Fleisher: Challenge Artists: Bob Bingham

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Linda Besemer

Bob Bingham

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Perky Edgerton

Tom Levy

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Bob Bingham

	Urban Semi-wilderness Area, 1995, 4-color lithograph, photographs, 65"x56"

Recently my artwork has involved gestures and community to address environmental issues. Currently co-director of the Nine Mile Run Project that involves concerns of artists, scientists, engineers, historians, and planners in an interdisciplinary effort to address challenges an opportunities faced in transforming an urban industrial waste site to a sustainable environment of private housing and public green space.

EDUCATION
MFA, University of California at Davis, Davis, CA, 1980; BA, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, 1977

AWARDS
Heinz Endowments, For Nine Mile Run Team Project, 1998, 1997; New Forms, Regional Arts Grant, 1992

EXHIBITIONS
Rico Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, Art and Nature, 1998; The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA, Place At The Table, 1997; Swisshelm Park Community Center, Pittsburgh, PA, Ample Opportunity, 1997; Marsh Art Gallery, Richmond, VA, Artists Listen To The Earth, 1996; Bowman, Penelel, and Megahan Galleries, Meadville, PA, Between, 1995

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Established in 1978, the Challenge Exhibition Series is a regional juried competition that is committed to enriching and expanding people's lives through art. Several three-person shows, held each year from September through May, feature the work of regional artists chosen annually from over three hundred entries.