Lamis Saidi
Lamis Saidi (born on 4 September 1981) is an Algerian poet and translator. In 2004, she graduated as a computer science engineer from the university of sciences and technology in Algiers. Adding to Arabic, she is fluent in French, English and Spanish. She has published three poetry books (As usual, I forgot my suitcase / […]
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore is the award-winning author of a memoir and three novels, and the editor of five nonfiction anthologies. Her memoir, The End of San Francisco, won a Lambda Literary Award, and her previous title, Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots?: Flaming Challenges to Masculinity, Objectification, and the Desire to Conform, was an […]
Alison Blickle
Alison’s work includes oil paintings and ceramics that depict women engaged in mysterious ceremonies. Presented as installations, with objects positioned on the floor or on stands like altars in front of the paintings, the works together tell a story. They suggest that the viewer has entered a sacred space, and that they are seeing remnants […]
Sara Driver
Sara Driver adapted, produced and directed the film version of Paul Bowles’ short story, YOU ARE NOT I (1982, 48 min.). It premiered in the U.S. at Joseph Papp’s Public Theatre in New York City and was featured at many international film festivals, and museums. In 2011 it was presented in the Master Works section […]
Jo Confino
Jo Confino is a journalist and a photographer. Jo is inspired by the Japanese Wabi Sabi art movement that sees great beauty in impermanence and decay. He is fascinated by taking pictures of small and insignificant objects that are often falling apart. By focusing on them and giving them a monumental quality, these objects gain […]
Stacy Switzer
Stacy Switzer is curator and executive director of Fathomers. From 2004 to 2015, Switzer was artistic director of Grand Arts, where she curated and produced more than two dozen projects by artists including Glenn Kaino, Sissel Tolaas, Stanya Kahn, Pablo Helguera, Mariah Robertson and Sanford Biggers. She has been a visiting lecturer, critic and consultant […]
Paz Perlman
Paz Perlman was born and raised in Israel and currently lives and works in New York. She got her BA at Central St Martins, University of Arts, in London. She regularly exhibits in the US and Europe. Her statement on her work; Art has an authenticity when it is forged from the crucible of life’s […]
Alex Braidwood
Alex Braidwood is a sound artist, media designer & design educator. He maintains a practice centered around a process of play, experimentation and research through making. His work explores methods for transforming the relationship between people and the sounds in their environment. Alex has been an artist in residence in an Australian National Park, on an Iowa farm and […]
David Brody
David Brody is a painter, filmmaker, and writer. He showed paintings and a collaborative film with Elliot Green in 2016 at Studio 10 in Brooklyn. His 2014 installation 8 Ecstasies at Pierogi/The Boiler, in Brooklyn centered on an 11-minute digital animation (a collaboration with composer Zig Gron). He has also had solo painting shows at […]
Christine Kitano
Christine Kitano is the author of the poetry collections Sky Country (BOA Editions, 2017) and Birds of Paradise (Lynx House, 2011), and co-author of the oral history collection Who You: The Issei (JCCH / University of Hawaii Press, 2018). She teaches at Ithaca College and in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. Recent work is […]