University of California, Santa CruzAs director of public events at the Performing Arts complex at the University of California, Santa Cruz, Annice Jacoby produced festivals, plays, concerts, cultural series including A Wake for Finnegans’s Wake - all night Joyce celebration produced with Norman O. Brown, Chautauqua, New Music Festival, Performances featured Lar Lubuvitch, Merce Cunningham, The Performance Group, Spalding Gray, Mabou Mines, The Snake Theatre, George Coates, Meredith Monk, Buckminister Fuller, John Cage and the Dalai Lama. Annice Jacoby was founding producer of Shakespeare/Santa Cruz, National Festival of Woman's Theater, the Ionesco Festival, editor of cultural events magazine, and produced theater at Edinburgh Festival sponsored by Theater Arts.
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SFMOMA
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Annice Jacoby was director of public relations at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, under Director Dr. John Lane, implemented programs to generate new audiences in a time of institutional transition. responsible for art and media the groundbreaking of the current museum site. She pioneered innovations to the museum including poetry and music in the galleries, first multi-media campaigns and programming artists such as Survival Research Laboratory and David Ireland, first promoting artists including Carrie Mae Weems, John Baldessari, Helen Levitt, Matthew Barney, Bill Viola, Jeff Wall and Jeff Koons.
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deYoung Museum
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For the deYoung Museum, Annice Jacoby was curator and primary lecturer for the year-long series Cultural Encounters: Mission Muralismo including record breaking attendance with installations, music, film, lectures and hundreds of participating artists including Spain Rodriguez, Juana Alicia, Susan Cervantes, Rigo, Andrew Schoultz, Aaron Noble, John Jota Leanos, Vero Mojano, Favianna Rodriguez.
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UNIVERSITY & LECTURES
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Annice Jacoby has taught and lectured at many universities and arts programs including UC Berkeley, UC Santa Cruz, MICA, USF, CCA, Anderson Ranch, UC Monterey and San Quentin. As artist-in-residence for California Arts Council she taught performance & filmmaking with at-risk youth. Working with youth as artist-in-residence for the Million Mom March, Annice Jacoby produced a series of public service announcements that were pulled from airwave by the NRA sabotaging the national anti-gun campaign. At Andersen Ranch Art Center in Aspen Annice Jacoby and Julie Heffernan taught Language and Landscape, a plein air workshop for advanced painters. The sessions explored the expressive range of the painter's vocabulary in text and image. We worked in the spirit of the collaboration between Francisco Clemente and Allen Ginsberg - each a master and a novice of each other's disciple, each engaged in an exchange of interests and sensibilities, Using the ranch to discover the natural world, the class tackled the demands of image to suggest a story and of story to suggest an image.
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