Annice jacoby biography of rory

November 2020

Annice Jacoby is a writer, artist and advocate known for groundbreaking public artwork, including UNDERCOVER, which addressed the homeless humanitarian crisis and City of Poets and Watershed, which praised literary campaigns.

She was the editor of Street Art San Francisco, and served as director of public relations at SFMOMA and curator of a street art series at the de Young Museum.

What impact do activist artists have socially, culturally, politically and within the art world?

They were not always part of what you would call the formal art world but they definitely burrowed themselves in.

Their work was marginalized and critical and is now mainstreamed. The borderline between artist activism that's criminal or contagious or conceptual or a commodity — all of which is happening simultaneously — is very fluid territory.

Almost all of the artists that I’ll give a view of in the course — Ai Wei Wei, Suzanne Lacy, all of them — would proclaim