About me

Jeremy Crandell has been supporting artists in their work for two decades.

Enabling Art

The role of the producer is to help the artist realize their vision. Sometimes that vision is greater than the artist’s experience and a broader perspective, network and expertise is required to see the project through. This is what I term enabling art.

Experience

From the basics of understanding the requirements of physical labor to conceptual imaginings I bring a range of experience that enable new and often challenging projects to be realized.

Owner

St Louise Studios
July 2007 – Present
Oakland, CA
Industrial arts studio for working artists and cutting edge businesses.

Board of Directors

The Crucible
Nov 2005 – Present
Oakland, CA
The Crucible is a nonprofit educational collaboration of arts, industry and community. We teach classes in glass, metal and more to youth and working adults. Founded in 1999, we offer over 100 classes a quarter and engage with 10,000 people in our programs annually.

Project Manager

UAP
November 2021 – March 2022
Oakland, CA, New York, NY and AlUla, Saudia Arabia
Project managed the realization of seven new works of art for Desert X in AlUla, Saudi Arabia. Working in conjunction with the artists I managed a team to design, engineer, fabrication, transport, install and support novel works in a desert canyon over a three month period.

Director of Operations

East Bay FeedER
Mar 2020 – Jun 2020
Oakland, California

Designed, managed, and directed the operational structure and day-to-day coordination of accurate and safe delivery of meals from restaurants to care facilities. This effort was stood up in a period of ten days providing service for four months. Entire effort was coordinated remotely implementing simplest common technologies built on top of processes and software unique to the challenge.

The team of 120 volunteers worked together to deliver over 33,000 meals to hospitals, community health clinics and testing sites and sustained dozens of independent restaurants. Over 5,000 donors contributed $60,000 which kept over 100 restaurant workers employed and worked to the benefit of our San Francisco East Bay community.

Project Manager

Burning Man Project
May 2016 – November 2019
San Francisco, CA and Black Rock City, NV

Co-Founder, Product Manager

Brightmail
January 1998 – December 2000
San Francisco, CA
Brightmail is an email system protection platform that intelligently identifies and stops spam attacks before they flood MTAs and mailstores. Initially partnering with Symantec to deliver realtime virus protection, the company was purchased by Symantec in 2004 and remains the core of their enterprise email protection product.

Project Manager, Product Marketer, Sr. Technical Producer

America Online
February 1995 – November 1997
Washington, DC Metro Area