Curtis Taylor is a narrative filmmaker and playwright. In Seattle he operated the underground theater Vodvil from 1996 to 2006, and under these auspices created original folk operas, cabarets, recitals and sound art installations. His recent work has combined mannered musical languages (murder ballads, sacred choir and opera) with historic stage traditions (ballet, vaudeville and […]
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Stephen Silha is a communications consultant, writer and facilitator. He oversees the web and film operations, raises funds, and inspires. He has reported for magazines and newspapers including The Christian Science Monitor and The Minneapolis Star, covering education, communications, arts, community affairs, and youth issues. He has worked with a range of philanthropic organizations, including […]
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Justin Mata is a curator and a visual artist working in painting, installation and video. He received his BFA from California College of the Arts in San Francisco and his MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York. His works have been shown at NURTUREart (Brooklyn), El Museo del Barrio (New York), Center on […]
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Aono Jikken, pronounced Ah-Oh-No Gee-Ken (Japanese for blue field experiment), is a Seattle-based experimental ensemble. Through structured improvisation the group creates unique music and soundscapes played on everything from traditional Asian and Western instruments to childrens sound toys, found objects, and specially invented instruments made of metal, plastic, kelp and other materials. The group also […]
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Rachel Lodge is a visual and multi-media artist. In her current work she uses hand-drawn digital images, animation, sound, and objects to open a perceptual window into the hidden world of carbon, from the molecular to the landscape level, helping people to actually experience the flow of carbon all around us through many phenomena that […]
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Peter Christenson (b.1979) is a conceptual artist working across emergent and antiquated media, psycho-social sculpture, and immersive installation. Christenson’s intermedia practice is informed by his past experiences working as a licensed psychotherapist, and for the past decade, he has made art under the moniker PSYCHOLOGARTIST, classifying his research with specific diagnostic codes from the “Diagnostic […]
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May Maylisa Cat is a multidisciplinary artist and critic whose work spans new media, performance art, sculpture, and installation. Her projects have received support from the Franklin Furnace Fund; Oregon Arts Commission; Open Signal New Media Fellowship; and Regional Arts and Culture Council of Portland, OR. In June 2022, Cat earned the Lilla Jewel Award, […]
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Alicia Jo Rabins is a musician, composer, writer, ritualist, and Torah teacher. The New York Times calls her voice “gorgeous”; the San Francisco Chronicle calls her writing “a poetry page-turner, both sexy and humble.” She has released three albums with Girls in Trouble, her indie-folk song cycle about women in Torah; is the author of […]
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Nichole Rathburn is a Seattle-based animator, sculptor, instructor and freelancer. Artist Support Program 2012: Create the soundtrack for 1000 Ports, a four-channel animation piece on view at 4Culture’s E4C media gallery from June 2012 through June 2013. 1000 Ports from Nichole Rathburn on Vimeo.
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Cassidy Dimon is a photographer and filmmaker from New York, now residing in Los Angeles (via Seattle). She worked for four years as the Acquisitions, Festival & Education Coordinator for the film distributor Film Movement, where she actively assisted in film acquisition and was responsible for the non-theatrical distribution of over 100 films. She worked […]
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