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Buster Simpson has worked on major infrastructure projects, site master planning, signature sculptures, museum installations, and community projects. He received an MFA and the distinguished alumni award in architecture and design from the University of Michigan. A recipient of numerous other awards, Simpson’s honors include NEA fellowships and being named the Americans for the Arts 2009 artist of the year. He has exhibited at the New Museum, MoMA PS1, the Seattle Art Museum, the Hirshhorn Museum, the Capp Street Project, and the International Glass Museum, and had a recent retrospective at the Frye Art Museum. His work is included in numerous public commissions throughout North America. Simpson often melds social and ecological concerns into an aesthetic and continues to employ intervention and temporary prototypes as a way to inform his more lasting works in public. He is presently working on commissions for the Seattle Waterfront, a landfill in San Antonio, Texas, and in Portland for the South Waterfront Greenway and TriMet’s Portland-Milwaukie Light Rail project. In spring 2015, he will conduct a monthlong confab concerning local and global climate issues with the Rauschenberg Foundation on Captiva Island. Sponsored by the Reed Art Department and the Regional Arts & Culture Council. [“Abandon Erratic,”  Matanuska Glacer,  2014; photo by Buster Simpson.]