Wrong Gallery Profile, Dwell Magazine

Wrong Gallery Profile, Dwell Magazine

Wrong Gallery Profile, Dwell Magazine

The Curators and Dealers Making the Next Generation of Design Stars in America

2025

Celebrating its 15th anniversary this year, Wrong—the multihyphenate storefront, gallery, and bar known for its wild and wonderful curation of approachable art—is a veritable feast for any design lover who finds themself in Marfa. With a population of 1,641, the town has long drawn fans of Donald Judd to the West Texas desert, but now appeals with its own eclectic creative scene.

Read the full article here

Photos by Alex Marks.

Run AMOC* Festival

Run AMOC* Festival

Run AMOC* Festival

American Modern Opera Company (AMOC*)

2025

The American Modern Opera Company (AMOC*) is a leading force among today's most innovative and visionary operatic ensembles. From June 18 - July 16, 2025, the Run AMOC* Festival took over Lincoln Center's campus, moving fluidly between the spectacular and the intimate with twelve unique performances.

As creative lead for the project at Cause Lab, I owned art direction across static & digital content and messaging development from end to end. I developed the rollout and continued marketing strategy for the campaign, and tapped artist relationships to create meaningful content. The campaign effectively fostered grassroots momentum through compelling storytelling and consistent digital presence, featuring curated content including behind-the-scenes footage, artist interviews, teaser videos, and performance highlights.

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Photos by Lawrence Sumulong, Shuran Huang, and Steven Pisano.

Together We Solve Tomorrow Convening

Together We Solve Tomorrow Convening

Together We Solve Tomorrow Convening

Robin Hood Foundation

2025

Poverty was designed, prosperity can be too.

Together We Solve Tomorrow was a convening hosted by the Robin Hood Foundation to mark five years of its Mobility LABs initiative, a $25 million investment across nine U.S. communities focused on advancing economic mobility. The event brought together community leaders, organizers, and funders to reflect on systems that perpetuate poverty and to imagine more equitable, community-led futures. Through keynote conversations, interactive sessions, and shared storytelling, the convening centered belonging, power, and prosperity as essential drivers of systemic change.

With Cause Lab and Soze, I served as lead copywriter and co-directed creative and strategy for the convening. Our work included creating the event's visual identity and leading on spatial and environmental collateral.

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Photos by Robin Hood Foundation.

Common Senses Festival

Common Senses Festival

Common Senses Festival

Omaha, Nebraska

2025

Based in Omaha, Nebraska, Common Senses Festival is a citywide platform of disability-centered art and culture created to amplify disabled artists, expand access, and reimagine what it looks like to belong in public space. Since launching in 2022, the festival has grown into an annual month-long celebration featuring sensory friendly events, installations, conversations, and participatory experiences that invite audiences to rethink what access truly is.

At Cause Lab, I shaped the festival's creative direction and narrative framework, aligning partners around a clear vision and accessible-first messaging. I led the development of the festival's visual system and guided the creation of an integrated suite of print, digital, and environmental deliverables, ensuring every touchpoint reinforced both brand cohesion and inclusion.

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Photos by Debra Kaplan.

Permeabilities

Permeabilities

Permeabilities

Harvard Urban Review

2024

Tianaxia (天下) or 'under heaven' is the collective of all living in a place. From this vantage, I assembled photographs as a conversation with the denizens of Columbus Park in New York City for Harvard Urban Review. The work reads as a microcosm of Robert Frank's The Americans. Much like Frank, I documented things no one would witness had someone not photographed them.

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Archive of Desire Festival

Archive of Desire Festival

Archive of Desire Festival

Onassis Foundation

2023

The Onassis Foundation's Archive of Desire Festival involved a multitude of activations inspired by the life and work of the Alexandrian poet C.P. Cavafy. The interdisciplinary programming included art presentations, short film screenings, poetry readings, literary discussions, and other live events. The festival saw contributions from Nick Cave, Laurie Anderson, Robin Coste Lewis, Julie Mehretu & Juliana Huxtable, among others.

At Cause Lab, I served as the primary contact for all advertising, design, and marketing needs, coordinating across 10+ organizations and countless departments to ensure smooth production. I owned creative direction and copy development from end to end.

The campaign goals were to increase brand awareness and provide a sophisticated platform to showcase artists and creatives – and create an audience to match. The brand was exposed to 40+ million impressions between our out-of-home advertising and digital marketing, including subway, press, and guerrilla techniques. We increased engagement by 64.7% in a three month period.

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Interrogative Design: Cultural Prosthetics

Interrogative Design: Cultural Prosthetics

Interrogative Design: Cultural Prosthetics

Kirkland Gallery, Harvard University Graduate School of Design

2022

Interrogative Design: Cultural Prosthetics presented work from a design studio committed to advocacy — one that asked designers to critically examine and respond to the existential, communicative, and survival needs of estranged, marginalized, and excluded persons and communities.

Each project took the form of a design intervention that refuses to accept these needs as inevitable. Rather than treating social exclusion as background noise, the works reframe it as a design problem: one that demands imagination, responsibility, and dissent. Through alternate modes of representation and embodied experience, the projects address a range of urgent contemporary issues: the policing of gender and the body, the psychic toll of military service, menstrual stigma, water scarcity, economic inequality, and the invisible architectures of cultural conformity.

Exhibition notes here

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Interview with David Godshall, Terremoto

Interview with David Godshall, Terremoto

Interview with David Godshall, Terremoto

Harvard Graduate School of Design

2022

I interviewed David Godshall for an interview series titled Talking Architecture, as part of Harvard's Spring 2022 programming. David is the founder and principal of Terremoto, a landscape architecture studio based out of Los Angeles and San Francisco, California.

Watch full interview here

Photos by Rio Asch Phoenix, Caitlin Atkinson, and Terremoto.

The Sun Rises and Sets in Revere Beach

The Sun Rises and Sets in Revere Beach

The Sun Rises and Sets in Revere Beach

Harvard Graduate School of Design

2021

Revere Beach itself is a process: eventual and unrelenting, it's the manifestation of competing narratives and stories interlocked together. It's constructed but natural; seagulls crack open unlucky clams next to reclining people in lawn chairs breathing the briny, salty air. Things grow in Revere Beach: sea moss, kelp, crustaceans, birds, dogs, even people, coexist in direct view, but deeper visions of the landscape become apparent too. It's where competing architectures occur, setting fast-fabricated condos alongside sharp-edged public housing. Shuttered ice cream shops live within the sand; just as the tide slowly retracts all of what grows back within unknown grey waters, Revere Beach, of its own, exists as a space of minute change, but constant nonetheless. The beach pulls and pushes, bringing dog-walkers and broken seashells to the same sandy banks. Populated but sparse, Revere questions how the coastal landscape can be read. The ocean is the end of the “land”-scape, or is it? A space in flux, with progressive narratives visible and unnoticed by us, The Sun Rises & Sets in Revere emerges.

“What was it that the metropolitan district sought to secure when it purchased this costly sea-coast reservation? It was the grand and refreshing sight of the natural sea beach, with its long, simple curve, and its open view of the ocean. Nothing in the world presents a more striking contrast to the jumbled, noisy scenery of a great town; and this being the case, it seems to us that to place buildings on the beach is consciously to sacrifice the most refreshing characteristic of a sea-beach, and the most valuable element to the people is property therein.” — Charles Eliot, Landscape Architect

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Trent Bullion

Trent Bullion is a strategist, writer, researcher, and curator based in New York, working within social impact, design, and the built environment. He is currently Creative Director at Cause Lab, where he leads creative production, strategy, and institutional communications for organizations serving the arts and civic life. His work has supported institutions including the Onassis Foundation, Lincoln Center, National Sawdust, the Robin Hood Foundation, and St. Ann's Warehouse.

Bullion's research centers on the anthropology of space and how space-making is shaped by taste, scarcity, and other social codes that dictate the form of the built environment. He is particularly drawn to creative and experimental forms of ethnography as a way of substantiating this research, treating fieldwork itself as a design practice. His writing has appeared in Dwell, Harvard Urban Review, and Third Place Magazine.

He holds a Master of Design with Distinction in Critical Conservation from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, where he was named a Dean's Merit Scholar and a Kirkland Artist in Residence. A fifth-generation Texan, he received his Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology, History, and Archaeology from the University of Texas at Austin, graduating with special honors in all three fields as a Presidential Scholar and Liberal Arts Honor Scholar.

He has an appreciation for the intentional, avant-garde, and effervescent and seeks to incorporate these principles into his life and practice. He likes the smell of cut grass and fresh laundry.

He is based in New York, New York.

bullionst@gmail.com
@dirtytrent

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