"[own] parents. She borrowed a neighbor's working papers and took a job at twelve. By fourteen, she was teaching ballroom dancing at night in someone's private home, mostly to Japanese men"". Born in Santa Monica, Kent studied with Bronislava Nijinska and Carmelita Maracci before joining the School of American Ballet. She discovered music and dance at the age of 7 and enjoyed both, but she was 11 before she took her first ballet lesson. She had completely flat feet as a little girl and consulted a doctor, who prescribed wedges in her shoes to give her arches. She then began"
"Indira Allegra Indira Allegra is an American artist and writer based in Oakland, California. Her work, which includes installation, sculpture, poetry, and performance art, explores tensions as they manifest internally and in response to political and emotional triggers. Indira Allegra was born in Detroit, Michigan and moved in the 1980s to Portland, Oregon. Allegra attended Portland Community College and studied Sign Language Interpretation, and later achieved a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the California College of Arts in 2015. She and her work have appeared at SOMArts, SFMOMA, De Young Museum, Center for Craft and Design, New York Queer Experimental"
"Film Festival, International Black Women’s Film Festival, BBC, and SFJAZZ Poetry Festival. She has also published written work in several journals and anthologies, including ""Foglifter Magazine"", ""Red Indian Road West: Native American Poetry from California"", ""Writing the Walls Down: A Convergence of LGBTQ Voices"", and ""Sovereign Erotics: A Collection of Two-Spirit Literature"". Indira Allegra Indira Allegra is an American artist and writer based in Oakland, California. Her work, which includes installation, sculpture, poetry, and performance art, explores tensions as they manifest internally and in response to political and emotional triggers. Indira Allegra was born in Detroit, Michigan and moved in"
"machine production; Alvin Lustig, an architect, printer, educator, who refused to specialize; Imre Reiner, an anti-Modernist typographer in Switzerland who rebelled against ""objectivity""; Sister Corita Kent, a Southern California nun and printmaker who, in the 1960s, seized upon the idea of using the language of pop culture to speak to her local audience about spirituality, subverting, and appropriating to communicate; and Edward Fella, who mutated out of ""commercial art"" by working on problems only as he defined them and his commitment to anti-mastery. ""Her thoroughly informed and deeply sympathetic understanding of the nature of art and design has brought her"
"Vita Nuova"" was selected for The Best American Short Stories 2011 and was broadcast on Public Radio International's Selected Shorts in February 2012. Goodman and Karger live in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where Karger is a professor in computer science at MIT. They have four children, three boys and a girl. Allegra Goodman Allegra Goodman (born 1967) is an American author based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her most recent novel, ""The Chalk Artist"", was published in 2017. Goodman wrote and illustrated her first novel at the age of seven. Goodman was born in Brooklyn, NY, and raised in Hawaii. The daughter of Lenn"
"Annette Corcoran Annette Corcoran (born 1930) is an American artist who was born in Inglewood, California. She earned a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1952, and continued post-graduate studies at California State University, Long Beach, California Polytechnic State University, Saddleback College, and the College of Marin. She worked as a graphic artist for 15 years before turning to ceramics. She then spent 25 years making ceramic teapots. Although originally functional, they evolved into non-functional works of art. ""Anhinga"", in the collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art, is typical of her teapots, which usually incorporate birds into"
"Grass, and soon to the Henry Art Gallery in Seattle, Washington. Helguera's work has been described as ""socially engaged"", creating works engaging communities in local or global issues. He is currently the director of adult and academic programs at the New York Museum of Modern Art. Pablo Helguera Pablo Helguera (born April 25, 1971, Mexico City) is an artist, performer, author, and Director of Adult and Academic Programs at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Following his BFA degree at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and employment with the Museum of Contemporary Art of"
"The Fabric Workshop and Museum in 2009. She graduated in 2015 with a Master of Fine Arts in Visual Art from the University of California, San Diego. 2017 2016 2015 Angela Washko Angela Washko (born 1986) is a New York-based new media artist and facilitator who works to mobilize communities and creates new forums for discussions of feminism where they do not exist. She is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Art at Carnegie Mellon University. Washko has been creating performances inside the online video game World of Warcraft since 2012 in which she initiates discussions about feminism within the"
"and Kent School in Kent, Connecticut in the United States. She earned her BA in Drama & Music in 1996 from the Royal Holloway, University of London. She was awarded an honorary doctorate by Royal Holloway in 2011. Her debut album was named ""Eye to the Telescope"" - the name was inspired by her childhood experiences at her father's physics laboratory at University of St Andrews. Released in 2004, this album launched her music career. That album inspired her nomination for the Mercury Prize in 2005, BRIT Award for Best British Live Act and BRIT Award for Best Breakthrough Act"
"Yoga Studio, The Kane School of Core Integration, and other schools, as well as anatomy and injury prevention classes for yoga, dance, and Pilates in New York and nationally. She teaches anatomy at the Center for Cartoon Studies and in the dance department of Marymount Manhattan College, and has taught at Bard College, and NYU. Kriota Willberg Kriota Willberg is a cartoonist and visual artist who draws from decades of experience as a massage therapist and educator in health sciences and the arts. She is the author of ""Draw Stronger: Self-Care For Cartoonists & Other Visual Artists"", a comprehensive guide"
"serigraphs, using as many as 200 separate color plates and heavy, acid free archival papers. Melanie Taylor Kent Melanie Taylor Kent is an American artist. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, she was raised and has spent most of her life in Southern California. She won her first National Art Competition at age 12. She graduated from the UCLA School of Art and taught art in the Los Angeles City Schools. In 1980 she started her own publishing company and has published a series of art chronicling America by depicting famous streets and famous events. Her artwork has been licensed to Warner"
"part in the projects Flesh World, (w)hole, T.N.B., and Karaoke Motel by creating video content. Kasra joined the Collage Ensemble in 2005, “a Los Angeles Arts Collective of inter-disciplinary artists collaborating on multi-media artwork related to urban life and inter-ethnic experiences.” Collage Ensemble Inc. lasted from 1984 to 2012. According to Kasra, inter.sect art collective is “a group of digital artists who used new media platforms to explore digital exhibition spaces outside the traditional gallery model.” The collective was founded and is directed by Christi Nielsen. In 2011 Kasra served as the Art Gallery Chair for ACM SIGGRAPH. For this,"
"Sarah Kent Sarah Kent (born 1947) is a British art critic, formerly art editor of the weekly London 'what's on' guide ""Time Out"". She was an early supporter of the Young British Artists in general, and Tracey Emin in particular, helping her to get early exposure. This has led to polarised reactions of praise and opposition for Kent. She adopts a feminist stance and has stated her position to be that of ""a spokesperson, especially for women artists, in a country that is essentially hostile to contemporary art."" Kent studied painting at the Slade School of Art and worked as"
"MA at the University of Southern California in Art History in 1951. Between 1938 and 1968 Kent lived and worked in the Immaculate Heart Community. She taught in the Immaculate Heart College and became the chair of its art department in 1964. Her classes at Immaculate Heart were an avant-garde mecca for prominent, ground-breaking artists and inventors, such as Alfred Hitchcock, John Cage, Saul Bass, Buckminster Fuller and Charles & Ray Eames. Kent credited Charles Eames, Buckminster Fuller, and art historian Dr. Alois Schardt for their important roles in her intellectual and artistic growth. By the early 1950s, she had"
"Anglia. In addition, she is artistic adviser to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and on the council of the Royal Society of Literature. Central topics in her work are the efforts of individuals, particularly women: pursuing quests, seeking change, breaking boundaries, and constructing or challenging gender roles. A central technique is the revisioning of actual or imaginary lives from the past, sometimes remote in place as well as in time. There is a further recurring theme in her work: displacement. In her plays, characters are often removed from the familiarity of home and are forced to live in new"
"Applegate, Carmen Electra, and special guests Gwen Stefani, Christina Aguilera, Brittany Murphy, Nikka Costa, and Charlize Theron. Other stage productions include And the Curtain Rises at the Signature Theater; the winner of the New York's Fringe Festival, Catch The Fish; Twelfth Premise (LA Times Critics Pick); the Los Angeles Premiere of Terrence McNally's Corpus Christi (Ticketholder Award, Best Production; Ticketholder Award, Best Director; Robby Award, Best Director of a Play); Crane, Mississippi (LA Times Critic's Choice,[Backstage West Critic's Pick). Hanggi is working alongside Amy Heckerling to develop Heckerling's 1995 film Clueless into a musical for the stage. Hanggi graduated with"
"refined his role as an educator with engagement by the Museum of Modern Art. Helguera has been the recipient of numerous awards for his art and his ideas concerning social practice art, including the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation/Fideicomiso para la Cultura Mexico, Creative Capital, a Franklin Furnace Fellowship and most recently a Blade of Grass Award from the Rubin Museum in New York. Pablo Helguera is represented by Kent Fine Art in New York. Helguera began exhibiting as an artist in Mexico City in 1998, and for the first time in New York at the Bronx Museum of Art"
"projects and arts non-profits. The grantLOVE project has supported arts organizations as diverse as the Heart of Los Angeles (Visual Arts) in Los Angeles and Union for Contemporary Art in Omaha, NE. Alexandra Grant Alexandra Grant (born 1973 in Fairview Park, Ohio) is a Los Angeles-based artist, who uses language and exchanges with writers as a source for imagery in sculpture, painting, drawing, and video. Grant graduated from Swarthmore College with a BA in 1994, and from California College of the Arts with a MFA in 2000. Grant’s first solo exhibition at a museum was in 2007, organized by curator"
"and honors along with awards in Advertising and Creative Excellence. Kat began his career in fashion photography, portraits, commercial advertising and has shifted in 2009 to Contemporary Art and Fine-art photography. A Researcher and a photographer, Kat is best known for his explorations of culture and heritage as well as landscape and spiritual transformations. In 2013, the artist has introduced a new technique in contemporary Art classified as a Post medium condition, It is a type of “digital Collage” Kat calls it ""Mental Spaces"", The art work deals with capturing a given space and connects several images taken from various"
"community groups in her practice. Phillips draws much of her inspiration from Corita Kent (1918/1986), a pioneering artist, educator and activist famous for her reinterpretations of advertising slogans and imagery relevant to 1960s consumer culture. She is the founder of the artist collective ""Poster Club"" and her ongoing project titled ‘(Workshop 2010—)’ has been subject to various reiterations after its initial exhibit at ""The Showroom Gallery"" in London won her a nomination for the ""Turner Prize"" in 2014. A key aspect of Ciara Phillips' art practice is the compositional techniques that are devoid of traditional representational systems. In other words,"
"practice and community engagement as vital forms of contemporary art. In the Wall Street Journal review of their 2014 exhibition at Perrotin Gallery in New York, Carol Kino writes: “Kate Ericson and Mel Ziegler were ardent pioneers of the art now known as ""social practice.""” Mel Ziegler (artist) Mel Ziegler is an American artist (born 1956) whose artistic practice includes community art, integrated arts, public art. Ziegler began his undergraduate studies at the Rhode Island School of Design, later transferring to the Kansas City Art Institute. He earned an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia in"
"Allegra Goodman Allegra Goodman (born 1967) is an American author based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her most recent novel, ""The Chalk Artist"", was published in 2017. Goodman wrote and illustrated her first novel at the age of seven. Goodman was born in Brooklyn, NY, and raised in Hawaii. The daughter of Lenn and Madeleine Goodman, she was brought up as a Conservative Jew. Her mother, who died in 1996, was a professor of genetics and women's studies, then assistant vice president at the University of Hawaii at Manoa for many years, before moving on to Vanderbilt University in the 1990s. Her"
"New York. Corita Kent Corita Kent (November 20, 1918 – September 18, 1986), born Frances Elizabeth Kent and also known as Sister Mary Corita Kent, was an American Roman Catholic religious sister, artist, and educator. She worked almost exclusively with silkscreen, also known as serigraphy, pushing back the limitations of the two-dimensional medium by the development of innovative methods. Kent's emphasis on printing was partially due to her wish for democratic outreach, as she wished for affordable art for the masses. Her artwork, with its messages of love and peace, was particularly popular during the social upheavals of the 1960s"
"Andrea Ackerman Andrea Ackerman is an American artist, theorist and writer best known for her New Media artworks. She lives and works in New York. At Yale Ackerman studied physics and biophysics; afterwards she graduated Harvard Medical School, with a concentration in Neuroscience, and trained and practiced as a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. She has used digital technology since the mid 1990s in order to fabricate her work, which dabbles in the realms concerning technology, nature, aesthetics and ethics. She imbues objects with qualities not ordinarily occurring in nature, and in doing so fabricates a “synthetic” nature. Specific aspects of 2D"
"Andrea Ackerman Andrea Ackerman is an American artist, theorist and writer best known for her New Media artworks. She lives and works in New York. At Yale Ackerman studied physics and biophysics; afterwards she graduated Harvard Medical School, with a concentration in Neuroscience, and trained and practiced as a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. She has used digital technology since the mid 1990s in order to fabricate her work, which dabbles in the realms concerning technology, nature, aesthetics and ethics. She imbues objects with qualities not ordinarily occurring in nature, and in doing so fabricates a “synthetic” nature. Specific aspects of 2D"
"Corita Kent Corita Kent (November 20, 1918 – September 18, 1986), born Frances Elizabeth Kent and also known as Sister Mary Corita Kent, was an American Roman Catholic religious sister, artist, and educator. She worked almost exclusively with silkscreen, also known as serigraphy, pushing back the limitations of the two-dimensional medium by the development of innovative methods. Kent's emphasis on printing was partially due to her wish for democratic outreach, as she wished for affordable art for the masses. Her artwork, with its messages of love and peace, was particularly popular during the social upheavals of the 1960s and 1970s."
"Angela Washko Angela Washko (born 1986) is a New York-based new media artist and facilitator who works to mobilize communities and creates new forums for discussions of feminism where they do not exist. She is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Art at Carnegie Mellon University. Washko has been creating performances inside the online video game World of Warcraft since 2012 in which she initiates discussions about feminism within the gameplay. She's the founder of the Council on Gender Sensitivity and Behavioral Awareness in World of Warcraft to bring attention to and protest the sexist language from players in the"
"Allegra Fuller Snyder Allegra Fuller Snyder is a dance ethnologist (ethnochoreologist), choreographer, professor and author specializing on dance and culture. Her research focuses on dances among Native American tribes particularly the Yaqui, and on dance among several ethnic groups in Africa and Asia. She is Professor Emerita of dance ethnology from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). Snyder is the daughter of noted architect and inventor Buckminster Fuller and his wife Anne Hewlett. Snyder pioneered the field of Dance Ethnography, and defines a dance ethnologist as ""...one who is concerned with studying the process of dance in culture."""
"Ilka White Ilka Jane White is an Australian artist. Her practice spans projects in textiles, drawing, sculpture and installation, art-in-community and cross disciplinary collaboration. Direct engagement with the natural world is central to White’s making process. Her current work explores relationships between the mind, body, time and place, and questions the separation of these elements. White was born in the rural Victorian town of Maryborough and grew up in the Shire of Central Goldfields with a steady stream of musicians, artists and makers dropping into the family home. White went on to study fashion design so she could become a"
"Melanie Taylor Kent Melanie Taylor Kent is an American artist. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, she was raised and has spent most of her life in Southern California. She won her first National Art Competition at age 12. She graduated from the UCLA School of Art and taught art in the Los Angeles City Schools. In 1980 she started her own publishing company and has published a series of art chronicling America by depicting famous streets and famous events. Her artwork has been licensed to Warner Bros., The Walt Disney Corporation and Hanna-Barbera. Kent's serigraphs are noted for the personalities that"
"Art Docent Matter Inc., the Franklin Furnace Fund for Performance Art, the National Endowment for the Arts, and New York Foundation for the Arts. She also received a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists award (2017). Andrea Fraser Andrea Fraser (born 1965) is a performance artist, mainly known for her work in the area of institutional critique. Fraser is based in New York and Los Angeles and is currently a new genres professor of the Art Department faculty at the University of California, Los Angeles. Fraser was born in Billings, Montana and grew up in Berkeley, California. She attended"
"was the first scholarly work at the University of São Paulo presented as a series of serigraphs. Similarly, her 1982 doctoral thesis consisting of 13 lithographs was the first non-verbal dissertation presented in her department. Diminishing health made Katz give up printmaking, shifting her focus to watercolors. ""Since engraving demands physical strength, with time it became increasingly hard to work with it"", she claimed. Renina Katz Renina Katz Pedreira (born 1925, Rio de Janeiro), known as Regina Katz, is a Brazilian engraver, printmaker, and watercolorist. Together with Edith Behring and Fayga Ostrower, she is part of the generation of Brazilian"
"Martha Clarke Martha Clarke (born June 3, 1944) is an American theater director and choreographer noted for her multidisciplinary approach to theatre, dance, and opera productions. She is the creator of plotless, dreamlike works that are perhaps described by the term ""moving paintings. Her work frequently emphasizes striking visual tableaux, often directly inspired by visual art, especially painting. Though dance is the primary basis of Clarke's training, she has maintained a career which spans and melds dance, theater, the visual arts, and opera. Probably her best-known original work is ""The Garden of Earthly Delights"" (1984), an exploration in theatre, dance,"