Geddes Jones
Geddes jones. 27. Illustrator and Tattooer. Kingston NY- Boston MA.
P Tenney
P is a Maryland native who relocated to Ulster County in 2003 and has resided in Kingston since 2012. She works as a visual artist. Through her time in Kingston she has worked on developing her own personal narrative and style through bright, abstract and surreal drawings while capturing her ever growing personal community through photography.
John Walter
John Walter, aka Exactly, has a background in technology, but found his true love in producing and showing the special transformative True Mirror, the only mirror that reflects you correctly, without being backwards. So many elements are required to make them optically perfect, but the real magic comes from his discovery that they reflect our personalities properly. We stay present in a True Mirror and get lost in backwards mirrors. It’s not just what you look like, but who you are and how you are. In 20 years of showcasing the mirror, he has found that events like O+ have the best quality of people to be receptive to this experience – artistic and perceptive, interested and interesting, deep and developing. His mission is to guide people to their own “AHA moment” with themselves in the True Mirror, and to figure out how best to make this a tool for true self-awareness, discovery and inner peace.
Andrea Frank
Frank is an Assistant Professor in Photography at SUNY New Paltz. From 2003 to 2012, she was a full-time lecturer in Photography at M.I.T. in Cambridge, MA. She received her Diplom with honors from the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, and her MFA from Parsons in New York City, where she also participated in the Whitney Independent Study Program. Recent solo exhibitions include Galleria Michela Rizzo in Venice, Carroll and Sons in Boston, Edward Thorp Gallery in New York, and the Kunsthalle Göppingen in Germany. She received numerous grants and fellowships including the DAAD, Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes, and a collaborative SUNY Network of Excellence Arts and Humanities grant (lead PI).
Maxfield Bala
Maxfield Bala is a 22 year old multi disciplined artist from the San Francisco bay area. Bala’s Artwork can be found internationally through mediums including, large scale murals, fine art gallery exhibits and graphic design projects. Bala’s style and medium use is highly versatile yet striking characteristic in its nature. However, his most notable pieces stem from high imaginative characters adorned in high color and detail.
The Green Palette
Marc Anthony and Ali Palmatier have merged their visions to create The Green Palette Community Center in midtown Kingston, NY. The space includes an indoor treehouse, DJ booth, puppet theater, large work tables, wood shop, city flower garden, pottery wheel and kiln, and an assortment of materials to create art with.
The Green Palette Community Center provides workshops, classes, exhibitions, and community outreach activities in a fun, welcoming, and supportive atmosphere. Their goal is to bring the creative process to interested individuals and groups of all ages and backgrounds, and to empower people to share their voice and vision to bring meaningful change into their lives and into their communities.
LINDA MARY MONTANO
In a career spanning over forty years, performance artist Linda Mary Montano (b. 1942) has created works in a variety of forms that explore the possibility of eliminating the distinction between art and life by creating videos, books, objects from past performances, live performances, workshops/teaching and spiritually deep ways of bringing sacred truths to her own daily life and the lives of others.
Ori Alon
Ori Alon is an artist, writer, teacher and a father of three. He lives in Beacon NY and besides running the Center for Supportive Bureaucracy as an Executive Empowering Clerk he writes a postage stamps comics collection, The Magic Bagel children’s book series, a Board member of Menschwork and founder of Alfassi Books community publishing house.
http://www.supportivebureaucracy.org/
Uncle Riley (G. Riley Johndonnell)
G. Riley Johndonnell (aka ‘Uncle Riley’) is an artist, activist and Optimist who creates works of art which intend to generate positive energy. He co-founded UMEWE Inc. (you-me-we), a social benefit art and design collaborative, which creates civic works and new opportunities for collaboration among artists and communities.
As a participating O+ Festival artist, Uncle Riley (and UMEWE) will present three projects: 1) “INT-O Yellow” – a color-based platform developed in collaboration with Pantone for artists to make a positive social impact, 2) “Happy Spots” – Optimistic public art and physical spaces for PDH (Public Displays of Happiness) and 3) The (P)optimism Shoppe @ 622 Broadway in midtown Kingston, where all are welcome to explore and join ‘Optimism’ the art movement.
Jess X. Chen
JESS X CHEN is a multi-disciplinary artist/activist, filmmaker and poet. Her work exposes narratives of diasporic time travel, intimacy and collective protest by connecting the traumas between the queer and colored body and the body of the Earth. She is a member of the Justseeds Artists Co-operative and a teaching artist at ImMEDIAte Justice, an organization that amplifies the voices of girls in marginalized communities to produce films and murals that speak their truth. A graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, her artwork has appeared in the The LA Times, The Huffington Post, The UN Human Rights Council and on indoor and outdoor walls throughout the US. Her films have screened at the Asian Cinevision Diversity Screening at the New York Times, and she has performed her poetry on stages, TEDx conferences, backyards and rooftops nationwide. Through film, mural-making, poetry and youth art education, she is working toward a future where migrant and indigenous youth of color see themselves whole and heroic, on the big screen and the city walls & then grow up to create their own.