Maya Ciarrocchi (Canada/USA) is an interdisciplinary artist working across media in drawing, printmaking, video, and performance. Her projects center on the excavation of vanished histories, themes rooted in Queerness, and the experience of her Ashkenazi ancestry. Ciarrocchi investigates how displacement writes itself into generational consciousness by layering redrawn maps and architectural renderings of disappeared and imagined places. The resulting compositions construct new, fantastical spaces that offer possibilities for healing and remembrance.
Ciarrocchi's work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, and she has received residencies and fellowships from the Baryshnikov Arts Center, Bronx Museum of the Arts (AIM), LABA: A Laboratory for Jewish Culture, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (Process Space, Swing Space), MacDowell, Millay Arts, New York Artists Equity, UCross, and Wave Hill (Winter Workspace). She has received funding from foundations such as Bay and Paul, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Jerome Foundation, Mertz Gilmore, and project grants from Franklin Furnace Fund and MAP Fund. Ciarrocchi received a 2020 BRIO Award from the Bronx Council on the Arts and a 2021 grant from the Trust for Mutual Understanding. In addition to her studio practice, Ciarrocchi has created award-winning projection designs for dance and theater. Ciarrocchi earned an MFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, and a BFA from SUNY Purchase, Purchase, NY.
Tyler Rai
Tyler Rai is a movement artist, writer and researcher currently based in Nipmuc/Pocumtuc Territories (Western Massachusetts) who explores the implications of geologic movement and collaborative assembly through embodied practice. Her works are often site-responsive mediations that question how we embody kinship and relational empathy with the more-than-human-world. Her works have been performed at Judson Memorial Church, ARC Pasadena, SPACE Gallery, SWALE (a barge and floating food-forest), and The School for Contemporary Dance and Thought. Her writings have been published in Culturebot, Contact Quarterly, MA BIBLIOTHÈQUE’s ON CARE anthology, and John Hopkins Medical Magazine for the Humanities, Tendon Magazine. She has performed in the works of K.J.Holmes, Emily Johnson/Catalyst, Bouchra Ouizguen, Athena Kokoronis/Domestic Performance Agency, and Mina Nishimura. She is a founding member of the collaborative curatorial platform, ERRATICS, with artists/researchers Nina Elder and Hannah Perrine Mode, an Artist Fellow with the In Kinship Collective, and is the instigator of the temporal collective, Hungry Mothers (www.hungrymothers.org).
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Scott Szegeski
Scott Szegeski is a New Jersey-based surfer and artist who is known for his gyotaku art and surf-inspired interpretations of Japanese printing.
Szegeski presents a unique blend of traditional Japanese printmaking, surf culture and history, mixed with travel nostalgia through as seen through the eyes of an avid surfer and cultural entrepreneur.
After years printing a variety of his own surfboards while working in his family’s restaurant group, requests for Szegeski’s gyotaku prints from local surfers and galleries gained momentum. Those looking to carve out a memory in time of their favorite surfboard sought-out Szegeski’s work inspired by a century’s old Japanese fish printing process.
Perrin Ireland
Perrin Ireland is a visual storyteller at the Natural Resources Defense Council. She uses doodles to report on the science behind environmental issues. She is also a trained graphic facilitator, with experience scribing high level visioning sessions and conferences around the country.
KC Trommer
KC Trommer is the author of We Call Them Beautiful (Diode Editions, 2019) as well as the chapbook The Hasp Tongue (dancing girl press, 2014). She is the founder of the online audio project QUEENSBOUND. With Spencer Reece, she co-curates the weekly Red Door Series at St. Mark’s Church. She lives in Jackson Heights, Queens, with her son.
Kate Liebman
Kate Liebman is an artist who lives and works in New York. By working serially, she tests whether seeing leads to understanding. Her work attends to the passage of time -- time as recorded in history, art history and memory. She investigates the overlap and interplay between the personal and collective, between the self and the screen, and how the tension between remembering and forgetting impacts these subjects. She graduated from Columbia University with her MFA in 2019, and Yale College with her BA in 2013. She has received residencies and grants from the Lower East Side Printshop, the Vermont Studio Center, the Institute for Investigative Living at AZ West in Joshua Tree, and the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation. Her work has been exhibited at LatchKey Gallery, the Wallach Gallery at the Lenfest Center for the Arts, 15 Orient, the LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies, the Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina, MX, Ortega y Gasset, FringeArts Philadelphia, Montez Press Radio, and the Jewish Museum of New York. In addition to being part of the Soho House Collections, her work has been reviewed on WKCR, Hyperallergic, and Two Coats of Paint. She has taught at Columbia University, Sussex County Community College, and the Manhattan Graphics Center.
John Atkinson
John Atkinson is a Brooklyn-based sound artist, as well as a writer on energy and environmental issues. As part of Aa (“Big A little a”), a group of percussion-heavy experimentalists and mainstays of the Brooklyn 2000s DIY music scene, he released several albums and toured the US, Europe, and Australia. His solo work transmutes and disfigures field recordings to create hyperreal soundscapes, evoking the ways in which "nature" and processes of environmental change have become inextricable from the manmade in the era of climate change.
Elizabeth Webb
Elizabeth M. Webb is an artist and filmmaker originally from Charlottesville, VA. Her work is invested in issues surrounding race and identity, often using the lens of her own family history of migration and racial passing to explore larger, systemic constructs. She has screened and exhibited in the U.S., United Kingdom, Canada, Japan, Ecuador, Singapore, Switzerland, Mexico, Spain, Austria, Norway and Germany and was a recipient of the inaugural Allan Sekula Social Documentary Award in 2014. Elizabeth holds a dual MFA in Film/Video and Photography/Media from California Institute of the Arts and is an alumna of the Whitney Independent Study Program in Studio Art, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and the Core Program at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston. She was Fall 2019 Visiting Faculty in Sculpture and Extended Media at Virginia Commonwealth University. Since 2015 she has been the Creative Producer for Arts in a Changing America and in 2020 worked on the launch of the Cultural New Deal for Cultural and Racial Justice. She is currently co-editing an anthology with Roberta Uno and Daniela Alvarez entitled FUTURE/PRESENT: Culture in a Changing America solicited by Duke University Press.
Electric Djinn
Electric Djinn is an American-born New York City-based electronic music producer, performer, and inter-disciplinary artist.
Electric Djinn is an American-born New York City-based electronic music producer, performer, and inter-disciplinary artist.
She works on site specific multi-media installations, performance and live music. These include the use of sound design, electronic music, projected video, dance, and extended reality technology.
Her sound/music incorporates the production of electronic, virtual music instrumentation with the infusion of healing frequencies and modalities such as singing bowls and chanting, binaural beats, and isochronic tones. She holds certificates as a sound healing practitioner and includes this knowledge in her music/sound compositions.
Presently she is working on an ongoing series of inter-disciplinary works entitled “Liminal Bodies | Parts 1-4”
Electric Djinn also collaborates with visual/performance artists, dancers, and film and video makers.
She has collaborated with and is a founding member of “Extended Reality Ensemble” This group explores Extended Reality and Mixed reality performances, dealing with technology in art.
Other past notable collaborations are with Maria Hupfield, performing live music/sound at the Brooklyn Museum’s Target First Saturdays for “The Kind Of Dream You’ve Never Seen,”. "The One Who Keeps On Giving" at Galerie U’QUÀM in Montreal. “Electric Prop and Hum" at Gibney Dance Space in New York City. She has received a Bessie Award as a contributing artist and is a recent recipient of the Foundation for Contemporary Arts emergency grant.
Her sound/music incorporates the production of electronic, virtual music instrumentation with the infusion of healing frequencies and modalities such as singing bowls and chanting, binaural beats, and isochronic tones. She holds certificates as a sound healing practitioner and includes this knowledge in her music/sound compositions.
Presently she is working on an ongoing series of inter-disciplinary works entitled “Liminal Bodies | Parts 1-4”
Electric Djinn also collaborates with visual/performance artists, dancers, and film and video makers. She has collaborated with and is a founding member of “Extended Reality Ensemble” This group explores Extended Reality and Mixed reality performances, dealing with technology in art.
Other past notable collaborations are with Maria Hupfield, performing live music/sound at the Brooklyn Museum’s Target First Saturdays for “The Kind of Dream You’ve Never Seen,”. "The One Who Keeps on Giving" at Galerie U’QUÀM in Montreal. “Electric Prop and Hum" at Gibney Dance Space in New York City. She has received a Bessie Award as a contributing artist and is a recent recipient of the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant.
Amy Wetsch
Amy is a NYC based multidisciplinary artist and educator originating from Louisville, Kentucky. Her artistic practice spans from creating installations, paintings, drawings, mixed media sculptures, to publicly engaged works. Amy’s work examines the intersections of various sciences and investigates ideas of the internal and external struggles of the human body. Her work focuses on lifting chronically ill voices while shedding light on the mistrust in our modern-day medical systems. Another large facet of her practice focuses on collaborating with people in diverse scientific fields such as planetary scientists from Johns Hopkins University and NASA. She believes there is a healing power emitted when communities come together to reflect on the wonder and awe of the world around us and the power of the human imagination.
Amy received her BFA from Western Kentucky University (WKU) and her MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in the Mount Royal School of Multidisciplinary Art. Amy has exhibited her work in various galleries and museums nationally, including The Kentucky Museum, The National Academy of Sciences, The Museum of Contemporary Art Nashville, and in galleries throughout New York City. Amy has attended artist residencies such as the Trestle Art Space Residency and the Post Contemporary Residency. She was selected as a 2018 HEMI/MICA Extreme Arts Fellow, a 2018 National Academy of Sciences fellow, and selected for a 2019 European Space Agency conference in Madrid, Spain. Amy is also a lead artist on the newly selected NASA mission, Dragonfly.
Cody Ann Herrmann
Cody Ann Herrmann is an artist and community organizer based in Flushing, Queens, NYC. Guided by her interest in public space, participatory design methods, and urban resilience Cody’s work often explores urban planning processes by applying an iterative, human centered approach to ecological problem solving. Since 2014 her work has focused on her hometown of Flushing, creating projects critiquing policy related to land use, local development, and environmental planning in areas surrounding Flushing Bay and Creek. Cody currently is a member of Guardians of Flushing Bay, and Queens Community Board 7. She has been the recipient of the Culture Push Climate Justice Fellowship, More Art Engaging Artists Fellowship, Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning Artist in Residency Fellowship, and Works on Water Residency.
Elizabeth Velazquez
Elizabeth Velazquez is an interdisciplinary artist and a public school visual arts educator. She is one of the founding members of SEQAA- the Southeast Queens Artist Alliance, which is an artist collective focused on working in SEQ. In 2020 she participated in the Winter Workspace Residency Program at Wave Hill, located in the Bronx. Velázquez has exhibited and performed at venues throughout New York, including Cigar Factory, Knockdown Center, and NARS Foundation.
