Our Team:

Cletus Dalglish-Schommer

Chief Creative Director

Cletus brings an interdisciplinary approach to translating challenges into opportunities and developing creative solutions. Before launching the branding consultancy, HotWaterGroup, in Los Angeles, Cletus worked with Ogilvy & Mather Interactive, and managed business development and national marketing programs for American Express in New York. Cletus also teaches at Otis College of Art and Design.

Erik Qvale

Public Art Director

Erik Qvale is a public art and design consultant with experience working with multiple government agencies, arts organizations, and private developers to provide project management in the fields of Public Art, Design, Fine Art, and Real Estate Development.

His experience includes the coordination of artist/architect design collaborations for permanent and temporary art projects. His management services include the facilitation of the artist selection process, community participation, design development through to fabrication and installation, and the administration of contracts and budgets.

Tucker Neel

Curator, Project Manager

Tucker Neel brings extensive art, writing, curatorial and project management experience to Praccis.

As Fine Arts Coordinator for the 2007 Live Earth concerts he curated and organized fine artists from around the globe, including Vik Muniz, Scott Grieger, Katie Holten and Peter Blake, to create unique posters to raise money for Al Gore’s Alliance For Climate Protection, a non-profit dedicated to fighting the causes of global warming. At the same time he collaborated with THE_GROOP, an award-winning online branding company in Los Angeles and project managed an international selection of graphic designers and artists to create dynamic venue-specific identities, t-shirts, posters, and stage sets for each of the seven Live Earth concerts.

As curatorial assistant to Joanne Stuhr Curatorial Services in Tucson, AZ he managed and archived multi-million dollar private collections of contemporary, modern, and Pre-Columbian art.

He currently manages and edits the collected works of Marcia Tucker, founder of The New Museum in New York City, compiling and archiving these writings for future publication.

Additionally, he is Vice President and co-editor for GYST-Ink, an arts services company providing software, classes and support to artists to help them develop their professional practice and build business skills.

As an artist he has shown in venues across the US and has been reviewed in The L.A. Times, The Nashville Scene, ArtWeek, The Tennessean, The LA City Beat, artforum.com and flavorpill.com. You can see his complete projects at tuckerneel.com

He regularly publishes his writings about art in the L.A. Alternative Newspaper and Artillery Magazine in Los Angeles and Art Lies in Huston. You can read his published writings at tuckerneel.wordpress.com.

He founded (323) Projects in 2010. (323) Projects exists to provide a dispersed, peripatetic, and constantly accessible venue for artists of all kinds who seek to explore issues important to their respective practices. The artists involved with (323) Projects provide, create, or perform works that can be appreciated in bits and pieces, and at more than one time, in both public and private spaces, by an unseen, yet omnipresent, local and international audience. You can access (323) Projects by dialing (323) 843-4652 or (323) TIE-IN-LA. For more information visit www.323projects.com

Aiming for LEED

Platinum certification and minimal construction waste, the project takes advantage of the features of a narrow lot in the hills of Silverlake, Los Angeles.

For more information visit gateprojects.org

Los Angeles, CA, 2009

Community Redevelopment Agency of the City of Los Angeles

Industrial Redevelopment Project Area, Downtown Region

Erik Qvale as CRA/LA Contracted Consultant

Los Angeles, CA, 2007

Community Redevelopment Agency of the City of Los Angeles

Tokyo Redevelopment Project Area, Downtown Region

Erik Qvale as CRA/LA Contracted Consultant

Designed to raise funds and bring new audiences to the LA Botanical Gardens, Terabyte is an innovative annual cultural event blending technology nature art and music. Daglish-Schommer designed the marketing strategy and art direction for this event, bringing together a diverse pool of talent, from Djs like Starfish and EEZIR to NASA, who used the event to highlight their Spitzer Space Telescope. The entire event was held under a dynamic bamboo sculpture designed by the cutting-edge design firm Levitas. Over 1600 people attended the event raising, significant funds and generating visibility and press for the venue and all involved.

Terrabyte 2

Following up on the popular and critical success of the first Terrabyte event, Praccis spearheaded Terrabyte 2. Directly involved in the design of the event’s new Ecolab pavilion, Praccis helped make this event a success resulting in a doubling of attendance from the previous years.