Practice & Practice was founded in 2008 by Sara Thacher and Hope Hilton.

 

Sara Thacher makes work dealing with the concept of exchange. Lately she has focused on creating projects for a small, specific audience, even an audience of one. She has also been involved with numerous web and print publishing projects including the design and deployment of socialpractice.org, the initiation of the CCA Social Practice Workshop publication program, a well as editing and designing websites and catalogs for commercial art galleries. Sara earned a BFA with honors in Glass from the Rhode Island School of Design and a MFA in Social Practice from the California College of the Arts. She has enacted projects at home and abroad in various art contexts and other less expected places, recently initiating and producing The Distributed Exhibition, a large exhibition of site-specific work, under the auspices of the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art. Sara has received grants from the San Francisco Foundation and the CCA Center for Art and Public Life, and the RISD Community Service Learning Grant. She lives and works in San Francisco.

http://borro.ws
http://distributedexhibition.com
http://bartprojects.org

 

Hope Hilton was born in 1977 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA and now resides in San Francisco, CA. A cum laude graduate of the Atlanta College of Art (2003) and a magna cum laude graduate of The City University of New York, Hunter College (2008), Hilton is the co-founder of the artist collectives Dos Pestañeos (NYC) and 21citiesatonceperformed (Atlanta). As an artist Hilton curates, collaborates, designs, publishes, writes, and walks. In 2005 she was awarded the "Good Earthling Award", presented in the form of a grant by the artist Harrell Fletcher and CalArts. In Winter 2007 Hilton completed a 60-mile memorial walk in the Southern United States to recognize the walk a slave named Henry made to announce the birth of her great-great grandmother. In Spring 2009 she is planning a road-trip investigation into male Americana of the Midwest with the artist Katie Hargrave (www.ourmanifestdestiny.us). She is currently on faculty at the University of San Francisco.

www.hopehilton.com
www.dospestaneos.com
www.therecognitions.com