Artwork
Learn more about my projects, which have been featured in public spaces, galleries, and museums across California.
SCULPTURES, and
Garden
Learn more about Big Daddy’s Complete Rejuvenating Community Garden, which I founded and manage with my community.
About
Learn more about Vickie and her practice - bio, and artist's statement, and more.
Updates AND Events
2026 Placemaking in the Urban Environment
at the ARTISTS RENDEZVOUS
6:30-9pm on Wednesday, May 13, 2026
The Emeryville Artists Cooperative, Horton Street, Emeryville
Communities seek a sense of their identity, rooted in time and space. Public artworks key on this need, creating a metaphor that fuses a vision of past history with our vision of where we’re going.
In this talk I will share how Placemaking is central to my life and art practice.
2026 Public Art Award, Milpitas
In 2026 I was awarded a public art project for Historical Park Markers – providing 7 informational kiosks with display cases for the City of Milpitas, working closely with City Staff and the Milpitas Historical Society.
I am working on this project now!
2026 Revisiting Public Art Project Birthplace of Silicon Valley
On Friday, May 8 2026, Mary White and I enjoyed revisiting our sculptures in Mountain View when they were featured at a Technology symposium for 20 companies from Taiwan. You couldn't ask for a better audience to appreciate the history of the Silicon Valley. It was great to see Jacques and Andrus again. They were the former Shockley Engineers who got the ball rolling for this project.
Now, 10 years later, the Villages development has completely changed the urban landscape, but a small but important piece of local history is preserved. More information on this project completed in 2018 here.
2024 Placemaking in the Urban Environment: Eco-Art at Big Daddy’s
With funding provided by Emeryville’s Rotten City Cultural District and the California Arts Council, Big Daddy’s Complete Rejuvenating Community Garden hosted a series of free Sunday afternoon events and art installations in the beautiful community garden setting. The site is wheelchair accessible.
2:00 PM, Sunday, August 18. Opening Reception, viewing of art installations.
3:00 PM Poetry reading by Rafael Jesús González, Berkeley Poet Laureate, introduced by Andree Singer Thompson, Artist, Teacher, and Co-founder of WEAD, Women Environmental Artists Directory.
3:00 PM, Sunday, August 25. "Cornucopias Other Futures". Performance art by Praba Pilar.
3:00 PM Sunday, September 15th. Art talk and introductions by Phoebe Ackley and Poems by Kyle Nelson. Musical performance by Voices in a New World, an improvisational choir directed by Dave Worm.
2:00 PM Sunday, October 13th. Closing Reception. Artist talks by Judith Blankman and Christina Bertea, Introduced by Vickie Jo Sowell.
