Artists
Dan Deacon
Deacon recorded the track “Drinking out of Cups”. In 2006, Liam Lynch created a video to accompany the piece. The compilation has been viewed more than 17 million times on YouTube. As the video spread, rumors of what the video was and how it was made quickly began forming. One popular rumor is that it is a recording of someone on LSD locked in a closet. Deacon has stated numerous times that this is not true.
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Martha Colburn
Martha Colburn is a filmmaker and multimedia artist. Born in Pennsylvania, she now lives and works between Holland and New York City. Although Ms. Colburn’s style is unmistakably her own, the scope of her work is broad and difficult to encapsulate; her expertise (especially in stop-motion animation) have led to teaching, speaking, and lectures at film forums and universities worldwide. more information at www.marthacolburn.com
The Bele Bele Rhythm Collective
The Bele Bele Rhythm Collective is an inter-generational, diverse group of women from DC and surrounding areas who all share a passion for drumming, and will be performing tightly sewn compositions of polyrhythms on dun-uns and djembes, along with exciting breaks and contagious songs. The BBRC performs to celebrate unity and diversity, and to spread the joy and power of West African drumming to the community at-large.
Performers are Ayanna Gallant, Mary Anne Miles, Candace Mickens, Renee Panagos, Maite Lasa, Anovia Craven, Paula Schuman, Sara Wallace-Keeshen, Maralee Pepper, Marcia Greene, Michelle Arter-Thompson, Susan Galbraith, Michele Murphy Akaras. Led by Kristen Arant.
Rachael Shannon
Rachael Shannon is a self-identified native Texan queeirdo. Rachael’s life adventures keep her oscillating between the roles of artist, organizer, teacher, participant, designer, business owner, project facilitator, and collaborator. Her creative involvement is motivated by the belief that art has the capacity to bring us in closer communication with ourselves and, in turn, to more authentic and infinitely spiritually expanding experiences with one another. Rachael’s practice tends to explore craft, architecture, personal mythologies, queerness, and community connection through whatever means necessary. She has a passionate reverence for the practice of art in everyday life and persists daily at keeping the dream alive. Rachael moved to Baltimore in 2011 to pursue an MFA in Community Arts.
Michelle Nugent
Michelle Nugent is an interdisciplinary/mixed media artist and community art facilitator. She
is currently pursuing a Masters of Fine Arts in Community Arts from the Maryland Institute
College of Art. In 2009, she received her BFA in Fine Arts with a minor in Art History from
The College of New Jersey.
During her undergraduate career, Nugent acquired a grant from the National Conference of
Undergraduate Research and the Lancy Foundation (2008) to create a public mural in
collaboration with youth from Trenton, NJ’s West Ward community. She is also a recipient
of the Pamela Joseph Art Scholarship (2009) and the Thomas George Artists Fund Grant
Award (2009).
In addition to her community work in Trenton, NJ, Michelle has also worked with
communities in Philadelphia, PA, creating large-scale murals and facilitating after school
youth art workshops through the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program and The Asian Arts
Initiative.
A recent recipient of MICA’s Community Service Fund grant, Michelle is investigating
community cross-cultural exchanges within community in her artwork. Through her own
experiences as a half-White, half-Filipino American artist, she is interested in using art as a
catalyst for dialogue, and exploring new ways of understanding and linking different cultures.
Lauren Bender
Lauren Bender is a teacher, twin, collaborator and writer living and working in Baltimore. Past performance works include Big Pink (Baltimore Museum of Art; To Build a House You Start With the Roof: A Franz West Retrospective) and CorpOreo (Transmodern Festival). Publications include Whale Box (Publishing Genius Press), There is No U in Poem (Big Game Books), and The Dictionary Poems: Some Bees (NewLights Press). Bender was the curator of the Show&Tell series in Hampden, Baltimore, and co-director of Narrow House, a publisher of printed and recorded literature until her job–which she loves–took over her life.
David London
David London combines magic with storytelling, puppetry, comedy, performance, audience interaction, and that which cannot be defined, to create original shows of magic unlike you have ever experienced before. More info at www.magicoutsidethebox.com
Catherine Pancake
Catherine Pancake is an award-winning filmmaker and sound artist. Her work has been presented nationally and internationally in a wide variety of venues, including the Museum of Modern Art, Royal Ontario Museum, Baltimore Museum of Art, Academy of Fine Arts Prague and Contemporary Museum Baltimore. Her awards include the Paul Robeson Independent Media Award, Jack Spadaro Documentary Award, Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award and the Silver Chris. Her films have been broadcast in the U.S.A. and Great Britain and are distributed by Bullfrog Films and the Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre. Sound art releases can be found on Ehse Records and Recorded Records in Baltimore. Pancake completed her MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in May 2012. She was awarded the Claire Rosen and Samuel Edes Foundation Prize for Emerging Artists, the graduate school’s highest honor.n More information at catherinepancake.com/
Bonnie Jones
Bonnie Jones is a Korean-American writer, improvising musician, and performer working primarily with electronic music and text. Born in 1977 in South Korea she was raised by dairy farmers in New Jersey, and currently resides in Baltimore, MD. Bonnie creates improvised and composed text-sound performances that explore the fluidity and function of electronic noise (field recordings, circuit bending) and text (poetry, found, spoken, visual). She is interested in how people perceive, “read” and interact with these sounds and texts given our current technological moment. Bonnie has received commissions from the London ICA and has presented her work in the US, Europe, and Asia and collaborates frequently with writers and musicians including Ric Royer, Carla Harryman, Andy Hayleck, Joe Foster, Andrea Neumann, Liz Tonne, and Chris Cogburn. She received her MFA at the Milton Avery School of the Arts at Bard College. www.bonniejones.wordpress.com
Asimina Chremos
Asimina Chremos, born 1966, has a lifelong history of identifying as a contemporary/experimental dancer and performer in and around Philadelphia and Chicago, IL. She has trained extensively in various forms of dance and movement including Ballet, Skinner Releasing, Butoh, Contact Improvisation, Yoga, Klein-Mahler, Graham, Limon, Cunningham, etc, not in that order. She currently works full-time as an arts administrator in Philadelphia and around the edges of that, she does crochet, kirigami, drawings, and dances. Learn more at asiminachremos.com.