Helen J. Bullard is a research-based Artist, Storyteller, Writer and Educator living and working in the Midwestern United States. They use words, video, sound, installation and live performance to bridge the arts, sciences, and social sciences to engage topics of environmental and cultural change over time. Helen holds a Special Committee Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Arts and Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a Certificate in Environmental History and the History of Science from the Center for Culture, History and Environment (CHE) in the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies (Madison), an MFA in Electronic Arts from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), New York, and a BA (Hons.) in Fine Art from Norwich University College of the Arts (NUCA), England.
Projects include a sustained auto-ethnographic work around the horseshoe crab, the ecological, cultural and industrial histories of Lake Michigan, and a three year collaboration entitled Circulatory Entanglements: Marine Biomaterials and Paradoxes in Ocean Governance (Leverhulme Trust Research Projects Grant / Durham University Dept. of Geography). Circulatory Entanglements follows the movement of horseshoe crab blood, jellyfish proteins and stem cells, and chitosan from shrimp shells as they circulate through different environments: water, land, bodies, policies, and questions the paradoxical promissory narratives of ocean futures. More information can be found by clicking the Current Collaboration page.
Teaching has included Research Practice, Art History, Contemporary Art Practice, Biological Arts, Creativity and IT, Deep Listening, Digital Film. Helen is currently a member of the faculty at Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design (MIAD), teaching humanities, writing and service learning.