Raja Feather Kelly

Raja Feather Kelly’s Choreography includes Another Fucking Warhol Production (The Kitchen), Andy Warhol's Bleu Movie (BAM Fisher), Andy Warhol’s TROPICO (Danspace Project), Andy Warhol’s DRELLA, I Love You Faye Driscoll (The invisible Dog), and Andy Warhol’s 15: Color Me, Warhol; (Dixon Place). Off-Broadway credits include choreography for Brenden Jacobs-Jenkins’ EVERYBODY directed by Lila Neugabauer (Signature Theater), Susan-Lori Parks’ The Death of The Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World directed by Lilieana Blain-Cruz (Signature Theater, Nominated for 2017 Lucielle Lortel Award), Funnyhouse of a Negro; written by Adrienne Kennedy directed by Lila Neugebauer (Signature Theater, Nominated for 2017 Lucielle Lortel Award), Daaimah Mubashshir ’s EVERYDAY AFROPLAY(JACK) and Richard Allen and Taran Gray’s FREEDOM RIDERS: THE CIVIL RIGHTS MUSICAL (Acorn Theatre) Directed by Whitney White. Raja was born in Fort Hood, Texas, and is the first and only choreographer to dedicate the entirety of his company’s work to Andy Warhol and the development of popular culture over the last thirty years. Kelly can be seen in the work of Reggie Wilson/Fist and Heel Performance Group, Keely Garfield and Kota Yamazaki. He has formerly been a company member with David Dorfman Dance, Kyle Abraham/Abraham.In.Motion, Christopher Williams Dance, Zoe | Juniper, Colleen Thomas and Dancers. Honors include a 2018-19 Carthorse Fellowship at the Buran Theatre, a 2017 Princess Grace Award for a Fellowship in Choreography, a 2017 Bessie Schoenberg Fellow at the Yard on Martha's Vineyard, the 2016 Solange MacArthur Award for New Choreography, a 2016 NYFA Choreography Fellow, a Jerome Foundation Travel and Study Grant, a 2016 Dancemapolitan Commissioned Choreographer, a 2015 Dixon Place Dance Artist in Residence, a LMCC Workspace Residency Recipient. He has been the Guest ChoreographerBates Dace Festival, Princeton University, University of Maryland College Park, University of Florida, University of Utah, and Middlebury College; the Harkness Choreographer in Residence at Hunter College; a 2009 Dance Web Scholar; Has received 2 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grants. He received his BA in both Dance (with honors, concentration in Choreography and Performance) and English (with honors, concentration in Poetry) from Connecticut College.

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Linda Rui Feng

Linda Rui Feng a writer and a scholar, a practitioner and researcher of imaginative storytelling. As a fiction writer, she has been awarded a MacDowell Colony Fellowship, a Toronto Arts Council Grant, and residency at Willapa Bay AiR. Her work has appeared in or is forthcoming from Green Mountains Review, Kenyon Review Online, Nimrod, The Saint Ann’s Review, Santa Monica Review, and Salamander. As a cultural historian, she is drawn to forms of writing with a strong sense of place in premodern Chinese literature. She is the author of City of Marvel and Transformation: Chang’an and Narratives of Experience in Tang Dynasty China (2015); these days her research explores how writers in the past used cultural technologies to represent and circulate spatial knowledge. Born in Shanghai and based in Toronto, she is currently finishing a novel about music, migration, and Mao.

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Michael Fischer

Michael Fischer was released from state prison in 2015 and is currently earning an MFA in creative writing from Sierra Nevada College. He is managing editor of Sierra Nevada Review, a Moth Chicago StorySlam winner, and a Luminarts Foundation Creative Writing Fellow. His work has been supported by fellowships and grants from Lighthouse Writers Workshop, Rivendell Writers' Colony, and the Chicago chapter of the Awesome Foundation, among others. His essays appear or are forthcoming in The Sun, Brevity, Guernica, The Rumpus, and elsewhere.

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Peter Fulop

Peter Fulop, Shigaraki clay, porcelain slips, oxides, anagama fired, 12-10inches, shown at SOFAChicago,USA Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, Japan, National Craft Gallery, Ireland,

Peter Fulop, multidisciplinary artist, curator and educator.Peter's work has been shown in museums and major galleries across the world. Peter’s work is found in many public collections including Archie Bray Foundation MT, USA , Mungyeong Ceramic Museum, Korea, Fule International Ceramic Art Museum, China, Ganjin Celadon Museum, Korea, Ulster Museum, Belfast, N.Ireland, The National Museum of Ireland, Ireland, The Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, Japan, Freeborn & Peter’s LLP, Chicago, INAX Corporation. Tokoname Japan, IWCAT Collection, Tokoname Japan, Office of Public Works, Farmleigh House Collection, Ireland. Peter has recently completed a collaborative public art commission with the artist, Brigitta Varadi for Sligo County Council, Ireland and undertook several other public art projects. His latest curatorial project 'Just Being Polite' held at One Brooklyn Bridge Park, NYC, and ‘The Clay Way’ at The Danforth Gallery,Livingstone, MT. Peter’s work was represented at SOFA Chicago by the National Craft Gallery and NCECA Annual Conference by the Archie Bray Foundation. His selected group shows include: ‘TransForm’ Farmleigh Gallery, Dublin, and the National Craft Gallery of Ireland (2018), ‘Contained’, curated by Lauren Smith, Chashama,New York,(2016) ’In The Making’ Curated by Nicola Gates,Fermanagh County Museum & Higher Bridges Gallery, The Clinton Centre, Enniskillen, NI (2015) ‘Extended Territories’ Leitrim Sculpture Centre, Manorhamilton & Catalyst Arts Centre, Belfast, NI (2015) ‘CultureCrafts’ curated by Selina Coyle National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland & Londonderry, UK, (2014) ‘CENTRED ’ Ceramic Ireland, Farmleigh Gallery, Dublin & Wandesford Quay Gallery, Cork, Ireland (2014) ‘Recent Acquisitions to the Archie Bray Permanent Collection’ Bray North Gallery, Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, Montana, USA, (2014) ’I am of Ireland’ Chelsea Arts Club, London, Uk (2013) ‘Bricks in the Rain ’ Culture Box, Temple Bar, DubIin & Wandesford Quay Gallery, Cork & Farmleigh Gallery, Dublin, Ireland curated by Hilary Morley, (2013), ’2nd International Chasabal Ceramic Competition’ (2012), Mungyeong Ceramic Museum,Korea, (2011) ’Gangjin International Ceramic Exhibition’ Gangjin Celadon Museum, Korea, (2011) ’International Ceramic Exhibition’ Mungyeong Ceramic Museum, Korea (2010). His latest Solo Shows include, ‘Nobu’, Leitrim Sculpture Centre, Manorhamilton, Ireland (2016) ‘Salome's Last Dance’ Sculpture Space NYC, NY, USA, (2016) ’Gate-The tales of nowhere land’ Silver River Images Gallery, Carrick on Shannon, Ireland (2015), ’Vessel' Gallery Zozimus, Dublin, Ireland (2012) ‘Reflection' Tea House Gallery, Mungyeong, Korea, (2011) ’Peter Fulop’ C2 Gallery, PWS, Jingdezhen, China (2009) 'Toge', Shigaraki Ceramic Park, Shigaraki,Japan (2008) 'Japanese Aspirations' Dock, Carrick on Shannon, Ireland (2007). In addition to developing his own practice, Peter’s works on commissions and exhibitions, developing projects with people of all ages and abilities within the community sector, schools, prisons and arts centers. His work was featured in several books, catalogues, magazines and newspapers, including ‘Irish Ceramics’ Book by John Goode, Millcove Press, Ireland, ’Hands On: The Art Of Crafting In Ireland ’ Book by Liberties Press, Dublin, Ireland, Hause and Home Magazine, Ceramic Ireland Magazine, Ceramic Review Magazine and many more. He has been an artist in residence at Sculpture Space New York, Long Island, Byrdcliffe Residency, Woodstock, NY, Wingate Scholarship for the Archie Bray Ceramic Foundation, Montana, Shigaraki Ceramic Centre Japan and many more. His work was generously supported by Culture Ireland Award, Arts Council of Ireland Travel and Training Awards, Craft Council of Ireland Continued Professional Development Award and Roscommon Artist Bursary.

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Tracey Goodman

Tracey Goodman_Shadow is the blue patch where the light doesn't hit (Annie Dillard)_mixed media_2016_4000sq ft_Governors Island

Tracey Goodman was born in Warren, Ohio. She lives in Harlem and works in Bronx. She received her MFA from NYU and her BS from RIT. She has participated in numerous residencies including Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, LMCC Workspace, MacDowell Colony and the AIM program. She received a NYFA Grant in 2013. She has also solo exhibitions at LMCC’s space on Governor’s Island, Smack Mellon in Brooklyn, Regina Rex, and Locust Projects in Miami. She has been included in the numerous group exhibitions including: “Interrogations, Interventions and Modifications” at Albright College and “Invisible Ink”, CTSQ LIC.

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Asuka Goto

Asuka Goto, lost in translation, 278, pencil and collage on paper, 2017, 10x13 inches.

Asuka Goto received an MFA in Sculpture from Tyler School of Art and a BA and Post-Baccalaureate Certificate from Brandeis University. She attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2008 and was a Workspace resident at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council in 2009/2010. She has also participated in residencies at the Joan Mitchell Center, HomeBase Berlin, Sculpture Space and the Vermont Studio Center. Goto has received several awards including the NYFA Artists' Fellowship (for Architecture / Environmental Structures / Design), the Jerome Foundation Travel & Study Grant, and the Joan Mitchell MFA Grant. Her work has been exhibited at NURTUREart, BRIC, the Central Branch of the Brooklyn Public Library, the CUE Foundation, TSA NY, and 92Y Tribeca in New York; at the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia, PA; at Real Art Ways in Hartford, CT; and at the Globe Gallery in Newcastle, England. In addition to her individual studio practice, Goto has worked on several interdisciplinary projects with choreographer Joanna Kotze. Most recently, she contributed to FIND YOURSELF HERE, a work by Kotze that explores the intersection between dance and visual art. FIND YOURSELF HERE premiered at the American Dance Institute (ADI) in April 2015 and had its New York premier at the Baryshnikov Arts Center in September 2015. Goto grew up in Boston, MA and Yokosuka, Japan and now lives in Brooklyn, NY. She is an Assistant Professor at Moore College of Art & Design in Philadelphia, PA, where she teaches in the Foundation, Fine Arts and Graduate Studies Departments.

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Eric Ramos Guerrero

Eric Ramos Guerrero Lean Like A Camaro 2016 graphite and ink on paper 14"x20" first shown at the Drawing Center in 2016

Eric Ramos Guerrero’s practice is rooted in the landscapes of suburbia, notions of borders and the tropical spaces of western expansion. He received his BFA fromThe School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MFA from Columbia University. His work has been exhibited internationally most notably at the Drawing Center, El Museo Del Barrio, PS 122, ICP New York, Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina, Green Papaya Philippines and The Inside-Out Museum Beijing. 

 

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BF Hall

BF Hall is a sculptor originally from Salem, Massachusetts. Classically trained at Lyme Academy and further at Pratt Institute, Hall’s work ranges from objects to paintings, curation and environments. In 2011, he founded Terminal Projects, a project space dedicated to emerging artists in Brooklyn, NY. This led to the creation of Cedilla, a Fluxus inspired experiential retail environment. He currently lives and works in Los Angeles, where he works primarily in stone and runs a cafe out of his studio.

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Michael Harrison

Michael_Harrison_Revelation_Album_2007 Listen and read the program notes here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4oKzSRs3sA Revelation is a 72-minute work for solo piano in a “just intonation” tuning of my design. The album, released on Bang on a Can’s Cantaloupe Music label, was selected by The New York Times, The Boston Globe and TimeOut New York as one of the “Best Classical Recordings of 2007.

“Michael Harrison's 'Revelation: Music in Pure Intonation' is probably the most brilliant and original extended composition for solo piano since the early works of Frederic Rzewski three decades ago (and no, I’m not forgetting Elliott Carter).” – Pulitzer Prize-winning music critic, Tim Page Composer/pianist Michael Harrison occupies a unique place in the world of music. His works are a blend of European musical traditions and those of North Indian classical music, forging an entirely new approach to composition through tunings and methodologies that employ and extend the ancient concept of “just intonation.” The quality of his work and personal vision has earned him the label of, in the words of composer Philip Glass, an "American maverick.” As a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship (2018), Harrison will be creating a new work for Alarm Will Sound. He is currently working on a commission for Del Sol Quartet. Time Loops, his album with cellist Maya Beiser, on Bang on a Can’s Cantaloupe Music label, was selected in NPR’s Top 10 Classical Albums of 2012. His evening-length work for just intonation piano, Revelation: Music in Pure Intonation (Cantaloupe), was chosen by The New York Times, The Boston Globe and TimeOut New York as one of the Best Classical Recordings of 2007. Just Constellations, commissioned by Grammy-winning vocal octet, Roomful of Teeth, was premiered at MASS MoCA and the Park Avenue Armory, and recorded in The TANK, a 65’ water tank in rural Colorado with a 40-second reverb. The group’s performance was in the New Yorker’s “Ten Notable Performances of 2017,” and the subject of a feature article in which Alex Ross wrote, “Harrison’s glacially beautiful 2015 piece ‘Just Constellations’ made the deepest connection to the place: as luminous chords accumulated, it was difficult to tell which pitches were coming from live singers and which were coming out of the walls.” The New York Times wrote, “… particularly arresting, a celestial soundscape of gorgeous harmonies… the notes rang out like a jubilantly microtonal choir of bells.” Just Ancient Loops, Harrison’s collaboration with filmmaker Bill Morrison and cellist Maya Beiser, has received over 40 performances, including a 4-month looping-program at the Museum of Modern Art, Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next Wave Festival, the Louvre, Bang on a Can marathon, Ojai Music Festival, Big Ears Festival, M.I.T., Strings of Autumn in Prague, at Sundance and other film festivals throughout the world. Nautilus wrote, “If there really is a music of the spheres, the sound of a fundamental harmony in the universe, it has to be Just Ancient Loops, a 2012 work by composer Michael Harrison. Played on the cello, and complemented by a film created from archival clips and a recreation of Jupiter’s moons in orbit, Just Ancient Loops… propels viewers through time and space, landing them in the present, elated.” Harrison’s professional engagements have included numerous international performances, including next season at Muziekgebouw, plus Just Ancient Loops in a new version written for the Amsterdam Cello Octet to be played in the Netherlands. Associations include Bang on a Can, Kronos Quartet, JACK Quartet, Contemporaneous, Young People’s Chorus of NYC, Stuttgart Ballet, media artist Loris Greaud (Centre Pompidou), architect David Gersten (RISD Museum), as well as his mentors, composers La Monte Young and Terry Riley. His works have also been performed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the United Nations, Carnegie’s Zankel Hall, Spoleto Festival USA, WNYC New Sounds Live at Merkin Concert Hall, National Sawdust, Monday Morning Concerts in Vancouver, The Newman Center for the Performing Arts, The Kitchen, Other Minds Festival, Klavier Festival Ruhr, Quattro Pianoforti in Rome, American Academy in Rome, and the Havana Contemporary Music Festival. As La Monte Young’s protégé, Harrison executed the specialized tunings and scores for Young's 6½-hour work, The Well-Tuned Piano, eventually becoming the only other person to perform this work. This led him to create the Harmonic Piano, an extensively modified grand piano capable of playing 24 notes per octave. Along with Young and Terry Riley, Harrison was a disciple of Indian vocalist Pandit Pran Nath, starting in 1979, and for the past 20 years, he has continued studying and performing Indian classical music as a disciple of Ustad Mashkoor Ali Khan. He is co-founder and president of the American Academy of Indian Classical Music. Harrison has been on the faculty at Manhattan School of Music, Rhode Island School of Design, Arts Letters & Numbers, and Bang on a Can Summer Institute. Recent awards include New Music USA, American Composers Forum Competition and Residency in Cuba, Aaron Copland Recording Grant, Classical Recording Foundation Award, University of Oregon Distinguished Alumnus Award, and the IBLA Fdn. Grand Prize. He has received fellowships and residencies from the American Academy in Rome, Dia Art Fdn., Yaddo, Ucross Fdn., Djerassi, Millay Colony, Bogliasco Fdn., La Napoule Art Fdn., Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Marble House Project, I-Park Fdn., MELA Fdn., and the MacDowell Colony, where he has served on the Fellows Executive Committee since 2013. His works have been recorded on New World Records, New Albion Records, Innova Recordings, Important Records, Miasmah Recordings, Fortuna Records, Windham Hill Records, and Cantaloupe Music.

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Benjamin Heller

Bridge/Serpentine Path - 160 x 22 x 4/36" - Carved Oak - 2017

Benjamin Heller is a photographer and cross disciplinary Benjamin Heller is a cross disciplinary artist based in New York. Drawing from a diverse background and training in photography, sculpture, dance, and physical improvisation, his works are rooted in the movement of the body and the creation of intimate environments that can be entered, opening a space for discovery via the body, senses, and the imagination. His projects focus on the conflict and unity that can be found in the space between the hold of opposing forces, such as inside and outside, emergence and disappearance, rest and awakening. By engaging his body directly with materials that are often organic, such as wood, stone, reed or found within his local environment, he creates sensitizing structures that afford physical conversations between the natural dynamics of the material and a new experience for the body. These performative sculptures can then be expanded by performance or met by others. His photography, video and sculptural performance works have been shown at the Baryshnikov Arts Center, Brooklyn Museum, Wave Hill, New York Live Arts, ICP International Center of Photography, Robin Rice Gallery, IDIO Gallery, La Mama, Hazan Projects, Fresh Window Gallery, Eyebeam, New York Foundation for the Arts, and Honey Space Gallery in New York. In 2013 he was selected for the Bronx Museum AIM residency program and Biennial Exhibition. He has created immersive site-specific Installations “Spines Alluvial” carved into quarry blocks at the Marble House Project in Dorset VT, “The Vital Contour of U+US” a commissioned permanent installation in New Orleans, and a commissioned interactive installation “Inverted Constellation” as a visiting artist at the Museum of Old and New Art in Tasmania AU. Collaborative dance and sculpture projects include The Blind Men and the Elephant with choreographer Julie Bour at New York Live Arts. “A Place of Sun” with Company Stefanie Batten Bland performed in Paris and New York, and“Welcome”, at La Mama in New York City.

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