Eric Abaka, also known by his stage name Martin Peeves, is an artist & educator of Ghanaian heritage who lives and works between Accra, Ghana and Philadelphia, U.S.A. Eric has a BA in Arts Management and an MFA in Studio Arts ,respectively from Luther College and the University of the Arts.
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Carlos Llerena Aguirre represented Peru and USA with his woodcuts in the Norsk Internasjonal Grafikk Biennale, Norway. The Jubilam X Internationale Grafik Triennale, Norway and The Xylon Graphische International Triennale, Switzerland. The South Pacific Printmking Biennalel Hulu, Hawai. 5th Biennal of Printmaking, ICPNA. Lima, Peru and the International Bienal of Douro, Portugal. Biennal Arequipa, Peru, Boston Printmaking Biennal. USA
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Renee Brown is a multidisciplinary artist that is driven by direction given to her in her dream life. Over the last two decades Renee’s art praxis has been informed by her investigation into metaphoric dream analysis methodology. She delves into the metaphoric meaning of dream elements through research meditation and revelation. Currently she responds to her nocturnal life through dream journals, spontaneous drawings, abstract paintings, sculpture and video installation. A commitment to ritual, reception and direction from her personal dreamlife drives her practice.
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Hadar Cohen is an Arab Jewish multimedia artist, healer and educator based in Los Angeles. She is the founder of Malchut, a mystical school teaching direct experience of God through heart centered spiritual traditions. Hadar is a Jewish mystic who works to build decolonial frameworks for worshiping God.
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Sophia Wright Emigh (she/they) is an interdisciplinary, queer mother artist and movement filmmaker working in the emerging field of somatic ecology via performance, installation, film, photography, mark-making, social practice, writing, and action. Through camera, body, sound, and embodied ritual, she traverses and transmits the dance of life around the ineffable.
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Britta Fluevog is a third-generation-matriarchal artist; her grandmother was a printmaker, her mother is a mixed media artist, as well as her father, who is a shoe designer. Born in Vancouver, Canada, Estonian-Canadian Artist Britta Fluevog is currently living in Jülich, Germany. Fluevog’s art practice primarily uses weaving and ceramics to create sculpture, and performance pieces.
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Jewel Fraser works as an audio documentary producer building on and utilizing principles learned during her many years writing features as a journalist. She has embraced audio now as her preferred medium since it permits her to create stories that are more multi-sensory.
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He Jin Jang is a multicity-based choreographer, researcher, dramaturg, curator and essayist, born and raised in Seoul, Korea. Jang has created, researched and written on the idea of & ‘choreography’; and & ‘living(surviving)’. As a female neurodivergent choreographer residing in South Korea, she is currently occupied with in her dance-making are questions like that of embodying resilience.
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Anne Livingston, a painter, writer, culinarian, and educator, holds a BA in Comparative Literature from University of Washington, a Master in Teaching from Seattle University, and an AAS in Culinary Arts from Seattle Culinary Academy. She’s an alumna of The Modern Color Atelier for painting at Gage Academy of Art.
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Greg Lock’s sculptural curiosity for investigating materials is sustained through what I consider the comparable experimentation with virtual digital objects. The results of my playful interaction with materials both physical and virtual often results in objects; my artwork. I show and share this work and I find the challenge of curating my own practice for exhibition a fulfilling experience.
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Juliette M Ludeker is a multimedia visual artist and a professor of English. Primarily a camera-based artist, she also works in mixed media, painting, bookmaking, collage, printmaking, and fibers, often creating pieces in one medium to be in conversation with pieces created in a different medium.
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Vanessa Lustig is a multidisciplinary artist working at the intersection of photography, textile art, and interactive textiles. Her work explores changing psychological, cultural, and natural contexts and situations, investigating themes of human identity & culture not as separate from nature, but as interacting elements of nature. She focuses on highlighting the smaller, subtle movements of natural, cultural, and human worlds, creating works that capture these delicate yet enduring fragilities by using both delicate & sturdy materials, technologically advanced techniques & craft techniques that result in minimal, delicate, quiet, yet immersive works.
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Caden Manson is an artist, curator (Contemporary Performance and Special Effects Festival), and educator. Through the company Big Art Group, their performance work creates radical queer narrative structures and embodiments to construct and aid transitory generative critical space for participants and audience. Their work is dense, fast, multi-layered, and traverses multiple genres and forms, often using interference, slippage, and disruption strategies. Manson has presented throughout 14 countries and over 50 cities in Europe, Asia, and North America.
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Rene MG believes that art is an experience and is enhanced when shared with others and when it includes interactive and visceral moments. She created PIP art popup in 2016. PIP=participatory immersive/interactive performance art operates on the idea that the viewer/participant is invited into a space where they can chose to participate, facilitate or watch. PIP is site-reactive, site-specific and site-enhancing based on deep hanging out and research.
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Nkechi Deanna Njaka (she/her) is a neuroscientist, choreography artist, leading mindfulness expert and meditation guide. She is the founder of The Compass, NDN lifestyle studio and co-founder of the sleep app DreamWell. She was a 2017 YBCA Truth Fellow and a 2021 Kennedy Center Artist in Residence. She is currently Esalen Faculty, an Advisor of Chorus Meditation, and a lululemon ambassador for her work in mindfulness.
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Phei Phei Oon is a Canada-based Registered Psychotherapist with more than 15 years of clinical experience. She was trained as a Clinical Psychologist and Drama Therapist and has worked at vastly diverse settings including hospitals, academia, non-profit community centers, the corporate world, and recently a reception center for Ukrainian refugees. She specializes in Selective Mutism, grief, and trauma.
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Dance artist Heidi Strauss has worked for companies and choreographers from across Canada, as well as within Europe and Asia. A multi-Dora Award winning choreographer and the Artistic Director of Toronto-based adelheid, Heidi has been a resident artist at The Duncan Centre (CZ), and in Toronto at the Factory Theatre, The Theatre Centre, Harbourfront Centre, and currently at The Citadel through their Creative Incubator program. Her installation work has recently been recognized by UNESCO’s Creative Cities Network. She has been commissioned by/choreographed for Toronto Dance Theatre, Mocean Dance, The Frankfurt Opera, The Canadian Opera Company, Volcano Theatre, the Stratford Festival, among others.
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