Abraham Burickson (born 1975)
[ is an American poet, writer, and conceptual artist.
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Early life and education
Abraham Burickson was born in New York City
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, the son of Sherwin Burickson. He earned a BA in architecture from Cornell University
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, having changed his major from English and anthropology. In 2008 he received an MFA from the Michener Center for Writers
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at the University of Texas
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.
Career
In 2001, with actor Matthew Purdon, Burickson co-founded the conceptual art and performance group Odyssey Works, becoming its artistic director[ and co-director of its Experience Design Certificate program.][ In 2009 he founded an interdisciplinary retreat, the Odyssey Lab.][
Burickson was a James Michener Fellow in Poetry at the Michener Center for Writers from 2005 to 2008. He also received a fellowship from the ]Millay Colony for the Arts
Millay Arts, formerly the Millay Colony for the Arts, is an arts community offering residency-retreats and workshops in Austerlitz, New York, and free arts programs in local public schools. Housed on the former property of feminist/activist poet ...
in 2005, and in 2010 was Artist-in-Residence at Risley Residential College
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at Cornell. He has taught at Maryland Institute College of Art
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and at Academy of Art University
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.[ In 2018, he won the Mary Sawyers Baker Prize for Interdisciplinary Art.]
Publications
Books
* with Ayden LeRoux. ''Odyssey Works: Transformative Experiences for an Audience of One''. Princeton Architectural Press, 2016. .
* ''Experience Design: A Participatory Manifesto''. Yale University Press, 2023. .
Chapbooks
*''Charlie''. Codhill Press, 2010. .
Anthology appearances
* "At the Barbecue Joint, Taylor, Texas". In: ''Best New Poets 2008''. Ed. Mark Strand. University of Virginia Press, 2008. .
References
External links
Official website"The Craft of Experience Design"
podcast at Future of StoryTelling, October 19, 2023
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1975 births
21st-century American poets
American conceptual artists
Cornell University College of Architecture, Art, and Planning alumni
Living people
Academy of Art University faculty
Michener Center for Writers alumni