Prof:0und for Von Davien
Prof.Ound is a Black, disabled, nonbinary artist, organizer, and self-described 'underground ecologist.' Since 2017, Prof.Ound has used their love for African-American folk spirituals, theatre, and speculative art to facilitate workshops about environmental issues that combine scientific scholarship with digital media and ritual performance. Bronx-born and raised, Prof.Ound is devoted to building communities of resistance among marginalized populations disproportionately impacted by environmental injustices.
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.
Paloma McGregor
Paloma McGregor is a Caribbean-born, New York-based choreographer and arts leader. As co-founder and Artistic Director of Angela’s Pulse, McGregor has spent more than a decade centering Black voices through collaborative, “community-specific” performance projects. A former newspaper editor, McGregor brings a choreographer’s craft, a journalist’s urgency, and a community organizer’s framework in the service of big visions. The daughter of a fisherman and public school art teacher, McGregor amplifies and remixes the quotidian choreographies of Black folks, reactivating them in often-embattled public spaces. McGregor’s work situates performers and witnesses at the embodied intersection of the ancestral past and an envisioned future; for her, tradition transcends time.
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.
Robin Michals
Photographer in residence
Rena Priest
Rebecca Pappas
Nicole Antebi
Rachel Stevens
Patterson Beckwith
Natasha Muhoza
Sarah Nicholls
Sarah Nicholls is an artist, printmaker, and writer whose work combines language, image, visual narrative, and time. She publishes an ongoing series of letterpress pamphlets on climate change, urban ecology, and the history of science and technology, and organizes a range of walks and programs around the series. Her work has received support from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the Brooklyn Arts Council and the Puffin Foundation, and she has taught letterpress and book arts at Pratt Institute, Parsons School of Design, and University of the Arts in Philadelphia.
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
Nate Dorr
Presented in the Project Space in 2019,
Shoreline Change: New Films by Nathan Kensinger & Nate Dorr
Shoreline Change is a collection of recent films created by Nathan Kensinger and Nate Dorr, who have been collaboratively documenting the waterfront of New York City for the past 13 years. These works investigate the rapidly changing coastline of the city, where frequently flooded neighborhoods are now being demolished to make way for either new wetlands or new residential towers. As New York City contemplates how to best address the existential threat of sea level rise, these works excavate its complicated history of polluted landfills and degraded wetlands, while considering visions of a multi-species future shaped by water.
Nathan Kensinger
Presented in the Project Space in 2019,
Shoreline Change: New Films by Nathan Kensinger & Nate Dorr
Shoreline Change is a collection of recent films created by Nathan Kensinger and Nate Dorr, who have been collaboratively documenting the waterfront of New York City for the past 13 years. These works investigate the rapidly changing coastline of the city, where frequently flooded neighborhoods are now being demolished to make way for either new wetlands or new residential towers. As New York City contemplates how to best address the existential threat of sea level rise, these works excavate its complicated history of polluted landfills and degraded wetlands, while considering visions of a multi-species future shaped by water.
Alta Buden
Rejin Leys
Rejin Leys is a mixed media artist and paper maker based in New York whose work has been exhibited internationally and is included in several public collections. Her PulpMobile papermaking studio on a cart is an interactive public art project which has been active at community events and public art festivals. Leys is a recipient of a fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts. She received a BFA from Parsons School of Design and an MFA from Brooklyn College.
