Annice Jacoby is recognized for her innovative work in public art, literature and visual arts. Highlights include Street Art San Francisco: Mission Muralismo (Abrams) & Fort Point Project, opening performance at the Hague Appeal for Peace. Annice Jacoby expands art in public life. with poetry, theater and media to spark ideas and institutions to examine the critical issues of the day.
PBS featured her most recent project, UNDERCOVER, to rally solutions for the homeless humanitarian crisis. For the deYoung Museum, Annice Jacoby was curator and primary speaker for the acclaimed series, Cultural Encounters: Mission Muralismo. With Suzanne Lacy and Chris Johnson, Annice Jacoby collaborated on T.E.A.M., nationally praised social practice projects radically engaging youth and media in Oakland. Teens+Education+Art+Media was featured at 2019 SFMOMA & Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Suzanne Lacy retrospective WE ARE HERE. Annice Jacoby was T.E.A.M artist and media director from Teenage Living Room sparking a decade of youth work with artists from California College of Arts & Crafts, Oakland schools and civic government. Annice Jacoby organized the NBC special The Roof is on Fire exploring media literacy, race and violence, with a cast of hundreds of Oakland youth. Further projects included producing Youth, Cops & Videotape, workshops and filmmaking exploring teen pregnancy issues for ; Expectations, No Blood No Foul, a de-constructed basketball game between youth and police; and Code 33 a further massive examination of those tensions under Jerry Brown’s tenure as Mayor of Oakland.
Annice Jacoby’s has organized public art projects with arts and community groups including Saving Grace, a national participatory campaign created with the Interfaith Center of New York and Appalshop Culture Center. Saving Grace was a response to 9/11 and the country’s acceptance of ongoing war. The campaign offered rituals for Thanksgiving to consider what sustains us, instead of making wishes on broken bones. For the San Francisco Public Library, Annice Jacoby with Lisa Citron, launched the multi-year campaign, City of Poets. San Francisco became joyful stage for poetry featuring a salute to Maya Angelou at Union Square to Allen Ginsburg at Candlestick Park. With Robert Hass, first US Poet Laureate from the California, and Poetry Flash, Annice Jacoby launched Watershed and River of Words, a national art and literature environmental campaign. She created Poet's Kaddish, a memorial oratorio for Allen Ginsberg, commissioned by City Lights Books.
gossipgospel, was created with Lisa Citron in conjunction with the United Nations Conference on Women in Beijing, international programs showcased the power of women’s talk. Events at SFMOMA, the Magic Theater, Beijing and kitchen tables around the world gathered stories and poetry that illuminated women’s lives and communities.
As director of public relations at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Annice Jacoby implemented programs to generate new audiences in a time of institutional transition. She. was responsible for the arts & media for the groundbreaking of the current museum site, and bringing innovations to the museum including poetry and music in the galleries, first multi-media campaigns, television ads, billboards. She programmed artists such as Survival Research Laboratory and David Ireland, and promoted major artists including Carrie May Weems, Matthew Barney, Bill Viola and Jeff Koons., Jeff Wall and Robert Raushenberg.
As director of public events at Performing Arts at the University of California, Santa Cruz, she produced events that reshaped the University's cultural agenda including launching Shakespeare/Santa Cruz, festivals hosting Buckminster Fuller and the Dalai Lama, and producing plays at the Edinburgh Theater Festival.
Annice Jacoby has taught and lectured at many universities and arts programs including U.C. Berkeley, U.C. Santa Cruz, MICA, USF, CCA, Bennington, Anderson Ranch, U.C. Monterey, San Francisco Art Institute and San Quentin. She was writer-in-residence at Anderson Ranch, artist-in-residence for California Arts Council, teaching artist for LEAP and artist-in-residence for the Million Mom March, a national anti-gun campaign.
Annice Jacoby lives in San Francisco where she hosts salons spanning genres and generations of talent. Her son, Kaj Larsen is an award-winning journalist and a Navy SEAL, (www.kajlarsen.com). Her daughter, Dr. Jaiva Larsen, is an Emergency Physician and Board Toxicologist at frontline of medicine meeting social injustice, working with underserved, addiction, border medicine and pandemic response.
She is a graduate of Bennington College in art, literature and theater and graduate work in literature at University of California, Santa Cruz.
PBS featured her most recent project, UNDERCOVER, to rally solutions for the homeless humanitarian crisis. For the deYoung Museum, Annice Jacoby was curator and primary speaker for the acclaimed series, Cultural Encounters: Mission Muralismo. With Suzanne Lacy and Chris Johnson, Annice Jacoby collaborated on T.E.A.M., nationally praised social practice projects radically engaging youth and media in Oakland. Teens+Education+Art+Media was featured at 2019 SFMOMA & Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Suzanne Lacy retrospective WE ARE HERE. Annice Jacoby was T.E.A.M artist and media director from Teenage Living Room sparking a decade of youth work with artists from California College of Arts & Crafts, Oakland schools and civic government. Annice Jacoby organized the NBC special The Roof is on Fire exploring media literacy, race and violence, with a cast of hundreds of Oakland youth. Further projects included producing Youth, Cops & Videotape, workshops and filmmaking exploring teen pregnancy issues for ; Expectations, No Blood No Foul, a de-constructed basketball game between youth and police; and Code 33 a further massive examination of those tensions under Jerry Brown’s tenure as Mayor of Oakland.
Annice Jacoby’s has organized public art projects with arts and community groups including Saving Grace, a national participatory campaign created with the Interfaith Center of New York and Appalshop Culture Center. Saving Grace was a response to 9/11 and the country’s acceptance of ongoing war. The campaign offered rituals for Thanksgiving to consider what sustains us, instead of making wishes on broken bones. For the San Francisco Public Library, Annice Jacoby with Lisa Citron, launched the multi-year campaign, City of Poets. San Francisco became joyful stage for poetry featuring a salute to Maya Angelou at Union Square to Allen Ginsburg at Candlestick Park. With Robert Hass, first US Poet Laureate from the California, and Poetry Flash, Annice Jacoby launched Watershed and River of Words, a national art and literature environmental campaign. She created Poet's Kaddish, a memorial oratorio for Allen Ginsberg, commissioned by City Lights Books.
gossipgospel, was created with Lisa Citron in conjunction with the United Nations Conference on Women in Beijing, international programs showcased the power of women’s talk. Events at SFMOMA, the Magic Theater, Beijing and kitchen tables around the world gathered stories and poetry that illuminated women’s lives and communities.
As director of public relations at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Annice Jacoby implemented programs to generate new audiences in a time of institutional transition. She. was responsible for the arts & media for the groundbreaking of the current museum site, and bringing innovations to the museum including poetry and music in the galleries, first multi-media campaigns, television ads, billboards. She programmed artists such as Survival Research Laboratory and David Ireland, and promoted major artists including Carrie May Weems, Matthew Barney, Bill Viola and Jeff Koons., Jeff Wall and Robert Raushenberg.
As director of public events at Performing Arts at the University of California, Santa Cruz, she produced events that reshaped the University's cultural agenda including launching Shakespeare/Santa Cruz, festivals hosting Buckminster Fuller and the Dalai Lama, and producing plays at the Edinburgh Theater Festival.
Annice Jacoby has taught and lectured at many universities and arts programs including U.C. Berkeley, U.C. Santa Cruz, MICA, USF, CCA, Bennington, Anderson Ranch, U.C. Monterey, San Francisco Art Institute and San Quentin. She was writer-in-residence at Anderson Ranch, artist-in-residence for California Arts Council, teaching artist for LEAP and artist-in-residence for the Million Mom March, a national anti-gun campaign.
Annice Jacoby lives in San Francisco where she hosts salons spanning genres and generations of talent. Her son, Kaj Larsen is an award-winning journalist and a Navy SEAL, (www.kajlarsen.com). Her daughter, Dr. Jaiva Larsen, is an Emergency Physician and Board Toxicologist at frontline of medicine meeting social injustice, working with underserved, addiction, border medicine and pandemic response.
She is a graduate of Bennington College in art, literature and theater and graduate work in literature at University of California, Santa Cruz.