About the Artist: Jaehn (pronounced “Jane”) Clare is a trained professional theater artist, with more than thirty years experience as an actor, director, producer, playwright, touring artist, teaching artist and arts administrator. She holds a B.A. in Theatre Arts from…
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ClancyWorks Dance Co.
About the Group: ClancyWorks Dance Company is an ensemble of contemporary dance artists, based in Washington, DC. We present award winning dance performances and offer high quality arts-in-education programs. Adrienne Clancy, Artistic Director/Founder, creates choreography that features dynamic partnering work…
Teo Castellanos D-Projects
About the Group: Founded by Fringe First Award winning actor/director/playwright Teo Castellanos, the contemporary performance company, Teo Castellanos D-Projects is a Dance/Theater company influenced by ritual, culture, spirituality, collage art, traditional and progressive music. Teo Castellanos D-Projects fuses ancient traditions…
The Carpetbag Theatre
About the Group: The Carpetbag Theatre, Inc. (CBT) is a professional, multigenerational ensemble company dedicated to the production of new works. Its mission is to give artistic voice to the issues and dreams of people who have been silenced by…
Beverly Botsford
About the Artist: Beverly Botsford is a cross-cultural percussionist and educator who blends music, movement and spoken word in solo and ensemble presentations. Embracing drumming traditions of Africa, Cuba, Brazil and her native North Carolina, she celebrates more than 30…
Betty’s Daughter Arts Collaborative, LLC
About the Group: Betty’s Daughter Arts Collaborative, LLC is a cultural arts direct action group that inspires, enlivens and incites justice and transformation of individuals and communities through creativity, cultural arts and radical expressiveness. Our Vision – Betty’s Daughter Arts…
Beacon Dance
About the Group: Beacon Dance is a professional, performance-focused organization. Our mission is to enrich the lives of those who intersect with our work, by presenting classes, workshops and performances to the general public. We design our projects to be…
BBarash Productions
About the Artist: Bailey Barash is an independent documentary maker with many years of experience in television news. After 19 years producing medical and science news at CNN, she formed an independent production company to produce documentaries that reveal the…
Atumpan – The Talking Drum
About the Artist: Teaching artists Corey & LaQuita Marie Staten are storytellers that connect Africa to African-Americans in an engaging way. Audiences interact in high energy, educational programs that entertain all age groups. Thanks to their rhythmic style of storytelling,…
ArtSpot Productions
About the Group: ArtSpot Productions is an ensemble of artists dedicated to creating meticulously live theater. We are Louisiana’s most accomplished and awarded ensemble theatre company. Our productions are a sincere blend of disciplines, developed through ensemble authorship, physically rigorous…
Anna & Elizabeth
About the Artists: Anna Roberts-Gevalt & Elizabeth LaPrelle share the music & history of Appalachia through an innovative combination of song, storytelling, theater & scrolling illustrations called crankies—some quilted, others shadow papercuts. Anna, a fiddler and banjo player, and Elizabeth,…
Andrea Assaf
About the Artist: Andrea Assaf is a writer, performer, director & cultural organizer. She’s the founding Artistic Director of Art2Action Inc. Formerly Artistic Director of New WORLD Theater (2004-09), and Program Associate for Animating Democracy (2001-04), she has a Masters…
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Obakunle Akinlana
About the Artist: Obakunle Akinlana is a storyteller who uses drums, shekeres, and other African musical instruments to present fun and exciting African folktales. Since 1985, he has performed as a storyteller, lecturer and percussionist throughout the U.S. and West…
Global Village Chorus
Elise Witt, Global Village Chorus, Decatur, GA The project focus is 1. to expand and develop the Global Village Chorus by adding a Global Village Ensemble at the Global Village Project (GVP), a school for teenage refugee girls in Decatur…
Project South
Project South, Atlanta, GA The University Sin Fronteras recognizes that successful popular movements in the U.S. have always endeavored to deploy art and culture as a substantial, capable, and strategic conveyer of the espoused goals of their efforts. Through research,…
Clear Creek Festival
“Bobby B” Martin, Clear Creek Festival, Clear Creek, KY Clear Creek is proposing a Land, Water, Food, Stories project in Bob and Carrie’s local community Big Hill/ Disputanta Kentucky. This work will be centered on the themes of loss and…
Appalshop
Appalshop, Harlan/Whitesburg, KY Appalshop’s Youth Media Program is partnering with the Southeast Kentucky Community and Technical College to offer college credit for participating in the media programs offered by Appalshop. The proposal to ROOTS is to support the strengthening of…
ALIENS Taco Truck Theater Project
ALIENS Taco Truck Theater Project / Teatro Sin Fronteras. Conceived by José Torres-Tama & ArteFuturo Productions in Partnership with Puentes New Orleans The ALIENS Taco Truck Theater Project / Teatro Sin Fronteras aims to transform a food vehicle into a theater…
Soundtrack ’63
Stephanie McKee, Junebug Productions, New Orleans, LA Junebug Productions, Inc. (JPI), proposes a new project that is being built from the partnerships of artists, activists and educators interested in documenting and reflecting on the legacy of the civil rights movement.…