of Ideas for the New City in 2011, where she presented The Water Tank Project, and at PolicyLink Equity Summit 2011 in Detroit, where she was a guest speaker. She is also developing a curriculum for the Earth Institute at Columbia University on art and advocacy. Jordan spoke on The Water Tank Project and the intersection of art and advocacy at the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia conference at the Venice Architecture Biennale on October 3, 2012. In September 2013 Jordan spoke at the Social Good Summit along with Al Gore, Melinda Gates and other. She inspired the crowd with a speech on water that had the audience chanting "put water above all" Jordan has become a speaker for water and sustainability and has spoken at educational institutions such as NYU, Columbia University and the New School. Filmmaker Mary Jordan’s first feature-length film, Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis, produced by the American artist Richard Prince, was named one of the top ten A-list movies of 2007 by Entertainment Weekly. Exhibited worldwide, it received the Tribeca Film Festival Jury Award, the Best Documentary Award from the Torino International Film Festival, the Jury Award for the International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film and the Jury Award for Extraordinary Documentary Film Talent. Noted for its boundary-breaking aesthetic, it was exhibited at the Venice Biennial, Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, Brisbane Powerhouse, ISSUE Project Room, and Nuit Blanche in Paris, and has been utilized by film schools around the globe, including NYU and the New School. On September 19, 2002, Jordan filmed an interview with Branford Marsalis for Marsalis Music. Filmmaker Magazine named Jordan one of the top 25 New Faces of Independent Film in 2005 The recipient of grants from Judith Rothschild, the Agnes Gund Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and Frameline, Jordan was also one of the first artists to be invited to perform in Performa, the highly acclaimed Performance Art Biennial in New York City run by Roselee Goldberg. Mary Jordan was featured in Nathan Shedroff’s book Experience Design first published by New Riders and now Experience Design Books. Shedroff is an experience strategist and has designed experiences in a variety of media, especially interactive and information design and branding. In his book he lists 100 great design experiences including Mary Jordan’s performance series, The Burmese Tea Ceremony. Her own background as a painter, artist, and