Sam Coates-Finke

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

Alexandra du Bois

The music Alexandra du Bois (Ph.D. Stony Brook University; M.M. The Juilliard School; B.M. Indiana University Jacobs School of Music) has been performed in concert halls across five continents—her travels connecting her tangibly to the countries that inform and inspire her work. Described as “an intense, luminous American composer,” (Los Angeles Times) and “a painter who knows exactly where her picture will be hung” (New York Times), du Bois writes orchestral, choral, chamber, vocal, and multi-discipline works often propelled by issues of indifference and inequality throughout the United States and the world. Born in Virginia Beach, Virginia and a Northeast coast resident for most of her life, Alexandra du Bois (b.1981) found her voice through the violin, beginning lessons at the age of two years old. After moving to rural Virginia, she began hearing music in the natural world around her. It was this intimate connection to nature, meditation, and the sea that inspired her to begin writing and underscores her work to this day. Recent commissions include those from Institut Curie, Paris, Kronos Quartet, San Francisco, and Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, New York City. Alexandra du Bois is currently Composition Faculty at the Longy School of Music of Bard College. Her work has been described as “offering an extraordinary interface between traditional and avant-garde” (New Zealand Herald), “an impressively sustained essay in musical melancholy,” (The Guardian), and “a stunning piece that explores the landscape of war and conflict” (BBC).

www.alexandradubois.com

Live shot from a documentary made about a musical project of mine-- from a rehearsal of my music in Paris, March 2019.

Elizabeth Graver

Elizabeth Graver’s fourth novel, The End of the Point, was long-listed for the 2013 National Book Award in Fiction and selected as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Her other novels are Awake, The Honey Thief, and Unravelling. Her story collection, Have You Seen Me?, won the 1991 Drue Heinz Literature Prize. Her work has been anthologized in Best American Short Stories; Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards, The Pushcart Prize Anthology, and Best American Essays. She teaches at Boston College and is at work on a novel inspired by her grandmother, who was born into a Sephardic Jewish family in Istanbul. 

https://elizabethgraver.com

The End of the Point (novel) book cover. Published 2013, HarperCollins. New York Times Notable Book, Long-listed for the National Book Award in Fiction

J.C. Hallman

J.C. Hallman was born in Detroit, grew up in California, and sort of lives in New York. He is the author of six books, and he has published essays in GQ, Harper's, The Baffler, Tin House, The Believer, and a variety of other journals and publications. In 2009, he received a McKnight Fellowship for his fiction, and 2013, he was a Guggenheim Fellow in the "general nonfiction" category. 

JCHallman.com 

Cover of November, 2017 issue of Harpers Magazine, featuring Hallman’s essay, “Monumental Error.”

Whitney Hubbs

Whitney Hubbs (b. 1977 in Los Angeles, CA) is a photographer working and living in Alfred, NY. She received her BFA in photography from CCA and her MFA in photography with UCLA. Her recent photographs are self-portraits performing ideas of the abject. Hubbs has participated in artist run spaces, commercial galleries, and museum exhibitons throughout the country. Her first book, Woman In Motion, was published in 2017 with Hesse Press. She is represented with M+B Gallery in Los Angeles and SITUATIONS Gallery in NYC. Her upcoming book with SPBH Editions will be published in 2021. She is presently an Assistant Professor of Photography at Alfred University and is learning to play the guitar. 

whitneyhubbs.com 

Whitney Hubbs / from the series, Animal, Hole, Selfie / 2020 / 4" x 5" / the work was shown in NYC at SITUATIONS Gallery

Gina Kamentsky

Gina Kamentsky’s first animated film was produced when she was 12 using a Bell and Howell 8mm camera and drawing on recycled computer paper. Since then she has been passionate about creating animation and has progressed through a variety of narrative and experimental forms. In her current work she draws and paints images directly on film stock, a technique known as direct animation. Her experimental films explore accidental intersections between image and sound and the anxious pulse of 24 frames per second. Her work has screened at numerous festivals including Annecy, Ottawa and Ann Arbor.

ginakamentsky.com

Gina_Kamentsky_Stunting Cunts Film Still_Ink and Paint on 70mm film_ 2018_ Premier: Anima Mundi, Rio de Janeiro BR