Lora-Faye Åshuvud
Lora-Faye Åshuvud is a composer from Brooklyn who writes, performs, and produces under the moniker Arthur Moon, a project which PAPER Magazine says "is queering pop." Åshuvud was named a 2019 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Music/Sound, a 2018 Artist Fellow at The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, a 2017 Collaborative-Artist-in-Residence at MANCC Forward Dialogues, and has worked as a curator and radio host for WNYC's New Sounds. After the release of 2019's debut Arthur Moon full-length, NPR's Bob Boilen called the album his "favorite new discovery" on All Songs Considered: "the music is ethereal at times and spacious, with lyrics that are often visual, somewhat like an abstract painting."
arthurmoon.com
Arthur Moon Live at Elsewhere in 2019 / Photo by Merissa Blitz
Maya Binyam
Maya Binyam is a senior editor of Triple Canopy, an editor of the New Inquiry, and a lecturer in the New School’s Creative Publishing and Critical Journalism program. She has previously worked as an editor at The Paris Review, and her writing has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, New York Magazine, the New Yorker, and elsewhere. She is a co-creator of Bail Bloc, a desktop application that mines cryptocurrency to pay bail for people in pretrial incarceration.
https://mayabinyam.tumblr.com
Still from Untitled (video), 2015
William Boast
Will Boast is the author of a story collection, Power Ballads, a memoir, Epilogue, and a novel, Daphne. His short fiction, reporting, and essays have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New Republic, The Guardian, Glimmer Train, and the Virginia Quarterly Review, among other publications. He's held fellowships from Stanford University and the American Academy in Rome and teaches on the core fiction and nonfiction faculty at the University of Chicago.
willboast.com
Daphne: A Novel
Sarah E. Brook
Sarah E. Brook is a Brooklyn-based sculptor and installation artist from the Nevada high desert. Brook explores the relationship between external and internal (psychic) vastness through the use of translucency, layering and color gradients to morph her architectural structures into perceptual experiments. She is particularly interested in the way perceptual experience can align (queer) identities. Brook has exhibited at Lesley Heller, Field Projects, Re:Art, the (un)Scene, NARS, Ground Floor Gallery, The Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art (NY) and was included in the 2019 BRIC Biennial in Brooklyn. She has been awarded the 2019-2020 Leslie-Lohman Museum Fellowship (NY), the 2018 Media Arts Fellowship from BRIC (NY) and residencies from I-Park, SPACE on Ryder Farm, Jentel Foundation, Playa and Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts. Public art sculptures include Open Shelter (Prospect Park, NY, 2016), Viewfinding, a year-long installation and collaboration with queer poets (Riverside Park, NY, 2018-2019), Align (permanent installation, Crystal Park, NY, 2019) and a forthcoming permanent work commissioned by the City of New York (West 231st Step Street, Bronx, 2022).
www.sarahebrook.com
Sarah E. Brook_PBNJ (All the Beats to Yes)_acrylic sheet, paint, rebar, photography_dimensions variable_Middle of Nowhere Festival, Pine Barrens, NJ
Lauren Camp
Lauren Camp is the author of five poetry collections. Took House, her newest, will be published by Tupelo Press in 2020.
One Hundred Hungers (Tupelo Press, 2016) won the Dorset Prize and was a finalist for the Arab American Book Award, the Housatonic Book Award and the Sheila Margaret Motton Prize. Turquoise Door: Finding Mabel Dodge Luhan in New Mexico (3: A Taos Press, 2018) was a finalist for the New Mexico-Arizona Book Award.
Her poems have appeared in many journals and anthologies, including The Los Angeles Review, Pleiades, Poet Lore, Beloit Poetry Journal, Witness and The Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day. Her work has been translated into Turkish, Mandarin, Arabic and Spanish.
Honors include a 2015-2018 Black Earth Institute Fellowship and a 2018 visiting writer position at the Mayo Clinic (MN). She has been awarded residencies at The Taft-Nicholson Center, Storyknife Writers Retreat, Willapa Bay AiR and other places.
Camp was guest editor for Malpaís Review (poetry of Iraq), World Literature Today (two issues: international jazz poetry, and the intersection of contemporary visual art and poetry), and About Place Journal (“Roots and Resistance”).
She is retired from a successful career as a visual artist (1996-2008). Her portrait series, “The Fabric of Jazz,” traveled to museums in ten cities. More artwork can be found in cultural centers, hospitals, museums, U.S. embassies and other organizations around the world. For 15 years, she was a producer and host for Santa Fe Public Radio.
Camp lives in New Mexico, where she teaches through the state’s Poetry Out Loud program, The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum’s Art and Leadership program, Santa Fe Community College, and her own community workshops.
https://www.laurencamp.com
Sam Coates-Finke
Sam Coates-Finke_Young Baker at Work_Challah dough_2019_Abundance Farm, Northampton, MA Challahs being egg-washed before baking in the clay oven.
Sam Coates-Finke is a baker, an oven builder, and a teacher based in Western Massachusetts. He runs Backyard Bread, is co-manager of the Abundance Farm Bakery, and teaches at the Jewish Community of Amherst. In each role, he gathers people around food and fire. Sometimes that looks like a dozen toddlers asking for cleaning “tasks” at the Wood-Fired Bakery, or strangers working together to move pizza in and out of the stone oven, or adults swapping stories of bread from their childhood as they push, fold, push, fold the dough.
www.backyardbread.com
Sam Coates-Finke_Sea Clay Oven_Scavenged clay, wood, brick, and cattail_2019_Eastport, ME Brown clay dug from house foundation, blue clay scooped from sea floor when the Bay of Fundy receded. We met many people, spent no money during the four day build.
Genevieve DeLeon
Genevieve DeLeon is an artist, poet, and MFA graduate from Cranbrook Academy of Art, where she worked under the direction of Beverly Fishman. Her work has been exhibited at MCAD Gallery, DC Artspace, Tessellate Gallery, Forum Gallery, and the Washington Studio School and is forthcoming at Modus Locus. She works on community-based projects in the Twin cities and in the DC area. She received a BA in English Literature from Columbia University and worked as managing editor of Poet Lore magazine, America's oldest continuously published poetry journal. Her poems and writing have appeared in Mnartists.org, Poetry Quarterly, Ekphrasis, and Poet Lore. She is currently an AICAD Post-Graduate Teaching Fellow at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.
https://genevieve-deleon.squarespace.com/
Genevieve DeLeon_Notes Toward Drawing a Brown Figure_graphite, ink, and paint on paper and acetate_2018-present_5 x 6 ft_Cranbrook Art Museum
Yasmine Diaz
Royals, 2017, collage and glitter on paper, 17 X 13”
One Way Or Another, 2017, collage on hand-cut watercolor paper, 18 x 24” inches
Yasmine Nasser Diaz is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice navigates overlapping tensions around religion, gender, and third-culture identity. Her recent work includes fiber etchings, immersive installation and mixed media collage on paper using personal archives as well as found imagery. Born and raised in Chicago to parents who immigrated from the highlands of southern Yemen, her mixed media work often reflects personal histories of the contrasting cultures she was raised within. She has exhibited and performed at spaces including the Brava Theater in San Francisco, the Albuquerque Museum of Art, and the Torrance Art Museum. Diaz is a recipient of the California Community Foundation Visual Artist Fellowship (2019) with works included in the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The University of California Los Angeles, and The Poetry Project Space in Berlin. She lives and works in Los Angeles.
www.yasminediaz.com
Sinem Dişli
Sand In A Whirlwind, 2015 Archival Pigment Print, 130 x 180 cm The sudden and extreme enrichment that came with the dam at the side of Urfa, the changes that are characterized as economic development are transforming the overirrigated and overcultivated plains with sandstorms that now and then comes from the desertified regions of the Middle East that are condemned to drought, and remind us that nature is a whole without borders.
Sinem Dişli was born in 1982 in Urfa, Turkey. She earned her Bachelors of Fine Arts degree in sculpture at the Dokuz Eylul University and earned her Master of Fine Arts degree in Photography at the Marmara University with the dissertation thesis titled: “The Use of Photography in the Art Movements of the 20th Century and Photography’s Relationship with the Concept of Avant-Garde”. Between 2005 and 2008, she worked for photography department at the Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, and she co-curated exhibitions, such as Magnum Photographers, André Kertész, Lars Tunbjörk, and Othmar Pferschy. In 2008, she was awarded a scholarship to attend the School of Visual Arts in New York with her project “Resistance” which combines photography and visual arts elements. She also participated in the fine art education programs at the International Center of Photography, and Cooper Union. In addition to four solo exhibitions titled İntiba, Sürgün, Cereyan and Rutubet, she has also participated in numerous group exhibitions throughout Europe and the US. Dişli joined the Cosmos section of the 2016 and 2017 Arles Photography Festival with her books Intiba and Rutubet. Dişli was awarded by the Triangle Arts Residency program and ISCP for 2015. Since 2008, she splits her time between Istanbul and New York, and she is a co-founder of the independent artist-run space Ayzart in New York, TOZ Artist-Run Space and HER HÂL Kolektif in Istanbul.
Limestone Quarries, 2019 Archival Pigment Print, 57 x 88 cm Tracing these substances that constitute the natural and cultural landscape of Urfa, I ended up in quarries. In utilizing these materials, one had to go underground. The earth was unearthed and the mountains were punctured. Mounds became hollows and hollows in turn created mounds.
