Yoon Cho (Visual Art: video, photography) has exhibited nationally and internationally including the Islip Art Museum; Chelsea Art Museum; Korean Consulate NY; The LAB, San Francisco; Centro de Cultura Contemporanea, Barcelona, Spain; and Triennale di Milano, Italy. Her work was included in surveys of Texas artists at Austin Museum of Art (2008) and Wichita Falls Museum of Art (2009). Cho received a 2011 Artist Grant from the Vermont Studio Center A-I-R and was a visiting artist at Ringling College of Art and Design (2009). Cho was born in Seoul, Korea and received a BFA from RISD and an MFA from Parsons School of Design. (www.yooncho.com)
Jeff Fairbanks (Music: composition/trombone) has been deemed a “rising multi-faceted star if not musical voice on the New York scene” (@CritcialJazz), and received praise for his “fluid lines and lyrical sensibilities” (Jazz Times). Winner of awards from ASCAP, BMI and others, he has also won seven grants from various institutions. Jeff’s 2011 debut Mulberry Street (BJURecords), documenting his fusion of East Asian traditional music and Jazz, won awards from AMC and the Aaron Copland Fund, as well as wide critical praise. As composer and performer he’s worked with a variety of ensembles in many parts of the world. (http://www.reverbnation.com/eplay/artist_486318) (http://www.fairbanksmusic.com)
Karen Ann Elizabeth Kriegel (Dance) began her Korean dance career in N.Y.C In 1996. while attending Juilliard. For 17 years Ms. Kriegel has studied with many teachers including two Korean national treasures Master Cho GongRye and Master DongHee. Ms. Kriegel performs, teaches and lectures regularly on the subject of Korean dance worldwide. Currently, Ms. Kriegel focuses on Korean dance and fusion dance while working on her own dance company the WDI-World Dance Initiative an umbrella for a dance and music collective including Iron Swan, Anise Arts and Cheol Baekjae. World Dance Initiative works in collaboration with folkloric dancers of other genres in performance and teaching settings. (www.KarenKriegel.com)
Gary Richmond (Philosophy) is on the Philosophy and Critical Thinking faculty of LaGuardia Community College/CUNY, and also teaches in its Communication Studies division. His research interests center on C. S. Peirce’s category theory and semiotic. Gary has organized workshops and delivered keynote addresses around these topics at several international conferences. He is a member of the advisory board of The Peirce Group, founded to promote Peircean studies as these involve internet technologies. He co-manages the website Arisbe: The Peirce Gateway and the philosophical forum, peirce-l, and is presently co-editing a special edition of the philosophical journal Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society. (http://www.cspeirce.com)
Rene Sing (Film/Video) has produced and directed two unreleased documentaries, shot and edited a production by his media students, and written three short dramatic scripts: “A Lonely Room”, co-written with Jamila Jones, “tomorrow …” and “Whisper Bench.” As the Fortune Society’s media teacher I work with a community of formerly incarcerated people, who often challenge my ability to find the humanity beyond the transgression, or the humanity in the transgression. Growing up in Nicaragua at a time when there weren’t many TV sets around exposed him to a strong oral storytelling tradition stemming from the convergence of African, Native, Chinese and Mestizo streams. (www.renesing.com)
Priscilla Stadler (Visual Artist: interdisciplinary) uses drawing, sculpture, installation, and human interaction to investigate questions such as how we construct meaning from randomness and whether divination really works. Her work has appeared in many exhibitions throughout the NYC area. Stadler received support from the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs via Queens Council on the Arts (2009) for her interactive project installation ORQ [The Oracle of Random Quotes] and was a recipient of the Queens Council on the Arts’ Individual Artist Initiative (2010). She has completed residencies at Vermont Studio Center, Contemporary Artists’ Center, and ACRE. (http://www.solanima.net)
