_ART l URBAN DESIGN

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Sarah Filley is an artist, urban designer, writer and public speaker on urban innovation, creative placemaking and retail trends.  Her interdisciplinary background serves as a foundation to bring design thinking to city scale with success in marketing authenticity of place and creative makers. 

She is the Cofounder of the award winning Popuphood launched in 2011 as a social enterprise.  Popuphood is consulted to incubate small businesses and revitalizes neighborhoods, block by block.  The company has garnered recognition in international press like Fast Company, the New York Times, Sunset Magazine, The Huffington Post and The Atlantic is now being replicated in additional neighborhoods in Oakland and internationally. 
Photo credit: Eva Kolenko
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    Filley studied Sculpture and Photography at California College of the Arts in Oakland, CA.  She is a social entrepreneur, designer, artist, curator, and speaker.  She is addicted to civic hackathons, succulents, and big ideas.  Her work has been included in solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally. She has designed and implemented science and art exhibitions for over a decade and has put this experience to work through cross sector partnerships for positive social impact with Popuphood. 

    Her slant towards participatory urbanism paved the way for civic engagement projects that bend technology in the service of wonder.  

    Recent independent projects include Creative Disruptions, Dragonfly at ybca, GOODbuildings and Wonderarium including +Succulent Circus, and the Mobile Plant Ambassador (with Yvette Molina).
     
    /Think Tanks
    Future. Soul.Think. Tank,  SF YBCA
    The future of retail, MSFW, Melbourne, AU

    /Residencies
    University of California Botanical Gardens at Berkeley (Berkeley, 2010) with Wonderarium.
    GAFFTA, goodbuildings.info (2011)
    Kala Art Institute (Berkeley, 2008)

    /Instituions
    Yerba Buena Center For The Arts (ybca)
    Santa Clara Museum
    Seattle Art Museum
    California Academy of Science
    University of California Botanical Gardens at Berkeley
    Exploratorium
    Chabot Science Center
    the Oakland Museum of California
    The Richmond Art Center
    The Asian Art Museum
    PAHMA at UC Berkeley
    Mills College, and Zeum (select list)