Svetlana Bailey

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Touched by occasions that are silently dissonant, that with a different context seem surreal, Svetlana Bailey builds installations and photographs what she terms in-camera collage. Born in St Petersburg, Svetlana has exhibited throughout Australia and the US and is represented by Artereal Gallery Sydney. She recently had solo exhibitions in the United States at Filter Space in Chicago and Blue Sky in Portland and was in a group show at ClampArt in NYC. Svetlana has participated in residencies such as the ISCP in NYC, the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, the NARS Foundation in NYC, the Mountain School in LA and will attend the Vermont Studio Centre on a Fellowship this summer. She has received numerous grants from the Australia Council for the Arts, the American-Australian Association and the Copyright Agency Cultural Fund. Her work is held in the Australian Government’s Artbank collection and the Library of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, was recently featured in PDN magazine, and for the last two years running was awarded the Magenta Foundation’s Flash Forward prize. Svetlana lives and works in New York City, and received her MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and her BFA from UNSW.

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Geri Doran

Geri Doran is the author of three poetry collections—Resin, Sanderlings and the forthcoming Epistle, Osprey (Tupelo, 2019). Her work has been recognized with an Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship, a Wallace Stegner Fellowship, and the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets. She has also held residency fellowships at the James Merrill House, Maison Dora Maar in Provence, Lighthouse Works, Millay Colony and Vermont Studio Center. Individual poems have appeared recently in New England Review, Yale Review, Southwest Review and other journals. Her new book marks a shift toward a quieter poem in a more natural form. Contemplative and disquieted, the poems of Epistle, Osprey trace the mysteries of encounter, wanderlust, rootedness, the human relationship with nature, and our uncertain place in world and cosmos.

Lorna Dune

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Praised by VICE Magazine as the "mistress of new music" and named as one of their Artists to Watch by The Fader, Lorna Dune has been turning heads since her foray into the world of electronic music production. An experimental pianist, who played with the Philip Glass Ensemble, shared the stage with Steve Reich and Meredith Monk, and a long-time collaborator with Missy Mazzoli in the composer’s “all-star, all-female quintet” Victoire, has a new take on weightier beat-driven electronic music which is both fresh in its approach to the genre and also a unique arrival through her journey through sound. As a performer Dune was recently featured as a synth soloist with the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, toured her music nationally with Emily Wells, was commissioned to compose & perform a work to celebrate Terry Riley’s 80th birthday at the Ecstatic Music Festival, has seen a release of a remix of composer Max Richter on Deutsche Grammophon, remixed a Pulitzer prize winning work by Caroline Shaw and toured worldwide with the electro-feminist-punk icon JD Samson. “An experimental keyboardist who is happy to go wherever her heart and ears tell her, redefining genres along the way, Lorna Dune inhabits a world of her own, and it’s a glorious thing to behold.” – Red Bull Music Academy

 http://lornadune.com

Soomi Kim

Soomi Kim is an actor/movement artist. As a performer and lead artist she has created a trilogy of hybrid plays inspired by Asian American visionaries, whose lives were cut short. Chang(e) (2015, based on Kathy Change, a political activist and performance artist), Dictee: bells fall a peal to sky (2012- adaptation of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictee) and Lee/gendary (2008, based on Bruce Lee and 3 NYITA wins). All three shows were featured workshops at the 1st, 3rd and 4th National Asian American Theater Festivals and were directed/collaborated by Suzi Takahashi. Kim’s career expands from downtown and regional theater, indie film to live staged martial arts industrials. Soomi has been featured in The Drama Review (MIT Journal), Huffington Post, NYTimes, Timeout NY, The Philadelphia Inquirer, NPR’s WHYY radio, KoreAm Journal, The Korea Times and the L.A. Times. Other artist in residencies: HERE Arts Center (2012-2015), Mabou Mines (2014), the Hemispheric Institute (Performance and Politics, 2013) and Asian Arts Initiative in Philadelphia (2011 & 2012). Kim is a 2015 NPN Creation and Forth Fund recipient for Chang(e). Guest artist appearances include: Harvard U., NYC Asian American Student Conference and Oregon State University. Kim’s autobiographical solo show MLCG (My Little China Girl) was commissioned by Dixon Place (November 2017) in NYC. 

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Le’Andra LeSeur

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Le’Andra LeSeur (b. 1989 in Bronx, NY) is an interdisciplinary artist working and living in Jersey City, NJ. Her work explores black identity informed by the effects that regulated systems of oppression have on black women, specifically. Through visual media, installation, and performance, her hope is to reclaim and dismantle stereotypes surrounding black female identity through the reworking of conventional art forms and mundane objects - ultimately reshaping the context of spaces where the lives of the oppressed are silenced and celebrated in the same breath. LeSeur has participated in exhibitions throughout the Southeast including On Being Black at Arnika Dawkins Gallery in 2015. LeSeur was the recipient of the 2017 Contemporary Black Art award at Artprize 9 in Grand Rapids, MI for her piece, Searching, and the recipient of the 2018 Time-Based Category Award and Juried Grand Prize at Artprize 10 in Grand Rapids, MI for her piece, brown, carmine, and blue. Outside of creating her own work, LeSeur has made notable contributions to the arts through her active participation in curating exhibitions and workshops for women of color that speak to the power in existing through expression in a world that shuns black women for these exact actions.

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Krystal Mack

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Krystal Mack is a Culinary Artist, Creative Consultant, and Writer. Her work focuses on food at the intersection of emotion and consumption. Some of her past works include an experimental frozen desserts concept, KarmaPop; the creation of Baltimore’s first food vending tricycle, The PieCycle; and conceptual pop-up dinners. She has assisted at the annual Icon Dinner at The James Beard House, was named a “Woman To Watch” by the Baltimore Sun, and had the honor of being listed in Cherrybombe Magazine’s Cherrybombe 100 as a “Change Agent” in the food industry. She currently works and resides in Baltimore, Maryland.

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Wendy Vogel

Books to which she has contributed from 2014 - 2018

Wendy Vogel is a writer, art critic and independent curator based in Brooklyn, NY. She received a BA from New York University and an MA from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, and she was a Critical Fellow in the Core Program residency at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston. A former editor at Flash Art International, Modern Painters and Art in America, Vogel has contributed to Artforum, art-agenda, The Art Newspaper, Art Review, BOMB, Brooklyn Rail, frieze, The Guardian and MOUSSE, among other publications. In collaboration with the artist Peter Halley, she edited a history of the New York–based magazine index (Rizzoli, 2014). She has curated or co-curated projects at venues including the Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College, the Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral, The Kitchen, Abrons Arts Center, VOLTA Art Fair, Baxter Street Camera Club of New York, and bitforms. She is a 2018 recipient of a Creative Capital / Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant in Short-Form Writing.

http://wendyvogel.net

Eva Weber

Documentary Short. 2011. An impressionistic and haunting portrait of reindeer herding in the twilight expanses of the Lappish wilderness. Commissioned by NOWNESS. Premiered at LA Film Fest 2012. Festival screenings include Sundance, Sundance London, Telluride, Camden, San Francisco, True/False, BFI London, Sheffield Doc/Fest, AFI Fest.

A London-based, German director working in documentary and fiction, Eva Weber has found acclaim with films like the 27-minute documentary THE SOLITARY LIFE OF CRANES (“one of the most absorbing documentaries of the year” – The Observer), the mid-length film BLACK OUT (“An eye-opening doc…moves seamlessly between the straightforward and the poetic” – The Hollywood Reporter), and the fiction short FIELD STUDY (nominated for the European Film Awards). Eva’s multi-award-winning films have screened at 50+ festivals, including Sundance, Telluride, SXSW, HotDocs, BFI London True/False, Sheffield, IDFA, Frameline, and New Fest. They have also been exhibited at MoMA, the Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, and other gallery spaces, and broadcast on national and international television (Channel 4, PBS, SBS, YLE, Arte, amongst others). Eva is the recipient of a Sundance Institute Mahindra Global Filmmaking Award; and a Sundance Screenwriter, Director, and Composer & Sound Design Lab Fellow.

www.oddgirlout.co.uk