Ilana Crispi is a San Francisco based artist, mother, and teacher, with an interdisciplinary practice incorporating ceramic arts with local histories and geologies. She has mined urban soil for gold, shared it with neighbors, and built ephemeral monuments in the landscape. Crispi has been the resident artist at the Rochester Folk Art Guild, Montalvo Arts Center, the de Young Museum and Can Serrat. She has shown at museums, galleries, and alternative sites in the USA, Mexico, Spain, Portugal and China. Crispi is Associate Professor of Art at San Francisco State University and now runs The Good Ship Dodo project and exhibition space.