Group 6

Maya Shah

Maya Shah is an art advisor and cultural producer based in Lenapehoking aka New York City. She works collaboratively with artists, collectors and organizations to help realize their vision, further their creative endeavors and support their long-term goals. Recent projects include: management of Papo Colo’s artist republic in the rainforest of Puerto Rico including its site planning and resiliency efforts following Hurricane Maria, strategic consultation for Jane Dickson through the publication of her recent monograph by Anthology Editions and legacy planning and strategy for Sir Frank Bowling.

Maya has held leadership roles at auction houses and art advisory firms in Philadelphia and New York City.  She serves as Curator and Project Manager with Suzanne Randolph Fine Arts for public art projects throughout New York City. Trained as an architect, her collaborative design work as Project Director for the International Design Clinic, has been exhibited in the U.S. Pavilion at the 13th International Architecture Exhibition at the Venice Biennale and at the Museum of Modern Art as part of “Uneven Growth: Tactical Urbanism for Expanding Megacities.” She is also a performance artist and member of the absurdist circus theater company Visceral Abstractions. 

 www.mayashah.art

www.visceralabstractions.com

Ella Mahoney

Ella Mahoney is a member of Wampanoag Tribe of GayHead (Aquinnah); an artist, illustrator, and teacher. Primarily working in oil, acrylic, and most recently silk paint; her work is based in storytelling and draws inspiration from creation stories; as well as from narratives of her personal experience of indigeneity through lenses of love and nature. Her recent projects explore large scale silk painting and installation as a medium that invites people to play and participate in creating comfortable, loving spaces connecting them to each other and the surrounding environments.

Zoey Hart

Zoey Hart (she/her) is an interdisciplinary collage artist and cultural educator based in Bushwick, Brooklyn, and the current director of the Art and Disability Residency Program at Art Beyond Sight. Guided by the [mis]adventures of chronic illness, invisible disability and the bureaucracies of modern medicine, Hart’s work represents [ill/well]nesses across frameworks of biological, environmental and conceptual bodies. Combining traditional drawing techniques with alternative printmaking, collage, soft science/soft sculpture collaboration and social practice design, Hart creates media, documents, performances, art objects and installations to reframe cultural perceptions of access, rest, imperfection and wellbeing. 

andrea haenggi

andrea haenggi (she/they) leads the artist project as an EPA agent. Swiss-born, she is breathing and working in Lenapehoking / New York City. Calling on plants as her guides, teachers, mentors, and performers, her body-based artist work evolves through somatic public fieldwork, dance and studio practice and creates a form of theater called Ethnochoreobotanography using choreographies, gatherings, performances, art installations and soft activist actions in response to decolonization, migration, feminism, labor, care and (re)-building multispecies futures. As part of this work, she co-founded the collective the Environmental Performance Agency in 2017. Appropriating the acronym EPA - in response to the ongoing rollback of Federal environmental policy at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the collective’s primary goal is to shift thinking around the terms environment, performance, and agency.

weedychoreography.com and environmentalperformanceagency.com

Sarah Cameron Sunde

Sarah Cameron Sunde is an interdisciplinary artist and director working at the intersection of performance, video, and public art, investigating scale and duration in relationship to the human body, the environment, and deep time. She was recently awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to complete her ongoing series, 36.5 / A Durational Performance with the Sea (2013 - present). Other honors include two MAP Fund Grants, NYSCA, Watermill Center Residency, Baryshnikov Residency, Princess Grace Award, and ongoing support from Invoking the Pause. Solo exhibitions include The Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA; NYU Gallatin Galleries, New York, NY; Oude Kerk, Amsterdam; and Te Uru Waitākere Contemporary Gallery, Tamaki Makaurau-Auckland. She holds a B.A. in Theater from UCLA and an M.F.A. in Digital and Interdisciplinary Art Practice from The City College of New York, CUNY

SarahCameronSunde.com  + www.36pt5.org

sTo Len

sTo Len is a genre fluid artist with interests in printmaking, installation, sound, video and performance. The cross-disciplinary nature of Len's work includes ongoing collaborations with bodies of water, transforming public space into art studios, recycling waste into art materials, and hosting performances at Superfund sites. sTo Len is based in Queens, NY with familial roots in Vietnam and Virginia, and his work incorporates these bonds by connecting issues of their history, environment, traditions and politics. As part of WoW, Len created the Newtown Creek Center for Visual Research in Maspeth, Queens, and WoW Radio, a water-themed pirate radio show on Governors Island. www.stoishere.com