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Sabrina
Chapadjiev
Sabrina Chapadjiev is a playwright, singer-songwriter, spoken
word artist and over all dilettante from the Midwest. When not
writing or recording her ragtime infused songs, she is working
on her book, “Live Through This,” an anthology of
women artists and self-destruction. She has had five plays produced,
with a production of her sixth, “perhaps merely quiet” upcoming
in England 2007.
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Insoo Chun
Insoo Chun is a painter who grew up in Seoul, Korea where she earned
her Masters of Fine Arts in traditional Korean painting. She came
over to the Untied States for further studies and got BA in art history
at the University of Minnesota and an MA in Visual Arts Administration
at New York University. She currently works at the Brooklyn Museum
and lives in New Jersey. |
Enid Crow
Enid Crow is a feminist artist who lives in Brooklyn, NY. She has
been taking pictures of herself for about 20 years. Her current project, The
Disaster Series, is a series of self-portrait photographs of
characters observing disasters. Ms. Crow is a 2005-2006 artistic
fellow at A.I.R. Gallery, the oldest artist-run gallery devoted to
women's artwork, and a member of the Department of Craft. View more
of her work at www.enidcrow.com.
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Karen
D’Amico
A native Californian, Karen D'Amico grew up in the San Francisco
Bay Area and moved to England in 1990. Karen studied at London's
University of the Arts, Central Saint Martins, where she received
a BA (Hons) in Fine Art in 2004. Prior to that she received two
HE Diplomas in Art and Design from Chelsea College of Art. She
has participated in various group exhibitions and her work has
been acquired by Corporate as well as private collectors. View
more of her work at www.karendamico.com.
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Nicole E.
Davis
Nicole is a proud native New Yorker with a love of extra-dark
dark chocolate. She has an MFA in creative writing from Sarah
Lawrence College and is currently getting her Master's in Social
Work at New York’s Hunter College.
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Olivia Edith
Olivia Edith, currently residing in Portland, Oregon, is an avid
illustrator, painter, sketchbook maker, and snail mail sender. She
enjoys exhibiting her artwork around town, booty shakin' it down,
studying languages, creating exquisitely designed salads, and juicing
like there's no tomorrow. She also loves to travel when she can and
feels it's the best way to learn. |
Carol Es
Carol Es is a self-taught artist and native Los Angelina. Her dichotomous,
artistic nature formed early at age six, drawing cartoons underneath
tables in bowling alleys. Shy and reclusive, she spent much of her
adolescence alone in public libraries, teaching herself to read.
She has come to express herself wholly in her art after surviving
childhood abuse, neglect, rape and disability, using past experience
as the fuel for subject matter. Carol is represented by the George
Billis Gallery and is a recent recipient of a grant from the Durfee
Foundation in Los Angeles.
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Chitra Ganesh
Chitra Ganesh was born and raised in Brooklyn and Queens, and currently
lives in Brooklyn. She received a BA from Brown University, and an
MFA from Columbia University in 2002. Awards and residencies include
the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, an LMCC Workspace
grant, CAA Fellowship, Astraea Visual Arts Fund, and a NYFA Fellowship.
Her work is exhibited widely in North America as well as in London,
Turin, Gwangju, Brazil and India.
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Felix Gatopardo
Felix Gatopardo’s films and videos have screened at many festivals
including the New Festival and MIX, in New York City; Chicago’s
Women in the Director’s Chair; San Francisco's International
Asian American Film Festival; the Mardi Gras Film Festival in Sydney,
Australia; and the Mill Valley International Film Festival. He would
like to spend the next several years incorporating vegetables into
his diet. He is also quite excited about Lil Kim's release from the
big house. |
Jesse Harold
Jesse Harold grew up on a lush, untrammeled, tropical island. She
now lives off of the G train in Brooklyn. Moral of this story is:
It's a long way home, my friends. View more of her work at www.drawclub.org.
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Michelle Kay
Michelle Kay is a writer, chef, knitter, singer, and friend living
in Brooklyn, where she volunteers with Jews for Racial and Economic
Justice, and searches for an escape route from the non-profit
industrial complex. She has recently been published in New Voices
Magazine, and once produced a short film on challah bread.
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KB
KB is a Los Angeles-based high school teacher.
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Laimah
Laimah is a multi-media artivist (artist + activist)
living in Brooklyn, NY. Using any medium that feels
right for a particular message, she collaborates with
individuals and groups working for social justice to
build visual tools for resistance and hopes to empower
people through art-making, media-making and personal
expression. Currently, she is working with Sisterfire
NYC (a local branch of INCITE! Women of Color Against
Violence), painting a mural with a middle school in
the Bronx, and living off of Azad (liberation) Design.
View her work at www.azadesign.net.
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Caroline
Mak
Caroline Mak is a visual artist from Hong Kong, currently
residing in Brooklyn, NY. She received her bachelor's
degree in biology from Stanford University and is a
recent MFA graduate from the University of Chicago.
Caroline moved to New York in 2005 and has a studio
in Gowanus, Brooklyn where she primarily works in sculpture
and installations, using materials that range from
fabrics and lace, to industrial insulation foam.
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Laura
McIntyre and Jen Hutton
Laura McIntyre has
been wandering among the beautiful mountains near
Golden, B.C.; collecting moss; silk-screening squirrels
on shirts; and daydreaming about ski ticket flipbooks
and a future line of cheese skirts. Log on to www.luvmac.com to
check out her latest clothing designs.
Jen Hutton is a interdisciplinary
artist of no fixed address, but for the moment is
primarily based in Guelph, Ontario. Pfack Gallery
is her ongoing curatorial project: a mobile art gallery
in a small, black, modestly fashionable, genuine
leather fanny pack. |
Phoebe
North
Phoebe North is a 22-year-old native New Jersey-an
who knows all the two-letter words in Scrabble.
She enjoys making soup and walking her dog, Matilda.
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Tara
Polansky
Tara is a Gemini living in New York City. She
works as a community organizer and likes to make
stuff with mud. |
Leah
Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
The daughter of a Sri Lankan father and a
Irish-Ukrianian mother, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
was raised in Worcester, MA, a rust belt
city known for dirty water and busted buildings.
The author of Consensual Genocide (TSAR,
2006), she is a frequent contributor to Bitch and Colorlines magazines
and has had work anthologized in Colonize
This!; With a Rough Tongue: Femmes Write
Porn; Without a Net; Dangerous Famillies; Geeks,
Misfits and Outlaws; and A Girl’s
Guide to Taking Over the World. She
dreams of a Sri Lanka free of war, colonialism
and gender oppression. |
Mark
Ramos
Mark Ramos is a 26 year-old artist and musician
currently living in Brooklyn, NY. He has studied
video/new genres at Hampshire College and the
San Francisco Art Institute. He is interested
in using video and digital media to create artificial
environments that only reference reality, and
understanding social and cultural issues by removing
them from their native visual landscape. He is
fascinated
by
video’s ability to flatten and distort forms and reproduce colors that don't
occur in
nature. He also plays drums in the band Telepathic and the All-Seeing Eye.
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Christy C. Road
Cristy C. Road is an illustrator who started making punk zines at
the age of 14. Her drawings capture the beauty of people who defy
traditional beauty standards. Whether she’s portraying the
dystopian future or quiet moments of friendship, her work sticks
in your head. View more of her work at www.croadcore.org. |
A.
Sickels
A. Sickels is a fiction writer living
in Brooklyn, New York.
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Arlene
TextaQueen
Arlene TextaQueen is an Australian texta super-hero with international
flying sights. She has exhibited her Textanude portraits widely,
screened her animation for SBS TV Australia, narrated slide shows
from Amsterdam to San Francisco, and has been commissioned to
create tapestries, a billboard, and a surfboard for the Clean
Ocean Foundation. She recently completed a 6-month artist residency
at the International Studio and Curatorial Program in NYC. She
currently lives in Montreal, Quebec. View more of her work at www.textaqueen.com.
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Sally
Willowbee
I am a lifelong trash picker and a self-taught furniture/cabinet
maker, and, for the past thirty years, I have been designing
and building furniture and cabinets as well as producing
handmade books, lamps and illuminated sculptures out of discarded
materials. My artworks are playful, often with punning titles
and materials; yet they also refer to serious environmental
and societal concerns. View more of Sally's work at www.quirkyworks.info. |
