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Adriane Colburn, Visual Arts; Jersey City, NJ

Based in Jersey City, NJ and Vermont, Adriane’s career has spanned the past 25 years and the resulting work is part of public and private art collections. Her projects have been exhibited throughout the US and internationally at venues such as The Elizabeth Foundation, Smack Mellon, and Parsons/New School in New York; The Luggage Store Gallery, Gallery 16, The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Headlands Center for the Arts, and the Museum of craft and Folk Art in San Francisco; Ballroom Marfa in Texas; Artsterium in the Republic of Georgia, The Nordic Watercolor Museum (Sweden), The Eres Foundation, (Munich) and at the Royal Academy of Art (London). 

In addition to participating in more traditional artist residency programs, she has had the unusual fortune to be an Artist in Residence on six scientific expeditions in a range of environments from living aboard an icebreaker in the Arctic with the U.S. Coast Guard, to collecting measurements of trees in the Amazon Basin. These opportunities have included an Arctic seafloor mapping expedition US Coast Guard Icebreaker, The Healy (2008); The Andes to Amazon Expedition, with Cape Farewell Project (2009); Amazonas and Arctic Nitrogen Expeditions with the University of Georgia Marine Sciences (2011); and Elevate, Volcanic CO2 Expedition, NASA/Jet Propulsion Lab, Rincon de la Vieja, Costa Rica (2020). 

Fellowships and project funding awarded include an Artadia Award for Visual Arts in 2005, Center for Cultural Innovation, Investing in Artists Grant (2011); Eureka Fellowship, Fleishhacker Foundation (2008); and Fellowship Award, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, Ca (2007). While at the University of Georgia, Adriane received the A.G Michael Award for Research, The University of Georgia (2014); Wilson Center Fellowship, University of Georgia (2012); Provost Research Grant, University of Georgia (2012). In 2019, she was awarded a yearlong New Jersey State Council for the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship and in 2021 received a Franklin Research Grant from The American Philosophical Society and a Summer Research Stipend from Bard College. 

Adriane’s work has also been included in numerous books and publications including, but not limited to: Preston-Miynt, Aay, The Future Is Already Here, Headlands Center for the Arts, 2020; Scalise, Bob, Take Five, University of Buffalo Press, 2019; Lippard, Lucy, Undermining, The New Press, NY, NY 2014; Paper Works I and II, Ginko Press, Sandu Publishing, Guangzou, China, 2012+2014; Buckland, David, Unfold; A Cultural Response to Climate Change, Springer Wien, NY 2010. Pp.44-47; Thompson, Nato, Experimental Geography: Radical Approaches to Landscape, Melville House, 2008. 

Adriane has taught at various academic institutions for the past 20 years, including at Stanford University, The San Francisco Art Institute, California College of Art and at the University of Georgia. I am currently an Artist in Residence on the Studio Art faculty and the Environmental and Urban Studies faculty at Bard College.

Santilla Chingaipe, Non-Fiction; Yarraville, Melbourne, Australia

Saanti is an Australian-based journalist, filmmaker and author, whose work explores colonialism, slavery, and post-colonial migration in Australia. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Professional Communication from the RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, majoring in politics and economics. Santi has worked for the past decade as a as a journalist for one of the two major public broadcasters in Australia; she also contributes to one of the national independent newspapers in Australia and her writing has also been published in anthologies and journals. 

As a filmmaker, Santi works predominantly in documentary. To date, she has written, produced or directed several documentaries and is developing others. She sits on several Board of Directors and is an honorary associate with Museums Victoria; she is also the founder of an annual program that aims to increase the representation of people historically excluded from the film industry in Australia, which is now in its fourth year. 

In 2019, Santi received multiple awards and was named as one of the most influential people of African descent at the United Nations in 2019.

Kate Shannon Jenkins, Fiction; Brooklyn, NY

Kate is an essayist, reporter, and critic whose work has appeared in publications such as the New Yorker, the Believer, the Atlantic, Guernica, LA Review of Books, Catapult, LitHub, Marie Claire, VICE, and others. She have worked as a freelance writer, editor, and editorial consultant for seven years, and while she continues to do some of that work, has shifted focus to completing her first novel. Kate has also begun teaching intensive creative writing and journalism courses with the Oxbridge Academic Program each summer on the Barnard College campus. Prior to beginning her own writing career, Kate founded and ran a literary magazine for four years. 

Kate received an MA from the Cultural Reporting and Criticism program at NYU, as well as a journalism undergraduate degree from UNC-Chapel Hill. She has been a fiction writer-in-residence in 2019 at the Vermont Studio Center and a 2021 Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference fellow; she is current member of the Center for Fiction in Brooklyn, NY, and has also completed Tony Tulathimutte’s CRIT workshop.

Katie Yee, Fiction; Brooklyn, NY

Katie is a writer from Brooklyn and the associate editor at Literary Hub. She is currently a Susan Kamil Emerging Writer Fellow at the Center for Fiction and a Margins Fellow at the Asian American Writers’ Workshop.

Josh Modney, Composing; Astoria, NY

Josh is a New York City-based violinist and creative musician working at the nexus of composition, improvisation, and interpretation. He has been the violinist and Executive Director of the Wet Ink Ensemble since 2008, and a member of The International Contemporary Ensemble since 2016, and has worked to cultivate a holistic artistic practice as a composer, solo improviser, bandleader, writer, arts administrator, and collaborator. Josh has composed music for violin solo, chamber ensemble, and film (“Dreamland”, Paramount Pictures), and been awarded grants from The Shifting Foundation (2022) and the Queens Council on the Arts (2020). My triple-disc debut solo release, Engage (New Focus Recordings, 2018), featuring works written for him by Kate Soper, Eric Wubbels, and Sam Pluta alongside music by Anthony Braxton, Taylor Brook, J.S. Bach, and his own solo violin music — lauded by The New York Times as “one of the most intriguing programs of the year” — and was recognized on Best of 2018 lists by Sequenza21 and Bandcamp. Josh also has an album of improvised chamber music with guitarist Patrick Higgins, EVRLY MVSIC (NNA Tapes, 2017), and will soon release an album of quartet music, Whalefall (Carrier Records, 2022), written for acclaimed creative musicians Ingrid Laubrock (saxophones), Mariel Roberts (cello), and Cory Smythe (piano). 

As an interpreter of adventurous contemporary music, Josh has worked closely with leading composers of my generation including Alex Mincek, Anna Webber, Ash Fure, Tristan Perich, and Rick Burkhardt, and with major figures including Kaija Saariaho, Mathias Spahlinger, Helmut Lachenmann, George Lewis, and Pauline Oliveros. 

Also passionate about sharing his musical experience through writing, his work on Just Intonation and collaborative musical practices has been published on Sound American and New Music Box. In May 2020 he co-founded Wet Ink Archive, a free online journal of adventurous music, and served as the editor for the first five issues. 

Josh studied at Ithaca College (BM, Violin Performance) and the Manhattan School of Music (MM, Contemporary Violin Performance). 

Susan Austin Roth, Fiction; Stanardsville, VA

A passionate naturalist by avocation, by profession Susan is an author, writer, photographer, editor, and playwright. The books she wrote or packaged have together sold approximately two million copies. She’s received three awards from the Garden Writers Association and was profiled twice in The New York Times, once for writing and photography and once for playwriting. Susan’s scientific training, love for literature, and connection to nature gives her work a unique blend of authenticity and accessibility. Presently, Susan resides in rural Virginia where she is “growing nature” on 156 acres, writing a novel, and engaged in volunteer work.

Rajat Singh, Fiction; Brooklyn, NY

Rajat is a queer Punjabi-American writer living in Brooklyn with his partner. His essays appear in numerous publications, and his work has been supported by the Spruceton Inn, the Tin House Summer Workshop, Lambda Literary, and Kundiman. His writing on personhood, the body, and the shades between loneliness and solitude draws from subjects as diverse as Latin, anthropology, fashion, and Hindustani classical Music.

Rajat’s novel-in-progress, Out of Time, is a portrait of an elderly Punjabi couple who welcomes their queer grandson Khayal to stay with them, following his failed suicide attempt.

Martine Kaczynski, Visual Arts; Old Chatham, NY

Since leaving London in the early 90s, Martine has been exhibiting and teaching since receiving her MFA from Parsons School of Design in 1993. In addition to private sculpture commissions, Martine’s large-scale projects have been exhibited at numerous venues, including Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City; Turchin Center , Boone, NC; The Lipe Park Syracuse; Rural Projects, Ancram, NY; Art Austerlitz, Austerlitz, NY; and Millay Arts, Austerlitz, NY.

Martine has received multiple awards and grants, including a NYFA Fellowship, The Artist Fellowship, The Haven Foundation, and The Pat Hearn and Colin DeLand Foundation. She has have been nominated twice for The Rema Hort Mann Foundation and was an Artist-in-Residence at Skowhegan School of Art, Triangle Residency, Solaqua Art Center, Rural Projects and Arts Letters Numbers.

In addition to teaching at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn for over fifteen years, Martine has also taught sculpture and drawing at Parsons School of Design, Rutgers College, SUNY Purchase, and Cornell University in the Architecture and Planning Department; she also co-taught a course with Judy Pfaff at Bard College.

Miguel Arzabe, Visual Arts; San Francisco, CA

Drawing from the textile tradition of my Latinx Bolivian heritage, Miguel makes colorful woven paintings that are a remix of European and Indigenous cultures. I research the Western canon of modernist painting, selecting works that he reverse-engineers to create acrylic paintings on canvas. The paintings are taken off the stretchers and are precisely cut into strips by an industrial fabricator. The strips are stretched over a frame and woven together by hand, merging two different paintings into a unique composition. The regularity and scale of the strips’ widths lend the work a pixelated digital quality that is familiar in contemporary visual culture. A blend of study and improvisation, his patterns are inspired by Andean motifs and symbology that are rooted in the oldest active textile tradition in the world. Traditional Andean textiles tell of a people and their relation to the earthly and spiritual realms; his woven paintings have their own story to tell, one of an emerging self-knowledge through the dismantling of hierarchy between racial identities. 

Miguel received his BS from Carnegie Mellon University, an MS from Arizona State University, and an MFA from UC Berkeley. Recent solo shows include Shulamit Nazarian Gallery (Los Angeles, CA) and Johansson Projects (Oakland, CA). My work has been featured in such festivals as Hors Pistes (Centre Pompidou, Paris), Festival du Nouveau Cinéma (Montreal), and the Geumgang Nature Art Biennale (Gongju, South Korea); and in museums and galleries including MAC Lyon (France), MARS Milan (Italy), RM Projects (Auckland), FIFI Projects (Mexico City), Marylhurst University (Oregon), Berkeley Art Museum, Albuquerque Museum of Art, the de Young Museum, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.