Creator/Artist: "Migration," 2011 | Staten Island NY

• Co-Creator/Artist: Duke Riley's Rematch, 2011 | Brooklyn NY

• Founder: experimental Egg & Dart Club, 2010 | Brooklyn NY

• Organizer/Curator: Rockaway Boatel, 2009 | Queens NY

• Artist: Swoon's Swimming Cities, Venice Biennial, 2009

• Co-producer/ Artist: Rubulad, 2000-present | Bushwick Brooklyn NY

• Artist: Madagascar Collective, 2000-2010 | Brooklyn NY

• Organizer/Member: Flux Factory, 2000-2003 | Queens NY

• Co-Founder/Editor: nonsensenyc.com, 2000

Client List

Bonnaroo

Burning Man Arts Festival

Duke Riley Studio

Eaux Claires Music Festival

Google

Henri Bendel

Kennedy Center

Manolo Blahnik

Microsoft

New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival (JazzFest)

Prospect Biennial

Red Bull

Sharjah Art Foundation

Grantors

California Arts Council

Gates Foundation

Mapfund

National Endowment for the Arts

New Music USA

Selley Foundation

Alita is an explorer, scavenger and assembler. Most often working with large groups of artists and non-artists, she creates, directs and produces experimental works of great magnitude.

Her disciplines include theater, oral history, cultural heritage, writing, sculpture and costume; drawing on a background in clinical psychology, the service industry and urban planning.