Sharon Hayes is an artist and an Associate Professor at The Cooper Union in New York City. In her work, Hayes engages multiple mediums–video, performance, and installation–in ongoing investigation into specific intersections between history, politics and speech. These relationships are central to all of her work from the 2003 performance and video installation: Symbionese Liberation
David Haskell’s work integrates scientific, contemplative, and literary studies of the natural world. He is currently at work on Songs of Trees, a book about humanity’s varied roles within biological networks, as heard through the acoustics of trees. His previous book, The Forest Unseen: A Year’s Watch in Nature (Viking Penguin, 2012), was winner of
Joy Harjo began writing poetry as a voice for indigenous-rights movements as a university student in Southwest in the seventies. She came to poetry through her mother’s songwriting, and was later inspired by the lyrical activism of the poets and songwriters Pablo Neruda, Okot b’Pitek, Adrienne Rich, Bob Dylan, Gil Scott-Heron, and Leslie Silko, among
Gregory Halpern has published three books of photographs, including A (J&L Books, 2011), Omaha Sketchbook (J&L Books, 2009), and Harvard Works Because We Do (Quantuck Lane, 2003). He is also the editor, along with Jason Fulford, of The Photographer’s Playbook: Over 250 Assignments and Ideas (Aperture, 2014). He holds a B.A. in history and literature
Raised in Canada, Phyllis Green moved to California to pursue graduate studies in art. She received an M.F.A. from UCLA in 1981, and began her professional career as an artist, educator, and curator in Los Angeles. Her practice integrates gender politics, the sphere of craft, and influences of modernism. Green is primarily an object maker
Daniel Garcia is a 2012 U.S. Rockefeller Fellow in film, and in 2011 he and his partner, Rania Attieh, were named among the twenty-five faces of independent film by Filmmakers Magazine. A native of South Texas, he earned a B.A. in philosophy before he went on to receive his M.F.A. in film from New York
Phyllis Galembo photographs cultural and religious traditions as well as the transformative power of ritual dress in Africa and the Americas. Her interest in these traditions began in 1985 during her first visit to Nigeria. Since then she continues to travel making portraits at masquerade events and ceremonies. Galembo’s books include Mask, Dressed for Thrills:
LaToya Ruby Frazier has been described as "an artist on a mission with a prophetic voice” who has a “preternaturally mature body of work,” by The Village Voice and New York Times. Through photography, performance, and video Frazier uses the conventions of social documentary to probe and upend traditional narratives of urban growth and the
Jason Fulford is a photographer and publisher, born in Atlanta, Georgia. With his home in New York City, and his archive in Scranton, Pennsylvania, Fulford spends a third of the year on the road. His photographs have been described as open metaphors. Fulford’s interest in books is manifested in several ways. Monographs of his work
Emily Fragos’s acclaimed first book of poems, Little Savage, was published by Grove Press in 2004. Her newest collection, Hostage: New & Selected Poems (Sheep Meadow Press, 2011), was considered for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She is the 2014 recipient of the Arts & Letters Award in Literature from the American Academy of
Denise Duhamel’s most recent book of poetry, Blowout (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2013), was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her other volumes include Ka-Ching! (Pittsburgh, 2009), Two and Two (Pittsburgh, 2005), Mille et un Sentiments (Firewheel Editions, 2005), Queen for a Day: Selected and New Poems (Pittsburgh, 2001), and A Star-Spangled Banner
Greg Drasler lives and works in New York City. His paintings have been the subject of sixteen one-person exhibitions and included in over thirty group shows. He was born and raised in Waukegan, Illinois, and moved to New York in 1983 after receiving a M.F.A. from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. The first exhibition of
Chris Doyle is an interdisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, New York. His most recent work explores the cultural construction of landscape. He has exhibited widely at venues in the U.S. and internationally, including at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Queens Museum of Art, P.S.1 Museum of Contemporary Art, MassMoCA, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Tang Museum,
Marco Williams is a filmmaker and a film educator. His directing credits include The Undocumented; Inside the New Black Panthers; Banished; Freedom Summer; I Sit Where I Want: The Legacy of Brown v. Board of Education; MLK Boulevard: The Concrete Dream; Two Towns of Jasper; Making Peace: Rebuilding our Communities; The Pursuit of Happiness: With
Mr. Dawson’s photographs have been recognized by a Visual Artists Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and a Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. In 1992, he served as a Panelist for the Visual Arts Fellowship in Photography for the National Endowment For the Arts in
Nancy Davidson is an interdisciplinary artist, working primarily in sculpture and installation. Davidson grew up in Chicago and received a B.F.A. from the University of Illinois at Chicago. She received her M.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1975 where she began her professional career, exhibiting in solo and group shows
With diagram and inscription in mind, Marjorie Welish produced In the Futurity Lounge/Asylum for Indeterminacy (2012), taking poetic advantage of the architectural sites conceived in John Roebling’s Delaware Aqueduct, over the Delaware River; Hans Poelzig’s I.G. Farben plant, in Frankfurt; Rem Koolhaas’s IIT McCormick Tribune Student Center, in Chicago; and Diller Scofidio + Renfro’s High
Dorit Cypis was born in Israel, immigrated to Canada as a child and to the United States as a young adult. She currently lives in Los Angeles. Cypis is a visual artist as well as an innovative professional mediator. She has moved fluidly between studio practice, educator, mediator, and community builder since the 1980s. Her
Known for her “long line of smart, thrillingly well-executed performance pieces" (Katherine Dieckmann, The Village Voice), Lois Weaver’s performance work has been at the forefront of gay and lesbian arts and culture. As director and co-founder of Split Britches, one of the first professional feminist theatre companies established with Peggy Shaw and Deb Margolin in
Deke Weaver is a writer-performer, designer, and video/media artist. He graduated from Bowdoin College and earned an M.F.A. in photography from the University of Colorado, Boulder. His interdisciplinary performances and videos have been presented throughout the U.S. and abroad in experimental theater, film/video, dance, solo performance, and broadcast venues such as PBS, Channel 4/U.K., Showtime,
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