As a choreographer I focus on the creative process and the exploration of new and unique inspirations for the creation of dance and movement. Educated under dance greats Bill Evans, Hanya Holm, Oliver Kostock and John M. Wilson, among others, I have additional experience in the extended studies of Body-Mind Centering, Contact Improvisation, and Composition. In 1980 I founded CORE, an organization committed to innovation, collaboration and risk-taking through which we create, perform and present contemporary dance. I have choreographed more than 40 works for CORE, and have commissioned myriad artists to collaboratively create new works with the company.
Has worked as a Arts Administrator, Stage Manager, and Techie in Atlanta for 15 years. Started a drama program at Lee Arrendale State Women's Prison in 2009. The program is in its infancy but Wende is hopeful that it will take hold and expand.
I am a theatre artist and educator with over ten years experience in creating art for change. I graduated with a BFA from the University of the Arts, Philadelphia, and an MA from the University of Kentucky, Lexington. I am currently working on a project called Life Without Walls. Life Without Walls is a workshop series and play in collaboration with: The Atlanta Outreach Project, The Little Five Points Community Center, and various local Atlanta artists. The theatre and literacy project is to address the issue of homelessness in Atlanta. The play is produced, written, and acted by the clients of the Atlanta Outreach Project.
Has benefited from the Virginia Fellowship for Individual Writers due to her highly recommended wor(d)-shops and literary works. A member of the 2007-8 Charlotte National Poetry Slam Championship Team, the reigning Red Bull Word Clash champion, and currently runs “Say What?!?” a national collegiate performance Word-Shop driven by Red Bull. NAACP Image Award Nominee for works in the Anthology Home Girls Make Some Noise, Published In: Essence, Old Dominion University’s 44th St. Poets Journal, S. Florida University Urban Griot, 1st Spoken Word artist cover story for Portfolio Magazine, The Syracuse University Women in Hip-Hop and National Featured Poet for Rolling Out and Creative Loafing, amongst thousands of online journals.
I'm a storyteller who "carries words" from times in places where the Old South met the Original South; stories born by melding and conflicts between Indigenous peoples and colonizing immigrants, truly southern stories lived in spirit and flesh. As a writer and performer for WagonBurner, the Native American radio theater directed by Leanne Howe, my characters often spoke from the lives of people who I knew as neighbors living in small, Indian settlements in rural Alabama. Theater written from oral literatures, oral histories, papers tossed into courthouse basements or jumbled for sale with recipe books by a roadside flea market vendor.
Gwylene Gallimard & Jean-Marie Mauclet's collaborative experiences include two community-oriented French cafes; art installations about the health insurance industry, the fast food phenomenon, religious beliefs; archives & history, globalization, gentrification, populations displaced by war, dictatorship. Their endeavors have involved school populations, a homeless community, a refugee organization, art institutions, other artists and activists.
I am a teacher educator who has some experience in various art forms but is primarily a "patron of the arts" and a researcher who uses "arts-informed" inquiry in exploring the experiences of schools and teachers. I use arts-based projects in my classes when possible but try to use my classroom and research as a venue for the work of working artists. My primary interest is in aesthetic education (as opposed to arts education) and have studied at Lincoln Center and with Maxine Greene. I want to increase my efforts to promote that approach in public education.
By day I'm the Deputy Director of the Southern Arts Federation working with our staff, board and regional partners to build a better South through the arts. I'm particularly interested in arts participation, strategic planning and action, organizational learning and working with a great creative team. I also create glass art and jewelry as Southern Flameworks; I'm a consultant and facilitator in critical response, audio description, participation building and other arts areas; and I see and hear as much work as I can in Atlanta and beyond.
Sage Crump has been involved in the arts community for 20 years. Her company Sagacity Productions has produced multi-state music festivals, peace concerts and staged theatrical readings. She has worked with and for such organizations as 89.3 WRFG, Comedy Plus Review, Omenala Afrocentric Teaching Museum, and Alternate ROOTS. She is a founding member of Young African Writers Collective (YAWC) and Oyster Knife writers group. Sage founded Community Theater Initiative to support the growing number of theater artists interested in art for social change. She is currently Program Director of the Performing Arts Exchange for the Southern Arts Federation. Sage is a performance poet, actor and vocalist.
www.jeffmather.com - or - www.southernartistry.org/Jeff_Mather
Phone:
404-508-5928
-Community-based public art
-Environmental sculpture
-Site art
-Arts Education: Teaching Artist
-Collaboration coach
-RSC facilitator and 2X C/APP recipient
Composer of music for theater, film, even television (once). Violinist, classically trained but working the other side too. Performing ensembles include the DeLuxe Vaudeville Orchestra, the 4th Ward Afro-Klezmer Orchestra & the Albany Symphony. Teacher of violin and director of string program at Glennwood Academy in Decatur GA. Vaudevillian, perhaps, depending on current definition.
Having lived in Blacksburg, VA for ten years, Shannon was wrapping up her M.F.A. at Virginia Tech when the tragic shootings occurred there in 2007. She worked in the Blacksburg community for nearly a year following the tragedy to spearhead an organization called HERE: Honoring Experiences, Reflections, and Expressions. HERE's goals were to facilitate ongoing artistic response and dialogue toward the community's healing.
JAEHN ("Jane") CLARE has more than thirty years experience as an actor, director, producer, playwright, teaching artist and arts administrator. She holds a BA in Theatre Arts from the University of Minnesota, and an MA in Dramatic Literature from the University of Essex, in Colchester, England. Since 1986, Jaehn has been active as a disability awareness educator and trainer, offering workshops in a variety of community settings. As a Teaching Artist, she has worked with diverse participants in diverse school and community settings across the U.S. and abroad, including a four-week long residency in Cairo, Egypt in July 2007.
"We gotta laugh; we swapped immortality for accessories!" is a sample of Meg's observations expressed through the written word, digital stories, photo images and found object sculptures, where she explores 21st century values from the viewpoint of her life as a worldly South Ga environmentalist. FMI www.megtilleyanderson.com where there is a link to her blog.
Ana is an information technologist who specializes in creating and integrating websites, databases and software flows for small businesses and non-profits. She has a degree from the Rhode Island School of Design in Industrial Design, and has been working with non-profits around technology for the last 10 years.
As well as contracting for Alternate ROOTS, Ana owns and operates jellobrain (http://jellobrain.com) which aids non-profits in tightening and integrating their information flows and systems. Among other organizations, Ana has worked with: Bioneers, the Institute of American Indian Arts, the southern Center for Human Rights, the United States Social Forum, and the Metro Atlanta Taskforce for the Homeless.
