User:Corbi Wright

Corbi Wright is an artist that lives in Utah.

Corbi Wright knows Jordan Hubbard, an open source software developer, an American computer programmer from her work at Walnut Creek CDROM in the early 1990's. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan_Hubbard

Jordan Hubbard joined a team of people developed by Bob Bruce and Jack Velte in Concord, CA and later, Walnut Creek, California under the name, Walnut Creek CDROM.

Walnut Creek CDROM was a tech publisher famous for technical compilations---Simtel, Cica, and a variety of other titles.

I worked for Bob Bruce and Jack Velte first as a publishing clerk, and general assistant at their house in Walnut Creek, CA.

When the business moved to an office space in Concord, CA, I joined the team as a marketing assistant and graphic designer.

I worked on photography, graphic design, advertising and trade shows. I also worked on packaging design.

This was a fundamental part of my beginning work life.

I was very inspired by the ceaseless efforts of Bob Bruce and Jack Velte.

Bob Bruce and Jack Velte had met working in a computer lab on the East Coast.

I think Bob Bruce had the idea to put BBS data on a cdrom and sell the compilations, as it would be a more efficient retrieval process than a dial in to a bulletin board for data.

Jack Velte joined Bob Bruce and they began hiring employees to help mail out their cdroms to people all over the world.

Education

I began my University education at Brigham Young University, and then transferred to U.C. Berkeley. I completed my University education in 1997, earning a B.S. Business Administration.

I also studied for one year at the San Francisco Art Institute (2000-2001)

Work Life

I would say my first job was a paper girl in Dublin, California sometime in the mid-80's (5th grade). I delivered The Valley Times to my immediate neighborhood, Circle Way and Betlen Dr.. I think I had somewhere between 50 - 80 papers to deliver each morning. My route could be delivered from a cloth news bag I carried on my shoulders. I rubberbanded the papers, put them in the cloth news bag and walked from door to door. My brother, Brandon, also had a news paper route. We collected tips together door to door.

I would say that babysitting was my second job. My Mom suggested I take a babysitting kit to entertain the children with games.

My third job was an internship with Wells Fargo Bank the summer after my Sophomore year of High School. I worked in the Marketing Department, at the Crocker Building in downtown San Francisco.

Walnut Creek CDROM was the job I held after that, the first year after my Freshman year of University work at Brigham Young University.

After I completed my degree in business administration from U.C. Berkeley, I worked with MacTemps for several years.

The pinnacle of this effort was a job with Butler, Shine and Stern, an advertising firm in Sausalito.

Other notable freelance jobs through Mactemps included time working at Woods+Woods in downtown San Francisco, a packaging design firm.

I also did one month with Banana Republic in downtown San Francisco as a graphic designer/layout artist.

I developed tendinitis and decided to study art at the San Francisco Art Institute for a year.

- art

I had the great opportunity to study art for one year at the San Francisco Art Institute on Chestnut Street in North Beach. I also considered California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, CA, but decided on SFAI.

I mostly studied painting, but enjoyed classes in many subjects, including new genres.

I am proud of the friends I made at San Francisco Art Institute: Sarah Cain, Fabrice Samyn, Kaz, Donal Moser, Colter Jacobsen.

I also knew Devendra Banhardt from a poetry class at SFAI which Bill Berkson taught.

My painting class was taught by Carlos Villa, and Lilly Prillinger was the teaching assistant.

She compared my work to Bryce Marden and Janine Antoni.

I would say that Sarah Cain and Fabrice Samyn were my greatest influences as friends. Both are painters. Donal Moser, a photographer, and Colter Jacobsen, a drawer, conceptual artist, were also great influences.

These people all are great influences still, and I am happy for this dedicated time to studying art formally in San Francisco.

politics

I would say that my work changed significantly into politics after and during art school.

I took a job as a barista in a coffee shop near where I lived in the Castro neighborhood in San Francisco, called Jumpin' Java.

Then, I did some freelance work for The Learning Company, but took a full-time job as a baker in a worker-owned cooperative called Arizmendi Bakery located in the Sunset neighborhood of San Francisco, 9th Ave.

My boyfriend, John Briggs, worked at Yahoo!, and these jobs became a social complement to his tech life, and the tech life we shared in the Bay Area.

In general, those working in tech might have been making a lot of money, and could afford very fine things.

But, suddenly, I was in the class of people serving the tech people the fine things.

This dichotomy of economy gives San Francisco a lot of heart.

I am glad that I could carry that political work life as a balance to computer programming and Internet development.

For instance, it was a concentration on music and art, and also food, as central to living.

One might describe it as boho.

The politics in my opinion, were that it took little money to have the same niceties in some ways as the very rich.

I'm sure you find this aesthetic still very present in San Francisco.

We were serving from an artisan edge.

And the tech workers would come home to that artisan edge.

NYC

When I moved to the East Village, NYC in Fall 2005, I was very aware of my potential as an artist.

I was happy to be involved with Karthik Swaminathan, a psychology tech-artist and musician.

We had many nice times exploring Manhattan and beyond as close friends.

In 2006, I worked briefly with Mark Dagley and Lauri Bortz of Jersey City, NJ.

I was invited per a common acquaintance, Howard Ryan, a DJ of San Francisco.

I played some folk art music at a Sunday Salon, 100 Gifford Ave., Jersey City, NJ---a Victorian House on a large lot near a park owned by Mark Dagley and Lauri Bortz.

I then, recorded some music at the house, and took photos for a cummulative expression of my politic of the time, 'All The Little Ways': http://www.abatonbookcompany.us/corbiwright.html

I had some meaningful experiences in New York City.

I worked as a waitress at ReBoot.

I worked at The Ad Store per Scott Davis, also, Cowboy NYC per Dana Farbo and Ken Palen.

I should give credit to a month-long tour in support of 'All The Little Ways', early 2007 with Sharon Van Etten.

I lived in a few places in NYC, one notable was a location managed by Harlan Emil-Gruber on Grande Street in Little Italy, Soho.

I returned home to live with my parents in 2009.

At that time, I was very interested in Rastafari and reggae music.

My tastes had shifted mostly because of an encounter with a man named, Steven Nardi, also known as Firehorse the DJ.

I became very passionate about studying reggae music.

I even went to Jamaica for two or three weeks alone to encounter Firehorse the DJ in Negril, Jamaica, in early 2008.

When, I came home to Dublin, California in 2009, I would take the BART to San Francisco for reggae shows often, later found the African Outlet in Hayes Valley and spent a lot of time studying with Horgan and Judah Dwyer, Justine Filipello and many other friends at Grove and Ivy.

I would say that I made many friends in the San Francisco Rastafari movement and participated to the maximum for a five or seven years.

After that I held a position at Adobe Bookstore on 16th and Valencia as a part-time book clerk, under Andrew McKinley.

I also was able to participate in a backroom show in 2013.

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religion

At a certain point my politics gave way to God.

It was a moment when I didn't have anything to eat, and someone mentioned a foodbank at a church.

It was here I encountered God as an adult.

I had been studying Jah, and Jah Rastafari with the reggae dancehall movement for a few years.

It was out of necessity that Jah became God for me.

My family is LDS, and I honor my family's tradition always.

But, I also, have had great opportunities to study with many spiritual people on the Earth already.

I'm writing this in June 2020.

I took to attending the Quaker meeting in San Francisco.

Also, St. John Coltrane, Episcopal Church.

I considered my time at the African Outlet, and also my time at various reggae dancehalls to be very spiritual meetings. I would say much of my religion does come from those cultures at this point.

I became very interested in studying Catholicism, per a famous Dublin famous, the Rasmussen's.

I attending many morning masses at St. Raymonds in Dublin, California under the direction of Father Lawrence, and Father Bob.

I then became interested in Christian Science as a healing tool.

I was able to visit a Christian Science meeting house in Danville, CA with my friend Roland Janssen, also a reading room. Later I studied with Meghan Dunn, Linden, Brian and many others for a moment at the Berkeley Christian Science meeting houses.

I did put in some effort during this time to studying with the Relief Society, per the LDS Church in Dublin, California. I encountered many familiar faces, and found new friends as well.

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work

I am happy to be living in Utah now, Alpine, Utah.

I would say the past three years have been spent writing to the police and media and many colleagues, friends and various organizations looking for an answer in regards to a music recording I did in 2006.

I feel the proprietors of the arts organization might be working in high fraud.

Thank you,

Miss Corbi Wright, Monday, June 8, 2020 Alpine, UT