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Artist Statement: Eona Craig is an experienced arts and education professional and Chartered Manager, with an MA in Education (Effective Leadership and Management), a BA in Dramatic Studies and a successful 30-year record of working in the creative industries, with a focus on cultural regeneration, creative enterprise and inclusive educational development.
Artist Statement: I am a visual and performing artist, activist and educator. Working as a multdisciplinary artist is testament to creating and understanding our world as a complex, integrated and interdependent system of parts, each part informing the other. I am currently the executive director for Stone Valley Arts located in rural southwest Vermont. We are a young organization working to bring a full spectrum...
Artist Statement: My goal is to advocate for people who have been historically marginalized and to assist in having them tell their own stories using the arts.
Artist Statement: Eve Ensler, Tony Award winning Playwright, performer, and activist, is the author of The Vagina Monologues, translated into over 48 languages and performed in over 140 countries, including sold-out runs at both Off-Broadway's Westside Theater and on London's West End (2002 Olivier Award nomination, Best Entertainment) and has been running for 11 years in Mexico City and Paris. In 2004, Ms. Ensler...
Artist Statement: Favianna Rodriguez is a celebrated printmaker and digital artist based in Oakland, California. Using high-contrast colors and vivid figures, her composites reflect literal and imaginative migration, global community, and interdependence. Whether her subjects are immigrant day laborers in the U.S., mothers of disappeared women in Juárez, Mexico, or her own abstract self portraits, Rodriguez brings...
Artist Statement: Gan Golan is a New York Times Bestselling Author, Artist & Agitator. His most recent works include the bestselling children's book parody Goodnight Bush, and the critically-acclaimed graphic novel about the economic crisis, The Adventures of Unemployed Man. He has 20 years experience as a grassroots activist, having worked on issues from housing, to policiing, to Global Justice and militarism...
Artist Statement: Giovanni Morassutti is an Italian actor, director, writer, artist, and cultural entrepreneur graduate of the Italian National film school directed by Giancarlo Giannini. He is best known for having deepened the study of the realistic school of acting and to maintain the Strasberg's legacy. As a founder and artist he is involved in environmental issues by developing programs at his art residency...
Delray Beach,
FL
Artist Statement: Glenn Weiss has spent 25 years assisting counties, cities, museums and community organizations to improve their civic spaces with the arts of sculpture, murals, landscape, video and performance. Between 2008-2011, he developed the first comprehensive public art and performance program for NYC’s Times Square with 300,000 daily visitors. He produced 33 events with hundreds of artists and performers...
Artist Statement: Heidi Duckler is the Artistic Director and founder of Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre. Since its inception in 1985, she has choreographed more than 60 original dance works at unique sites in Hong Kong, New York, Miami, Las Vegas, Portland, Oregon and throughout Southern California including the Lincoln Heights Jail, the Los Angeles River, the Subway Terminal Building, the Herald Examiner Building,...
Artist Statement: Helen De Michiel is a director, writer, and producer whose work includes film, television and video installations. Thirty Leaves, her production organization, focuses on producing, writing, and directing films and other media for educational purposes and on creating public awareness of independent media as a necessary and vital cultural movement. Our goal is to engage the public with our work,...
Artist Statement: Focusing on the Living Experience—making & consuming, loss, the passage of time—J.J. McCracken constructs immersive installations and works with local communities at the grassroots level. McCracken’s landscapes are composed of earth materials and activated by sound, smell, taste, and living models that move through them, focused on tasks they’ve been assigned. Sometimes, repeating cycles of...
Artist Statement: Jackie Calderone (http://www.calderonearts.com) has played many roles throughout her arts career including: presenter, funder, booking agent, fundraiser, evaluator, panelist, board member, educator, and artist. Calderone pulls from these diverse experiences to help organizations and individuals uncover a greater capacity to create, connect, and deepen relationships with their changing communities...
Artist Statement: A collaborative artist team since 1998, Bradley McCallum and Jacqueline Tarry have worked and exhibited globally, seeking to surface and discuss issues revolving around marginalized members of society. Their work, which moves fluidly between large-scale public projects, performative sculpture, painting, photography, video and self-portraiture, challenges audiences to face issues of race and...
Los Angeles,
CA
Artist Statement: Jamie Crooke is a visual artist who incorporates performance and community
engaged formats for project-based artwork informed by research. Her interests
are at the intersection of urban planning and public health. She works as an
artist, educator, and administrator based out of Los Angeles, CA.
Artist Statement: Since the Mural Arts Program began in 1984 as a component of the Philadelphia Anti-Graffiti Network, Jane Golden has been its driving force, overseeing its growth from a small city agency into the nation's largest mural program, a catalyst for positive social change and a model for community development across the country and around the globe.
Artist Statement: Jeff Chang has written extensively on culture, politics, the arts, and music.
He was a USA Ford Fellow in Literature and a winner of the North Star News Prize. He was named by The Utne Reader as one of “50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World”.
His first book, Can’t Stop Won’t Stop, garnered many honors, including the American Book Award and the Asian American Literary Award.