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Kathy Allender

Performing Arts: Dance; Certified Pilates Instructor, Color Guard performer (spin flag, rifle, sabre)

Kathy LaChelle Allender began her dance training and performance career within color guard at North Central High School (1994-1995), Lawrence North High School (1995-1996), and Lawrence Central High School (1996-1998), spinning flag, rifle, and saber, and learning ballet and jazz dance. At Lawrence Central, under the direction of Greg Hagen and the late Tod Hinton, Kathy was awarded a plaque in 1998 for “The Most Outstanding Color Guard Member.” In 2002, she received her Bachelor of Arts in French and Associate of Arts in English at Indiana University Bloomington; however, it was being a member of the African American Dance Company (AADC) at IU, under the direction of Iris Rosa, where she discovered a passion equal to studying French – dance. With AADC, she studied jazz, ballet, Horton modern, Afro-Cuban, and contemporary dancing, as well as Mat Pilates. Kathy also studied jazz dance under the instruction of Fred Walton through IU’s Jacobs School of Music, in addition to have taken several ballet classes at the school. She continued her dance training at the Urban Arts Center of Indianapolis where she explored in West African and Middle Eastern dancing, an apprenticeship in L.A. Style salsa at IndySalsa, and beginning ballet at the Jordan Academy of Dance. Kathy also has danced in professional performance companies such as Sancocho Music and Dance Collage, Chatarabaan, The Undefeatable Beats, Nyama Drum and Dance Ensemble, Kenyettá Dance Company,People, Paint, and Percussion, the (Re)Collective Company, and the Nicholas Owens Dance Company. Abroad, Kathy has learned a traditional dance from Mauritius called “Le Sega” of which she choreographed a dance piece that was presented at the 2002 African American Dance Company Spring Concert. The Bloomington Herald-Times wrote “The sense of culture exhibited through the dance was creative and choreographically strong.” During the fall of 2004 in Tunisia, Kathy taught contemporary-jazz to Tunisian students at an English language summer camp sponsored by Bureau de Formation Technologie and Amideast-Tunis through AIESEC International. Kathy has also taken many Master classes from various AADC workshops in Bloomington, IN; the International Association of Blacks in Dance (IABD) conference in Toronto, Canada; and a Professional Summer Intensive program in Chicago, IL through Deeply Rooted. In January of 2007 in Indianapolis, she had the honor of being a judge for the dance category of the Prelude Awards. In 2008, Kathy received her Mat I and Mat II Pilates certifications and her Mat with Props certification in 2009 from PHI Pilates in Monongahela, PA via the Mindful Movement Pilates and Yoga Studio in Indianapolis, IN. PHI trains with a scientific approach to Pilates. Since being certified in Mat Pilates, Kathy has taught at Organic Rhythms Dance Studio, Cityoga, The Earth House, NIFS, and L.A. Fitness. She also has taught “Dance! Pilates for Dancers” in 2008 and 2009 for a Youth In Arts Summer Camp, sponsored both by the Madame Walker Theatre and 100 Black Men, where she additionally set choreography on her students which was performed on the Walker Theatre’s main stage. Kathy has taught as well “Debut: Beginning Mat Pilates” and Intermediate Pilates at Cross Roads Martial Arts, and Beginning Mat Pilates at the Benjamin Harrison YMCA and at the Mapleton Wellness Center. In 2012, Kathy had the fortunate opportunity to set choreography on two models through LModelz, of which they, and Kathy, danced with the Aberdeen Project band as an opening act for the infamous Cameo, The Deele, and Steve Arrington. That following year in August 2013, she participated in the Indy Fringe Festival, choreographed and assisted directing “Harlem Nights Cabaret” with the late lyric pianist and carilloneur William E. Engle of Butler University. Kathy currently teaches Movement classes, Pilates and dance, for a new-model boot camp through LModelz Model Management, is a choreographer for the cultural dance group of the Haitian Association of Indiana, and is a Color Guard Staff member for the Marching Pride of Lawrence Township Band and Guard, teaching dance technique, Pilates, and conditioning.

Bradley Burnell

Multi Arts; Performing Arts: Actor/Actress, Constructions/Collage, Dance, Functional and/or Decorative, Glasswork, Graphic Arts, Illustration, Jewelry, Media and Visual Communications, Mixed Media, Multi Arts, Murals, Music, New Media/Technology, Painting, Performance Art, Performers and Writers, Performing Arts, Photography, Printmaking, Sculpture, Spoken Word, Textiles, Theatre, Visual Arts, Visual Arts Instructor; Visual Arts: Constructions/Collage, Functional and/or Decorative, Glasswork, Graphic Arts, Illustration, Jewelry, Media and Visual Communications, Mixed Media, Murals, New Media/Technology, Painting, Performance Art, Performers and Writers, Photography, Printmaking, Sculpture, Textiles, Visual Arts Instructor

What is Quixotic Artistry? It is first and foremost, my brand. It’s whimsy, it’s being able to look failure directly in the eye, and say “f*&# off”, and turn it into success. It’s my past heartbreak, and my feelings of insecurity. Ironically, it is my suit of armour, and my confidence. It is Assemblage, fashion design, makeup artistry, and graphics. It is choreography, it is design. It’s perfect balance. It is the rebirth of my failed attempts at becoming a fashion designer, yet is the new life of a new approach. It is the phoenix, that is rising from the ashes of what I thought to be the end of a journey. Alas, my journey is not over. What is Quixotic | Artistry ? It is whatever that I want it to be, and will be everything that I quixotically dream it to be.

Kimberly Carlson

Multi Arts; Performing Arts: Dance, Mixed Media, Multi Arts, Performance Art, Performing Arts, Visual Arts, Works on paper; Visual Arts: Dance, Mixed Media, Multi Arts, Performance Art, Performing Arts, Visual Arts, Works on paper; Manga-superhero inspured artwork.

I believe I am inspired to be creative in mixed media artwork as well as dance in an ‘outsider-style’ format. The creative impulse I receive and the images of what to draw/perform as well as how to do the art come to me organically but most often when I am listening to music and around safe and artistically like-minded people. The majority of what I am influenced to draw is manga-based but I am also activated by the environment around me and the images I see in it. What I do can be considered a sort of performance art because it is most often located randomly and the artistic flow I receive is spontaneous.

Dance Kaleidoscope

Performing Arts: Performing Arts

Julie Davis Veach

Graphic Arts; Multi Arts; Performing Arts: Dance, Functional and/or Decorative, Graphic Arts, Graphic Arts, Illustration, Media and Visual Communications, Mixed Media, Multi Arts, Murals, New Media/Technology, Painting, Performing Arts, Photography, Printmaking, Visual Arts, Visual Arts Instructor, Works on paper; Visual Arts: Dance, Functional and/or Decorative, Graphic Arts, Graphic Arts, Illustration, Media and Visual Communications, Mixed Media, Multi Arts, Murals, New Media/Technology, Painting, Performing Arts, Photography, Printmaking, Visual Arts, Visual Arts Instructor, Works on paper

I am an abstract expressionist artist. I primarily use water-based media because of the versatility and freedom they provide. I explore art’s healing potential. I choose to express states of being that inspire self-reflection, joy, healing, gratitude, and connection. I decided to become a full-time artist in 2019 but I’ve been creative for much of my life. Some of the great artists of our past including Claude Monet, Joan Mitchell, Frida Khalo, and Gustav Klimt are inspirations for my process. In every painting, my objective is to use color as a tool for self-evaluation and healing. I want my work to be both confronting and comforting. I am inspired by nature, and the ability it has to heal and connect us all. With the information age upon us, at times, there is an imbalance ofs hyper-connectivity and yet loneliness all at once. We can always return back to art, however, for solace and reflection. Art for me is a reminder of my humanity, my connection to all that is, and my power to choose how I want to feel and how I want to create my life. No matter how busy and chaotic life around me may feel, my mental health requires me to stop what I’m doing and enjoy making art on a regular basis. I want people to feel that soul connection when they look at my work. I want them to feel the promise of a brighter future. we can make a positive difference in our world- for ourselves and each other. This is why I paint and this is why I am an artist today.

Valeria DeCastro

Multi Arts; Performing Arts: Actor/Actress, Crafts, Dance, Film, Media and Visual Communications, Mixed Media, Multi Arts, Music, Performance Art, Performers and Writers, Performing Arts, Spoken Word, Storytelling, Theatre, Visual Arts, Vocal; Visual Arts: Actor/Actress, Crafts, Dance, Film, Media and Visual Communications, Mixed Media, Multi Arts, Music, Performance Art, Performers and Writers, Performing Arts, Spoken Word, Storytelling, Theatre, Visual Arts, Vocal; artistic director

Education INDIANA UNIVERSITY – Department of French and Italian May 1999 Earned a Masters degree in Italian language and literature. Overall GPA: 3.78 INDIANA UNIVERSITY – Department of French and Italian December 1996 Earned a Bachelor of Arts in Italian Language FUND. UNIVERSIDADE DE BRASILIA – Department of Music, Brasilia, BRAZIL 1982-1987 Studied Composition and Music Education Pedagogy UNIVERSIDADE DE GOIAS – School of Music Goias, BRAZIL 1980 – 1981 Studied Music Education for Children Summary of Skills and Qualifications Cross-disciplinary training with strong holistic pedagogical approach to teaching at professional and college level. Well trained in psychophysical methodologies from around the world. Extensive professional experience as a teacher, performer and artistic director in several countries. Strong background in music, theatre, contemporary dance, Italian literature, Commedia dell’Arte, film studies and videography, with training in mask and clown techniques, mosaic and yoga. Large understanding in means of promoting culture and working with diversity with lifelong experience teaching children and adults. Creative, detail-oriented and flexible. Committed collaborator capable of multi-tasking in a team environment. Reliable, able to perform tasks independently and maintain a high level of productivity on a time-sensitive schedule. Languages: Portuguese – native; Spanish – fluent; English – fluent; Italian – fluent; Art related: singing, guitar playing, composing, theater directing and acting, mosaic techniques, filmmaking, screen writing, contemporary dance, live performance, happening technique Teaching and Teaching Arts (see under: Other experience in interactive artistic and educational activities) Experience with Children: my own children, Music Together, public and private schools, as well as daycare institutions Performing: (see under: Performances and concerts) Props and Stage designer: Mac – Musical Arts Center – Opera Department at Indiana University Outreach: member of the Executive Committee for the Brazilian Association at IU – BAIU – -1994 – 2009 Management: Century 21 – 2003-2005 – Handled contracts, negotiations, and closing processes. Worked with buyers in determining their needs, gathering information and finding suitable properties. Coordinated inspections. Advised sellers with negotiation and provided current market information. Prepared comparative market analysis and designed exclusive strategy to market property. Experience in Education 2005-Present Program Director and Music Teacher Bloomington Music Together LLC Bloomington, IN www.bloomingtonmusictogether.com Teaches classes and also perform classroom teaching duties. Assists instructors in preparation and presentation of classes. Communicate with parents regarding facility activities, policies, and enrollment procedures. Confers with teaching staff regarding child’s behavioral or learning problems, and recommends methods of modifying inappropriate behavior and encouraging learning experiences. Purchases instructional materials and serves as an account and office manager. Prepares informational materials for publicity or distribution to class members and to promote institution programs. Speaks before schools and community groups and coordinates promotional and educational events. Reviews and evaluates facility activities, interviews, hires and trains new teachers. Outreach programs: Minority Hispanic communities at St Paul Christian Center – Bloomington, IN Mathers Museum Sing along monthly program – Bloomington, IN Meet the Instruments and pre-school programs at the Wonderlab – Bloomington, IN 2015 Rogers Elementary school Bloomington, IN Inclusion Aid 2014 – current Substitute Teacher for the MCCSC Bloomington, IN Holds a valid Indiana Substitute Teacher Permit. Substitutes for schools in Monroe County ages K-12. Works with inclusion and assistant need students 2013 – January – April Music and Movement Teacher in bilingual context La Paz Community School Guanacaste, Costa Rica Developed and introduced a bilingual music and movement program at the school. Trained classroom teachers. Helped organizing a music performance for the end of the semester. Thought classes and performed classroom teaching duties for children age 3-8. 2012 Music and Movement Teacher in bilingual context Centro de Aprendizaje Educarte by St. Joseph School Guanacaste, Costa Rica Developed and introduced a bilingual music and movement program at the school. Trained classroom teachers. Helped organizing a music performance for the end of the semester. Thought classes and performed classroom teaching duties for children age 1,5 – 3. 2011 Program Developer and Director of Children’s Musical – “Wild Things” Maple Bear Canadian School Brasilia, Brazil Directed the children’s musical program for children age 8 – 12 at the Maple Bear Canadian School of Brasilia. Developed curriculum integrated program based on a story of Maurice Sendak “Where the Wild Things Are”. Worked In conjunction with teachers and volunteer parents to coordinate students work and create the “Wild Things” musical. The students were divided in areas of their interest and participated actively of the process writing the script, creating the scenery, lights, costumes, make up, dancing and acting, playing instruments, creating the music, making posters to advertise and creating a design for the represent of the show. Students were also responsible for doing interviews, documentation and press release for the musical. Created a musical community inside the school involving school staff, teachers, parents and students. 2011 Music and Movement Teacher in Bilingual context Maple Bear Canadian School Brasilia, Brazil Developed and introduced a bilingual music and movement program at the school. Trained classroom teachers. Helped organizing a music performance for the end of the semester. Thought classes and performed classroom teaching duties for preschool, K- 4th grade 2010 Program Director and Music Teacher Music Together do Cerrado Goiania/ Brasilia, Brazil Opened a new Music Together center in Brazil. Directed the center and thought music classes for mixed age children 0 – 5 years old. 2009 Unionville Elementary School – Teacher AID Class Size Monroe County Community School Corporation Bloomington, IN Assisted a third grade teacher in a classroom. Responsible for grading and helping students with their assignments and projects. Worked with small group of special need children (more than 10 % of them are identified as such) to enhance their skills in spelling, math and language as well with their ability of inclusion in the classroom. 1997-2003 Italian Language, Assistant Instructor Department of French and Italian, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN Taught college level Italian language. Developed syllabus. Prepared and reviewed quizzes and exams, Tutored grammar and conversation for students in Italian. 1995 – 97, 2002 Portuguese Language Instructor Kelly Business School, Indiana University Bloomington, IN Taught and tutored Portuguese for college level students. Developed syllabus, quizzes and exams. 1995 – 97, 2002 Portuguese Language Instructor Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies, Indiana University Bloomington, IN Tutored Portuguese for college level students. 1996 – 98, 2001 Portuguese Language Instructor Center of Global Change, Indiana University Bloomington, IN Taught Portuguese language via interactive video technology. 1996-98, 2001 Multilingual language Interpreter and Translator Bureau of Translation, Indianapolis, IN Translated documents, instruction manuals, texts and audiotapes from English to Italian. Worked as an interpreter for Italian and Portuguese in congresses and conferences Interdisciplinary educational activities: 2016 – Teatro Vida – Directed the musical “Os Saltimbancos” for the Portuguese department at IU. 2015 – Teatro Vida – Co-directed the play “O alto da compadecida” for the Portuguese department at IU 2014 – Teatro Vida – Co-directed the play “A farsa de Ines Pereira” for the Portuguese department at IU 2011 – Wild Things – Directed the children’s musical program for children age 8 – 12 at the Maple Bear Canadian School of Brasilia. Developed curriculum interdisciplinary program based on a story of Maurice Sendak “Where the Wild Things Are”. Worked In conjunction with other subject teachers and volunteer parents to coordinate students work and create the “Wild Things” musical at the Maple Bear Canadian School of Brasilia, Brazil 2008 – co-directed a presentation for the Learning Festival at University Elementary School on the Brazilian “Caipira” dance. 1997-2003 – used film as a Final Oral Exam project for foreign language students – Department of French and Italian, Bloomington IN (VCR format) 1995 -Taught music workshop for fifth grade students at the Elba Ramalho Public School – Trancoso, Brazil 1993 – Co-taught a summer course for children on Mosaic Techniques at the School of Education at IU 1988 – Taught dance for senior citizens at the Centro Cultural Galpaozinho – Brasilia – Brazil 1986 – Joined the Performance Group – Weather Report directed by Maura Baiocchi – Brasilia – Brazil 1985 – Joined the Performance Group – Weird Body directed by Maura Baiocchi – Brasilia – Brazil 1979 Directed the Children’s Musical Os Saltimbancos – (musical adaptation of the “Musicians of Bremen” by Chico Buarque) – Teatro Galpaozinho – Brasilia, Brazil 1978 – O Museu da Emilia – (children’s play written by Monteiro Lobato) – Directed the play – Teatro Galpaozinho – Brasilia, Brazil Director Workshops and Seminars 2015 – Yoga & guided meditation 500 hours certificate – “Institute of Holistic Yoga – Satyananda Ashram” in Miami, FL. 2010- Taanteatro residency workshop in theater and dance with Maura Baiocchi and Wolfgan Paneck– SP, Brazil. 2008 – Directors weekend – Music Together Directors Seminar, Princeton, NJ 2008 – Working with babies in a mixed age class, Chicago, IL 2007 – Teaching Music Together in preschools, Chicago, IL 2006 – Movement and rhythm for Children, Chicago, IL 2006 – Planning a Music Together class, Chicago IL 2005 – Introducing Music Together: How Children Grow Musically and How You Can Help, Princeton, NJ 2005 – Teaching Music Together: Understanding and Enhancing the Young Child’s Music Development, Princeton, NJ 1989 – Italian Diction for Theater – Centro Teatro Attivo – Milan, Italy 1988 – El mondo della Commedia – Centro Teatro Attivo – Milan, Italy 1990 – Workshop in Modern Mosaic with Cinzia Prestigiacomo, Milan – Italy Honors and Awards High Scholastic Achievement at Indiana University during the year preceding Founders Day 1997; Certificate of Merit for outstanding submission for the Indiana University Student Essay Contest Honoring the 50th Anniversary of the Fulbright Program 1996 Certificate of Appreciation in promoting international awareness via interactive video technology On behalf of Indiana University, 2000-2001 Graduate Minority Fellowship for graduate study at Indiana University 2001

D. Del Reverda-Jennings

Artist of Color; Black/African American; Ethnic Art; Graphic Arts; Literary Arts; Media; Multi Arts; Performing Arts: Artist of Color, Black/African American, Ceramics, Constructions/Collage, Crafts, Ethnic Art, Film, Functional and/or Decorative, Glasswork, Graphic Arts, Graphic Arts, Illustration, Jewelry, Literary Arts, Media, Media and Visual Communications, Mixed Media, Multi Arts, Murals, Painting, Performance Art, Performers and Writers, Performing Arts, Photography, Political Artist, Portrait, Printmaking, Sculpture, Spoken Word, Textiles, Visual Arts, Visual Arts Instructor, Works on paper; Political Artist; Visual Arts: Artist of Color, Black/African American, Ceramics, Constructions/Collage, Crafts, Ethnic Art, Film, Functional and/or Decorative, Glasswork, Graphic Arts, Graphic Arts, Illustration, Jewelry, Literary Arts, Media, Media and Visual Communications, Mixed Media, Multi Arts, Murals, Painting, Performance Art, Performers and Writers, Performing Arts, Photography, Political Artist, Portrait, Printmaking, Sculpture, Spoken Word, Textiles, Visual Arts, Visual Arts Instructor, Works on paper; Afro Futurism (AfroFuturism), African & Latin Diaspora, Caribbean,

A native of Alaska, as a youth D. Del Reverda-Jennings resided in Chicago, Illinois., and was educated in parochial academy institutions. From that timeline, the Indianapolis-based interdisciplinary artist has since traveled a creative and an artistic journey influenced by a kaleidoscope of cultural nuance. Visually D. Del Reverda-Jennings, is known for producing a broad range of work inclusive of sculpture, mixed media, installation, painting, and interdisciplinary roles in the artworld as an award-winning published journalist, arts editor, author and poet. She is the Creator, Founder and Independent Curator of “FLAVA FRESH ! ” an Indianapolis based, Annual Juried, Multiple Exhibition Presentation Series of Contemporary Art. The multicultural series has been an acclaimed visual arts showcase for over twenty-three years, with the seven month long consecutive event venue having received a number of honors and awards. The versatile arts practitioner also works as an administrator, facilitator and free-lances in a number of arts disciplines throughout the Midwest and beyond. As a journalist, regional arts editor and author Del Reverda-Jennings has for over two decades researched, sought out and cultivated aspiring beginners, newly-discovered, emergent and early-career artists who reside and work in Indiana as well as regionally to expose their creativity through writing, photographic documentation and by exhibiting their work in professional commercial arts venues, exposing their creative life stories, events and achievements in Midwestern regional, national and international print and online media. D. Del Reverda-Jennings, has been involved long-term in grass roots arts efforts, the non-profit sector and community service in Indianapolis and is the founder of several groups and organizations. The invested activist and cultural worker is a regional arts grant panelist, adjudicator, a noted lecturer and is currently an Artist Ambassador for the Central Indiana Community Foundation (CICF), and an Equity Ambassador for the Arts Council of Indianapolis. She is widely known for having acquired a well-earned reputation as being driven and making great things happen for underrepresented and/or marginalized artists and continues to be a vital force in the exhibition and scholarship of twenty-first century art.

Rebekah Dottin

Performing Arts: Performing Arts

Jared Duymovic

Literary Arts; Performing Arts: Literary Arts, Performing Arts, Spoken Word

Vandi Enzor

Performing Arts: Actor/Actress, Crafts, Dance, Film, Music, Performance Art, Performers and Writers, Performing Arts, Photography, Radio/Television, Storytelling, Theatre, Visual Arts, Vocal; Visual Arts: Actor/Actress, Crafts, Dance, Film, Music, Performance Art, Performers and Writers, Performing Arts, Photography, Radio/Television, Storytelling, Theatre, Visual Arts, Vocal

Vandi Enzor recently moved to the Indianapolis area after graduating with a Master of Music in Vocal Performance from The University of Akron. Prior to pursuing a graduate degree with a focus on opera, Vandi attended Shorter College and graduated with a BFA in Musical Theater and minored in theater and piano. Vandi has performed professionally as a classically trained opera singer, in church and sacred music, as a jazz musician, in musical theater and straight theater, and as a stage combatant. She has done some film, and hopes to continue exploring film more in the future. Vandi has narrated over 40 audiobooks and currently teaches private voice and piano lessons at Meridian Music School in Carmel, Indiana. Vandi enjoys working with sound, lighting, hair and makeup design, in PR, stage managing, and many other technical aspects of live theater. She has been Artistic Director for M3 Theater Camp for the past two years and has written 3 plays. Some of Vandi’s favorite roles have been Gretel in Humperdinck’s Hansel und Gretel, Bastienne in Mozart’s Bastien und Bastienne, Gaby in Romberg and Eysler’s The Blue Paradise, Jill in Bradshaw’s The Worst One Ever, and Penelope in the short film Penelope’s Revenge. Vandi also greatly enjoyed performing at the Vianden International Music Festival in Luxembourg in 2016, at the Crittenden Opera Workshop in Washington DC in 2017, and singing in the world premier of the ballet Snow White and the Magic Mirror. Vandi hopes to continue growing as an artist and performer in the future; her greatest passion is a collaboration of all aspects of the arts and sharing something with the world that connects with people and creates a lasting impact.

Taylar Green

Performing Arts: Dance, Performing Arts

Taylar began her dance training in Mobile, Alabama at Carol Graham School of Dance. Later she attended Alabama School of Fine Arts as a dance major. She had the opportunity to train under Maria Berica Dalla Vecchia in Vicenza, Italy before relocation to Indianapolis. In 2009, Taylar began her dance journey with GHDT as a student of the Academy. Taylar was also a member of G2, the pre-professional company, for 3 year before graduating from high school in 2012. In the spring of 2016, she graduated from Texas Christian University where she had the opportunity to work with choreographers such as Jacques d’Amboise and Charlotte Boye-Christensen. Taylar is excited to be dancing with GHDT once again. She would like to thank her family and friends for their continued support.

Amy Gunderson

Performing Arts: Performing Arts, Textiles, Visual Arts; Visual Arts: Performing Arts, Textiles, Visual Arts

I have always loved working with my hands. A few years ago I started knitting and became intrigued with silk painting and nuno felting. The colors, textures and fun of creating wearable art has been a great experience for me. The bright colors of the dye and the subdued, soft wool make for beautiful contrast that lends to unique work.

Cassie Kerns

Visual Arts: Crafts, Mixed Media, Painting, Photography, Visual Arts, Works on paper

Im a talented, smart and beautiful young woman who attended the University of Connecticut to play college basketball and receive a FINE ARTS degree in photography from 2005 until 2010. I traveled to Indianapolis in the fall of 2010 to start fresh. To live my life my way for the first time. I am a young woman who is simple yet complex enough to confuse the world and myself, or maybe just myself. Art to me is everything. My art is my form of communication. I am able to communicate things that I cannot place into words. My art is about the battle on the inside. The push and pull of my thoughts, intincts, and emotions. I bare my heart and soul into pieces whether they are playful or dark and twisted. I have a constant battle of worth. All of my life I have been trying to earn my worth in things I do and accomplish. Worth in titles and certificates that honestly you dont remember. So wrapped up in being good you lose the simplicity of just being you. I strove for perfection but learned the hard way that does not exist. Perfection only brings you face to face with death. Then you have a choice to say “I DO” to satan or realize you can turn around and chose a different path. Luckily I woke up from a hell and chose life. You might ask yourself, ” why is she telling me all of this?” Because I real. I am human. And that is what my art is about. Its real. Its in your face. Not everyone will like it, but to be honest I dont care. A good or bad reaction is a positive in my book because I want my auidence to feel. To just feel. We live in a society where feelings are put last and feelings are a sign of weakness. That if you cry you are less of a man or if you voice your opinion you are too much. That if you listen to your heart you won’t be successful, or if you dont have a such and such job you are worth nothing. Screw that! We are a people of feelings and emotions. You people that are running away from your feelings, i feel sorry for you. Yes you will feel pain but that does not measure up to the experience of joy and happiness. I don’t create artwork for others approval anymore except for my own. Im learning I will be misunderstood, talked about, degrated, praised, overlooked, criticized, and critiqued. BUT I please myself and that is I want. My only intention is to communicate my insides so I can stay alive. To balance the internal with the exterior. Art is everything. Everything is art. Cassie Kerns a.k.a CASSINOVA

Stephan Laurent

Literary Arts; Performing Arts: Dance, Literary Arts, Performing Arts

STEPHAN LAURENT, Professor and former chairman of the Department of Dance at Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana, joined the Butler dance faculty in 1988 after six years as the artistic director of the Des Moines Ballet, for which he produced and choreographed a number of full-length classical and contemporary works. He was the recipient of the 1986 Iowa Outstanding Artistic Achievement Award. Many of his ballets are now on the repertoire of the Butler Ballet, for which he continues to choreograph actively, including the award-winning original full-length contemporary ballet The Willow Maiden: a Fantasy Dance Adventure. His areas of teaching expertise include ballet technique, choreography, dance history, theory/philosophy of dance, and dance production. Prof. Laurent also teaches a First-Year Seminar in the Core Curriculum of Butler University, entitled Spellbound: The Quest for Magic in Speculative Fiction and the Arts. Prof. Laurent was for many years a member of the Board of Directors of the National Association of Schools of Dance and has worked both nationally and internationally on accreditation matters. He also served as an adjudicator and master teacher for a number of organizations nationally and internationally, including the National High School Dance Festival, the National Society of Arts & Letters, the Overture Awards, the Prelude Awards, the Hong Kong Academy for the Performing Arts, and the Newtown High School for Performing Arts in Sydney, Australia. He has also served as a consultant.

Christopher Lingner

Performing Arts: Actor/Actress, Dance, Film, Performing Arts, Theatre, Visual Arts; Visual Arts: Actor/Actress, Dance, Film, Performing Arts, Theatre, Visual Arts

Chris Lingner began his career joining the 2009 National Tour of Twyla Tharp’s Moving Out, dancing the principal roles of Eddie and James, making him one of the youngest performers to ever dance these roles. Lingner has been a featured guest artist with Gregory Hancock Dance Theatre, Indianapolis School of Ballet, Peoria Ballet, in the Young Stars of Ballet Gala, presented by Indianapolis City Ballet and Chamber Dance Project in D.C. In 2012, Sonya Tayeh created a new work on him for an NFL Super Bowl-Super Cure event fighting breast cancer. Lingner studied ballet in the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University where he danced principal roles in works by Twyla Tharp, George Balanchine, Paul Taylor, Dwight Rhoden, August Bournonville, Josh Bergasse, Antony Tudor, Nicolo Fonte, and Peter Martins . Lingner joined Cincinnati Ballet in the 13-14 50th Anniversary Season in the Corps de Ballet. Since joining Cincinnati Ballet, Lingner has performed in works by Adam Hougland, Victoria Morgan, Trey McIntyre, Septime Webre, Viktor Plotnikov, Jessica Lang, Jennifer Archibald, Annabelle Lopez Ochoa, Yuri Possokhov, and Kirk Peterson. As a producer, Lingner was also nominated for a Tony Award as a member of the producing team for Broadway’s “On the Town” and “Best Show of 2016” for his production of the first Ballet Royalty Gala in Havana, Cuba.

Carol E. Marlin

Performing Arts: Performing Arts, Textiles, Visual Arts; Visual Arts: Performing Arts, Textiles, Visual Arts

I love using needles, threads, fibers, fabrics and beads. I have employed them in many forms since childhood. I have a need to use my hands to make things… to make art. It is my pleasure. It is my therapy. I make it for myself and hope that others enjoy looking at it, using it and wearing it as much as I enjoy making it.

Jude Odell

Visual Arts: Ceramics, Sculpture, Visual Arts, Visual Arts Instructor

The unexpected oddness of our lives – twists, turns, stumbles and rebirths, all form our expression, stance, and style of interaction, always embellished with the subtle marks and scars of life’s experiences. My figurative claywork is composed of hollow, handbuilt forms. I use various pinching, pulling, slab, and attaching techniques. Surfaces are often carved, textured, or roughened . After a bisque firing, pieces are rubbed and brushed with layers of underglazes, majolicas, and glazes. There are often multiple firings to achieve the surfaces and colors desired. I also work with tiles, decorative, yet functional, pottery forms, and painted drawings on roofing felt. Come by my studio at the Harrison Center on first Fridays, or check my website to see examples of my work.

Nicholas A Owens

Performing Arts: Performing Arts

Nicholas A. Owens is most known throughout the Indianapolis area as a dancer, free-lance choreographer, photographer and co-founder and former Artistic Director of Kenyettá Dance Company. For the past 3 years he has been directing his own professional modern dance company, NODC (Nicholas Owens Dance Company). He began dancing at age thirteen, studying at Kenyettá Dance Studio. His training includes modern, classical ballet, jazz, African Dance forms, tap and hip-hop dance. He has attended major dance workshops such as the International Association of Blacks in Dance Conference and the African American Dance Company workshop in Bloomington, Indiana. He has traveled and performed nationally and internationally. He currently teaches modern and jazz dance classes at the Indiana Ballet Conservatory. He has also taught 2 full semesters of Freshman jazz as an adjunct professor at Butler University.

Kenoth Patton

Performing Arts: Performing Arts

Mara Phelps

Performing Arts: Actor/Actress, Dance, Music, Performing Arts, Radio/Television, Theatre, Vocal

Currently a Student at Jacobs School of Music pursuing a Vocal Performance and Musical Theater Degree

Michelina Risbeck

Visual Arts: Dance, Film, Performance Art, Photography, Visual Arts; Screendance and Photography

Michelina’s work expresses one’s sense of self through dance, film, and photography. Their imagery conceptualizes topics related to the authenticity of self, interpersonal connections, and emotional intelligence. To know one’s authentic self is to gain an inner compass for a wholesome life, and art offers a space to learn this intimate knowledge. Through Michelina’s artistic style of light and movement, dance becomes an emotional release into the camera formed into several screendance films. Their latest screendance film, “Connection” delves into the interconnected healing of the artist’s mind within the depths of the rural Amazon region of Ucayali, Peru with the Centro Selva Artist in Residency Program 2021. Dance in nature becomes the journey of how the artist revives the dissociative mind back into the body, listens to suppressed emotions while embracing them for what they are saying, and cultivates a stronger understanding of identity and sense of self.

Angela Stewart-Wilhelm

Visual Arts: Mixed Media, Murals, Painting, Printmaking, Visual Arts, Works on paper

My work is about taking what I see in nature (human figure and anatomy/ trees and their root systems) and abstracting those forms into my own painting processes. I use a mixture of different mediums to create my works.

Books, the SoulScholar

Media; Multi Arts; Performing Arts: Actor/Actress, Dance, Media, Media and Visual Communications, Multi Arts, Music, Performers and Writers, Performing Arts, Theatre, Visual Arts, Vocal; Visual Arts: Actor/Actress, Dance, Media, Media and Visual Communications, Multi Arts, Music, Performers and Writers, Performing Arts, Theatre, Visual Arts, Vocal

Originally from Nashville, TN, Books draws her inspiration from a blend of gospel, soul, funk, and blues. Ever eclectic, she enjoys, and draws inspiration from, a variety of music artists and genres, including Donny Hathaway, Sarah McLachlan, Stevie Wonder, Prince, Billy Joel, Yussef Lateef, J. Dilla, John Legend, Maurice White, Ella Fitzgerald, Ledisi, Hiatus Kaiyote, Jill Scott, and many more. Books has shared her music with audiences in the US and abroad for over 15 years. She credits her parents and close friends as inspirations, motivating and encouraging her evolution, growth, and continued journey as an artist. Ever the scholar, Books has always been studious and hungry to learn whatever she can, which led to her embrace of the nickname “Books.” She adopted the title of the SoulScholar later, as early collaborators felt her passion and energy and hunger to constantly better herself musically. Before diving completely into her artistry, Books formerly blessed stages as Brandi Nicole and regularly lent her voice as a guest feature with ensembles and choirs that opened for musical acts like Con Funk Shun, CeCe Winans, Kelly Clarkson, and Pentatonix. In the early 2000s, her voice was the melodic backbone for the Regal Records camp, which included collaborations with Yung Nawlege, Big Flex, and Daniel Hayes. Books is a classically trained musician and dancer. She was a regular feature for Jazz celebrations in middle Tennessee. The original BB King’s and the Funnybone comedy club on Historic Beale street were home to her in the mid 2000s. Books’ voice has taken her as far as Germany, as a featured soloist at the SACCRA International Music Festival. In the few years leading up to her full-time artistry as Books, the SoulScholar, she was an original member of the “Women of Rock and Soul” trio that successfully toured across the Midwest. Once she fully embraced the power in her voice and distinctive style, she began her journey full time and started work on her first projects as Books, the SoulScholar. Books then joined Planet Boom Bap on their debut album “Parallel Universe” as musician, songwriter, and lead vocalist. In 2016, Books, the SoulScholar decided that the world needed her original music and has since been focused on building her audience as a solo artist. Books has performed for packed audiences at highly anticipated events like the Women:317 series, The Underground, and The Green House Affect. Her music, including 2017’s “Charm Bracelet,” is on regular rotation across radio outlets like the IndiePennedIt Radio Show, Nuu Beat Radio, Brother, Brother Beer Cast, and the Subjective Comedy Podcast. An “old soul,” but a child of the 90s, she continues to mix in her love of jazz, hip-hop, singer-songwriter, and R&B. Her debut EP, “Songs in the Key of June” hits all major music outlets October 2018 and her full-length project, “the SoulScholar” will debut early 2019. Her singles, including “Charm Bracelet” are streaming across all music platforms.

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