As a film composer, Mr. Barnett has scored hundreds of television and theatrical films, and his scores have won numerous awards.
Mr. Barnett’s orchestral and chamber works have been performed internationally. Mr. Barnett also collaborated on a spoken word piece with Dr. Maya Angelou. His most recent orchestral work, Retablos, received its world premiere at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC. Mr. Barnett has also written several ballet and modern dance scores.
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Call Your Mom (Emma Bergman, E Cadoux, Sophie Goldberg, and Mia Massimino) is a multimedia performance collective founded in 2014 and based in Baltimore, MD. Known for interdisciplinary, immersive works, Call Your Mom uses video, installation, movement, and participatory performance to facilitate spaces of reflective vulnerability. The collective engages the public in conversational work that responds to local perspectives. Call Your Mom’s making structure is horizontal; all four voices hold equal weight in the process. Our creative process begins when we select a theme.
Dr. Joshua Fishbein composes vocal and instrumental music, with special emphasis on choral music. He has won awards from the American Choral Directors Association, the American Composers Forum,
Keira Hart-Mendoza, graduated summa cum laude with her MFA in Dance from Arizona State University. There she studied more intensively dance and technology expanding on her undergraduate degrees in both Dance and Media Arts and Design from James Madison University. She is the director of UpRooted Dance, and has been working as an interdisciplinary dance artist for 20 years. She threads her artistic interests in mixed media into performance based dance works that cross many different artistic disciplines.
Singer/songwriter/multi instrumentalist Nicole Saphos’ musical identity can be categorized somewhere between jazz and indie rock. Upon graduating from Temple University in 2012 with a Jazz Performance degree, the Los Angeles native relocated to DC, and began her professional music career in earnest. To date, she’s released two critically acclaimed albums, Tiptoe [2016] and Buzz & Bloom [2018], and has performed at venerated venues such as The Kennedy Center, Rockwood Music Hall, and The Smithsonian American Art Museum, among others.
Sisi Reid is a Black and Queer artist from Wheaton Maryland, who practices theatre for collective liberation and healing. She is an actor, playwright, director, spoken word performer, facilitator, teaching artist, and an arts administrator. As an actor, Sisi has performed with The Smithsonian's Discovery Theatre, Theater Alliance, and Young Playwrights’ Theater, LiveArt DC, Mosaic Theater, Pinky Swear, and Convergence Theater. As an applied theatre practitioner, she has facilitated theatre workshops in prisons in Michigan, Virginia, and Brazil.
An award winning violinist, a graduate of Moscow and Oberlin Conservatories and the Juilliard School, Tatiana Chulochnikova has been praised by the press for “fiercely pointed” (San Francisco Chronicle) and “fine performances” (The Washington Post). In recent seasons Tatiana appeared as a soloist with orchestra, recitalist and concertmaster with leading early music ensembles throughout the United States.
Alex and Olmsted (Alex Vernon and Sarah Olmsted Thomas) is an internationally acclaimed puppet theater and filmmaking company based in Maryland. They have toured at festivals in Denmark, South Korea, and Canada, and have performed at numerous venues within the United States.
Singer-songwriter Rui Fu specializes in improvisational and impressionistic interpretation of Chinese ethnic musical traditions, and modernist portrayals of ancient Taoist meditative musics. She has collaborated with musicians from over 20 minority tribes in experimental performances that explored the natural pace of the breath in relation to the gravitational tendencies of the body, and the musical direction that arises spontaneously as a result.
I started working with fused glass in 2002. I was a resident artist at the Art Glass Center (AGC) at Glen Echo, Maryland from 2010-2011. In 2011, I built a fused glass studio in my home where I teach classes, design and produce my glasswork, and have a home gallery. I was a member of the The Waverly Street Gallery, a co-op gallery located in Bethesda, Md. from 2015-2018. The gallery features local contemporary artists working in a wide range of media.