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Co-Directors
Eve Biddle eve@wassaicproject.org
Bowie Zunino bowie@wassaicproject.org
Jeff Barnett-Winsby jeff@wassaicproject.org
Jeff’s Phone # 401-663-9663 (please use this sparingly ex: an emergency or you want to underwrite our entire festival)
MAILING ADDRESS
P.O. Box 220
Wassaic, NY 12592
ABOUT
Co-Directors:
eve@wassaicproject.org
Eve Biddle has managed large scale public mural projects with her husband and collaborator Joshua Frankel since 2007. She makes public and private murals on commission and also collaborates with co-director Bowie Zunino as the interactive arts team “Bowie + Eve”. Bowie + Eve make interactive and edible art works focused on emotional issues surrounding illness and the medical industry. They met at Williams College where they were both in the class of 2004. They have collaborated since 2008 and have shown both nationally and internationally.Through conversation and private thought they engage viewers to question and expand their perceptions with the firm belief that challenging the way people think can bring about social awareness and change. // eveandbowie.com // evebiddle.com
bowie@wassaicproject.org
Bowie Zunino has a background in community-based art and education and has worked for a number of non-profits including Creative Time. She has an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in sculpture and holds two degrees from Williams College in psychology and fine art. Bowie has exhibited nationally, has severe ADD, and loves her dog Ailee. // bowieandeve.com // bowiezunino.com
jeff@wassaicproject.org
Jeff Barnett-Winsbyholds an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in photography and is an adjunct professor, artist, commercial photographer, and cinematographer. His first book, Mark West and Molly Rose, published through J&L Books, arrives on shelves in March 2010. Jeff is a Kansas native and lives and works in Wassaic, NY.
Music Director
scott@wassaicproject.org
Scott Anderson, raised in Massachusetts, now resides in Brooklyn, NY. After nearly finishing a Sustainable Agriculture degree, he is now a founding partner of a 10 yr old technology consultancy, Control Group, leading the Media and Entertainment practice, and serves on the Leadership Council of openhousenewyork, the largest architecture and design event in the US. He has also been a respected DJ for over 15 years, was in the rap group Lords of the Rhymes, and is part of the Superspirit Family Band.
Residency Director
dana@wassaicproject.org
Dana Bunker is a visual artist living in both Brooklyn NY and Wassaic NY. She grew up in the mountains of northern California. Having moved to New York City in 2004, she earned a BFA from Pratt Institute. Dana’s likes include ballpoint pens, bottles of wine, personal sized pizzas and anything miniature in size.
Staff Curators
DANCE
dance@wassaicproject.org
Performer, historian, consultant and dance writer, Charmaine Warren is a faculty member at Alvin Ailey/Fordham University, The Ailey School and Empire State College’s online division, Center for Distant Learning. She holds a Ph.D. in History at Howard University where she taught for eight years, a Masters Degree in Dance Research, Reconstruction and Choreography, and two Bachelor’s Degrees: one in Speech & Theatre/Dance and the other in English. She has lectured and taught movement nationally and internationally. Dr. Warren began teaching Astanga-based yoga classes in 1998, and today Astanga yoga remains an integral part of all her movement classes. After performing for many years with major New York dance companies, Charmaine joined the internationally known, New York-based, dance/theater company david rousseve/REALITY in 1989. Over the years, she has made numerous television appearances and has been interviewed by WBAI and the National Public Radio representing REALITY. She has also been interviewed on various dance programs in Germany, Jamaica and the U.S. on issues in dance history, performance and teaching. Today, she can be seen as a special guest for various contemporary modern dance companies.
A native Jamaican living in the U.S. for more than twenty years, Charmaine journeyed home after a decade to lecture on dance, teach movement classes, and to become a member of the internationally known National Dance Theatre of Jamaica (NDTC). Since her return, she began lecturing on Jamaican dance in a series she calls, “From Ritual to Reggae: Don’t give up the fight,” which follows the history of dance in Jamaica. The series has been presented at the Studio Museum in Harlem, as a history course at Duke University and various dance venues nationally. As a lecturer of western dance history, and studio classes, Charmaine has been on staff at The Ailey School and various Universities throughout the U.S. including Duke University, City College of New York, University of California at Berkeley, Salisbury University and Howard University. Internationally, she has taught modern dance in Paris, London, Stockholm and Kingston. She has taught yoga in Texas and also in Negril, Jamaica as part of “Dick Gregory’s First Holistic Health Retreat.,” and currently teaches Ashtanga yoga in New Jersey.
Charmaine writes on dance performance for Dance Magazine and The Amsterdam News, among other magazines and journals. Her works have also been published in Juice, Movement Research Journal, and Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next Wave Festival. Her most recent article can be found in the National College Choreography Initiative’s Dance from the Campus to the Real World (and back again): A Resource Guide for Artists, Faculty and Students. Charmaine is a dance consultant for Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), 651 ARTS and is a co-curator for Harlem Stage’s critically acclaimed dance series E-Moves.
Charmaine was a member of the New York Dance and Performance Awards Committee (BESSIES) for more than ten years.
Photo by: Tony Turner
FILM
film@wassaicproject.org
Born and raised in the East Village of New York City, Liliana Greenfield-Sanders’ first film “Ghosts of Grey Gardens” premiered at the 2005 Tribeca Film Festival, screened at the Museum of Modern Art and made its television debut on PBS. Her short films have since won the Best Short & Audience Awards at 10 film festivals and screened at over 50 more. Greenfield-Sanders earned her B.A. from Brown University and is a Masters Candidate at NYU’s Tisch Graduate Film program. Her work there earned her a National Board of Review Student Grant Award and received both the Ang Lee and Women in Film & TV Scholarships as well as the Lifetime Student Filmmaker Prize. Her feature screenplay “Bypass” is a finalist for the Sloan Foundation Feature Film Grant and her feature screenplay “Adelaide” is being workshopped at both the Sundance Screenwriters Lab & the Sundance Director’s Labs this year.
Development Director
Risa Shoup connects artists with the resources they need to make manifest their creative vision. She spent four years as the Programming Director of chashama before she decided to work independently. Currently, she is the residency manager for the BRIC House Fireworks Residency, a state-of-the-art multi-disciplinary artists residency set to open in 2013. In 2010 and 2011 Shoup curated two small group shows of multi-media, sculpture and new media work at the Invisible Dog Art Center in Brooklyn, NY. In July, she will open “Ode Hotel,” an exhibition of sculptural and installation-based works in the Old Hotel section of The Wassaic Project’s Old Hotel exhibition space. Ode Hotel has been co-curated by Shoup’s longtime collaborator, Ryan Frank. Currently, she is working on a documentary film about the significance of placing an orange on the seder plate, and most recently, she curated a series of performances and installations for the opening of Yotel NY. In her spare time, she cooks and blogs for the Huffington Post. Shoup travels by bicycle.
2011 Design Fellow
Azusa Kobayashi is currently studying graphic design school at Yale University. She takes time our of her incredibly busy schedule to help The Wassaic Project with our 2011 design work. She is our inaugural Design Fellow and is helping us create a brand that has flexibility built it. Keep an eye out for our invites this year… they will be Azusa’s handiwork!
Print Fellow
Breanne Trammell is a multi-disciplinary artist and graphic designer living and working in Wassaic, NY. She was an inaugural resident at the Wassaic Project in May 2010 and has been an artist-in-residence at the Kala Institute in Berkeley, CA. Breanne received her MFA in Printmaking from the Rhode Island School of Design and is an adjunct professor in graphic design at Ramapo College in New Jersey. She eats an avocado every day and is attempting to letterpress all of her tweets.
Education Coordinator
education@wassaicproject.org
Amy Russo is a Connecticut native with a background in Art History and museum education. She currently works at Hill-Stead Museum, in Farmington, Connecticut, coordinating the nationally recognized Sunken Garden Poetry Festival. She is committed to making the arts more accessible through educational programming that is fun and interdisciplinary. Amy will continue her studies at NYU’s Institute of Fine Arts in the fall.
Merchandising Director
nora@wassaicproject.org
Nora has made it her life’s goal to hold as many job titles as possible. As the Wassaic project’s Merchandising Director, she culls from her strong background in festival organizing as well as seasoned shopper. Currently checking out life in Austin, TX, her other titles include furniture restorer, financial consultant, and potluck hostess
Partnership Director
suzanne@wassaicproject.org
Suzanne Hader coordinates outside sponsorships for the Wassaic Project. She also handles market development for Code and Theory, a boutique interactive firm in NYC. And usually has a few extra projects in the works for good measure. suzannehader.com|| artgangs.com
Programming Coordinators
programming@wassaicproject.org
Hallie Scott studies art history at CUNY Graduate Center and teaches it at Brooklyn College. She has worked at MASS MoCA in North Adams, MA and the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, TX and is thrilled to be adding another rural arts organization to the list.
media@wassaicproject.org
Andrew O’Laughlin comes to us from the investment management industry. He graduated from Hamilton College in 2006 with degrees in economics and studio art. Andrew is from Hobe Sound, FL and will be the Wassaic Projects Programming intern from May to October 2011. He is an amazing dancer, who lives for funky fresh beats that make you want to boogy woogy wonderland.
Peter Segerstrom, received his MFA from RISD’s Digital Media department. He currently resides in Brooklyn, NY where he makes electronic music, art, silk screens, and magic.
2011 Interns
Heather Stanco is a recent graduate of the BFA program at Carnegie Mellon University. Fluent in Spanish and hailing from Texas, she works in detailed, abstract installations and stream-of-consciousness, dadaist writing, and yearns to wander the world freely.
Jacqui Janzen
From Vancouver, BC, aka the Couves. She intends to spend a couple months in a new place each year and this summer NYC won the coin toss. Combining her love for live shows and managing events Jacqui will be helping arrange bands for this year’s festival. She holds a BA in International Studies from Trinity Western University and aspires to produce events for a creative non-profit.
Shannon Finnegan
Shannon is a recent studio art graduate from Carleton College. She is originally from the San Francisco Bay Area. Her interests are drawing, printmaking, math and computer science.
Helen Opper proudly grew up in Oklahoma City and currently resides in Brooklyn, New York. She recently relocated from San Francisco, where she worked at a private fine arts gallery and in the museum division of the National Park Service. She has both music and fine arts in her background, and received her BA in Art History from the University of California at Berkeley in 2008. She is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Museum Studies from New York University.
STAFF ALUMNI
Founding Co-Director, 2008 – 2010
elan@wassaicproject.org
Elan Bogarín is a filmmaker/photographer who is in post-production on Invisible Murals, her first feature length documentary to be distributed by PBS. Elan produced the feature film Big Fan for director Robert Siegel which was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival and screened in over 30 US cities. She was nominated for the John Cassavetes Independent Spirit Awards prize and a Gotham IFP Award for Best Picture. Other recent projects include work for The Whitney Museum of American Art; the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros; God’s House, a feature-length documentary about Muslims who saved Jews during the Holocaust for JWM Productions; and a short documentary for the National Gallery of Art for Oscar-winning director, Aviva Slesin. In 2008, she co-founded The Wassaic Project, an annual multidisciplinary arts festival and residency program in Wassaic, New York. She has received grants from Latino Public Broadcasting, Experimental Television Center, Urban Artist Initiative NYC, The Joyce and Robert Menschel Foundation, The Dutchess County Arts Council, The Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation, and the Charles and Lucille King family. Elan received her BFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago for MFA work.
invisiblemuralsmovie.com
2010 Musical Curators
Hog Farm Studios: We took our name from the home we now work and live in — it’s a building that was built in 1880. at the time, it was the outskirts of biddeford — built by the huberts, and used as a working farm with cows, horses and mostly pigs. the city started to grow towards the hogfarm, and then a hospital was built nearby…so, the pigs were no longer welcomed. the nerve. It’s a pleasant little spot, now right smack in the center of town. we have chosen this spot — a central, established location — for our creative endeavors. also in respect for what was and is already there — a conscious decision not to contribute to urban sprawl, pushing into the surrounding meadows.
We enjoy living, working, and playing in biddeford. it has been been a large part of the hogfarm’s mission to bring community together through art, music and an exchange of ideas. this is why we are so excited to be playing a roll in our larger beautiful community and partnering up with a larger scale version of ourselves in the wassaic project.
2010 Interns
Rachel Schapira, Residency Coordinator
Rachel Schapira is committed to precise, rich ways of communicating, including printmaking, bookmaking, theatre, and face meetings. She recently graduated from Hampshire College. She likes community.
Christy Wiles, Exhibition Coordinator
Christy holds a Masters degree in History and Theory of Contemporary Art from the San Francisco Art Institute (2010). Her MA Thesis considers the work of artist, Alfredo Jaar, examining the ways that ethical injunctions emerge out of photographic representations of conflict. She holds a BA from Reed College.
Shifra Goldenberg, Programming Coordinator
Shifra Goldenberg graduated from Columbia this May with a degree in anthropology and art history. She’s lived in New York her whole life, with a few exceptions, including four months studying contemporary painting practice in Bali. She hopes to someday pursue a career that combines arts education with efforts to expand access to the art, but for now Shifra is in transition. Suggestions are welcome.
MADE POSSIBLE BY:
This project is made possible (in part) through a grant from the Dutchess County Arts Council, administrator of public funds through NYSCA’s Decentralization Program. We have also been supported by a grant from the Northeast Dutchess Fund, a fund of Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation.
