Poison Oak Commune
is an intimate-chaotic-relating-research
platform dedicated to figuring out
what Environmental Art + Social Practice is*
* supported EA+SP MFA program at University of California Santa Cruz, and UCSC OpenLab Collaborative Research Center
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Cobija de Tripas ~~The Book~~
EA+SP MFA final publication for ’25 cohort.
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Rob’s dream garden
🧚🏽♂️ Robert Johnson III -
Don’t you just love it? Isn’t this place so magical?
By Jonas Banta Here in Santa Cruz, as in many other places, there seems to be a great divide between the story that is told of this place, and what I’ve encountered in a year of life amongst it. This narrative, which I had encountered both as literal advertisements and as the words of friends […]
🧚🏽♂️ Jonas Banta -
A landscape is a network of provocations, with Dima Mabsout and Alberto Miguel Vazquez
Landscape is the space where these struggles and stories unfold—where social, political, and environmental forces meet in the flesh.
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These images are proof that this world existed, with Robert D Johnson III
These archives weren’t made with the art world in mind; they were made out of love, necessity, pride, and sometimes just casual documentation.
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Wherever the rivers lead, with Jonas Banta
Field trip is about patience, waiting for the metaphorical salmon to return, for the berries to ripen, for the images to form naturally rather than being forced.
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Cobija De Tripas
EA+SP MFA Thesis show 2025