Gavin Kroeber is an artist whose projects and writings poach from visual art, urban theory, and performance. He produces curatorial projects and performance events that are concerned broadly with cultural dynamics of power and in particular with their expression in the poetics of place. Recent work includes the two-day festival Dwell in Other Futures: Art / Urbanism / Midwest and the interdisciplinary social series At the Edge of Everything Else, both held in St. Louis. His project New Cities, Future Ruins, which received the 2016 Meadows Prize, investigates planetary crises of growth, migration, and sustainability in the sprawling cities of the Sun Belt. Projects in development are focused on St. Louis as a suburbanized region and the burn zones of California’s 2017 wildfires. He holds a Master of Design Studies in Art, Design, and the Public Domain from the Harvard Graduate School of Design.