Bio

Christopher Breedlove is an American designer, community builder and experiential producer. Christopher currently works as the Director of Civic Activation at the Burning Man Project where he oversees the Burners Without Borders (BWB), Regional Network, Global Art Grants and Civic Arts programs and sits on the leadership group for the Burning Man Environmental Sustainability Roadmap in San Francisco, California. 

At Burning Man Project Christopher has spearheaded several strategy expansions for BWB including developing the Civic Ignition Grant Program, and the Mobile Resource Unit (MRU). While creating a more decentralized leadership system he has expanded the education offerings with online meet-ups, toolkits, and in-person summits in Northern Nevada, as well as overseen several response projects including Standing Rock, Calais Refugee Camp, and a series of disaster relief projects.

As an educator, Christopher speaks on several topics that include: Burning Man, Culture Building, Design Thinking for Social Impact, Community Building, and Art as Social Dialogue. He also hosts several workshops including: Democratic Grant Giving, Human Centered Design (HCD), and Collaborative Effigy Building.

Christopher started his career producing web videos under the name Klaser Films in high school and later as Mr. Breedlove Media. Over the years he has documented a variety of small business, not-for-profits, and artists helping them get online for the first time. (2004-2012)

In 2009 he co-founded the Second Thoughts project and created videos that opened for Bob Dylan & The Dead at the Rothbury Music Festival.  He created The Human Avatar Project, has built bicycle-powered parade floats for The Dream Community, and created a government-funded bamboo sculpture at the TaiXi International Arts Festival (Taiwan).  He also runs a live screen printing project Remixed Ink, and continues to be an avid print maker using both silkscreens and laser technologies.

As a community leader, Christopher served as board president of the California-for-benefit corporation (2005-2014) Burners Without Borders (BWB) project, before it was acquired by Burning Man Project, as well as for the Chicago 501(c)3 Bold Urban Renaissance Network (BURN). He has also served as a Chicago Regional Contact with The Burning Man Project, Communications Director for FIGMENT Detroit, and as Volunteer Coordinator and Arts Honorarium Curator for the arts + community event Lakes Of Fire in Rothbury Michigan.

Artist Statement

My work is about exploring what it means to be human in the digital age.  Attempting the synthesis of organic and digital forms, of wood grain and circuit boards.  Using mathematics and science as tools to manifest the magic we see in our collective human dreams- I believe it is our mystical nature that drives us forward to explain the phenomena of the universe that we do not yet understand.

As new technologies ever-more rapidly develop, one of the jobs of the artist is to help drive the awareness and prevalence of these tools- often introducing the public to new ideas for the first time.  By utilizing interactive platforms, mixed mediums and the newest techniques we can create playful and collaborative works of art that teach as much as they delight.