 Lisa Brawn has a show at Yard Dog Art Gallery in Austin, TXÂ titled, "Honey, Why Are You So Sweet?"Â It opened Saturday, February 13, 2010Â - Â Lisa traveled from Calgary for the opening.
Lisa: "I have been making woodcuts for over twenty years since I saw the woodcuts from the printmaking department at art college. I was in the drawing department and am self-taught at woodcut. I don't make prints, but ... Continue Reading
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 Ed Freeman was born and raised in Boston, the son of MIT professors, and majored in French and Russian at Oberlin College in Ohio. After college, he worked as a performing musician, arranger and record producer, crafting dozens of pop and jazz records, including Carly Simon's debut album and Don McLean's American Pie.
Moving to California in 1977, he gravitated towards film scoring, computer music, consulting and teaching. In 1989, he set ... Continue Reading
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 Since being incorporated in 2000, BackStage Theatre Company has produced 23 mainstage productions which have been seen by more than 9,500 people. These productions have included eight world premieres and four Chicago premieres. BackStage Theatre has been honored to receive one Non-Equity Jeff Award, four Jeff Nominations, and five Jeff Recommendations.
Their productions have been critically-acclaimed by several leading Chicago publications. They have also been honored four times with the elusive “C... Continue Reading
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 Sculptor and Installation Anna Fairchild is an artist and lecturer who lives and works in Hertfordshire, UK.
After graduating with a first class honours degree from Kingston University in 1988, she went to live and work in Istanbul, Turkey, spending the next decade living and working in collaboration with other artists, film makers and writers there.
Since returning to the UK in 2001, she has set up a large studio and continues ... Continue Reading
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Michael Schliefke has been a resident of Austin, Texas for just over seven years. Born in Schenectady, New York and raised in the Northeast, after high school he left home and graduated with a Bachelor's of Fine Art from the Kansas City Art Institute. After school, he painted furiously, showing in various galleries in New England before moving to Cork, Ireland for one year. Upon returning to America, he quit ... Continue Reading
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Photo by Jeaneen Lund
Hysterica Dance Company has been a creative, consistently prolific, and invigorating force in the LA community for the past 10 years. In addition to concert work Hysterica has performed at Disney Hall, in music videos, the L-Word, the Ovation Awards, in 365 days/365 plays, at Highways Birthday Celebration, in clubs, fashion shows and with Margaret Cho at El Cid. Hysterica has been commissioned to create new works ... Continue Reading
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 RAPT continues its presentation of photographers with Antonella Baldassare.From Brussels, fluent in four languages and having started her photography career at an early age, Antonella, also known simply as Nella, drew upon old fairytales and, surprisingly, Disney movies for her inspiration."I could stay [for] hours in the library looking at beautiful images and reading magical stories about giants, princesses and other fantasy creatures..."In addition to her photography, she also manages ... Continue Reading
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 Elizabeth May is a twenty-two-year-old fashion and fantasy photographer based out of California (soon to be the United Kingdom).
Her focus in photography lies in the strange and the beautiful, and her journey behind the lens began when she was just sixteen-years-old. What started out as a series of self portraits to be sent to far off family members transformed into a method of self-expression. More than a photographer, she is a storyteller. "My photos start ... Continue Reading
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 Hannah Khymych is 17 and emigrated from the Ukraine to NYC at the age of 9. Art was part of her life from childhood, being involved in ballet and piano.
The concept of photography had intrigued her ever since her Grandfather gave her a Polaroid camera when she was young. It wasn't until around two years ago that she started taking her passion for art seriously.
She loves seeing the world through a lens and creating images filled with ... Continue Reading
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 PhotographerAcclaimed American commercial and fine art nude photographer, Bryon Paul McCartney, lives and works near Zürich, Switzerland. Predominantly, his images are an expression of his appreciation for women and the strength of the feminine spirit, often posing his models in strong, iconic poses with influences from the art deco and art nouveau periods. Bryon Paul McCartney's series of dance nudes with Cirque du Soleil performer and ballet dancer, Giulia Piolanti ... Continue Reading
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 PainterZoe is an emerging artist living in Milton Keynes, UK. Her works are improvised and start without a clear idea of how the finished image will look. The paintings are made with oil paint and collage, building up images gradually until it looks finished, a process that can sometimes take up to a year. Alongside her paintings, Zoe also makes many quick drawings using water soluble felt tip pens. Zoe ... Continue Reading
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 Devin Sidell in Land of the Tigers/Photo by Jon Beauregard
It's been an exciting year for The Fools. Marking their first collaboration with Burglars of Hamm, world-premiere comedy Land of the Tigers was a huge hit, garnering such acclaim as an L.A. Weekly "Pick of the Week" and Backstage West's "Critic's Choice."Â In the past year, Sacred Fools Theatre Company has won six Garland awards from Backstage, three L.A. Weekly Awards, the ... Continue Reading
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 Egan is out gathering blood.At least that's what he might tell you he's doing, if you asked him. Our first awareness of Mike came through the wonderful collections of Yard Dog Gallery in Austin, TX, though the man himself hails from Pennsylvania. His images remind us of el Dia de los Muertos...Mexico's "Day of the Dead," but as Mike would tell you, he draws his inspiration from even more....My paintings ... Continue Reading
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 In the Spotlight with The Aquila Theatre CompanyThe Aquila Theatre Company was founded in London in 1991 by Peter Meineck and has been based in New York City since 1999. Aquila's mission is to bring the greatest theatrical works to the greatest number.Aquila presents a regular season of plays in New York, at international festivals, and tours to approximately seventy American towns and cities a year. Aquila also provides access ... Continue Reading
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 Giving Optimus Prime a run for his money...
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Jeff Crocker is a Los Angeles based artist who enjoys many of the same things he enjoyed as a young boy: cars, trucks, robots, rayguns, and post-apocalyptic wastelands where there are no cooties or homework. He loves creating anything physical and colorful.
When he is not building himself toys, Jeff is employed by the glamorous entertainment industry as a visual effects artist. He has ... Continue Reading
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