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ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE
The multifaceted soprano Irene Kurka received many awards and scholarships. She sings recitals, opera and oratorio throughout Germany, Europe and the United States. In her lively interpretations, Irene Kurka is always experimenting and seeking new ways to present contemporary and classic music in concert…
Raya Chatterjee is an Indian classical vocalist and multi-instrumentalist from West Bengal, India. She won the Classical Voice of India 2021 competition, as well as numerous state and district competitions, and has been featured on national TV...
Frances Teppner received her BFA in Dance from Jacksonville University. She has trained in the styles of ballet, modern, and jazz under the instruction of Lanna Haylock, Yidi Lin, Katherine Levitz, and Katie McCaughan…
Originally from Brazil and now living in Québec, Ina Filip spent several years in India, studying Hindustani Classical singing with the Gundecha Brothers.
Elliot Washor, Ed.D., has been involved in education innovation and school design for more than 40 years as a teacher, principal, administrator, designer, video producer, speaker and writer.
Multi-instrumentalist Rose Okada is an initiated music disciple of Pandit Pran Nath, Hindustani vocal and Ustad Hafizullah Khan, vocal and sarangi of the Kirana Gharana…
Nicole Wolf is an artist and illustrator exploring the intersection of human experience and unseen realities.
Current MBA Candidate at University of the People, hold a Bachelor of Design from Ontario College of Art and Design University and National College of Arts, Founder of Blends Design and Decoration Consultants and teaching High school and University students.
Dara Bramson is an interdisciplinary ethnographer focused on themes of the body and healing.
Ashe is a Studio Art Major at Texas Rio Grande Valley University, with a focus on oil painting and figurative drawing.
Virginia Ellyn Melnyk is a computational architectural designer and researcher with a passion for textiles and craft, specializing in material design, textiles, and deployable structures.
Rachel Summerfield is a Chicago-based painter and sometimes writer with a background in theater, set design, and creative writing.
My name is Raquel Lesser. I graduated from Manhattanville College with a bachelor's degree in digital media.
I’ve been a professional graphic designer for thirty years and am now committed to making fine art.
Margaret Craig received a degree in Biology Secondary Education, a BS in Art and an MA in Painting from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Andrea Keefe received a BFA from the University of Michigan and an MFA from Miami University. She has recently participated in residencies at Vermont Studio Center and Soaring Gardens.
Lukas Quist Lund (he/they) is a transdisciplinary researcher and artist with an interest in philosophical and artistic wonder as both medium and work.
Bergamot Quartet is fueled by a passion for exploring and advocating for the music of living composers, continually expanding the limits of the string quartet’s rich tradition in western classical music.
Melike Ahsen Beleli (b.1995) is a multidisciplinary artist based in New York and Istanbul. She graduated from Marmara University Faculty of Fine Art in Istanbul, where she majored in Photography.
Adrianos Efthymiadis is a 25 year-old artist and researcher from Athens, Greece. He attended The Cooper Union’s Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture in New York from the year 2015 to 2017, when he decided to discontinue his studies and move back to Greece where, for the next three years, he concentrated on the study of philosophy (phenomenology) and theology under philosopher Stephanos Rosanis. He considers himself a highly un-trained clown of many disciplines, a jack of no trade, a jester of an ever-dying circus of the street.
Melanie Chirignan is an avid chamber musician and has premiered many new works including Nolan Stolz's Princess Ka'iulani, released on SCI/ Parma Recordings and Dream of Sailing by Masatora Goya available on iTunes.
I am a movement artist working primarily with subjects of the body based in NYC. I am interested in nourishing the practice of translation through interdisciplinary methods. My work seeks to explore resonance, discord, decay and healing.
Jie Shao (b.1994) is an artist based in New York and Shanghai. Jie received an MFA from Parsons School of Design. From artful and accidental coincidence in historical fragments between Chinese and Western culture, to the particular discipline of knowledge (including the development of art medium, anatomy, and engineering).
Mir Naqibul Islam (b. 1989 in Dhaka, Bangladesh) is a New York tri-state area based tabla player from the farukhabad gharana. He has trained in the traditional guru-shishya parampara pedagogical convention of North Indian classical music from Pandit Ashoke Paul, a disciple of the great Pandit Jnan Prakash Ghosh…