Shanna Lim is a Washington DC-based second-generation immigrant of Chinese Thai, European and Indigenous American descent. She is an interdisciplinary site-specific performance and visual artist whose work is focused on the audience's interactive plain of human connection and shaking the challenges of limited realities.
Amatullah'Muhyi Ali is an uprooted artist using various mediums collectively to create genre-bending cinematic pieces that feature and highlight the African diaspora while providing a call to action for all who witness.
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Featuring field recordings from Maryland, New York, Delaware, Sierra Nevada in Colombia, and Chubut in Argentina; and handmade flutes built and played by Anna Demetrides, David Benham, Georgia Beatty, Rachel Beetz, Robin Wilson, and Sean Conroy.
The field recordings feature sounds of birdsong at dusk, bubbling streams, buzzing summer insect song, a powerful thunderstorm, and a high tide during horseshoe crab mating season. The flute songs arranged over top were played and recorded by community members, on clay flutes that they built themselves in workshops with me between 2022-2024.
© 2024 Melissa Hyatt Foss
The field recordings feature sounds of birdsong at dusk, bubbling streams, buzzing summer insect song, a powerful thunderstorm, and a high tide during horseshoe crab mating season. The flute songs arranged over top were played and recorded by community members, on clay flutes that they built themselves in workshops with me between 2022-2024.
© 2024 Melissa Hyatt Foss
Medium: Music
Year: 2024
Details: 32:08
Katie Macyshyn (she/they) is a performance artist and educator who has facilitated workshops, afterschool programs, and multimedia rituals in the DC metro area since graduating with honors from the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design at George Washington University in 2013. Their classes explore the foundations of art through creative play and mindfulness. Macyshyn’s interactive performance work has been included in DIY venues and gallery exhibitions in the DC area including Rhizome DC, VisArts, and Transformer DC.
Garden
Original song by Kagey Parrish
Medium: music
Year: 2022
Moon Pies
Song written by Kagey Parrish
Medium: music
Year: 2022
Song: Tuning To
As a vocalist, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and recording engineer, Kagey Parrish has spent the last thirteen years focused on live performance and music production. He is a founding member of the internationally touring duo the Honey Dewdrops, and he regularly performs with Baltimore, Maryland-based bands the Bottom Rung and Caleb Stine. In addition, Kagey provides recording services including engineering, producing, vocal, and instrumental parts.