Rodolfo Cossovich is a media artist with an engineering background. His position as faculty of NYU Shanghai Interactive Media Arts has allowed him to explore and research different robotic applications, focusing on ways that machines present traits of living beings.
Megan Curet is Puerto Rican American Bronx native performer, choreographer and educator. Her works draw on Afro-Latin rhythm and movement through mixed media, text and contemporary dance forms.
Desmond Beach is an interdisciplinary artist, the middle son of three boys born in Baltimore, Maryland. He is a project artist, meaning that his work takes its point of departure from specific problems or tragedies.
A Kurdish Iraqi artist, Curator and Researcher. Studied MFA Fine Art at Goldsmiths London.
Native Philadelphian, Serafina Harris is the current part-time intern at Brandywine Workshop and comes from a family of artists extending from sculptors to musicians. Serafina Harris is also the secretary at the Church of the Advocate in North Philadelphia. Her primary focus is to study art. She took an interest in art ever since she was a child, and has attended arts programs starting in the 8th grade with Mural Arts, and Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts after school program. She studied at the Grand Central Atelier in New York and the Arts Student League and continues to study part time at Studio Incamminati.
Liz Baxmeyer is an interdisciplinary sound designer, writer, and composer. She holds an MFA in Writing and Contemporary Media from Antioch University, Santa Barbara, CA, and an MA in Music, concentrating in electroacoustic composition, and music for media and the arts, from Bangor University, Wales, UK.
Jenny Hawkinson is a social practice artist interested in the intersection of conflict engagement and contemporary art. In her practice, ‘artist’ and ‘advocate’ hold equal weight. After receiving a BA in Visual Art in 2010, she moved to Vancouver, BC to establish roots in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver.
Alexander (Sandy) Carson is a Canadian filmmaker whose work explores the intersections of collective practice and personal storytelling. He is on faculty at Yorkville University's Bachelor of Creative Arts program and has previously taught at Toronto Film School. Carson’s films have screened at events such as the Toronto International Film Festival, the Reykjavik International Film Festival, and the San Francisco International Film Festival, where he received the Golden Gate Award for New Visions in 2014. His critically acclaimed first feature film as writer/director, O, Brazen Age, was released in 2015, and he is currently in post-production on a new feature film, Alberta Number One, with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts and Telefilm Canada. Carson's recent book chapter, "Quarantine Cinema: Teaching Film Directing during COVID-19" is collected in the anthology Teaching in the Post COVID-19 Era: World Education Dilemmas, Teaching Innovations and Solutions in the Age of Crisis (Springer, 2021).
Chukwu-Emeka Chikezie is an international development practitioner with a focus on African development with a growing interest in taking systemic, holistic approaches to understanding and addressing development challenges, while trying to uncover and unravel the multitude of embedded assumptions that define “development”. To this end, dialogue now sits at the heart of Chukwu-Emeka’s practice. He’s keen to explore what spaces and processes are most conducive to enable groups (communities, companies, nations) to find workable solutions when so much of what can no longer be taken for granted and that is now up for questioning.
Sandra Becker: Visual artist from Berlin, grown up in Ankara, Lima, New York and Bonn. Studied at Central Saint Martins College of Art London (BA) and at the University of Art Berlin (MA and postgraduation to Meisterschülerin).
Sarah Ayers was born in Dowagiac, Michigan. After attending Andrews University, she moved to New York City. In New York City she worked as a Curatorial Fellow at Bard Graduate Center and Gallery Director at Zabriskie Gallery.
Eric Abaka, also known by his stage name Martin Peeves, is an artist & educator of Ghanaian heritage who lives and works between Accra, Ghana and Philadelphia, U.S.A. Eric has a BA in Arts Management and an MFA in Studio Arts ,respectively from Luther College and the University of the Arts.
Karen Ami is a visual artist, curator, and educator from Chicago. She is a graduate of The Boston Museum School, Tufts University (BFA) and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (MFA) majoring in ceramics and sculpture. She is the Founder of The Chicago Mosaic School, the first and only center for academically oriented Mosaic Arts Education outside of Europe.
Born in Washington, DC and raised in Bogotá, Colombia; Yvette Chaparro received her degree in Industrial Design from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. After moving to New York, she studied film and directed a documentary called “Designers on Design”. The film, which included interviews with some of the most influential designers of our time, was screened at the Tribeca Grand in New York and was shown around the world with the exhibit: “Strangely Familiar: Design and Everyday Life” by the Walker Art Center.
Hadar Cohen is an Arab Jewish multimedia artist, healer and educator based in Los Angeles. She is the founder of Malchut, a mystical school teaching direct experience of God through heart centered spiritual traditions. Hadar is a Jewish mystic who works to build decolonial frameworks for worshiping God. She is an artist weaving the spiritual with the political and her artistic mediums include performance, movement, writing, weaving, sound and ritual.
Gina Dominique is a New York based artist-academic. In her work she explores concepts of abstraction, color, gender, and auto-theory. She exhibits nationally, has had more than one dozen solo shows, most recently, "Skin Deep- On Abstract Painting & the Nature of Beauty," at Stevenson University Greenspring Art Gallery (2023).
Julianna Donadio started her ballet studies at the Academy of Dance Arts in New Jersey where she took multiple Royal Academy of Dance exams and passed with distinction. Afterward, Julianna went on to study year round at the Joffrey Ballet School New York, The School of American Ballet at Lincoln Center, and at the San Francisco Ballet School.
Britta Fluevog is a third-generation-matriarchal artist; her grandmother was a printmaker, her mother is a mixed media artist, as well as her father, who is a shoe designer. Born in Vancouver, Canada, Estonian-Canadian Artist Britta Fluevog is currently living in Jülich, Germany. Fluevog’s art practice primarily uses weaving and ceramics to create sculpture, and performance pieces. Fluevog completed her Master’s of Fine Art from Emily Carr University of Art and Design in 2015. Her thesis work looked at combining a material-based practice of textiles into the realm of social justice. In 2007, she received her Interdisciplinary Bachelor of Fine Art from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University. Upon graduating from her bachelors, Fluevog established a small ceramic co-op in a rural Ghanian village.
Marie France Forcier is a Canadian choreographer, performer, writer and pedagogue of contemporary dance forms. She is the director of Forcier Stage Works and the co-director of ReLoCate . Through studio research, public performances, publications and community initiatives, she predominantly engages with the intersection between trauma studies, somatic practices and western contemporary choreography.
Jewel Fraser worked as a freelance environmental journalist and her stories have appeared in international publications, including the UK Guardian, Inter Press Service, Reuters, and Deutsche Welle. She completed a course in podcast production with RNTC in the Netherlands nine years ago, and began producing podcasts for publication just over two years ago. In 2020, Jewel received an Emerging Producers bursary from the World Congress of Science and Factual Producers to support her work in audio documentary production. Last year, the National Geographic Society's COVID-19 Emergency Fund for Journalists awarded Jewel a grant to produce a 3-part podcast story for Trinidad local media. She completed that project and it has since been published. Jewel is now researching another three-part podcast documentary.
Andrew Freiband is an artist, filmmaker, educator, producer, and research-artist. His praxis sits among the many intersections of art, education, media, film, journalism, literature, social impact, international development, research, and strategic design.
Fred Han is currently an Associate Professor at the School of System Design and Intellectual Manufacturing in the Southern University of Science and Technology in Shenzhen, China. Prior to his current position, he served as an Assistant Professor and Associate Professor at School of Design, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University for nine years.
Carlos Llerena Aguirre represented Peru and USA with his woodcuts in the Norsk Internasjonal Grafikk Biennale, Norway. The Jubilam X Internationale Grafik Triennale, Norway and The Xylon Graphische International Triennale, Switzerland. The South Pacific Printmking Biennalel Hulu, Hawai. 5th Biennal of Printmaking, ICPNA. Lima, Peru and the International Bienal of Douro, Portugal. Biennal Arequipa, Peru, Boston Printmaking Biennal. USA
Donna Kukama has exhibited and presented performances at several notable institutions and museums, including the Nottingham Contemporary in Nottingham, Kunsthal KaDe in Amersfoort, Padiglione de'Arte Contemporanea Milano in Milan, South African National Gallery in Cape Town, Museum of Modern Art in Antwerp, Tate Modern in London, nGbK in Berlin, and the New Museum in New York.
Born in Edinburgh, Jennifer is a multidisciplinary artist, designer and educator who integrates textiles, fashion and writing. Studying for her undergraduate degrees at Chelsea College of Art and London College of Fashion, she then gained a Masters Degree in Theology & the Arts, from Kings College London, majoring in the ‘Idea of Beauty'.
Isabell Serafin-Krause holds degrees in English Literature and Creative Writing from Goddard College and Vermont College.
Spencer Tracy is an interdisciplinary artist working in the Southern United States. Tracy earned his MFA at Sierra Nevada University in 2019 and serves as Director for The Oklahoma Museum of Modern Art, Curator for Redlands Gallery, and teaches Studio Drawing and Art History at various colleges and universities in Central Oklahoma.
Katherine Soucie (BAA Fashion Design; Dip. Textile Arts; BFA, Printmaking/Textiles; MAA Visual Art, Textiles) is a Canadian/UK award winning artist and designer who specialises in transforming textile industry waste into new textiles, clothing, sculptural forms and installations. She studied Fashion Design in London and Toronto, Ontario, Canada before furthering her studies in Textiles and Visual Art in Vancouver.
Joseph Rafferty’s projects are his artistic statements.
Holly Rhame is an artist based in Hudson, New York. She attended the California Institute of the Arts for her BFA, graduating in 2011. She was awarded her MFA from Lesley University in 2022.
Erin Wilkerson works to expand the definition of invasive species beyond the botanical and zoological, facilitating an investigation into anti-colonial methodologies.
Irene Loy is a theater maker, creative nonfiction essay writer, and university arts administrator living in Salt Lake City while she finishes her doctoral studies. She holds an MFA in Dramatic Writing from the University of New Mexico and an MA in Speech and Hearing Sciences from Indiana University-Bloomington. She has lived abroad in Canberra, Australia, and Vienna, Austria, and domestically in several US states.
Ali Williams is a writer, educator, and creative practitioner from California, a landscape with a deep influence on her transdisciplinary work investigating the human relationship with land, more-than-humans, and each other. Her current research-based practice centers on materiality, embodiment and place, particularly in the consideration of grief as a response to environmental, collective, and personal loss.
Hanae is an MFA student. Painting allows Hanae to explore the physical and collective nature of the human form. She seeks to understand what it means to occupy a body in space. Her work is also an autobiographical journey. Although she paints people, her work is not only of individuals. She looks at the weight of a sitter’s presence in intimate discourse with herself, and seeks to capture the experience of the self as viewed and interpreted, and the self as viewer and observer.
Miki Wolf is a Southern Tutchone, Tlingit, and Cree multi-disciplinary performer and facilitator, proudly from the Champagne and Aishihik Nation in the Yukon
Tobias Tovera is an American visual artist whose work explores the intersection of nature, art and consciousness. Using materials subject to metamorphism, Tovera seeks to discover what he calls “transmuted spaces,“ places where energy can shift, change, or renew itself, by experimenting with alchemical processes.
Born on the plains of Oklahoma, and raised in the mountains of Colorado, Frank Andrew Scott’s childhood was spent mostly outdoors. Raised in a family that valued the outdoors lifestyle and took great advantage of the National and State Parks system of the United States, the landscape has always played a monumental role in his life.
Paige King is an artist based in Brooklyn, New York, working internationally with art and technology organizations. Paige organizes project streams and exhibitions with Thoughtworks Arts and Cyland Media Art Lab collective.
Brady Smith is a visual artist, working and living in his hometown of Arvada, Colorado. He holds a BFA in 2-D Studies with an emphasis in etching from Brigham Young University - Idaho and a Master’s in Contemporary Art from Sotheby’s Institute of Art - London.
Kim Robertson is an artist and educator. She has a Bachelor’s in Design (Textile Design) from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Arts, Dundee, and an MA in Fine Art from the RCA in London. She founded her own design and manufacture company based in London selling works to boutiques, galleries, and high-end department stores such as Liberty’s, Selfridges, Donna Karan, The V & A, The Phillips Collection, and the ICA Boston and ran it for 12 years before moving to the UAE where she is now based and where she has now established herself in a fine art practice. She has given specialist workshops over the last 20 years in both the UK and the UAE in printmaking, sculpture and photography and currently teaches at New York University Abu Dhabi in the Arts Practice Programme.
He Jin Jang is a multicity-based choreographer, researcher, dramaturg, curator and essayist, born and raised in Seoul, Korea. Jang has created, researched and written on the idea of & ‘choreography’; and & ‘living(surviving)’. Her choreographic works were presented at Seoul International Dance Festival (Korea), MODAFE International Dance Festival (Korea), Laboratorio Condensación (Mexico), National Museum of Contemporary Arts (Romania), WUK (Austria), American Dance Festival (US), New York Live Arts (US), The Kitchen (US), and Movement Research (US) among others. Jang’s projects were supported by Korea Arts Management Service Korea, The Saison Foundation Japan, Arts Council Korea Korea, and Seoul Foundation for the Arts and Culture. She was also invited as Knowing Dance More Artist (US, 17), Fresh Tracks Artist @ New York Live Arts (US, ‘14-15), Moving Dialogue Exchange Artist (Romania, ’11), DanceWeb Fellow (Austria, ‘11), and Artist-In-Residence @ Movement Research (US, ‘09-11).
Alden Jones holds degrees in Comparative Literature, Hispanic Studies, and Creative Writing from Brown University, New York University, and Bennington College. She is the author, most recently, of the hybrid memoir The Wanting Was a Wilderness. Her story collection, Unaccompanied Minors, won the New American Fiction Prize and was a finalist for a Publishing Triangle Award and a Lambda Literary Award.
Greg Lock grew up on a farm in the Fens of East Anglia. He studied visual art in Cambridge and Bretton Hall College, in West Yorkshire, before completing his MFA in Sculpture at Parsons School of Design, New York City, 1995. Greg continued making sculpture in both America and England before embarking on an innovative MA in Creative Technology at the University of Salford, 1999. He worked at the Centre for Virtual Environments in Manchester, UK before returning to the USA to work as an interdisciplinary professor of sculpture and new media at SUNY Purchase College for ten years. In 2011 Greg became the Director of the photography, film and related media program at The Hotchkiss School, in northwest CT, where he works today.
Anne Sophie Lorange grew up in the U.S. and moved to Scandinavia as a teenager. With her bilingual background, she explores the notion of liminality, nostalgia and belongingness. Her narrative invites the spectator into a reflective space between inner and outer landscapes. Her artistic practice explores creative dialogs of liminal space that illuminate a pathway into identity, cultural history and personal narrative through abstraction.
Juliette M Ludeker is a multimedia visual artist and a professor of English, having taught undergraduate research and writing for over 20 years. She earned a BFA in Studio Arts from Kutztown University, an MA in Teaching English as a Second Language from West Chester University and completed all but dissertation of a PhD in Rhetoric and Composition at Purdue University. Her background in art, along with a deep interest in art history and visual culture, informs her English teaching (and research interests), especially in assigning students to read texts or develop projects that represent a wide range of humanity and human productions of communication. Reciprocally, Juliette's career in rhetoric, language, and research, influence her art-making, particularly through an embrace of inquiry, experimentation, reflection, and revision.
Nancy Messegee is a text- and movement-based artist living in Austin, where she is dedicated to fully inhabiting and exploring the sacred spaces of body, home, and world through iterative creative practice. Born in upstate New York, she grew up in a village of 750 residents in Alaska, which she left at 16 to attend and then graduate from Yale, becoming the first woman in her family with a college degree.
Tine Frich Møller is a multidisciplinary artist, painter, writer, and educator in Norway. At core, she is humbled and puzzled by life, by people and all their worldly complexities - and in the midst of this, she thinks of her selves as an explorer, a people-traveller or a hoarder of people and their life stories and a thinker-doer.
Carrie E Neal is an integral thinker. Liking the challenge of making connections between diverse fields of study and look for ways to connect the ethereal with the practical, Carrie find ways to bring design thinking, consciousness evolution, facilitation, social justice, and holistic healing to each project. As an artist and maker, the work spans multiple disciplines including video, multimedia theater projects, book making, and quilting.
Nkechi Deanna Njaka (she/her) is a neuroscientist, choreography artist, leading mindfulness expert and meditation guide. She is the founder of The Compass, NDN lifestyle studio and co-founder of the sleep app DreamWell. She was a 2017 YBCA Truth Fellow and a 2021 Kennedy Center Artist in Residence. She is currently Esalen Faculty, an Advisor of Chorus Meditation, and a lululemon ambassador for her work in mindfulness.
Phei Phei Oon is a Canada-based Registered Psychotherapist with more than 15 years of clinical experience. She was trained as a Clinical Psychologist and Drama Therapist and has worked at vastly diverse settings including hospitals, academia, non-profit community centers, the corporate world, and recently a reception center for Ukrainian refugees. She specializes in Selective Mutism, grief, and trauma. Phei Phei is invigorated by play, beautiful images, dance, and drama in her own personal life and often seeks to integrate elements of these four disciplines in her clinical practice. Phei Phei draws from her studies and experience in group work, games facilitation, conscious dance, bodywork, creative arts therapies, and dramatic play in facilitating individual and group sessions.
Eve Provost Chartrand earned an MFA at the University of Calgary in Canada and is now a PHD candidate both at Transart Institute and Liverpool John Moores University. Her current work investigates the nature of women’s negative body representations associated with aging. Her visual iterations explore the implications to self-identity and agency of current negative body definitions in women’s lives through the implementation of creative case studies.
Dawn Schultz is a movement artist and educator currently creating works out of Monmouth County, New Jersey (USA). In 2018 she founded the Movement Exploration Laboratory, to promote choreographic perspective in young artists and is the co-director of the Dance Department for the Visual and Performing Arts Program in Ocean Township Schools.
Born in Amman, Jordan in 1978, Shereen Shalhoub has been working in the arts since 2006. She began with a gallery and painting, then shifted to sculpture and finally ceramics, where she has developed an interest in installation art and has had the opportunity to showcase three installations in Dubai. She has been working with ceramics since 2017 and continues to research the world of ceramics and all the possibilities it holds.
