Peter Kline

Peter Kline teaches creative writing at the University of San Francisco and at Stanford University. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow, he has also received residency fellowships from the Amy Clampitt House and James Merrill House, as well as First Prize in the River Styx International Poetry Contest and the Marr Poetry Prize from Southwest Review. His poetry has appeared in Ploughshares, Five Points, Poetry, Tin House, The Antioch Review, and many other journals, as well as the Best New Poets series and the 2015 Random House anthology of metrical poetry, Measure for Measure. He directs the San Francisco literary series Bazaar Writers Salon and is a founding member of the poetry/music collective Nonstop Beautiful Ladies. His first collection of poetry, Deviants, was published by SFASU Press in 2013.

http://www.peterklinepoetry.com

Samantha Holmes

Samantha Holmes is an artist based in New York and Ravenna, Italy who focuses on conceptual and material experimentation in the medium of mosaic. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Palazzo Fortuny (Venice), in conjunction with the 2015 Venice Biennale, the Bronx Museum of the Arts (New York), and the ARTPLAY Design Center (Moscow). In 2011, she represented Italy at the European project Les Langages du Bleu in Paris and was recipient of the International GAEM Art Prize (Young Artists and Mosaic) from the Museum of the City of Ravenna, which holds her work within its permanent collection. She is also winner of the 2013 RAM prize for mosaic. She is the founder of design mind and editor of SoloMosaico, the leading international journal on contemporary mosaic. She holds degrees from Harvard University (BA, Visual and Environmental Studies, 2006), and the Accademia di Belle Arti in Ravenna (MFA, Experimental Mosaic, 2014).

http://www.samantha-holmes.com/

Sam Moss

Sam Moss is a Boston based songwriter and string player. His work rambles through various offshoots of Americana, from original and interpreted folk songs, to pastoral and occasionally jagged instrumental guitar. In May 2016 he will release Fable, his ninth solo album. Moss has released two albums with the old-time group, The Howling Kettles, and compiled Imaginational Anthem Volume Five for Tompkins Square Records. He is the recipient of a MacDowell Colony fellowship, and his work has been featured in No Depression, Pitchfork, The FADER, Paste, and Daytrotter, among others.

http://www.sammoss.net

Rosie Trump

Rosie Trump is a choreographer and dance filmmaker with a hybrid practice in performance and video media. Her creative work stems from an interest in representations of femininity, domesticity, and identity. Her work is nostalgic in style, feminist, and deliberately understated. She plays with the tension between the ordinary and the absurd in search of movement that is mutually comedic and political.

Rosie’s choreography and films have been shown nationally, as well as internationally in the UK, France, Germany, and Czech Republic. Recently, her work was presented by the Prague Fringe Festival, the Philadelphia Screendance Festival, the Comedy in Dance Festival (NYC), Motion Captured Film Festival (Houston), the Toothache Duets (London), the MixMatch Dance Festival (LA), and Your Move Dance Festival (Jersey City).

Recent awards include grants from the Nevada Arts Council, a Grants to Artist award from the Sierra Arts Foundation, and a Special Initiatives Grant from the Houston Arts Alliance. Rosie is the founder and curator of the Third Coast Dance Film Festival, which celebrates the intersection of contemporary dance and the moving image with an annual screening and touring series of international dance films.

Rosie Trump received her Bachelor of Arts in Dance from Slippery Rock University and her Master of Fine Arts in Experimental Choreography from the University of California, Riverside. She is an Assistant Professor of Dance at the University of Nevada, Reno.

http://www.rosietrump.org

Rebecca Ringle

Rebecca Ringle debuted at the Metropolitan Opera in 2013 as Rossweisse in Wagner’s Die Walküre and has been on the Met roster since 2010. Her performance of Berlioz’sLes nuits d’été with LoftOpera was listed as one of the New York Times’ Top Classical performances of 2015. She has sung opera, concert and art song repertoire with New York City Opera, Washington National Opera, Cleveland Orchestra, the American Symphony, Boston Symphony, Oratorio Society of New York, Macau International Opera Festival, Bard, Ravinia, Tanglewood and Marlboro music festivals, and with Marlboro Musicians on Tour at Carnegie Hall in 2015. She loved collaborating on new unamplified vocal music with American Opera Projects’ Composers and the Voice workshop and VOX Contemporary Opera Lab and has performed original works by Gregory Spears, Mohammed Fairouz, Paola Prestini and Mika Karlsson. Rebecca has spoken at TEDxYale and Self Hackathon conferences. She is a graduate of Oberlin Conservatory and The Yale School of Music.

 http://www.rebeccaringle.com/

Sumru Tekin

Sumru Tekin is an interdisciplinary artist born in Turkey, currently living in Vermont. Working with a variety of media, she re-contextualizes found and constructed drawings, texts, photographs, films, video, and audio to create inconclusive narratives within the contexts of historiography and story telling. Tekin received a MFA in Visual Art from the Vermont College of Fine Arts and a BA in Art History from the University of Vermont. A 2014 Robert and Barbara Putnam Fellow at the MacDowell Colony, her grants and awards also include the Barbara Smail Award, a Creation Grant from the Vermont Arts Council/National Endowment for the Arts and an Arts Endowment Fund Grant from the Vermont Community Foundation. Her artist book Memory Device is in the permanent collection of the Iraqi National Library.

http://sumrutekin.com

Zach Sheets

Zach Sheets enjoys a diverse musical life as a composer, flutist, and chamber musician. As a composer, his works have been performed by such groups as the Ensemble InterContemporain, the Talea Ensemble, the Callithumpian Consort, the Juventas New Music Ensemble, the Brattle Street Chamber Players, the Vermont Contemporary Music Ensemble, and many others. In the summer of 2015, he was featured in a performance of his own solo flute work, that colors the stone, at the 2015 Spoleto Festival USA, and completed a new work as part of the 2015 ManiFest Academy at IRCAM in Paris. Upcoming projects and commissions include a new work for the Vermont Symphony Orchestra’s “Made in Vermont” tour, a new large-scale work for the Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, and a new work for the Ogni Suono saxophone duo.

Currently the principal flute, Lyndon Paul Lorusso Chair, of the Cape Symphony Orchestra, and flutist for the [Switch~ Ensemble], Zach has further performed with the Boston Ballet, the New World Symphony, the Albany Symphony, the Portland Symphony Orchestra, the Spoleto Festival USA Orchestra, the Slee Sinfonietta, and Ensemble Signal.

Zach holds degrees from Harvard University and the Eastman School of Music, where his mentors include Robert Morris, Ricardo Zohn-Muloon, Allan Schindler, and Chaya Czernowin.

http://www.zachsheetsmusic.com

Virginia Zimmerman

In December 2015, Virginia Zimmerman published her debut American novel, The Rosemary Spell (HMH/Clarion Books), a fantastical mystery for middle-grade readers. Kirkus calls the book “spellbinding,” and ALA Booklist describes it as a “wonderful blend of literary puzzles, adventure, and musings over memory and identity.” In a starred review, Publishers Weekly calls the novel “enthralling” and “deftly plotted.” Publishers Weekly also selected The Rosemary Spell as a “pick of the week” on November 30, 2015.

In 2012, Zimmerman published La Finestra del Temps (Cruilla) in Barcelona. Translated from English into Catalan, this novel, also for middle-grade readers, was published as part of the highly respected “red steamboat” series.

Zimmerman is a Professor of English at Bucknell University. She published an academic monograph Excavating Victorians (SUNY 2008) and many articles. Her most recent scholarly article “The Curating Child” appeared in The Lion and the Unicorn and is about depictions of children in museums.

All her work—scholarly and creative—centers on issues of time and material culture.

http://virginiazimmerman.com

Wendy Rein and Ryan Smith

Ryan Smith and Wendy Rein have been dancing together and collaborating since 1998, when they met as students at Brown University. Since 2004, they have co-directed RAWdance, an award-winning company known for transforming theaters and public spaces with intellectually and emotionally layered performances.

The duo have been supported through residencies at Djerassi, Zaccho Dance Theatre, Ucross, and CounterPULSE. They are current resident artists at 836M Gallery in SF, creating a new work in the gallery’s windows over the course of three months. RAWdance is a resident company of ODC Theater. Smith and Rein are recipients of an SF Bay Guardian GOLDIE award, Choreographers in Mentorship Exchange (CHIME) award, and have been named SF Weekly Mastermind finalists. Their work has been supported by the NEA, SF Arts Commission, SF Grants for the Arts, Kenneth Rainin Foundation, and others.

RAWdance has performed in Singapore, China, and across the US, and its 2013 short dance film “since you went” has toured the international festival circuit. Rein and Smith have been commissioned to set work on St. Louis’ Madco, the Bay Area’s Zi-Ru Productions, and schools such as Webster University, Williams College, Brown University, and Marin School of the Arts.

In 2007, the duo founded the CONCEPT series, a biannual, informal and intimate salon of contemporary dance. Through 18 iterations, they have presented 79 artists and companies to date.

Zoe Rabinowitz

Zoe Rabinowitz is an independent dance artist and educator based in Brooklyn, NY. Her choreography has been presented throughout New York City at venues such as Lincoln Center, New York Theatre Workshop, and West End Theatre, and supported by a grant from the Manhattan Community Arts Fund. Zoe is the Associate Artistic Director and dancer with Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre, a contemporary dance company located between New York City and Palestine since 2005. As a performer, she has worked with artists such as Joanna Mendl Shaw/Equus Projects, MBDance, Urban Bush Women, Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre, and Anne Zuerner, with workshops and performances throughout Japan, Jordan, Palestine, South Korea, and the United States. Zoe has been awarded residencies from the Omi International Arts Center (2014), CUNY Dance Initiative (2016), and Marble House Project (2016). She is a graduate of the Ailey/Fordham BFA program in New York.

http://www.zoerabinowitz.com