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Brooke Moyse, Visual Arts, Brooklyn, NY –
“I make playfully abstract and gestural paintings using acrylic paint on canvas. When painting, I use the arc of my whole arm to create forms and shapes that reflect a physical relationship to the canvas, and a sense of movement throughout. I work in this way to keep the work open and fluid so that the painting appears to be breathing or otherwise shifting in space. I have long considered my abstract paintings to be a mixture of portraiture (of a shape) and also as signs or signals communicating some urgent feeling without words. The works submitted encompass all of these ideas. Brooke received her MFA from New York University (2004-2006) and her BA from Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY (1999-2001).
Daniel Giordano, Visual Arts, Newburgh, NY –
Daniel earned their MFA from the University of Delaware in 2016 and participated in the AIM Fellowship at the Bronx Museum of the Arts in 2021. Their work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA (2023); Turley Gallery, Hudson, NY (2023); JDJ, New York, NY (2023); Ann Street Gallery, Safe Harbors of the Hudson, Newburgh, NY (2022); the Rosenberg Gallery, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY (2020); Wil Aballe Art Projects, BC, Canada (2019); and Sardine, Brooklyn, NY (2019). Their work has been featured in group exhibitions at Helena Anrather, New York, NY (2023); The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY (2022); The Dorsky Museum, SUNY New Paltz, NY (2022); Fortnight Institute, New York, NY (2022); CLEA RSKY Offsite Project, LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY (2022); Zürcher Gallery, New York, NY (2022); Fridman Gallery, New York, NY (2022); Barns Art Center, East Fishkill, NY (2021); JDJ, New York, NY (2021); and Anonymous, New York, NY (2021), among others. Their work has been featured in Arcade Project, XIBT Magazine, Berkshire Eagle, ABC Latino Magazine, Tussle Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, Times Union, Times Union, La Voz, Sculpture Magazine, Frontera Digital, Whitehot Magazine, Chronogram, Canadian Art, Cultured Magazine, and Art Spiel, among others
Kamden Hilliard, Poetry, Wallingford, CT –
Kamden was born in California and grew up on illegally seized territories of the Kingdom of Hawai’i. Before graduating high school, they earned a ten-thousand-dollar grant from the Davidson Institute, as well as support from The Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, the YoungArts Foundation, and Poetry Out Loud. They are an alumnus of The Punahou School, Sarah Lawrence College, The University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, The Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and, most recently, AmeriCorps. Kam’s BA in American Studies and MFA in Poetry inform their critical-creative practice. They specialize in American History, Politics, and Culture, Black Studies, Queer Theory, Ontology, and theories of human management.
They are recipient of Maytag, Teaching-Writing, and (post-graduate) Pfluflaught Fellowships from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Kam has also received support from The Davidson Institute, Sarah Lawrence College, The UCROSS Foundation, Callaloo, The Banff Centere, and The Black Warrior Review. Kam has published three chapbooks of poetry: distress tolerance, selection in the Ada Lovelace Innovative Chapbook Series (2016, Magic Helicopter Press), perceived distance from impact (2017, Black Lawrence Press), and henceforce: a travel poetic, finalist in Omnidawn Books Chapbook Prize (2019, Omnidawn Books). Kam’s debut full-length collection, MissSettl, is out from Nightboat Books; it won a 2023 Lambda Literary Award in Transgender Poetry. Poems, essays, reviews, and interviews can be found in Apartment Poetry, APT, Black Warrior Review, The Destroyer, Sixth Finch, Hobart, West Branch, Boaat Journal, The Journal, The Sakura Review, Juked, Protean Magazine, Prairie Schooner, and other sunspots.
Currently they are a Faculty member at Choate Rosemary Hall where they direct the summer Writing Workshops
Mathew Weitman, Poetry, Houston, TX –
Mathew’s poetry appears in Bennington Review, the Georgia Review, the Missouri Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. He is the winner of the Loraine Williams Poetry Prize, the AWP Kurt Brown Prize, and the Inprint Paul Verlaine Prize in Poetry. He is pursuing his PhD at the University of Houston, where he is an Inprint Brown Foundation Fellow and a poetry editor for Gulf Coast. He also teaches poetry at the Harris County Jail.
Vera Ivanova, Composing, Orange, CA –
Vera graduated from the Moscow Conservatory (Honours Diploma), Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London (MM with distinction), and the Eastman School of Music (Ph.D. in Composition). Her works have been performed in Russia, Europe and the U.S.A. After teaching as Assistant Professor of Theory and Composition at the Setnor School of Music of Syracuse University (NY), she was appointed as Assistant Professor of Music in the College of Performing Arts at Chapman University (Orange, California), where she currently works at the rank of tenured Associate Professor. Dr. Ivanova is also teaching music theory and composition at the prestigious Colburn Music Academy for Young Artists in Los Angeles and at the Chamber Music Orange County Pre-College Division. Vera’s compositions have been described as “…humanistic and deeply felt works… ” (John Bilotta, Society of Composers, Inc.)
Vera is actively involved in new music not only as a composer, but as an advisor (she’s been invited to be on advisory board of the American Composers Forum, Los Angeles chapter), adjudicator (UnTwelve Composition Competition, Synchromy call for scores, International Computer Music Conference Call for Music) and concert-runner/organizer (new music concerts at Chapman University’s Conservatory of Music and Synchromy group of Los Angeles-based composers, of which she is a founding member).
Lilan Yang, Visual Arts, Boston, MA –
Education 2020 – 2022 MFA in Digital + Media, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island, USA 2015 – 2019 BS in Computer Engineering, Minor in Art + Design, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois. USA Solo Exhibitions: 2023 Nowhere Near, Gallery 263, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA Selected Group Exhibitions 2023 Off the Screen, Ann Arbor Art Center, 2022 Out of Shadows Cast, 718 Studios, Brooklyn, New York, USA 2022 Making Moves, Gallery 263, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Film Festivals and Screenings 2023 26th Antimatter [media art] festival, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada 2023 Revolutions Per Minute Film Festival, Boston, Massachusetts, Tokyo, Japan 2023 Noise Spectrum, 5th PROCESS Experimental Film Festival, Beijing International Short Film Festival, Beijing, China 2023 Cadence Video Poetry Festival, Northwest Film Forum, Seattle, Washington, USA 2023 SHORT CUTS Short Film and Video Fest, Shed Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 61st Ann Arbor Film Festival, Michigan.