Kate Eminger
Kate is a director and a chef, who approaches every meal as a curated and directed event for an audience of guests. She is a native Texan, taught and tutored by her mother in the kitchen. She began making Thanksgiving meals for her family at age 13, and has always been drawn to the southern tradition of cooking for large gatherings of loved ones and complete strangers. Kate is the Director of Food and Resident Chef at SPACE on Ryder Farm.
Fig and Rosemary Focaccia for farm to table supper at SPACE on Ryder Farm, 2019
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).
Sarah E. Brook_ICl_2019_acrylic sheet, metal, photography_ dimensions variable_ I-Park, CT
Layton Lachman
Layton Lachman has been making live performance, installation, and film work independently and collaboratively since 2010, and their body of work has grown in close dialogue with both Berlin and American contemporary dance contexts. Their research is often in the realm of somatics and finding methods of utilizing these experiential practices in the creation of immersive worlds of sensorial complexity and perceptual disorientation. Lachman has a long-standing artistic collaboration with Mara Poliak. In 2020 the two artists are developing a new performance that is designed to be presented to individuals or small groups of up to four people, who become co-conspirators and collaborators throughout the course of the performance. As well as making and performing, Lachman has been deeply invested in alternative modes of curation and social organizing via the platforms of SALTA (Oakland) and T.E.N.T. (Berlin).
T.E.N.T. is a mobile structure made to host dreams, desires and basic necessities. T.E.N.T. is a collaborative dance/art phenomena developing exxxessive performative work and incoherent methodologies, a way for the participants to bring their individual art making into a collective frame, a togetherness through multiplicity. Since 2017, T.E.N.T. artists have built an artistic relationship and devised various curatorial platforms for research and performance. In addition to presenting five performative events in Berlin, Dresden, and Stockholm, T.E.N.T. initiated a research studio in 2018.
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."
Arthur Moon Live at Elsewhere in 2019 / Photo by Merissa Blitz
Keren Anavy
Keren Anavy is a New York based multidisciplinary visual artist, working in drawing, painting, installation and performance. A Member Artist at The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts- EFA Studio Program, New York City.
Anavy's process and research-based practice scrutinize issues of the dynamic relationships between nature, culture and sites. Her paintings are the point of departure for large scale site-specific installations and, or performances that operate on an architectural scale.
Anavy has exhibited widely in solo and two person exhibitions including solo exhibitions at the Sunroom Project-Space, Wave Hill, Bronx, New York, ZAZ10TS Gallery space and billboards, Times Square, New York. The Janco-Dada Museum, Ein Hod, Haifa Museum of Art, both in Israel. Her interdisciplinary performances showed at Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, New York, Danspace Project, St. Mark's Church, New York City and at the Queens Museum, New York among many other venues.
Her two-person exhibitions include SPRING/BREAK Art Show 2018, New York, Autonomous University of Hidalgo State, Pachuca, Mexico, The Gallery of the Cultural Institute Mexico-Israel, Mexico City among others. Her artist book The Nature of Things in collaboration with Tal Frank was launched at Printed Matter’s NY Art Book Fair 2019 at MoMA PS1 and was up on Times Square Billboard as part of a curated project by ZAZ10TS New York (2020).
Group exhibitions include The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, Walsh Gallery NJ, The Pratt Institute New York, Flux Factory, New York, The Korean Cultural Center, New York and NARS Foundation Gallery, New York, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel and The 2nd International Biennale of Painting and Sculpture, Split, Croatia among others.
Anavy was selected to be Guild Hall Museum, Guild House Artist in Residence, East Hampton, New York, Fall 2021. Other residencies include Wassaic Project, Wassaic, New York (2019), The Studios at MASS MoCA, Massachusetts (2019), AIRIE Everglades, National Park, Florida (2018), The New York Art Residency and Studios (NARS) Foundation, Brooklyn, New York (2015-16) among others. She participated as a Mentor at New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), IAP, 2020, and was a Mentee fellow in 2017. Anavy is a recipient of the Asylum Arts, New York Grant (2017-18).
Anavy received her MFA from Haifa University, Israel, and her BA in Art History from Tel Aviv University, Israel. She graduated at Hamidrasha School of Art, Beit Berl College, Israel and has an Art teaching certificate. She is the artistic director New York at Radio28, cultural exchange program located in Mexico City, and an art educator, often working closely with the community. Since moving to the U.S Anavy writes about art and culture in New York and North America at Basis for Art & Culture Magazine (Hebrew).
Keren Anavy, Garden of Living Images, 2018, ink and colored pencils on transparent Mylar, polyethylene ponds, water with ink, vinyl, dimensions variable, Sunroom Project Space, Wave Hill, Bronx, New York. Photo credit courtesy by the artist and Wave Hill, photo by Stefan Hagen.
Leah Medin
Leah Medin is a visual artist working in fibers, sculpture, installation, painting and photography. She received a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design. She has attended artist residencies at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Monson Arts, and Kunstkollektivet 8B. She is currently the weaving studio supervisor at Gateway Arts in Brookline, MA.
Leah Medin "Linear" Found vinyl pool 2015 21' in diameter
Mara Poliak
mara poliak is a dancer, artist, writer, collaborator, and teacher living in Oakland, California on unceded Ohlone land. Their performance, practices, and pedagogy center the commons, human and non-human lineages, queer solidarities in decolonizing and liberation work, and the body as a complete site of knowing. Long-term collaborators include Layton Lachman, Margit Galanter, Frances Rosario, Chani Bockwinkel, Abby Crain, and the Cave Coast Collective. mara is a founding member of SALTA, a collective that hosted a free monthly mobile performance series for four years, and now organizes a yearly residency with a group of interdisciplinary artists in rural Northern California.
Talk_performance_2016_CounterPulse Photo by Robbie Sweeney. Snake Talk was created and performed by mara poliak, Layton Lachman and Abby Crain, with sound design by Samuel Hertz and lighting design by Elizabeth Ardent. Snake Talk premiered at CounterPulse Theater, (San Francisco, CA) in 2016, and toured to Performance Works NW (Portland OR), Ponderosa Tanzland (Stolzenhagen, Germany) ACUD Macht Neu (Berlin, Germany), Quarter Block Party (Cork, Ireland), and Links Hall (Chicago, IL).