Art In Practice: Mark Allen, Executive Director of Machine Project
Mark Allen
Art in Practice provides guidance and insight into the professional world to students preparing for careers in the arts. Varying topics of conversation range from a nuts-and-bolts approach to gaining valuable job skills to broad issues relevant to creative culture as a whole. This edition of Art in Practice invites Mark Allen, an artist, educator, and curator based in Los Angeles and the Founder and Executive Director of Machine Project. Under his direction, Machine Project has produced over 500 events, workshops, and installations. He is an Associate Professor of Art at Pomona College and serves on the Board of Directors of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Mark received his MFA in Visual Art from the California Institute of the Arts.
Machine Project is a non-profit performance and installation space investigating art, technology, natural history, science, music, literature, and food in an informal storefront in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles. Machine Project also operates as a loose confederacy of artists producing shows at locations ranging from beaches to museums to parking lots.
