Nolan Hendrickson

Nolan Hendrickson was born in Olympia, Washington in 1976. He studied Architecture at the California College of Art and received a BA from the Evergreen State College in 2000. He has exhibited his work in multiple solo exhibitions in New York, as well as Los Angeles and Europe. He is based in Los Angeles.

Svetlana Kitto

Svetlana Kitto is a writer and oral historian in NYC. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, Longreads, The Cut, Hyperallergic, Interview, CULTURED, Guernica, BOMB, VICE, ART21, and the Journal - Danspace Project, where she was Writer-in-Residence in 2016. As an oral historian, she's contributed oral histories to archives and exhibitions at the Brooklyn Historical Society, Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Museum of Arts and Design, NYPL for Performing Arts, and Gordon Gallery Robichaux, where she is in-house writer and oral historian. Since 2013, she has co-curated the reading and performance series Adult Contemporary, which has created programming for Hauser & Wirth, Storm King Art Center, and CANADA, among other galleries and institutions. Currently, she’s an MFA candidate in Fiction at the New School, where she is completing an oral-history novel about gay clubs in Eastern Europe.

https://www.svetlanakitto.com

Kate Klingbeil

KATE KLINGBEIL (b. 1990) is multidisciplinary artist living and working in Brooklyn, NY, and originally hailing from across the midwest. Her work in paint, sculpture and animation looks to reflect an ever-changing cycle of the human landscape, and what it feels like to exist in a body that is constantly negotiating a relationship with joy, humor, melancholy and movement. She has had solo exhibitions at Spring/Break Art Show in NYC (Burrowed, curated by Field Projects in March 2020), Crush Curatorial in NYC (‘Thick’ in 2017), and Hashimoto Contemporary in San Francisco (‘Pith’ in 2018). Select two-person and group exhibitions include Monya Rowe Gallery, NYC (duo exhibition ‘On The Inside’ with Rebecca Ness in 2019), Nevven gallery, Gothenburg, Sweden (group exhibition 'Artifacts' in 2019), Situations, NYC (group exhibition ‘Fresh Fruit’ in 2019), Paul Kasmin Gallery, NYC (group exhibition 'Seed' curated by Yvonne Force in 2018), The Hole, NYC (group exhibition 'Clay Today' in 2018), and Andrew Rafacz Gallery, (group exhibition 'Figured Out!' in 2017). Kate has attended residencies at Acre, WI (2016), Art Farm, NE (2019) and The Corporation of Yaddo, NY (2019). Kate received a BFA in Printmaking from California College of the Arts in Oakland, CA in 2012.

www.kateklingbeil.com

Eric Shekerjian

Eric Shekerjian is a composer and producer based in Brooklyn, NY. He studied at the Conservatory of Music at Purchase College where he received his BM in Music Production and Classical Music Composition. Shekerjian’s work explores the physical form of sound as it exists between the organic and synthesized mediums. Past work has involved composing for chamber ensembles, scoring for dance and film, as well as analog and digital instrument design.

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Catherine Taylor

Catherine Taylor is a writer, editor, and educator who works in a wide range of non-fiction forms—from documentary and literary journalism to hybrid-genre texts. She is the author of You, Me, and the Violence (Mad Creek 2017), on puppets, drones, and power, and of Apart (Ugly Duckling Presse 2012), a mixed-genre memoir and political history that combines prose, poetry, cultural theory, and found texts from South African archives. Her first book, Giving Birth: A Journey Into the World of Mothers and Midwives (Penguin Putnam), won the Lamaze International Birth Advocate Award. Her essays, poetry, and reviews have appeared in The Believer, the Seneca Review, The Colorado Review, Witness, and elsewhere. Taylor was a co-founder and producer of The Human Rights Watch Film Festival and is a founding editor of Essay Press, an independent press dedicated to publishing innovative essays in book form. She is currently Co-Director of Image Text Ithaca MFA and Press, supporting work at the intersection of writing and photography. Taylor received her Ph.D. from Duke University and is an Associate Professor at Ithaca College.

Deborah Yarchun

Deborah Yarchun is a New York City-based playwright. Her plays have been developed by The Blank Theatre, The Civilians, Ensemble Studio Theatre, The New Harmony Project, Jewish Plays Project’s OPEN Festival, The Great Plains Theater Conference, Jewish Ensemble Theatre, Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse, The Playwrights’ Center, Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre, TheatreSquared’s Arkansas New Play Festival, the William Inge Center for the Arts, and WordBRIDGE, and produced at places including Amphibian Stage Productions, Fusion Theatre, EstroGenius Festival, the Minnesota Fringe, the Philadelphia Fringe, The Samuel French Off Off Broadway Festival, Playwrights Horizons’ Peter Jay Sharp Theater by Young Playwrights Inc., and Williams Street Rep. Deborah’s honors include two Jerome Fellowships at The Playwrights’ Center, a 2017-2018 Dramatists Guild Foundation Fellowship, an EST/Sloan Commission, The Kennedy Center’s Jean Kennedy Smith Playwriting Award, the Kernodle New Play Award, the Richard Maibaum Playwriting Award, and Women in the Arts & Media Coalition’s 2019 Collaboration Award. Her play GREAT WHITE was an Honorable Mention for the Relentless Award. She was recently a member of the Civilians’ R&D Group and a playwright-in-residence at the William Inge Center for the Arts. Deborah earned her M.F.A. from the University of Iowa where she was an Iowa Arts Fellow. You can read more about her work at DeborahYarchun.com.