Beatriz Chachamovits: Environmental Artist
Introduction to Beatriz Chachamovits. 5:52 min. Interview: Raymond Elman. Post-Production: Lee Skye. Recorded via...
Read MoreHeidi Paster Harf + Ezra Axelrod Make “Torah Tropical”
HEIDI PASTER HARF is a photographer from Eastern Long Island, who spent the last 15 years photographing daily life in Cali, Colombia, where she lived for two decades. EZRA AXELROD is creative director of ThisTopia, producing Colombian film projects focused on countercultures, regenerative psychoactive plant economies, and social and environmental justice.. Together they made the film “Torah Tropical.”
Read MoreAllen Klein & Bliss Hebert: A Lifetime of Making Opera
ALLEN CHARLES KLEIN (1938-2023) is the only American designer to have focused his career exclusively to the production of design for the opera stage, and together with BLISS HEBERT as director, has created more than seventy new productions. BLISS HEBERT (b.1930) has staged over three hundred productions of one hundred operas with forty-one different opera companies.
Read MoreAnya Wallace: Artist, Scholar, Curator
ANYA WALLACE is a visual artist, scholar, and community educator. Her artwork and scholarship are shaped by a desire to narrate the lessons and pleasures existent in Black Girlhood. Wallace holds a doctorate in Art Education and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from Penn State University. And studied photographic critical theory and craft at the Savannah College of Art and Design. She is currently the Florence Levy Kay Postdoctoral Fellow in Black Feminist Studies at Brandeis University.
Read MoreStephanie Doche, Operatic Mezzo-soprano
STEPHANIE DOCHE has rapidly created an important place for herself among today’s rising mezzos. A singing actress of outstanding technical and interpretive skill, Doche (rhymes with posh) has starred in leading roles nationwide, distinguishing herself in diverse styles and repertoire.
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