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Artist Statement: As a documentary photographer and multimedia producer, Kelly Creedon explores social issues including economic and housing justice, labor rights, and immigration. She frequently partners with nonprofit and grassroots organizations to use image, sound, and story as tools to help shift public dialogue and policy around important social issues. Ms. Creedon is the creator and artist behind the...
Artist Statement: As a football coach, it is my duty to be dedicated to these young boys the way they are dedicated to showing up on the field. Our goal is take these young boys and make great role models in their communities and in their schools.
Petaluma,
CA
Artist Statement: As an actress. singer, composer, choreographer, director, and published author I have had fun with recreating the human condition. Satirically speaking Comedy has been my biggest joy and release when it comes to some of the pain that this beautiful existence can foster. My work is focused now on the human race being the only one of all relations that's lost the inner knowing of it's purpose. OUCH...
Artist Statement: If life were a photo, then my artwork would be its negative, seeking to explore those aspects in our society that have been ignored or forgotten such as history, lynching, misogyny, slavery and suicide.
By printing these forgotten negatives, I give voice to the marginalized people and disregarded aspects of our society.
For me art is my form of social work and I use it to open doorways to...
Artist Statement: Actress, Singer, Director, Composer, Choregographer, and Published Author, I have been able to make "us" laugh at ourselves while loving oursleves through comedy. The latest Comedy Video I produced is called: "Obsessive Jeans", a comedy showing a woman's struggle with zipping up her too tight Jeans; a metaphor for trying to live a life that society assigns us and finding it no longer fulfilling...
Artist Statement: Not a Cornfield artist, Lauren Bon resides in Los Angeles and holds a Masters of Architecture degree from MIT and a BA from Princeton. Ms. Bon is a trustee of the Annenberg Foundation and President of Not Cornfield, LLC. Her recent urban, public and land art projects in the U.S., Hong Kong, Belfast and Northern Ireland, as well as her role as a trustee, make her uniquely poised to build the...
Artist Statement: Through a collaborative thesis effort with colleague, Cinnamon Janzer, we are working on exploring the intersection of social design and the social sciences. Currently, we are in the process of developing a research model for design within the social sector that compiles current best practices within the field but also adopts methods from other disciplines such as sociology, anthropology, and...
Artist Statement: The world thus appears to be a complicated tissue of events in which connections of different kinds alternate, overlap or combine and thereby determine the texture of the whole. All phenomena are processes, connections, all is in flux, and at moments this flux is visible.
Peter Mattiessen
Artist Statement for the Transitory Space series
Artist Statement: Lee Lee attained her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, and has spent time in over 40 countries. These experiences have led her to develop a wide range of painting styles in response to the diverse conditions of our world. Her work is informed by several movements through art history including the feminine expressionist drawings of Kathe Kolwitz to the actions of the 1970s which embraced...
Artist Statement: Leila Buck is an Arab American playwright, actress, storyteller and teaching artist. Her award-winning solo show, ISite, about growing up between the U.S. and the Arab world, has toured the U.S., Europe and China. Her second play, In the Crossing, about her experience in Lebanon with her Jewish husband during the Israeli-Hezbollah war of 2006, and the challenges of telling that story, was first...
Artist Statement: Leslie Schwartz is the author of two literary novels, Jumping the Green (Simon & Schuster, 1999) and Angels Crest (Doubleday, 2004.) Jumping the Green won the James Jones Literary Society Award for Best First Novel and was published in three languages. Angels Crest was a Book Sense 76 pick and was published in nine languages. The film version of the book wrapped principal photography in...
Artist Statement: Leyla Rzayeva lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area. Rzayeva combines personal and collective memory, and investigates the stories that shaped her family and transnational history. Her research interests include the contemporary culture of West and Central Asia and the experiences of appropriation and erasure. In her current body of work Rzayeva presents the principal themes of memory,...
Artist Statement: From 1986 – 2004, Lily Yeh served as the co-founder, executive director, and lead artist of The Village of Arts and Humanities, a non-profit organization with the mission to build community through art, learning, land transformation and economic development. Under her eighteen years of leadership The Village’s summer park building project developed into an organization with twenty full-time and...
Artist Statement: My art work examines the ways in which people honor or do not honor nonhuman animals following their deaths. While companion animals are frequently grieved and honored, those that we depend on for food and other products are rarely recognized. With a few noteworthy exceptions, the deaths of farm animals, laboratory animals and wild animals go virtually unnoticed. What makes one species worthy...
Artist Statement: Linda Pollack studied economics at Penn State University, and art at the Vrije Akademie in The Hague and the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht, the Netherlands. She spent a decade in the lowlands, eventually combining her art practice with cultural policy development while working for the European Cultural Foundation in Amsterdam. At the ECF she set up APEXchanges, a groundbreaking arts mobility...
Artist Statement: Lisa Biggs is a playwright, actor, and performance studies scholar who is now based in Rhode Island. A former member of the Living Stage Theatre Company, she has developed and toured her original work to venues across the country, including Cultural Odyssey, DC Arts Center, Links Hall, Amherst College, and many more. As an actor, Lisa has appeared in productions at the Kennedy Center, Arena Stage...