Yvette Chaparro is an artist and teacher, who through experiments on modularity and morphology, trying to understand families of objects, is now exploring new concepts such as typologies, the programme, and growth systems. Her professional practice can be considered an extension of her research, where she has worked on various families of objects
Read MoreEve Provost Chartrand earned an MFA at the University of Calgary in Canada and is now a PHD candidate both at Transart Institute and Liverpool John Moores University. Her current work investigates the nature of women’s negative body representations associated with aging. Her visual iterations explore the implications to self-identity and agency of current negative body definitions in women’s lives through the implementation of creative case studies.
Read MoreAlden Jones holds degrees in Comparative Literature, Hispanic Studies, and Creative Writing from Brown University, New York University, and Bennington College. She is the author, most recently, of the hybrid memoir The Wanting Was a Wilderness. Her story collection, Unaccompanied Minors, won the New American Fiction Prize and was a finalist for a Publishing Triangle Award and a Lambda Literary Award.
Read MoreIrene Loy is a theater maker, creative nonfiction essay writer, and university arts administrator living in Salt Lake City while she finishes her doctoral studies. She holds an MFA in Dramatic Writing from the University of New Mexico and an MA in Speech and Hearing Sciences from Indiana University-Bloomington. She has lived abroad in Canberra, Australia, and Vienna, Austria, and domestically in several US states.
Read MoreCarrie E Neal is an integral thinker. Liking the challenge of making connections between diverse fields of study and look for ways to connect the ethereal with the practical, Carrie find ways to bring design thinking, consciousness evolution, facilitation, social justice, and holistic healing to each project. As an artist and maker, the work spans multiple disciplines including video, multimedia theater projects, book making, and quilting.
Read MoreDawn Schultz is a movement artist and educator currently creating works out of Monmouth County, New Jersey (USA). In 2018 she founded the Movement Exploration Laboratory, to promote choreographic perspective in young artists and is the co-director of the Dance Department for the Visual and Performing Arts Program in Ocean Township Schools.
Read MoreTara Turnbull is an Actress. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Theatre & Philosophy from Bard College At Simon’s Rock, advised by Karen Beaumont and Dr. Brian Conolly, her Master of Fine Arts at University Of California Los Angeles’ School of Theatre, Film and Television, and her Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing & Poetics from Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School Of Disembodied Poetics, advised by Dr. Mairead Case.]
Read MoreJake Tkaczyk’s formal arts education to date has focused on live theatre performance, with a diploma in Theatre Performance and Creation from Red Deer College and a BFA in Acting from University of Alberta. He has performed with various theatre companies in Edmonton and toured throughout the province of Alberta.
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