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SUMMER 2005 |
| Sara
Heart Bacon
 Sara
Heart Bacon presents large-scale, digitally printed photographic
images that deal with concepts of expected femininity and masculinity,
as well as the imposition of consumer culture. Bacon’s
work has recently been featured on the set of MTV’s "The
Real World, Philadelphia." Her
web site is www.saraheartbacon.com.
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Cecile Belmont & Natalia
Torales
 Cécile
Belmont (1975, France) is a visual artist and textile
designer living in Berlin. She uses different mediums: embroidery,
street installations, clothes and performance. Her website is www.cecilebelmont.com. Natalia
Torales (1971, Argentina) is a choreographer and dancer
based in Berlin. Her latest creation “Augenblickliche Nebel” shows
difficult intents of communication.
| Jay Blotcher
 A
frantic Gemini based in the Mid-Hudson Valley, Jay Blotcher, 44,
has lived multiple lives as a collage artist, documentary filmmaker,
journalist, AIDS activist, and publicist. His nonfiction appears
in six anthologies, and on writer Thomas Beller's website www.mrbellersneighborhood.com.
His essay “The Day My Past Came Calling” will be in “Identity
Envy: Wanting to Be Who We’re Not” (Haworth Press: 2006).
He recently collaborated on a project with hoax film artist Mike
Z. View Blotcher's collage artwork at
www.jayblotcher.com.
| Hans Booy
 Hans
Booy is a Dutch painter and installation/projection artist living in
Berlin. In collaboration with Paulus Fugers, he has created projects
at clubs and other public places in Germany, Holland, Italy, and China,
since 1991. Hans has had solo shows at Showroom MaMA, Lumen Travo,
Gallery Wagemans, Haus am Luetzowplatz, V!P'sLab. His work can be found
in the collections of Staatsgalerie Stuttgart. His web site is www.tulip-enterprises.de.
| Myron Cambell
 Myron
Campbell is from The Big Nipple of Alberta, Canada. He likes to draw
animals.
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Lamya el Chidiac
 Lamya
el-Chidiac is an "Arab"-ulous performance artist, poet
and DJ currently trying to sleep in Portland, Oregon. Lamya believes
that only art can begin to heal us from the wounds that the systems
have imposed on us. “As a queer and transgendered Arab I
am forced to constantly move through various checkpoints. I have
many faces for the world that I use to survive. My writing explores
and questions the idea of home and homeland- the insider outsider
experience”.
| Young
Chung & Robert
Summers
 Young
Chung and Robert Summers practice art making and theoretical and
experimental writing in Los Angeles, CA. The refusal to “know” the
Other, in all of his objective details, is a central theme
in their work.
With love and respect for the Other (and everyone is always an
Other), they actively explore the notion of alterity, difference,
and ethics
in their work.
| Dot DeLuitzo
When not quietly stewing in a corner
or loudly and violently making a scene, 21 year-old auteur-du-jour
Dot DeLuitzo enjoys baking, cuddling, and being one of the most
fashionable radicals in the trenches. She has long eyelashes and
is a horrible bowler. Her web site is www.alivingdisaster.com.
| Olivia Edith
 Olivia
Edith is an avid illustrator, painter, sketch book maker, and snail
mail sender. Fueled by red bean ice cream, lollipops, and mate, she
is committed to rocking the boat one little brush stroke at a time.
| Nicole Emmons
 Nicole
Emmons was born in Oklahoma City. She studied animation and art at
Columbia College in Chicago. Her influences include Starewicz, Zeman,
Rankin-Bass, and Norstein. Her current projects include a music video
for the band Tall Boys, and a stop-motion version of part 5 of H.C.
Anderson's The Snow Queen.
| Macho
Cabrera Estévez
Macho
Cabrera Estévez, Queer
Mixed Cuban-unamerican butch fag and creator of Ana Castro
zine, writes political satire and creative nonfiction. Macho
has read/performed
in New York City, and has even been on TV, twice (well, not
counting when he was in the Cuban parade at 8). "Dejé Enterrado
Mi Corazón" is an essay about the struggles people
face under the U.S. embargo on Cuba. It deals with how family
and generational separation have not allowed Cubans to become
one with
our roots.
| Diana Garcia
Based in Austin, Texas,
Diana Garcia has taught for the past 10 years in public schools. She
plays in an art-damaged punk band and has been
part of the Austin underground music scene for the last 20 years.
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Felix Gatopardo
Ecuadorian-born Felix Gatopardo is a filmmaker and independent curator based
in New York City. He has produced short autobiographical films and videos
that engage notions of home, exile, and hybrid identities. His more recent
project entails training to be a boxer. Needless to say, he loves a good
fight.
| Emily Gear
 Emily
Gear is a wax encaustic mixed media artist who has been a winner of the Creative Clash Art Contest, has been featured in Time
Out New York magazine and was a winner of the Manhattan
Arts international Artist’s Showcase Award. She will soon
open a solo exhibition at the Art Lab, a non-profit gallery space
in New
York City. Emily graduated Magna Cum Laude in 2000 from Kalamazoo
College in Michigan. She was inducted in to the Phi Beta Kappa
society after receiving high honors in her Studio Art major and
studying
Russian language in the Russian Federation. She works with Reiki
and holistic healing, and has won several awards and scholarships
for excellence and innovation. Currently, Emily lives and works
in Brooklyn, NY, and is also the Curator/Director of the Garibaldi-Meucci
Museum in Staten Island. She is currently pursing entrance into
the
United States Foreign Service as a Political Officer. View more
of her work at www.emilygear.com.
| Leigh Klonsky
Born in Chicago and residing
in Brooklyn since 2000, Leigh Klonsky has been a cook, organizer, teacher,
and rubber stamp maker.
| Ellen Korbonski
 Ellen
Korbonski earned her MFA in Film Production at New York University.
Her films have screened at the Palm Springs International Film
Festival, Sinking Creek Film Festival and several on-line
venues. Most recently,
she participated in "WTC: Living in the Shadows" at the Bronx
River Art Center and in "Re-Imagining New York" at the
North Dakota Museum of Art.
| Danielle Moskowitz
Latman
 Danielle
Latman is a writer and storyteller whose work has
appeared in the Maui Time Weekly and Wiretap online magazine. She is from Brooklyn,
is currently a student of English literature, and loves her mama.
| Ian Lundy
 Ian
Lundy was born and raised in a little town called Fort
Pierce, Florida. He went to college in a bigger town that he thought was a
city; then moved to New York. He likes it there.
| L.N.R.
 L.N.R. is
an educator, zine publisher, printmaker, and writer who hopes
to incite youth
to revolution through making independent media. She has been
an organizer of the Portland Zine Symposium and various feminist
collectives,
and recently wrote her undergraduate thesis on "Making Media
Making Meaning: Zines and the Process of Political Empowerment
in Young Women." riffRAG is her first online zine. She lives
in Brooklyn, NY.
| Mary
Magsamen & Stephan
Hillerbrand
 The
husband/wife collaborative team of Mary Magsamen and Stephan
Hillerbrand work with photography, video, and installation.
In Summer 2004,
they had a solo exhibition of their "air-hunger" series
at the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown,
Ohio. Their work
has been included in group exhibitions and screenings nationally
and internationally.
Their website is www.lemonsquared.com.
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Lauren
Martin
 Lauren
Jade Martin lives, loves, writes, makes art, knits, studies,
and fights for social justice in New York City. She is editor
of Art Missive, a hand-bound art journal dedicated to sharing,
promoting,
and inspiring the work of young and emerging artists who blur the line between
art and politics, art and craft, and art and theory. View her website at www.theyellowperil.com.
| Caroline Moore
 I
live in Brewer, Maine with my favorite person and our two cats. I'm
currently a student at the University of Maine, working toward a
BA in New Media. Photography started as a hobby a little over three
years ago and has become a major part of my life. View other work
at http://www.sixhours.net.
| Stephanie
Müller
 I’m
a 24 year old DIY (do-it-yourself) arts and music addict. At the
age of 18 I left Großkarolinenfeld, a small village in depths
of Bavaria, to study sociology, psychology and communications at
the Institute for Social Studies in Munich, Germany. I’m
currently writing my master’s thesis on Grrrl Zines as
Speaking Tubes for Marginalized Voices. I have established
a regular live radio show for international non-profit band and
arts projects at radio afkM94.5. I’ve been working for
the t-u-b-e, a gallery for sound experiments and underground
radio
dramas. I started Rag Treasure (www.ragtreasure.de)
in January 2004. My latest works on the “Estrangement of
Everyday Life’s Images” were presented in the course
of the Domagk Days 2004 in Munich this summer.
| Jamie Munkatchy
I attempt to grow gardens
where political expression is respected as art and where artistic expression
is acknowledged as one raised fist in a field of many fists. I nurture
my expressions in the streets with the same love and respect as the
expressions voiced in my books. I give voice to my queerness and she
in turn grows to towering heights, in a community full of cultural
expressions.
| Tara Needham
 Tara
Needham is a poet, essayist and songwriter pursuing a Ph. D in
English at the State University of New York at Albany. A non-profit
development consultant, she was also editor of the grrrl fanzine, Cupsize in
the mid-1990's. She is currently recording with her band The Reverse.
| Giles O'dell
 Animator,
truckdriver, cartoonist, and internationally unknown lo-fi punk
hip-hop legend, Giles O’Dell is patiently building
a bridge by which the kids can travel to the one soulful
source of the many sacred disrespected
arts. View his work on his website, www.zoonbats.com.
| Iris Porter
 Iris
Porter lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia; is a student and works
as a librarian at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design;
plays scrabble and is in the band The Culottes. She spent
the Winter of 2005 taking courses in 16mm Film and Advanced
Printed Matter.
| Natalie Reis
 Originally
from Montreal, Natalie Reiss now resides in Ontario where she is completing
an MFA at the University of Waterloo. She has participated in numerous
exhibitions in Canada.
| Sara Saltzman
 Sara
Saltzman grew up in Louisville KY. Currently she lives in Providence,
where she is attending graduate school at Rhode Island School of Design.
Her web site is www.wooloo.org:80/sarasaltzman.
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Susan Sarratt
 Susan
Sarratt is a 30-yr-old girl living in San Francisco, CA, who spends
most of her time reading, writing, cooking, and gardening. Lately,
she has started playing with paint, scissors, and glue, as well. She
is the editor of Sustainable
Eating: Building Community through Food, an online magazine
that educates and engages its readers in sustainable food practices
for personal, community and environmental health.
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Em Sixteen
Em Sixteen is dedicated
to addressing classism, racism, and gender issues through her writing
and art. She works in a variety of mediums; including digital art, drawing,
video, writing, sewing and printmaking. She has been a youth educator,
counselor, and web designer for several NYC nonprofits and has shown
her art widely. Her current lust is finding more time to make art. She
is based in LIC, NYC.
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Maggie Suisman
Born in Hartford, CT, Maggie
Suisman completed a BFA in Painting at the San Francisco Art Institute
in 2000. Currently pursuing an MFA in the Illustration at New York's School
of Visual Arts her illustrations have appeared in 11211, the Brooklyn Review,
and the Indypendent. Her work can be seen at www.maggiesuisman.com.
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Katy
Weselcouch
 Katy
Weselcouch is a part-time fashion designer and full-time fashionista
living in Brooklyn, NY. She is obsessed with making things with emphasis
on comics, painting and food. She performs with New York Drag Squad and
TRAXX dance crew. Her comics have appeared in several zines. Her fashion
website is
www.yeyebags.com.
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Muffie
White
 Muffie
White is an artist who lives in Portland, Oregon. She delights
in feminizing everyday objects, images and text through means of
collage, sculpture, artist books, zines, performance, and installation.
She is 25 years old and holds a BA in Art from Reed College.
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Sally
Willowbee
My story weaves through
the narrative, connecting different parts of my life: my political
beliefs, my spirituality, my concern about our environment, my
feminism, my
interest in culture and class, my creativity, and my humor. I am
a lifelong trash-picker
and a self-taught furniture/cabinet maker, often using recycled
wood in my creations. For more than 30 years, I have taken photos
of folk
art environments. I love “discovering” art in front
yards, side yards, and backyards. In the fall of 1999, I took a
class called
Grass Roots Art Environments at the New School in NYC that inspired
me to begin researching, documenting, interviewing and writing
about self-taught
artists. Trashy Women: From Plastic Bags to Heavy Metal, Women Who
Make Art from Recycled Materials, is a presentation illustrated
with slides that grew out of this passion.
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