About Beth Ann Falstad
MICRO-BIO
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I am an artist and a community-based Sustainability researcher, concerned with the co-creation of inspiring, sustainable and equitable neighborhoods. Currently based in downtown Los Angeles, adjacent to Skid Row, I founded The Building Community in...More
EXPERIENCE
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California Polytechnic University - Pomona
- Lecturer
- Regenerative Studies
- Present
EDUCATION
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Arizona State University
- PhD Sustainability
- August 2016 to December 2019
I successfully defended my dissertation, Creating the World We Want to Live in: Reconnecting for a Sustainable Future, on November 4, 2019 and will be graduating on December 16 with my PhD from the School of Sustainability.
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Otis College of Art and Design
- MFA Public Practice
- August 2014 to May 2016
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New York University
- 16 units toward MA
- August 2011 to May 2012
Completed 16 units toward MA degree in the Gallatin School for Individualized Studies, where my self-titled program was "Urban Sustainable Community Building."
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Maryland Institute, College of Art
- BFA/ Fibers
- August 1996 to May 2000
Interests
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Social Sculpture
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Public Practice
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Sustainable Building
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Community Based Research
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Homelessness
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Qualitative Methods
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Arts Based Research
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Participatory Research
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Design
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Equity
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Sustainability