Location: Kingston NY

Christy Funsch formed Funsch Dance in 2002 and has since been presented nationally and internationally. She holds an MFA and a Laban Movement Analysis Certification, and she has been awarded choreographic residencies at CounterPULSE, Djerassi, Shawl Anderson, the U Cross Foundation, and Yaddo. She has been an artist in residence at James Madison University, University of Nebraska Lincoln, Virginia Commonwealth University, and Slippery Rock University. In 2013-14, Christy was mentored by Tere O’Connor, presented in Yerba Buena’s Bay Area Now Series, and named one of Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch.” In 2015 she taught her improvisational practice 100 Days Score at ImpulsTANZ, and she became the first woman to be granted permission to perform Daniel Nagrin’s 1965 solo, Path. In 2019 she was a Fulbright Scholar at Lisbon’s Escola Superior de Dança in 2019. Visit www.funschdance.org.

https://www.funschdance.org/

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Suzzanne is a choreographer, producer, and performer living in New York State. Her work has been seen at Detroit Dance Festival, London Contemporary Arts Gallery, Triskelion Arts, Dixon Place, The EVAC, Gibney Dance Center, Caras Alegres in Xela, Guatemala, and Space Works, to name a few. Upcoming performances include: Gold Coast Dance Festival, Arts on Site, and Dumbo Dance Festival. She has been the assistant choreographer for Catapult Entertainment, international touring company and Richard Move/MoveOpolis! She has produced multiple fundraisers including: Puerto Rican Hurricane Relief, The Exodus Road, Senior Care Project in NYC and Xela, Guatemala Education Fund.

https://www.suzzanneponomarenkodance.org

https://vimeo.com/suzzanneponomarenko

Pamela Kalechofsky is a dance educator, choreographer, and Arts Administrator with over 20 years of experience in the field, teaching full time and creating hundreds of works and productions, including award winning competition dances and annual Nutcrackers. She graduated from the Long Island High School of the Arts (LIHSA) for Dance and earned her BFA in Dance at Long Island University.

After performing extensively throughout NY and the United States, Pamela recognized her true passion was in education. She earned her Master’s Degree in Secondary English Education and is a NYS Certified and Tenured English Teacher (though now she can be found in the dance & yoga studios rather than in the public school forum!) Pamela is a 500 hour RYT-Certified Yoga Instructor, as well as a Thai Massage, Reiki, & Sound Practitioner.

Pamela prides herself in providing a well-rounded education for students, teaching technique, alignment, vocabulary and skills, as well as inspiring confidence, creativity, teamwork, and awareness of self and space.

She believes dance is a way we can come together as a community to create art and support one another. She strives to cultivate an energy of happiness and a feeling of positivity and success.

www.MissPamTheWebsite.com

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCImgRzsaLLEvCZ6qz5ro9LQ

Masha Badinter in a digital artist living in the Hudson Valley working with photo video and graphic arts. She is inspired by nature, memory, nostalgia and color. She creates contemplative environments using video projections to offer viewers a moment of repose and stillness.

W.A.M.E.R. features Tasha Depp, Erika deVries, Paula Lalala, Eva Melas, Portia Munson, Amy Bay Sono Kuwayama,  Robyn Love, Anne-Marie McIntyre, Fran Willing

Edition 13 is a limited edition art trade and fundraising project. Edition 13, 2023, The Inaugural Edition, is being created by members of W.A.M.E.R.: “Women Artists Meeting, Eating, and Reading” a loose affiliation of female identifying artists exploring art and life. Gathering together regularly since 1996, members include Amy Bay, Tasha Depp, Erika deVries, Sono Kuwayama, Paula Lalala, Robyn Love, Anne-Marie McIntyre, Eva Melas, Portia Munson, Fran Willing. Edition 13 was founded in 2022 by Paula Lalala with the intention of raising funds for worthy causes and facilitating art collecting among peers. Edition 13 celebrates the value and healing power of art, and fosters and strengthens our sense community and interconnectedness.

BIOGRAPHY

Originally from Milwaukee, Darling split her educational years between the Midwest and East Coast. She received her MFA from State University of New York at Purchase College before returning to Milwaukee. Darling has been teaching Foundations and Fine Arts courses at the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design since 2006. She is a co-founder of PushPullPress Cooperative and The Healthcare Show (an on-going project including exhibitions, zines, and a blog). Darling also co-founded DIAA Milwaukee (Discussing Intersections: Artists & Addiction), and served several years on the board of A Broader Vocabulary Cooperative (Feminist Bookstore and Community Center). Her work has been exhibited in NYC, Brooklyn, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Chicago, Racine, Sheboygan and Milwaukee. Darling is currently working on a memoir entitled Hurry Up, Relax (or how to start your life over).

ARTIST STATEMENT
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The human body has always been central to my work. Specifically, the unrelenting, daily regime of Juvenile (Type 1) Diabetes, which has greatly influenced what and how I create. Numerous pieces have been constructed from diabetic paraphernalia accumulated over the years – in which personal daily rituals are used to illustrate the repetitious narratives that hold everyone’s daily life together. Since 2008, when I launched The Healthcare Show (with a fellow artist/diabetic), leading up to that year’s presidential election, the personal/political divide evaporated for me. The notion of the artist working alone in the studio became problematic. Although my personal esthetic would persist – via printmaking, photography, drawing, sewing, assemblage, artists’ books – being introduced to video projections and interactive performance work allowed me participation in several long-term collaborative projects such as The Healthcare Show, The Yell Room & Hushed Hysteria and #emptypedestals.

https://www.zoedarling.info/

https://www.youtube.com/@zoedarlingmke

https://www.narrativeofprivilege.com/

Grace Lang is a multimedia artist and educator based in the Hudson Valley, where she creates both two- and three-dimensional work to tell stories of triumph and connection. She is Co-Founder and Co-Director of the art education non-profit, Super-Stories, which partners with communities through maker workshops and collaborative public art. Grace holds undergraduate degrees in Illustration and Literary Studies, as well as a Masters in Educational Psychology. She has participated in artist residencies in China, Germany, and the United States. She believes that developing one’s personal visual language helps us better understand our own thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. This attitude informs her goals as an art educator, as she deeply trusts the transformative power a creative outlet can serve to help us express and communicate complicated experiences. Rather than teaching kids to master specific techniques, Grace’s goal is to teach kids how to approach the world creatively, finding joy in the process of making something that did not exist before.

Super-Stories Bio:
Super-Stories is a registered 501(c) 3 non profit that focuses on community storytelling through public art, educational workshops, and artist partnerships. Super-Stories was launched in 2022 by Grace Lang and Ramiro Davaro-Comas, artists and educators located in upstate New York. Our philosophy is: If you know something, teach it!

https://www.super-stories.org/

https://www.instagram.com/grooseling/

Singha Hon is a Chinese American illustrator and artist from NYC. Her work is about creating visual stories set in dream-like places somewhere between the city environment she grew up in and an imagined one bursting with mythical creatures and mega-flora. She is interested in exploring the human-animal relationship as a way to reconnect with and understand the complex beauty of tumultuous and instinctive emotions, a space where longing and loss exist alongside joy, desire, and hope.

As an illustrator and teaching artist, she has worked with organizations such as Womanly Magazine, The American Civil Liberties Union, Abrons Art Center, and The People’s Paper Co-Op to create art that empowers and activates the community around it. She is currently based at The W.O.W. Project as a teaching artist where she works with an intergenerational cohort of artists and activists in Manhattan’s Chinatown.

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