Pete Hocking is a visual artist and writer based in Providence, RI &
Provincetown, MA. His work is concerned with personal narrative,
place, poetics, and political consciousness. He teaches at Goddard College in the Master of Fine Arts in Interdisciplinary Arts program and in the Division of Liberal Arts at Rhode Island School of Design. Previously he was director of Rhode Island School of Design's Office of Public Engagement (2007-2011), and Associate Dean of
the College and Director of the Swearer Center for Public Service at
Brown University (1988-2005). At the Swearer Center, he developed
university-community partnerships, leadership education, undergraduate
research opportunities, social entrepreneurship, and integrated
community-learning with academic study. His theoretical preoccupations
include Progressive Education and arts pedagogy; American Studies; Queer
Theory; ecology and sustainable systems; the public engagement of
artists; and documentary practice. He's represented by Four Eleven Gallery in Provincetown, MA
