Background
Townsend, Landa was born on February 20, 1958 in Portsmouth, Virginia, United States. Daughter of Joseph and Sally Mae (Benson) Townsend.
Townsend, Landa was born on February 20, 1958 in Portsmouth, Virginia, United States. Daughter of Joseph and Sally Mae (Benson) Townsend.
Student, University Maine, 1976-1978; Master of Fine Arts, San Francisco The Art Institute of Chicago, 1985; Bachelor of Fine Arts, Syracuse University, 1983.
Teaching associate, San Francisco The Art Institute of Chicago, 1984-1985;
visiting faculty member, San Francisco The Art Institute of Chicago, 1995;
molecular biologist, IMBB/University of California, San Francisco, 1985-1987;
molecular biologist, Triton Bioscis., Alameda, California, 1987-1989;
visiting vaculty member, Mendocino (California) Art Center, 1991;
environmental artist, Capp Street Project, San Francisco, 1992-1993;
environmental restoration artist, Dublin (California) Fine Art Commission, since 1994. Artist-in-residence Kohler (Wisconsin) Arts/Industry, 1990, The Lab, San Francisco, 1994, Sika Center for Art and Ecology, Otis, Oregon, 1996. Djerassi artist in residence, Woodside, California, 1996.
Environmental restoration artist Marin County Open Space District, 1997.
Married Joe Kin Wing Ng, May 2, 1992.