Craig Pleasants is an artist and activist who has worked on the front lines of artist empowerment for four decades. His artwork has been exhibited widely in venues across the U.S. and Europe: the Alternative Museum, White Columns and Artists’ Space in New York City, the Musee d’Art Contemporain in Marseilles, the Kunst und Gewerbeverein in Regensberg, Washington Project for the Arts, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, the North Carolina Museum of Art, the Jersey City Museum. Two of his artist’s books, The Three Little Pigs: as it was originally passed into English Folklore in 1620, and Footnotes: for an argument in favor of marginal housing, are in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art and the former is one of the longest continuously running artworks on the internet.

He is the former Artistic Director for the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, one of the world’s most venerable and respected artists communities. In 2014, he founded Sculptorhouse LLC, http://www.sculptorhouse.com, to merge architecture with his sculpture practice in an effort to address two crises in housing: affordability and climate resilience. Most recently he has been writing essays and cultural criticism, using meditations on his art practice as a portal into those conversations.