For 40 years Karen Ashbrook has been an international pioneer and advocate for the hammered dulcimer. With Silver Spring, Maryland as home base, she has brought magic of the 76 resonating dulcimer strings to a wide audience, from the young children who attend her summer hedge schools in Irish culture to the elderly and infirm with whom she engages as a certified music practitioner in the healing arts. She has entertained at the John F. Kennedy Center, the Smithsonian Institution and the White House, as well as concert halls and festivals in the U.S. and around the world.
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John Deamond, labeling himself an autotype artist, deconstructs photography to investigate the meeting of the human and natural world. He links this border to the borders of what is photographic, breaking the medium into its constituent parts (direct capture, reproducibility, use of light, etc.). In this way, John simultaneously gains insight into how we can redefine the place of photography and our place in nature in the twenty-first century. While his artwork often takes on the appearance of sculpture and installation, its essence is photographic.
Nicole Salimbene (b. Trinidad, CO) is a Washington, D.C. based interdisciplinary artist working at the intersection of poetics, psychology, environmentalism, and contemplative practice.
ADRIANE FANG is a dancer, teacher and choreographer with a keen interest in multidisciplinary collaboration. She was a member of the internationally renowned dance company, Doug Varone and Dancers, from 1996-2006 and has worked with several other choreographers including Colleen Thomas, Bill Young, Wally Cardona, Christopher K. Morgan and Nancy Bannon.
Proclaimed "a wizard of invention," by the Washington Post, Adrienne Clancy is a Maryland based dance artist. As a "tour de force of unpredictable partnering," (Washington Post) her work explores architecturally informed partnering developed amongst diverse artists. Assured to be simultaneously dynamic yet extremely human, the choreography exemplifies an environment of mutual respect and creates potent images that embrace diversity and community awareness.
Nancy Havlik has directed and choreographed for the past 25 years. She formed Dance Performance Group as a non-profit in 1989 to explore her own choreographic ideas with a small group of dancers and musicians. Through the Company her choreography has been performed extensively in the Washington, DC area at venues including Dance Place, Shakespeare Theater, Joy of Motion, Montgomery College, Jewish Community Center, Joe's Movement Emporium, Mt. Vernon College and the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage.
Kasi Aysola is a Bharata Natyam dancer and choreographer who trained under Viji Prakash. Kasi has been privileged enough to work
with leading exponents of Bharata Natyam throughout his dance career such as: Guru C.V. Chandrasekhar, Bragha Bessel, Ajith
Bhaskaran Dass, Harikrishna Kalyanasundaram & Mythili Prakash. He has performed as a soloist in the U.S. and India and has toured
extensively with the Shakti Dance Company. His choreographies for the Shakti Dance Company have been featured in several solo
Christopher K. Morgan is the Artistic & Executive Director of Christopher K. Morgan & Artists (CKM&A), the Dance Artist in Residence in the School of Theater, Dance & Performance Studies àt fn" University of Maryland, and the Director of Dance Omi, an annual collaborative residency for international choreographers in New York. Christopher grew up in Orange County, California
Resume: Cedric Williams
Born: 1947, Llangollen, Denbighshire, N.Wales, UK.
1973-4 Arts Diploma, Wrexham College of Art, N. Wales, UK.
1974-7 BA Degree (Fine Art and Art History), Gloucestershire College of Art and Design.
Exhibitions:
1972 Plas Newydd Gallery, N.Wales,UK
1973 North Wales Arts Council (touring exhibition, 3 months).
1973 Plas Newydd Gallery.
1974 Plas Newydd Gallery.
1979 Islington Central Library Gallery, London,UK.
1979 Haringey Arts Council, London.
1980 Haringey Arts Council, London (2nd prize)
1981 Haringey Arts Council, London (joint 2nd prize)