Adrian Parr

A theorist, activist, and public intellectual, Parr is working at the intersection of political philosophy, cultural criticism, environmentalism, and social theory. She is the Director of the Charles Phelps Taft Research Center at the University of Cincinnati. She has written extensively on environmental politics, memorialization, contemporary art and cultural practices. She is the author of The Wrath of Capital (Columbia UP, 2013), Hijacking Sustainability (MIT Press, 2009), Deleuze and Memorial Culture (Edinburgh UP, 2008), and Exploring the Work of Leonardo da Vinci Within the Context of Contemporary Philosophical Thought and Art (Edwin, 2003). She is the editor of The Deleuze Dictionary (Columbia UP, 2005 & 2010), co-editor with Michael Zaretsky of New Directions in Sustainable Design (Routledge, 2010) and with Ian Buchanan she edited Deleuze and the Contemporary World (Edinburgh UP, 2006).

She has delivered over 30 keynotes and invited talks and published more than 30 articles and essays for scholarly journals and popular media outlets such as, Theory, Culture, and Society and Al Jazeera opinion pages. Her work has been cited in numerous scholarly publications ranging from the disciplines of philosophy, art criticism, architectural theory, cinema studies, sociology, political theory, and English.

She currently serves as a UNESCO water co-chair and has been a fellow at the Taft Research Center. She was the 2011 recipient of UC’s Rieveschl Award for creative and/or scholarly work. She is one of the founding editors of the online journal Drain: Journal of Contemporary Art and Culture and she serves on the editorial boards of The Disposable Life Series, Design Philosophy, and the International Journal of Sociology.

https://globalcenterforadvancedstudies.org/member/adrian-parr/

Aja Nisenson

Aja Nisenson is an award-winning, internationally recognized actor/ comedian/ singer/ playwright originating from New Jersey. She earned a B.A. in Theater Arts with a Capstone in Playwriting at Brown University. A trained pop, jazz and opera singer, Aja has sung with renowned musicians in venues all around Italy.

Aja’s one-woman show, Piccola Cosi, about her experience as a jazz singer in Bologna, Italy, received critical acclaim and had sold out runs at the Triad Theater, soloNOVA Arts Festival and the New York International Fringe Festival. Her solo show, Daja Vu, a french cabaret gone awry, received rave reviews in the 2011 New York International Fringe Festival and the Flute Bar Gramercy. Aja’s most recent solo show, My Life Is A Woody Allen Film premiered in the 2013 Estrogenius Festival, had sold-out runs at the Cornelia Street Cafe and was awarded “Best Cabaret” and “Best Musical Direction” in the 2014 United Solo Theatre Festival on Theatre Row 42nd Street. Aja was the recipient of the 2007 Weston Award for Acting, a 2009 Eugene O’Neill Cabaret Fellow, Guest Artist at the 2010 Eugene O’Neill Cabaret Conference, and a scholarship recipient for the 2013 VT Jazz Center Summer Conference.

http://ajanisenson.com

Alastair Noble

Alastair Noble is an environmental/installation artist and printmaker from the UK that has lived and worked in New York City for over 30 years. He has exhibited extensively nationally and internationally including Peru, Chile, Bulgaria and the UK. His artistic practice is a response to architecture and the natural environment, and often reflects on particular sites in the context of poetry and literature. The writings of Mallarmé, Marinetti, Mayakovsky, Wittgenstein, Poe and Daumal have been the genesis of numerous works. The short story by Argentine author Borges On the Exactitude in Science has been the catalyst for recent projects entitled Mapping Arcadia and a Topography of Place – an on-going series of environmental sculptural projects that I have evolved to investigate an alternative means to map the landscape.

Periodically, he writes on sculpture and architecture for international sculpture magazines and journals. Additionally, he curates and organizes exhibitions that complement his own research. He has taught and lectured at numerous colleges, universities and public institutions.

http://arnoble.com/ALASTAIR_R._NOBLE/HOME.html

Amir Parsa

Amir Parsa, an internationally acclaimed writer, poet and translator, Parsa is the author of seventeen literary books, including Kobolierrot, Feu L’encre/Fable, Drive-by Cannibalism in the Baroque Tradition, Erre, and L’opéra minora, a 440-page multilingual work that is in the MoMA Library Artists’ Books collection and in the Rare Books Collection of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France.

An uncategorizable body of work, his plurilingual oeuvre—written in English, French, Farsi and Spanish and various hybrids—constitutes a radical polyphonic enterprise that puts into question national, cultural and aesthetic attachments while fashioning new genres, forms and even species of literary artifacts. These provocative works employ various registers of textuality, fuse discourses to fashion new ones, and explore possibilities unique to each language and to literature as a whole. His writings in both English and French have been anthologized, and he has contributed to a number of print and online publications, including Fiction International, Textpiece, Guernica, Armenian Poetry Project and a mash-up issue of Madhatters’ Review and Bunk Magazine.

His translations include Bruno Durocher-Kaminski’s And They Were Writing Their History, and the first two books of Nadia Tueni, which appeared under the title The Blond Texts & The Age of Embers. Two books are being reissued in 2015 by UpSet Press—Drive-by Cannibalism in the Baroque Tradition and Tractatüus Philosophiká-Poeticüus, a theory of artistic creation that also reads like a labyrinthine story. Simultaneously in 2015, he launched, with Le Chaise (Yes, Le), the ‘Clandies’ (more formally classified as FoCD—Folios for the Clandestine Diffusions), full-blown works that nevertheless are most poignantly characterized by one particular property, their clandestine diffusions. Slated for limited dissemination in 2016 is another ‘Clandie’, One day Soon I Will Be the New Emperor of the New Persian Empire Just You Wait and See (And We Will All Live Happily Ever After I Promise).

His curatorial interjections, conceptual pieces, artistic interventions, and critical educational praxis have taken place in a host of public spaces, organizations, universities and environments. A former Lecturer and Educator at The Museum of Modern Art, Amir was born in Tehran, educated at French international schools and at Princeton and Columbia universities, and is currently based in New York. A former Chairperson and Acting Associate Dean at Pratt Institute, he is currently an Associate Professor at Pratt, where he also directs trans/post/neodisciplinary initiatives in the Office of the Provost. During his residency, Amir will be working on the manifesto of The New Definitely Post/Transnational and Mostly Portable Open Epic, as Rendered by the Elastic Circus of the Revolution, which is comprised of cantos and fragments constituting an on-going multilingual scriptural epic. Since 2007, pieces have been featured at The Bowery Poetry Club and The Riverside Church, during the Uncomun Festival, the Engendered Festival, and the Dumbo Arts Festival in New York, at the Baroquissimo Festival in Puebla, Mexico, and the Paris en toutes lettres festival in Paris in 2010, among other venues. These poetic fragments unfold over time on multiple platforms, in multiple arenas and spaces (private and public), and through various scriptural strategies—from the traditional (handwritten sheets and books) to the new (electronic, web). A theoretical apparatus and a critical enterprise engaged with the history and forms of literature and the reading phenomenon, the work also challenges traditional modalities of publication, exhibition, commodification, dissemination and interaction.

http://amirparsa.net

Anne Katrine Senstad

Anne Katrine Senstad is a multidisciplinary Norwegian artist based in New York. She was educated at Parsons School of Design and The New School for Social Research in New York. Senstad works in the multidisciplinary intersections of installation art, photography, video, site and time specific work and land art. Her work examines phenomenologies of sensorial aesthetics, transcendental ideas of art and philosophical practice, and social-political awareness. Since the mid 90’s she has been concerned with the perceptive elements of light, sound and color, a foundation for her explorations in the experiential and experimental. She engages projections, sound and installations with landscape and structuralities of architecture redefining the psychological space. Her sources lie in literature, philosophy, technology, film and phenomena of ocular perseptions.

In 2013 her work was exhibited at the 55th Venice Biennial at Officina delle Zattere. In 2011 she completed a major public art commission in collaboration with the internationally renowned architecture firm Snøhetta, at The Wolfe Center for the Arts, Ohio. International exhibitions include Abu Dhabi Art Hub, Zendai Moma, Shanghai, ThisIsNotAgallery, Buenos Aires, SALT, Utsikten Kunstsenter and Stiftelsen 3,14 in Norway, Björn Ressle Gallery, Gary Snyder Gallery, Gallery Nine5, Fiterman Art Center and Elga Wimmer Gallery in New York, Zhulong Gallery, Dallas, TX, Pink Gallery in Seuol and KK Projects and New Orleans Biennial Prospect 1 and 3 in New Orleans amongst others. Ongoing collaborations with composers include the electronic sound pioneer C.C. Hennix and JG Thirlwell. Her video work has been shown at Centre Pompidou, Haus Der Kultur Der Welt, Berlin, Beirut Art Center, Lebanon, The Canadian Museum of Nature, Museum of Modern Art Ukraine, Kiev, Dallas Aurora TX, Video Arte Internacional Buenos Aires, Eva Peron Museum, Oslo Screen Festival and ISEA Dubai 2014. Art fairs include Downtown Fair NY, Scope Miami, Scope New York, DIVA Paris, Paris Photo, Paris Fever Photo, Miami Photo, London book Art Fair/Serpentine Gallery, Sao Paolo Contemporary Art Fair, HAF Hong Kong, Seoul Art Fair, KIAF Korea International Art Fair, MiArt Milano Contemporary Art Fair, Zona Maco Mexico. Upcoming exhibitions include the inaugural Bruges Art and Architecture Trienniale 2015 and Dallas Aurora 2015. Her work is represented in gallery, institutional, corporate and private collections.

http://www.annesenstad.com

Bernice Lewis

With almost four decades of performing festivals, concert halls, coffeehouses, colleges, and house concerts, along with a half dozen acclaimed CDs, Bernice Lewis has built a solid national fan base. She is also a published poet, a producer, and an educator extraordinaire. Lewis — who studied vocal improvisation with Bobby McFerrin, guitar technique with Alex DeGrassi and Guy van Duser, and songwriting with Rosanne Cash and Cris Williamson — has been a featured performer on NPR’s Mountain Stage program, as well as at the Kennedy Center. In 2008, she was awarded an Artist in Residence position by the National Park Service. In 1987, she was a finalist in the prestigious New Folk Songwriting Contest at the Kerrville (Texas) Folk Festival, where she continues to be a main stage favorite. Her ballad, “Bridges That Hold,” was included in Peter, Paul and Mary’s Lifelines video (PBS). She was featured in Yoga Journal for her work with sound and yoga, and has shared the stage with many renowned artists, including Dar Williams, Dixie Chicks, Patty Griffin, Pete Seeger, Ellis Paul, Rory Block, Livingston Taylor, Odetta, Christine Lavin, Marty Sexton, Patty Larkin, Catie Curtis, Mary Gauthier… it’s a long list. She has a forty-year old daily yoga practice, loves good coffee, and her religion is the Grand Canyon.

“For me, it’s about the songs, each different, each a well thought out message, each a labor of love,” says Bernice.  Her seventh CD, Checks & Love Letters, was released in 2014 on Houston based Berkalin Records. Produced in Nashville by Mike T Lewis of The Twangtown Paramours, this collection of originals features guest appearances by Jimmy Van Cleve of Mountain Heart, Harris Paleltiner of Darlingside, and MaryBeth Zamer of The Twangtown Paramours..

Bernice is The Artist Associate in Songwriting at Williams College in Williamstown, MA.  She also teaches at Colorado College in Colorado Springs, CO, Rock On Camp at Berkshire Community College in Pittsfield, MA, as well as at many schools and retreat centers. She has also been an Artist in Residence and workshop presenter at the Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, NY, Kripalu Center for Yoga in Lenox, MA, and Esalen Institute in Big Sur.

Bernice is also becoming widely known for her History Alivepresentation, a multi-media discussion of her family’s emigration from Nazi Germany, specifically designed for Junior and Senior High School classrooms. Her song, “Ways to Survive,” won an award from the American Zionist Movement in 1996.

She is a founding and current member of  The Ladies Auxiliary Ukulele Orchestra.

Her writings and recordings will be archived in the Southwest Collection at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, TX.

http://www.bernicelewis.com

C.C. Ann Chen

C. C. Ann Chen is an artist and educator based in Chicago, IL. Her work stems from architecture and landscape, and explores perceptual translations and misinterpretations of place, time, and memory. Projects range from direct observation to site-specific ideas, allowing an intuitive, experiment-based approach in her studio practice. She has participated in exhibitions in numerous Chicago venues, including slow gallery, The Bike Room, Heaven Gallery, Research House for Asian Art, Beverly Art Center, Zhou B. Art Center, Hyde Park Art Center, Heaven Gallery, and The Franklin. Chen was a recipient of the Midwest Voices and Visions Award in 2012, and has been nominated for the 3Arts Award. She earned a BA in Architectural History from the University of Maryland, and MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is currently Adjunct faculty in the Liberal Arts Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

http://www.ccannchen.com

Catherine Page Harris

Catherine Page Harris is an interdisciplinary assistant professor and teaches Art and Ecology and Landscape Architecture at the University of New Mexico in a split position with the College of Fine Arts and the School of Architecture and Planning. She received her BA from Harvard University, 1988, MLA from UC Berkeley, 1997, and MFA from Stanford University,
2005. Harris works in art/design, and digital/analog expressions. Her built work resides at Deep Springs College, White Mountains, CA, McCovey Field, SF, CA and The Violin Shop in Albuquerque, NM, among other sites. Recent projects include collaborations with
Alexander Webb and Nina Dubois on modular explorations of space at Montessa Park for High Desert Test Sites and trans-species habitat furniture with Sam Martin, shown at the Santa Fe Art Institute among other spaces. Trans-species Repast, a performance sharing meals with animals, was most recently shown at the Wignall Museum, CA. Transpecies studies, food, and morphogenesis, are current theoretical foci.

http://cargocollective.com/landwork

Celina Jeffery

Celina Jeffery is a curator, writer and associate professor of Art History and Theory at the University of Ottawa. Recent curatorial projects include Preternatural (2011-12) at venues across Ottawa, Canada; Hold On, co-curated with Avantika Bawa at Gallery Maskara, Mumbai, 2011; Afterglow (featuring Ghada Amer, Alfredo Jaar and Bill Viola, amongst others) in Lacoste, France, 2007, and Wangechi Mutu: The Cinderella Curse at the ACA Gallery, Atlanta, USA, 2007. She is the co-editor with Gregory Minissale of Global and Local Art Histories (2007) and her new book, Artist As Curator will be published by Intellect, UK in 2015. Her new project, Ephemeral Coast, brings together artists, writers and climate change experts to explore how curating can advance consideration of environmental degradation.

 

Charlayne Woodard

An American film, stage and television actress and playwright. She has written four plays, titled Pretty Fire, Neat, In Real Life, which she starred in, and “Flight”. She portrayed the recurring role of Janice on The Fresh Prince of Bel Air. She played the role of Vonda on Roseanne, and also appeared in a recurring role on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Sister Peg, a nun who looks out for the safety of prostitutes and junkies and occasionally helps the SVU detectives. Her film credits include the role of Tituba in The Crucible, alongside Daniel Day-Lewis and Winona Ryder, Elijah’s mother in Unbreakable alongside Samuel L. Jackson and Bruce Willis, and Angel Kosinsky in Eye for an Eye, alongside Sally Field. She was one of the original cast members in the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical Ain’t Misbehavin’, and in 2009, starred in a one-person performance called The Night Watcher at Primary Stages in New York City. In 2011, this production came to the Kirk Douglas Theater and her performance won the LA Drama Critics Circle Award for Solo Performance. Woodard was trained at the Goodman School of Drama.

http://www.charlaynewoodard.com

Dages Juvelier Keates

Erin Cairns Cella and Dages Juvelier Keates met in 2010, and proceeded to dance together for Company SoGoNo, a Butoh inspired dance-theater company.  Feeling a gravitational pull towards one another, we became interested in each other’s diverse movement backgrounds, attention to somatic detail, and physiologically driven movement.  We found artistic chemistry in performance and decided to explore it in our own choreography. Those choreographic explorations have been presented through Movement Research’s Open Performance, Women in Motion’s Rooftop Salon, Fourth Arts Block’s FAB Festival, Gowanus Art and Production’s First Look, Gibney Dance’s Show and Share, CPR’s Spring Movement, and NYU’s Masters Thesis Showcase.

Approaching ourselves as “performance clay,” we have a keen interest in manipulating energy and presence; we begin our creative process from our subjective experience of performance states and build outward, threading images inside of movement forms. Adding sonic landscapes and intentionally crafting movement material, kinesthetic states are generated, which alter both our biochemistry and that of the audience. We amplify the experience of porosity as we seek to transfer affective states between each other and the other organisms who are watching. In short, we aim to change our audience through our being seen and perceived. We are driven toward intensity, immediacy, and intimacy, giving physical form to the ways we experience the world.

During our residency at Marble House Project, we will continue developing our evening-length, interdisciplinary new dance work, all i have are sensations. Contributing artists include wearable designer Natalia Roumelioti (Ntilit) and composer Jascha Narveson.

 

http://www.dagesjuvelierkeates.com

Deborah Lohse

Born and raised in California, DEBORAH LOHSE is a choreographer/performer living and working in New York City. Her work has been presented in theaters, public spaces and festivals across the U.S. and Mexico including DANCE NOW Joe’s Pub, American Dance Festival, Chicago Contemporary Circus Festival, La Mama Moves, Joyce SoHo and the Winter Garden at Brookfield Place. She has received commissions from New Chamber Ballet, Women In Motion, Mantra Percussion, DANCE NOW and Island Moving Company as well as artist residencies from The Yard, Marble House Project, Djerassi Resident Artist Program, Acadia Summer Arts Program and SILO. As a performer, Lohse has worked with Michael Preston, Barbara Karger, Anne Kauffman, Suzanne Bocanegra, Monica Bill Barnes, Katy Pyle/Ballez and currently dances with Doug Elkins, David Parker, Cori Olinghouse, the collective trio LMnO3 and as her alter ego indefatigable cabaret persona TruDee. Lohse has a BA in Dance as well as a BA in Theater from the University of California.

http://www.deborahlohse.com

Dena Afrasiabi

Dena Afrasiabi is a writer from California who’s now based in Austin, TX. Her fiction has been featured in JMWW, Prick of the Spindle and the anthology Tremors: New Fiction by Iranian American Writers among others. She has received fellowships from the Squaw Valley Community of Writers, the Millay Colony and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts. She’s currently a PhD candidate at the University of Texas at Austin and co-founder/co-editor of the online literary journal, Elsewhere Lit with poet Nandini Dhar.

http://www.elsewherelit.org

Emily Vizzo

Emily Vizzo is a San Diego poet, editor, and educator whose work has appeared or is forthcoming in FIELD, The Journal, North American Review, Blackbird, jubilat, and The Normal School. A San Diego Area Writing Project Fellow, Emily serves as assistant managing editor at Drunken Boat, and volunteers with VIDA, Poetry International, and Hunger Mountain. Her essay, “A Personal History of Dirt,” was noted in Best American Essays 2013. She completed her MFA at Vermont College of Fine Arts and teaches yoga at the University of San Diego.

http://ndrmag.org/poetry/2014/12/motion-makes-me/

Erin Cairns Cella

Erin Cairns Cella is a dance artist interested in the anatomical and physiological intricacies of the performing body to encourage a heightened sense of presence in both audiences and performers. Erin utilizes technical, athletic, yogic, and phenomenological physical practices to develop work that investigates the many ways to physically experience our increasingly digital reality.     

Erin's work has been presented by BAX Upstart Festival, Center for Performance Research, Dance New Amsterdam WIP, Estrogenius Festival/ Women in Motion, Muhlenberg College, Philadelphia Fringe Festival, Rover Soho, Temple University, Triskelion Arts, among others.  

She has recently performed for Jodi Bender, Tanya Calamoneri/Company SoGoNo, Diana Crum, Rebecca Davis, Colleen Hooper, Esther m Palmer, Alexandra Taylor, Kathy Wasik and Anne Zuerner.  

Erin holds a BA in Dance from Muhlenberg College, and an MFA in Dance, Performance and Choreography from Temple University. She is also a certified yoga instructor (Vinyasa and Hatha) and group exercise instructor.

http://www.erincella.com

Eugene Uman

Musician and director of the Vermont Jazz Center since 1997. Uman has performed with Sheila Jordan, Jay Clayton, Karrin Allyson, Dave Stryker, George Mraz, Jerry Bergonzi, Chris Vidala, Jeff Galindo, Bobby Sanabria, Carlos Averhoff, Bobby Bradford, Jimmy Heath, Donald Byrd, Billy Pierce, Carl Grubbs, John Lockwood, Pete Yellin, Bob Gullotti, the Rod Levitt Orchestra, the Vermont Jazz Center Big Band and many others. His current working ensemble includes a vehicle for his own compositions, the Convergence Project with cellist Eugene Friesen, trombonist Jeff Galindo, saxophonist Michael Zsoldos, bassist Stomu Takeishi and drummer Satoshi Takeishi. He is also a member of the world music ensemble As Yet Quintet and the jazz-driven Claire Arenius Trio.  Uman lived for four years in Medellín, Colombia where he toured the country as a musician and educator, initiated the jazz studies program at the Universidad de EAFIT and established the jazz festival now called Medejazz.  He is a 2011 MacDowell Fellow.

http://www.eugeneuman.com

Jaanika Peerna

Jaanika Peerna is an Estonian-born artist living and working primarily in New York since 1998 as well as in Berlin and Tallinn. Her work encompasses drawing, video, installation and performance, often dealing with the theme of transitions in light, air, water and other natural phenomena. She is often involved in collaborative projects working with designers, dancers and musicians. She has exhibited her work extensively in the entire New York metropolitan area as well as in Berlin, Paris, Tallinn, Helsinki, Venice, Rome, Dubai, Sydney, and Moscow. Her work is in numerous private collections in the US and Europe and was recently acquired by Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Paris. Her work is represented in the United States by ARC Fine Art in Connecticut, M Contemporary in Sydney, and Galerie Ulf Larsson in Cologne.

http://www.jaanikapeerna.net

Jairo Alfonso

Born in 1974 in Cuba Alfonso now lives and works in New Jersey. Graduated from the Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA) and from the Escuela Nacional de Arte(ENA) in Havana, Cuba. He has worked with different media such as painting, installation, sculpture, but his latest work has been focused on drawings and video.

Alfonso has featured more than 10 personal exhibitions in different countries and around 60 group shows, his works have been part of important exhibitions such as FLOW. Economies of the Look and Creativity in Contemporary Art from the Caribbean. IDB Cultural Center. Washington DC, USA; Cuban America: An Empire State of Mind. Lehmann College Art Gallery. New York, USA. Occupying, Building, Thinking: Poetic and Discursive Perspectives on Contemporary Cuban Video Art (1990-2010), Contemporary Art Museum (USF) GraphicStudio, EE.UU,(2013); Politics: I don´t like it but it likes me, Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art, Gdanks (2013 ); Killing Time: An exhibition of Cuban artists from the 1980s to the present, Exit Art, New York, EE.UU (2007); Batiscafo/ Proyecto Circo. 8 Bienal do Mercosul. Ensaios de Geopoética, Porto Alegre, Brazil (2011); Una China en el Zapato. Sala de Exposiciones Santa Inés, Sevilla (2004); Instrumentaciones (Solo show) at Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Wifredo Lam, Havana (2000), among others. In 2014 was granted a residency at Guttenberg Arts, and in 2007 was awarded with Batiscafo Residence, Havana, Cuba; and the Muyehlekete- O pensador-The Thinker Workshop, Maputo, Mozambique.

http://www.jairoalfonso.net

Jari Chevalier

Jari Chevalier is an artist working in several expressive forms. Mass MoCA curator Denise Markonish wrote, “Chevalier’s works . . . exist as small universes, complete with their own chaos and order.” Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Barrow Street, Cimarron Review, The Massachusetts Review, Ploughshares and many other literary journals. In 2014 she received a Merit Award in the Atlanta Review’s International Poetry contest and was a finalist in the Ploughshares Emerging Writers competition.

Her visual artwork has been featured in solo and group exhibitions, including Art of the Northeast at the Silvermine Gallery in New Canaan, Connecticut, selected by Elizabeth Smith, then Chief Curator of MoCA, Chicago. A solo exhibition, Mathematics of Ecstasy, toured to seven venues via the North Dakota Art Gallery Association, with support from The North Dakota Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. Chevalier has received residency grants from Vermont Studio Center for visual art and non-fiction writing and from The Ragdale Foundation for visual art. She received two Individual Artist Grants from the Puffin Foundation for her podcast series, Living Hero. Jari holds a Master of Arts degree in creative writing from City College of New York and a Bachelor of Arts cum laude in writing and literature from Columbia University.

http://www.jarichevalier.com