Collective

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

Nancy Nowacek

Nancy Nowacek is an artist and designer. Her work focuses on the habits and practices of daily life as they relate to the natural and built environment, and the systems that produce and are produced in them. Her practice encompasses a wide spectrum of research: climate change, land use, the labor and leisure, and feminism and aging. She has shown work in the United States, Canada, China, the Netherlands, and Venezuela. She is co-founder of artist collective Works on Water and teaches at the Stevens Institute of Technology. She is currently Education Artist-in-Residence at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.

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.

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.

evemosher.com

Carolyn Hall

Carolyn Hall is a Brooklyn, NY based Bessie award winning freelance dancer/performer, historical marine ecologist, and science communication instructor. As a freelance ecologist her research focuses on the past and present impacts humans have on shoreline ecosystems and the creatures within them. She is increasingly invested in combining her artist and scientist halves in public processes to make data-rich science more understandable, embodied, and memorable for the general public.
For her WoW residency, she will be asking questions about New York City’s long history and current relationship to fish and fisheries through an installation and embodiment of timelines. Timelines that span from "prehistory" to today. Timelines that explore connections stemming from documentations of fish species in NYC waters to our past and current questions about residence, im/migration, fluid boundaries, consumption, the value of an object vs. a living contributor to an ecosystem, and economy.
photo credit: Tara Duffy

http://www.carolynjhall.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

Nicki Pombier

Nicki Pombier is an oral historian, writer and educator, and founding editor of Underwater New York. Her work in oral history engages the arts, disability justice and social change, with a particular focus on how to be a narrative ally, collaborating across ability. She is passionate about teaching and learning, and works with undergraduates at the College of Performing Arts at The New School and graduate students in the Oral History Master of Arts Program at Columbia University.

In all that Nicki does, she strives to work oral historically—deeply invested in co-creation, grounded in listening, with a rigorous ethic around stewarding stories into the world, in the labor of belief that doing this work might create better conditions for justice, repair, restoration, and restitution.

More about Nicki’s work can be found at www.nickipombier.com

Clarinda Mac Low

Clarinda Mac Low began in dance and molecular biology and now creates participatory events investigating social constructs and corporeal experience. She is Executive of Culture Push, an organization linking artistic practice and civic engagement, and one of the co-founders and core team members of Works on Water. Mac Low’s recent work includes: “Sunk Shore,” a speculative tour of the future; “Incredible Witness,” game-based investigation of the sensory origins of empathy; “Free the Orphans,” spiritual and intellectual implications of intellectual property in a digital age; and "Cyborg Nation," public conversation on the technological body and intimacy. Residencies include MacDowell, Yaddo, and Mount Tremper Arts. Grants/Honors: BAX Award, Foundation for Contemporary Arts grant and Franklin Furnace grant. She has received BA Dance and Molecular Biology (Wesleyan University) and and MFA in Digital Interdisciplinary Arts Practice (CCNY-CUNY).

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