I am a mixed media artist from Prince George’s County, Maryland. I earned a BA from the University of Maryland College Park. My practice includes printmaking, painting, installations, and murals. I have exhibited work throughout the DC metropolitan area where I currently live and work.
Since 1991 The Face Paint Lady has delivered over 100,000 face to face art experiences for children and their families. She is locally recognized for face painting and interactive performances with the public. She leads groups of all ages in communal classroom settings using tailored art interactives that raise funds, awareness and create community.
In 2006, I received my MFA from Rinehart School of Sculpture at the Maryland Institute College of Art where I was awarded MICA and Jack Kent Cooke Scholarships and a Jacob K. Javits Fellowship. Since graduating I have been an active participant in Baltimore’s local art scene. I am an adjunct III faculty member at Towson University and the Maryland Institute College of Art, as well as an independent curator. I was the director of exhibitions and curator at Goucher College for over ten years, where I programmed and mounted over 100 exhibitions.
FREQUENCY (Performance Trailer)
FREQUENCY (2019)
Premiered in Tampa, Florida
FREQUENCY casts its performers into a vast friction-filled digital landscape that evokes images and relationships from a past grievously misremembered. A duet between Artistic Directors Colette Krogol and Matt Reeves, FREQUENCY is a throwback to the company’s genesis as a duet company and reflects the significance of time spent trying to tune two lives together.
Direction, Choreography, and Performance by Colette Krogol and Matt Reeves of Orange Grove Dance
Lighting Design by Dylan Uremovich
Projection & Media Design by Mark Costello
Original Music by Dylan Glatthorn
Sound Design by Matt Reeves
Videography by Jonathan Hsu of JHsu Media
Video trailer edited by Matt Reeves
Premiered in Tampa, Florida
FREQUENCY casts its performers into a vast friction-filled digital landscape that evokes images and relationships from a past grievously misremembered. A duet between Artistic Directors Colette Krogol and Matt Reeves, FREQUENCY is a throwback to the company’s genesis as a duet company and reflects the significance of time spent trying to tune two lives together.
Direction, Choreography, and Performance by Colette Krogol and Matt Reeves of Orange Grove Dance
Lighting Design by Dylan Uremovich
Projection & Media Design by Mark Costello
Original Music by Dylan Glatthorn
Sound Design by Matt Reeves
Videography by Jonathan Hsu of JHsu Media
Video trailer edited by Matt Reeves
Other Canticles (Trailer)
The 'Other Canticles' constitute a series of dance films inspired by five musical works of British composer Benjamin Britten. The pieces were written as canticles across his lifetime, with three of the pieces written as memorials. These dance films rouse the dynamic musical themes of each canticle and reflect the intense tone, power, and spiritual elevation of these works across disparate cinematic landscapes.
Children of Babel (Trailer)
Children of Babel is the third installment in ‘4 Recurring Dreams’, a tetralogy of evening length dances that explore the nature of recurring dreams and opens up new dialogues on timely themes such as migration, exodus, and transformation.
Inspired by the invisible radio wars between the United States and Cuba since 1959 and mythopoetic research into personal dreams and stories of one family’s migration from Cuba during the Mariel Boatlift of 1980, Children of Babel takes its audience and performers into a vivid sand filled landscape where the voices of a country pulled apart echo 90 miles in all directions.
Orange Grove Dance's world premiere of Children of Babel is supported by The Carla Fund for Choreography and Performance, established by the Howard and Geraldine Polinger Family Foundation, and Joe’s Movement Emporium’s Creative Residency.
Direction and Choreography: Colette Krogol and Matt Reeves
Choreography created in collaboration with performers
Performers: London Brison, Robin Neveu Brown, Juliana Pongutá Forero, Jonathan Hsu, Colette Krogol, Shanice Mason, Matt Reeves, and Mei Yamanaka
Music Composition: Dylan Glatthorn
Lighting Design: Peter Leibold
Sound and Media Design: Matt Reeves
Costume Design: Robert Croghan
Scenic and Prop Design: Colette Krogol and Matt Reeves
Stage Manager: Tarythe Albrecht
Inspired by the invisible radio wars between the United States and Cuba since 1959 and mythopoetic research into personal dreams and stories of one family’s migration from Cuba during the Mariel Boatlift of 1980, Children of Babel takes its audience and performers into a vivid sand filled landscape where the voices of a country pulled apart echo 90 miles in all directions.
Orange Grove Dance's world premiere of Children of Babel is supported by The Carla Fund for Choreography and Performance, established by the Howard and Geraldine Polinger Family Foundation, and Joe’s Movement Emporium’s Creative Residency.
Direction and Choreography: Colette Krogol and Matt Reeves
Choreography created in collaboration with performers
Performers: London Brison, Robin Neveu Brown, Juliana Pongutá Forero, Jonathan Hsu, Colette Krogol, Shanice Mason, Matt Reeves, and Mei Yamanaka
Music Composition: Dylan Glatthorn
Lighting Design: Peter Leibold
Sound and Media Design: Matt Reeves
Costume Design: Robert Croghan
Scenic and Prop Design: Colette Krogol and Matt Reeves
Stage Manager: Tarythe Albrecht
OGD Dance + Design + Film Reel
This trailer features signature live and cinematic works performed by Orange Grove Dance company. OGD's mission is to bring dance, design, and film to all communities as a vibrant process capable of reflecting the extraordinary nature of the human experience.
New Artist exploring mixed medium in Hagerstown, MD.
"the DJ known as Ducky Dynamo's party antics have led her to play in some of Baltimore and DC's best-known venues, as well as touring through the country and across our borders bringing the Baltimore Club and party sound to all within earshot. Serving as an ambassador of her city's sonic energy and spirit, she delivers sets some have called "life-changing" but, at the least, a journey through tunes worthy of inspiring a whirling dervish of turn up."