Colleen Flanigan is a visual, performing, and environmental artist, exhibiting internationally. She was selected as a senior TED Fellow and was featured in a Nokia/TED responsiveness campaign. She has a BA in Design from UCLA , and a post-baccalaureate Certificate in Metals from the Oregon College of Art and Craft. With 20 years of arts background, she moves from jewelry to steel sculptures, mixed-media interactive works to conceptual and collaborative projects. Recently she worked on the stop-motion animated feature, “Coraline,” (Feb. 2009) a Henry Selick-directed interpretation of Neil Gaiman’s book. An armaturist for puppet fabrication, Colleen made ball-and-socket skeletons for puppets. Having taught sculpture and jewelry to all ages, as well as created exhibits at children’s museums and schools, she is known for her large 3-dimensional steel “drawings” woven with wire by children. Colleen learned to SCUBA and went to Bali for certification in the Global Coral Reef Alliance’s Biorock mineral accretion, an innovative technology for coral reef restoration that combines her sculptural practice and passion for the oceans and natural habitats. It is a form of living art. Colleen sees life as art and is an avid tango dancer. Read more on Colleen at ASCI.