Ivy Baldwin

Ivy Baldwin/Ivy Baldwin Dance Keen [No. 2] Abrons Arts Center, NYC

Photo by Maria Baranova

Ivy Baldwin is a NY-based choreographer and founder of Ivy Baldwin Dance. Since 1999, she has created 17 works for the Company, including 10 evening-length performances. Baldwin has been commissioned by the Brooklyn Academy of Music (2014 BAM Next Wave Festival), Philip Johnson Glass House, The Joyce Theater, New York Live Arts, The Chocolate Factory Theater, Abrons Arts Center, Dance Theater Workshop, Barnard College, The Wooden Floor, Dixon Place, and Dance New Amsterdam. Baldwin has received numerous awards including fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation (Choreography, 2014), Bogliasco Foundation, MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, and Marble House; and been an Artist-in-Residence with BAM (2014 BAM Fisher AIR), Movement Research, ArtistNe(s)t (Romania), Sugar Salon, The Yard, and Abrons Arts Center. Baldwin has received funding from the Jerome Foundation, William and Karen Tell Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, Trust for Mutual Understanding, Dugas Family Foundation, Lumpkin Family Foundation, Puffin Foundation,The Fund for Good Work, and Mary Duke Biddle Foundation; and creative residencies from Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Mount Tremper Arts, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA), American Dance Institute, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, and Kaatsbaan International Dance Center/NY Dance Force. Her work has also been presented by Tanz im August Festival/Danceoff! (Germany), Dans Contemporan International Festival (Romania), REDCAT (CA), Irvine Barclay Theater (CA), American Dance Institute (MD), The Painted Bride (PA), Appel Farm Performing Arts Center (NJ), Lincoln Center Out of Doors/Danceoff!, Symphony Space, 92nd St. Y, New Museum of Contemporary Art, Danspace Project, P.S. 122/Catch/COIL, and La MaMa, E.T.C. Baldwin worked with choreographer David Neumann (2014-2016) on An Octoroon and Futurity (SoHo Rep) and Hagoromo (BAM, ADI, Pocantico Center). Baldwin has been a guest artist/faculty at The New School/Eugene Lang, Barnard College, Hunter College, Rutgers University/Mason Gross, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, North Carolina School of the Arts, Iowa State University, and Long Island University. She is a graduate of North Carolina School of the Arts (BFA) and NYU Tisch School of the Arts (MFA).

www.ivybaldwindance.org

Alika Cooper

Alika Cooper , Wet Suit IV and Wet Suit V, Bronze, 2017, exhibited at Situations gallery, ny, ny, 18”x 8”x 8” each

ALIKA COOPER (b. 1979, Guam) lives and works in Los Angeles. She received both her MFA and BFA from California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA. Solo and two­person exhibitions include Madeline Cake SITUATIONS, New York; Wet Suits Good Weather Gallery, Little Rock; Have A Sex fort gondo, Saint Louis; The Disguised Edge MULHERIN, Toronto; UPBRAID Night Gallery, Los Angeles; and GLASS Eleanor Harwood Gallery, San Francisco. She was the recipient of the Rema Hort Mann Foundation grant, the Magic­Trillium Press Yesland Prize, and the Jack and Gertrude Murphy Fellowship. She has participated in The Viewing Program at The Drawing Center, New York; MOTION PICTURE at The Saint Louis Art Museum; and was Artist in Residence at Galleria Studio Legale in Marzano Appio, Italy.

Alikacooper.com

Tamar Ettun

Tamar Ettun

"Noa" Mixed Media with Sound 2018

Tamar Ettun is a Brooklyn based sculptor and performance artist, who is the founder of The Moving Company. Ettun received her MFA from Yale University in 2010 where she was awarded the Alice English Kimball Fellowship. She studied at Cooper Union in 2007, while earning her BFA from Bezalel Academy, Jerusalem. Ettun has had exhibitions and performances at The Watermill Center, e-flux, Madison Square Park, Indianapolis Museum of Art, The Jewish Museum, Uppsala Art Museum in Sweden, Fridman Gallery, Braverman Gallery, PERFORMA 09, 11 and 13. The artist has been honored by organizations including The Pollock Krasner Foundation, Franklin Furnace, Macdowell Fellowship, RECESS, The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Art Production Fund and Socrates Sculpture Park. She is currently preparing for a solo exhibition at the Barrick Museum of Art in Las Vagas, which will open in 2018.

http://www.tamarettun.com

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.

lindaruifeng.com  

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.

traceygoodman.net

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.

https://there-there.co/therethere-ben-hall/

Sung Kim

Chef Sung is a New Yorker from Seoul, South Korea, that cooks globally influenced comfort food. She has been re-inventing classic dishes inspired by the city, and her travels. As a self-claimed “retired visual artist”, she fell into painting, but cooking chose her. She thinks cooking is the only form of craft that satisfies all of our senses, providing physical and emotional experience. Graduate of The French Culinary Institute (now International Culinary Center), she’s spent years training at some of the most acclaimed restaurant kitchens in NYC, including Michelin starred Gilt, and The Spotted Pig, Danny Meyer’s trattoria Maialino, and a RAW authority Pure Food and Wine. Her philosophy on cooking reflects these trainings. Since 2012, Chef Sung and her team have been building Food by Sung LLC, a chef driven private dining and catering company, focusing on hospitality, professionalism, and craftsmanship. Enjoyed by thousands, some of the happy clients and guests include Sarah Jessica Parker, Matthew Broderick, General Colin Powell, George Stephanopoulos, Wes Anderson, and Bill Murray.

http://www.foodbysung.com

T.D. Mitchell

Mitchell Queens Fo rA Year Play 2016 HartfordStage

 Pictured: Vanessa Butler as Molly in Queens For a Year copyright Hartford Stage Company.

T.D. is an award-winning dramatist, screenwriter and speechwriter primarily based in Brooklyn and Los Angeles, but who frequently works internationally. Her playwriting has been described as "provocative", "powerful and harrowing", "thoroughly riveting" and was featured at the Ojai Playwrights Conference, the Bay Area Playwrights Festival, the Estrogenius Festival, the Wet Ink Festival, and EST's Octoberfest, among others. She was recruited to write for three seasons on the television series drama "Army Wives", and recently wrote a feature article on the history of gender inequity in employment and portrayal in Hollywood for Harpers Bazaar UK.

www.byTDMitchell.com

Steven Snowden

The music of Steven Snowden has been described as “Beguiling… combining force with clarity” (San Francisco Classical Voice), “Wonderfully dynamic” (Interlude Hong Kong), “Rustic, red-blooded” (New Music Box), “Marvelously evocative”, (Cleveland Plain Dealer), and “The most wildly intriguing sight and sound I have experienced at a concert” (The Boston Musical Intelligencer). Writing music for dance, theater, multi-media installations, and the concert stage, his work often deals with concepts of memory, nostalgia, and the cyclic nature of historical events as they pertain to modern society. While his musical influences are deeply rooted in bluegrass, folk, and rock, he utilizes non-traditional techniques and processes to compose works that don’t squarely align with any single genre or style. A native of the Ozarks countryside, he began studies in music composition in 2002 and received degrees from Missouri State University, University of Colorado at Boulder, and University of Texas at Austin. In 2012-2013 he was a Fulbright Scholar in Portugal, researching the implementation of motion tracking technology as a means to facilitate collaboration between music and dance. In 2013-2014, he was a visiting professor and composer in residence at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and is the co-founder/director of the Fast Forward Austin Music Festival. He currently works as a freelance composer in Boston and is on an eternal quest to make the perfect breakfast taco.

www.stevensnowden.com