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Derek Owens

Derek Owens

Derek Owens is an artist and writer living on Long Island and teaching in New York City.

ALL 5 (m-p), AlumsCommunications DirectorApril 5, 2024collage, painting, mixed media, fiction, poetry, fabulist, magical realism, pedagogy, time, memory, myth, place, haunting

Birgit Larson

Birgit investigates the rules she (we) live by, dissecting, mending, normalizing and reallocating behavior. Her performative work designs or enhances guidelines in her own life, creating a long form performance that becomes a part of her daily life and identity.

ALL 4 (I-L), AlumsCommunications DirectorApril 5, 2024Performance, emotions, social sculpture, movement, drawing, productivity, mundane, self-help, repetition, identity

Deborah Dudley

Deborah Dudley

Deborah Dudley is founder and artist in residence of Mehitable Blish Studios in Brooklyn, New York. Dudley specializes in curating, cataloguing, and reimagining a person's relationship to the art and artifacts within their daily lives, extracting the oral histories of individuals and families through their most treasured and mundane possessions.

All 2 (c-e), AlumsCommunications DirectorFebruary 28, 2024mixed media, photography, book arts, curation, cataloguing, documentation, taxonomies

Laurel Terlesky

Laurel Terlesky, a Canadian interdisciplinary artist, holds a Master of Fine Arts from Transart Institute and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Victoria. Her international works explore technology's role in communication and relationships, often through tactile installations. Awarded residencies and supported by prominent arts councils, Terlesky probes embodiment, and memory, seeking to mend communication rifts and challenge dualisms.

ALL 7 (s-t), AlumsCommunications DirectorFebruary 28, 2024interdisciplinary, visual, electronics, Memory, Environment, Resiliency, relationships, Climate Crisis, Community, Human-Nature

Michelle Vara

Michelle Vara

Michelle M. Vara’s work is visually diverse, structurally intriguing and tactilely rich.

ALL 8 (u-z), Alums, AlumniCommunications DirectorJanuary 17, 2024Instinct, Soul, Experience, Theosophy, Road Tar as Paint, Hubcap as paint brush

Julia Olson

Julia Olson

Julia Olson is a visual artist.

ALL 5 (m-p), Alums, AlumniCommunications DirectorJanuary 17, 2024niqab, hijab, imperceptible self, identity, veil, veiling, metaphors, connectedness, the sacred, storytelling

Raphael Raphael

Raphael Raphael

Raphael is a film and media scholar and digital artist.

ALL 6 (q-r), Alums, AlumniCommunications DirectorJanuary 17, 2024digital, film, cinema, transnational, transmedia, disability studies, ability, genre

Judith Mazzucco

Judith Mazzucco

Judith is an interdisciplinary artist working in mixed media, film, photography and words.

ALL 5 (m-p), Alumni, AlumsCommunications DirectorJanuary 17, 2024Interspecies relationships, domestication, creativity, horses, animals, women

Stephanie Reid

Stephanie Reid

Stephanie Reid is an interdisciplinary artist whose focus on fine art and photography lead into film making, video, animation / effects, and sound as mediums for more complex storytelling.

ALL 6 (q-r), Alums, AlumniCommunications DirectorJanuary 17, 2024collaboration, healing, home, non-human interactions, community, montage, fire, flight, participatory art and music

Josephine Turalba

Josephine Turalba

Josephine Turalba, born in Manila, Philippines is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice incorporates intersecting layers of different media: performance, sculpture, video, sound, photography.

ALL 7 (s-t), Alums, AlumniCommunications DirectorJanuary 17, 2024performance, video, politics of violence, trauma, bullets

Asher Mains

Asher Mains

Primarily a representational painter, Mains uses art objects to initiate dialogue and experiences.

ALL 5 (m-p), Alums, AlumniCommunications DirectorJanuary 17, 2024local, material, grenada, caribbean

KP Pradeepkumar

KP Pradeepkumar

KP Pradeepkumar is an artist whose works revolve around memoirs in an extensive logic of narrative in which paintings, drawings, photographs, sculpture are fuse with visual testimony as an ongoing process of deceptive self-representation in order to reconstruct the past and an artist myths in present.

ALL 5 (m-p), Alums, AlumniCommunications DirectorJanuary 17, 2024Subaltern art, esthetics, imagination, intuition

Ira Hoffecker-Sattler

Ira Hoffecker-Sattler

Ira Hoffecker is a German-Canadian artist who has resided and maintained her art practise in Victoria, Canada since 2004. She is an active member of the Federation of Canadian Artists.

ALL 3 (f-h), Alumni, AlumsCommunications DirectorJanuary 17, 2024identity. Berlin. Germany. Collective Memory. Historic layers

Louis Laberge-Cote

Louis Laberge-Cote

Louis Laberge-Côté is a Toronto-based dancer, choreographer, teacher, and rehearsal director. An acclaimed performer, he has danced nationally and internationally with over 20 companies, and has been a full-time member of Toronto Dance Theatre (1999-2007) and the Kevin O’Day Ballett Nationaltheater Mannheim (2009-2011).

ALL 4 (I-L), Alumni, AlumsCommunications DirectorJanuary 17, 2024dance, contemporary dance, dance training, dance performance, contemporary choreography, metamodernism

Derek Owens

Derek Owens is a professor of English at St. John's University, New York, where I direct the Institute for Writing Studies.

ALL 5 (m-p), Alumni, AlumsCommunications DirectorJanuary 17, 2024Collage, assemblage, video, photography, installation, text. Poetry, fabulist short fiction, literary essay. Ecology, the anthropocene, memory, collapse, loss. Utopia, dystopia.

Anne Labovitz

Anne Labovitz

Anne Labovitz (born 1965) is an American artist based in St Paul, Minnesota, whose practice includes painting, drawing, and printmaking as well as experimental film and sound.

ALL 4 (I-L), Alums, AlumniCommunications DirectorJanuary 17, 2024painter, interview, connection, conversations

Barbara Minishi

Barbara Minishi

ALL 5 (m-p), Alumni, AlumsCommunications DirectorJanuary 17, 2024Film, Painting, Photography, Phenomenology, Mythology, Divine Feminine, Archetypes, Narrative Identities, Embodiment

Helen Scheuer Cohen

Helen Scheuer Cohen

Helen Scheuer Cohen is a painter.

ALL 7 (s-t), Alums, AlumniCommunications DirectorJanuary 17, 2024archive; memory; combines; thinking in pictures;

Daniel Arnaldo-Roman

Daniel Arnaldo-Roman

Daniel Arnaldo-Roman, a Puerto Rico-based media artist, works in code technology and experimental media and also designs responsive web environments and social print based projects.

ALL 1 (a-b), Alums, AlumniCommunications DirectorJanuary 17, 2024Puerto Rico, San Juan, Lilliam Nieves