Simone Johnson

Simone Johnson is an interdisciplinary artist, researcher and cultural worker based in NYC. She mostly makes work about water. She is currently interested in wetlands, rivers and the ocean. She has been a resident with Works on Water and is a former Culture Push Climate Justice Fellow. Simone also has a background in urban agriculture, plant medicine, Teaching Artistry and performance art.

https://www.dancingnomadva.com/

Cory Tamler

Cory Tamler has created and participated in research-based performance projects in the United States, Germany, and Serbia, and has worked with museums and companies including the New Museum for Contemporary Art, The Civilians, Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, James Gallery, Sprat Artistic Ensemble, Yinzerspielen, and the School of Making Thinking. A core artist with civic arts organization OpenWaters(Maine), Cory has written a play about small-scale farming and a book of performance scores based on migratory fish. Cory was a Fulbright Scholar (Berlin) and her academic and critical writing and translations have been published in The Mercurian, Studies in Musical Theatre, Asymptote, Culturebot, The Offing, Extended Play, Howlround, and SCENA. As a Ph.D. student in Theatre and Performance at The Graduate Center, CUNY, she studieswaterdramaturgy andworksto connect physics and theatre as historically determined stories about the world. She teaches in the Department of Theater at Brooklyn College and is a member of Commitment Experiment, an experimental performance collective in Brooklyn.

www.corytamler.com

Leah Harper

Leah Harper is an interdisciplinary artist with a background in art, architecture, and design. Influenced by organic forms and ecosystems, she creates sculptures and installations that explore the balance between nature and the built environment. Her interest in water art and environmental issues developed from her experiences growing up in South Florida. Having witnessed disappearing marine life, rising water levels, and intensifying hurricanes, she uses art to give physical form and presence to the effects of climate change. She currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

Elizabeth Velazquez

Elizabeth Velazquez is an interdisciplinary artist and a public school visual arts educator. She is one of the founding members of SEQAA- the Southeast Queens Artist Alliance, which is an artist collective focused on working in SEQ. In 2020 she participated in the Winter Workspace Residency Program at Wave Hill, located in the Bronx. Velázquez has exhibited and performed at venues throughout New York, including Cigar Factory, Knockdown Center, and NARS Foundation.

https://elizabethvelazquez.com/

Art Jones

I work with film and video, photography, sound, and objects. I often use music, field recordings, text, live action and animation to produce hybrid documents (with narrative suggestions).
‘First Contact’ is an installation and media performance-in-progess. The basis of the piece is the correspondence from the period of 1759 to 1769 between Medford, Massachusetts slave trader Timothy Fitch and the captains who sailed his ships. These letters are a mode for examination of the irrevocable point of contact where bodies meet- the intersection of the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, and also the meeting of British settlers and the Africans whose contact, collision, and conflict will eventually produce the ‘Americans’.
During the 2019 WoW/UNY residency I will produce video, sound, photographs, and objects relating to these historical points of contact and the ripples that affect our present moments.

https://vimeo.com/artjones