Allison Warren is an interdisciplinary artist working to connect people to their environments. Through the introduction of installation-based and photographic practices into the public sphere and galleries, her work examines the built and natural environment to create human experiences capable of powerfully increasing perceptual, cognitive and cultural connections between people and place. As a primary concern, engagement with place encourages responsible sustainability, ecology and conservation of these spaces. Collaboration with architects, landscape architects, contractors, public agencies, and communities are a natural and vital extension of the practice. She has completed projects as diverse as a pedestrian walk for the Stone Quarry Hill Sculpture Park in upstate New York, a series of winter drawings at the Banff Center in Canada, and the urban renewal of a vacant Chicago lot at Westhaven Park Public Housing Development.  Allison Warren's work has appeared in exhibitions mounted by venues such as The Orange County Museum of Art (Los Angeles), The Sioux City Art Center (Iowa), I-Space Gallery (Chicago), Fred Kline Gallery (Santa Fe), and The BF Contemporary (Boston). Warren is an Instructor of Art, Architecture, and Design in the College of Fine and Applied Arts at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her teaching and scholarship includes design foundations, community engagement, and arts entreprenurship. In 2009, she founded C-U Engage, a course that pairs the design currency of architectural design students with community partners to execute design projects. Allison received a Masters of Fine Art degree with Honors from Cranbrook Academy of Art. A currrent CV can be downloaded here. /f/allison-warren-CV.pdf