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.
Kamau Ware
Kamau Ware is a multidimensional creative blending complementary yet disparate disciplines as an Artist / Historian. Ware retells and expands history with scholarship and visual storytelling to fuse creativity and learning into one experience. He is best known for his flagship storytelling project, Black Gotham Experience (BGX), which is an immersive multimedia project founded in 2010 that reimagines the African Diaspora as one unified epic through a series of experiences including walks, talks, media, and events. Kamau Ware is the author of a forthcoming graphic novel series based on the five core historic walks of the Black Gotham Experience.
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.
Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow
Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow is a 1.5 generation Jamaican-American interdisciplinary artist living and working in Queens, NY. Her work often explores performance and installation art drawing from the nostalgia of her homeland, Caribbean folklore, fantasy, feminism, globalism, spirituality, environmentalism, and migration.
She holds a BFA with honors from New World School of the Arts, University of Florida and an MFA from Hunter College, CUNY. Lyn-Kee-Chow’s exhibitions of note include “Jamaican Pulse: Art and Politics from Jamaica and the Diaspora”, Royal West Academy of England, Bristol, UK (2016), a special project commission at “Jamaica Biennial”, The National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, JA (2017), “Live Action 12” in Gothenburg, Sweden (2017), Guangzhou Live 5: International Performance Art Festival, China (2014).
Lyn-Kee-Chow’s work has garnered a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship Award in Interdisciplinary Art (2012), Rema Hort Mann Artist in Community Engagement Award (2017), Franklin Furnace Fund (2017-18), Culture Push Fellowship for Utopian Practice (2018), and Queens Art Fund (2019). She is also a faculty member at School of Visual Arts, NY.
https://www.jodielynkeechow.com/
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Emily Blumenfeld
Emily Blumenfeld is a public art consultant, curator and art historian with expertise in strategic planning, artist selection, exhibition production, media relations, and working with artists to ensure the maximum impact of their work. Emily curated the 2018 Bloomberg Philanthropies Public Art Challenge project Inspiring Community Healing After Gun Violence: The Power of Art in the cities of Coral Springs and Parkland, FL with the Coral Springs Museum of Art, develops public art plans and manages large-scale integrated design projects in NYC.
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.
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Eve Mosher
Eve Mosher is a cultural change entrepreneur working at the frontline of climate change and the urban environment. She creates space for possible futures. Her work explores individual agency in transforming the systems that have led to this moment. She is uplifting what is possible through creative engagement, multi-sensory collaboration and radical imagination. She has been creatively working on the climate crisis since 2007, but none of her previous experience, accolades, press or degrees have adequately prepared her for the moment we are in.
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.
Gab Cody, Sam Turich, & Philip Sanchez
Daylighting the Stream is an immersive, hypnagogic exploration of the subconscious mind, buoyed by scientific and documentary material. We draw parallels between bodies of water and our bodies made-of-water, and the interplay between the conscious, subconscious and dreaming minds. Participants will believe they are dreaming.
Daylighting the Stream draws inspiration from the subterranean rivers of New York and Pittsburgh. “Daylighting” describes an infrastructure project that re-exposes natural waterways that had been covered for urban development. Following successful daylightings of Seoul’s Cheonggyecheon and the Sawmill River in downtown Yonkers, NY, a daylighting of the Panther Hollow waterway in Pittsburgh is underway. The immersive encounters are intensely personal, and give participants layers of agency that encourage them to confront their roles in the past, present and future of human interactions with water and waterways. Urban development has buried the constant movement of water under our feet, but these streams from the past still exist, waiting to be rediscovered. Daylighting these streams exposes humanity’s past interactions with water, and provides a map to our future relationship with this most important natural resource.
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Jean Carla Rodea
Jean Carla Rodea is an interdisciplinary artist and educator from Mexico City and currently based in Brooklyn, NY. Her work involves a variety of disciplines and mediums such as music, sound, performance, movement, photography, video, and sculpture.
Her artistic practice deals with spaces and instances where socio-political and cultural constructs are rendered visible through multi-media installations and performance.
Rodea is invested in understanding how time is insistently constructed through memory and how these memories whether embodied or recorded in spaces are documented and re/constructed. Archival research – whether it takes place in an institution or her personal archive – often leads her to draw from fiction and speculative history around documents, physical traces, and spaces. Rodea has performed extensively and shown work at Roulette, Carnegie Hall, BRIC, Knockdown Center, Judson Church, Danspace, Center for Performance Research, Panoply Lab, Rio ll Gallery, The Clemente, El Museo de Los Sures, to mention a few.