Donna Kukama has exhibited and presented performances at several notable institutions and museums, including the Nottingham Contemporary in Nottingham, Kunsthal KaDe in Amersfoort, Padiglione de'Arte Contemporanea Milano in Milan, South African National Gallery in Cape Town, Museum of Modern Art in Antwerp, Tate Modern in London, nGbK in Berlin, and the New Museum in New York.
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 MorePaige King is an artist based in Brooklyn, New York, working internationally with art and technology organizations. Paige organizes project streams and exhibitions with Thoughtworks Arts and Cyland Media Art Lab collective.
Read MoreHe 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)’. Her choreographic works were presented at Seoul International Dance Festival (Korea), MODAFE International Dance Festival (Korea), Laboratorio Condensación (Mexico), National Museum of Contemporary Arts (Romania), WUK (Austria), American Dance Festival (US), New York Live Arts (US), The Kitchen (US), and Movement Research (US) among others. Jang’s projects were supported by Korea Arts Management Service Korea, The Saison Foundation Japan, Arts Council Korea Korea, and Seoul Foundation for the Arts and Culture. She was also invited as Knowing Dance More Artist (US, 17), Fresh Tracks Artist @ New York Live Arts (US, ‘14-15), Moving Dialogue Exchange Artist (Romania, ’11), DanceWeb Fellow (Austria, ‘11), and Artist-In-Residence @ Movement Research (US, ‘09-11).
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 MoreGreg Lock grew up on a farm in the Fens of East Anglia. He studied visual art in Cambridge and Bretton Hall College, in West Yorkshire, before completing his MFA in Sculpture at Parsons School of Design, New York City, 1995. Greg continued making sculpture in both America and England before embarking on an innovative MA in Creative Technology at the University of Salford, 1999. He worked at the Centre for Virtual Environments in Manchester, UK before returning to the USA to work as an interdisciplinary professor of sculpture and new media at SUNY Purchase College for ten years. In 2011 Greg became the Director of the photography, film and related media program at The Hotchkiss School, in northwest CT, where he works today.
Read MoreAnne Sophie Lorange grew up in the U.S. and moved to Scandinavia as a teenager. With her bilingual background, she explores the notion of liminality, nostalgia and belongingness. Her narrative invites the spectator into a reflective space between inner and outer landscapes. Her artistic practice explores creative dialogs of liminal space that illuminate a pathway into identity, cultural history and personal narrative through abstraction.
Read MoreJuliette M Ludeker is a multimedia visual artist and a professor of English, having taught undergraduate research and writing for over 20 years. She earned a BFA in Studio Arts from Kutztown University, an MA in Teaching English as a Second Language from West Chester University and completed all but dissertation of a PhD in Rhetoric and Composition at Purdue University. Her background in art, along with a deep interest in art history and visual culture, informs her English teaching (and research interests), especially in assigning students to read texts or develop projects that represent a wide range of humanity and human productions of communication. Reciprocally, Juliette's career in rhetoric, language, and research, influence her art-making, particularly through an embrace of inquiry, experimentation, reflection, and revision.
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