Member Spotlight: Eva Mueller, photographer, presents at Art Chicago, April 28 - May 2, 2011

International Women Artists' Salon is thrilled to announce that member Eva Mueller will have her photography on exhibit at Art Chicago with Asymmetrik Photography (Booth #104), April 28th through May 2nd, 2011.


Hazyvision Images

Message from Eva:
I am very happy to see all the interest the Hazyvision images are getting lately. I’ll be exhibiting at Art Fair Chicago this weekend. Limited editions of my Nudes, Projections and Hazyvision images will be on display with Asymmetrik Photography (Booth #104). I will be arriving on Thursday, 4/28 for the First Focus Preview. Please come and see me if you are in the city.

Here’s some background information on Art Chicago:

Art Chicago® 2011, the annual international fair of contemporary and modern art, brings together the world’s leading emerging and established galleries. Art Chicago offers curators, collectors, artists and art enthusiasts a comprehensive survey of current and historic work, from cutting-edge to modern masters in a wide variety of media including: painting, photography, drawings, prints, sculpture, video and special installations.

Art Chicago is proud to be North America’s premier fair committed to intelligent and relevant educational programming, exhibitions, and special events, while also providing a unique showcase for artists, museums and cultural institutions from key regional and other US cities.

Art Chicago 2011 will take place April 29 – May 2, with an Opening Preview on April 28.

www.artchicago.com


Projections images

EVA MUELLER (Art Chicago)

Photographer Eva Mueller is known for her stark, minimalistic images with a sometimes dark, humorous twist. Timeless, iconic yet fun images are well represented in her body of work. A noted music and fashion photographer, who works in London and New York, Mueller’s sense of style grows from training in graphic design in her native Germany. With her keen eye for concept and composition, Mueller’s work transcends traditional photography and veers into the wildly artistic. See evamueller.com.

The naked body in all incarnations is a major focus of her work and Mueller has developed a sophisticated technique to project textures and architectural elements onto naked bodies. Superimposing these sometimes subtle, sometimes startling symbols onto her nude subjects allows the photographer to makes a broader visual statement.

Mueller’s series of non-figurative photographs, entitled Hazyvision, are abstract images shot while the photographer is traveling, capturing the sign language of airport tarmacs, blurred luminescent colors of Times Square at night, or creating patterns through the blur of a moving train. These engaging works can be viewed at hazyvision.com.


Nudes Images

Member Spotlight: Lourdes Ramirez, Visual Artist - Solo exhibition at Manhattan Theatre Source, NYC, March 28th - May 8th, with artist reception on Sunday, April 3rd, 5:30-7:30 pm.

International Women Artists' Salon is thrilled to announce the solo exhibition of member Lourdes Ramirez’s American Dream body of mixed-media work, at Manhattan Theatre Source in NYC, March 28th - May 8th, with artist reception on April 3rd, 5:30-7:30 pm. 

the perfect trip, the perfect trap
monoprint
18’ x 23’
45 x 60 cm

The American Dream

Contemplation in the Subway Car

In the New York subway, inhabits an archetype frequently and easily recognizable by its gaze and portage. Attributes can appear one at a time, although they are usually combined: eyes closed, far away look, mobile tech device, newspaper, book, backpack, big bag...........

My work attempts to reflect some of those inhabitants of the subway, prototypical moments; flashes that repeat itself day after day.

The subway, particularly cumbersome for "territoriality", multiples the need to narrow one's own space. There is no escape from gazing out to the landscape that one might engage in on a bus ride.

The New Yorker copes with this alien proximity by avoiding one's outward glance, to prevent from seeing oneself across the aisle, as if looking at a mirrored reflection.

These tools are used to allow travel without acknowledging, or being recognized.

Listed below is the tailor made universe:

Closed windows,

Insulated ears,

Isolated mind and spirit,

Short naps before or after work, an endless day with a crazy schedule?

Sneaking a rest to be strong enough to pursue, "The American Dream"?

Small island transit from one urgency to another?

Going into the bubble, distancing oneself from others?

Tailored "Silence Spa"?

To not recognize?

To not be recognized?

To mark the distance?

I am surprised that even when sitting in a crowd, when people talk about the loneliness in the Big Apple, we decide to isolate ourselves...

I go on contemplating, trying to understand.......... 

El sueño americano.

Contemplando en el vagón del Subway.
En el subway neoyorquino habita un arquetipo frecuente y fácilmente reconocible por su mirada y pertrechos. Estos pueden aparecer de uno en uno, aunque preferentemente lo hacen combinados: ojos cerrados, mirada lejana, aparato móvil, periódico, libro, mochila, bolso grande,…

Mi trabajo intenta reflejar algunos de esos habitantes del Subway, y de esos instantes prototípicos,  momentos que se repiten un día tras otro.

El metro es especialmente incómodo para la “territorialidad”, multiplica la necesidad de acotar el espacio propio. No puedes ausentarte de él perdiendo la mirada en el paisaje que divisas desde un tren o un autobús.

En un habitáculo donde el mínimo espacio de separación personal se ve invadido repetidamente por extraños, el neoyorquino se protege cerrando sus ojos, aislándose con sus auriculares, escribiendo mensajes, distrayéndose con sus juguetes inteligentes, la prensa, un libro…. Estas herramientas le permiten transitar sin reconocer ni ser reconocido,  en un universo hecho a medida, eludiendo reflejarse en el otro como un espejo.

Ventanas cerradas,

Oídos aislados,

Mente y espíritu cercados.


¿Cabezadas antes o después del trabajo, en una jornada interminable con un horario imposible?

¿Arañazos al descanso para tener fuerzas y seguir persiguiendo “el sueño americano”?

¿Pequeña isla de tránsito de una urgencia a otra? 

¿Alivio de las largas horas de traslado?

¿Spa de “silencio” ?

¿Para no reconocer?

¿Para no ser reconocido?

¿Para marcar la distancia?

Me sorprende la “soledad” que denunciamos en la Gran Manzana, lo acompañados que estamos durante esos trayectos y, sin embargo,  lo solos que decidimos estar…

Sigo contemplando e intentando comprender…

LOURDES RAMÍREZ, BIO

  
Visual Artist born in Málaga, lives since 2007 in New York.
Self-taught, in recent years she has worked the sculpture with Alicia Tafur, in Bogotá; and during her stay in New York, she is deepening her knowledge in the painting, the drawing, the engraving and the lithography in The Art Student League.

Knowledge and deepening in other expressive tools have opened up new avenues of exploration and facilitated new vehicles of expression for this artist.

Figure human gesture, the look, the flash of an instant, and give voice to those who do not use to have it have been the focus of her interest. A biography of vivid life moments expressed strongly and with bright and joyful movements. Nowadays, in continuous evolution and searching, she is working in add simplicity, suggestion, lightness, and she investigates new media to transmit it.

Live in New York allows her to soak up the most alternative and classic, and live with a very mixed human range. Her objective is to explore this mosaic of moments, cultures and artistic expressions taking place in the City that Never Sleeps, assimilate them and tell them.


The expression of her work at the moment is a biographical report focused on two projects: A Travel Journal and The American Dream. The first, a story of images and colors of her experiences in contact with other countries and cultures; the latter, a deepening of her stay in Manhattan, the great show of  the Subway and the different warps that weave the Big Apple.

In her career she has had solo exhibitions in New York, Bogotá and in several Museum and Venues in Málaga and its municipality.

She has also participated in group exhibitions in New York, Bogotá, Málaga and other Spanish cities.
 
She has collaborated in collective interventions with collective Málaga Contemporary Artists -MAC– in the University of Málaga, and designed and participated in seven editions of Open Studios, organized by the collective MAC which she was a co-founder member.

Nowadays she belongs to the international collectives DIN-A4, Pen and Brush, International Women Artists’ Salon in New York, and Collective of Plastic Artists  in Málaga

Her work is represented in the municipality of Mijas and Guaro and in private collections of Andalusia, Extremadura, Madrid, Canarias, Basque Country, Catalan, Argentina, Colombia, and New York.

http://lourdesramirez.com/
Info@lourdesramirez.com
Tel. + 1 347 803 0831

Member Spotlight: Zofia Bogusz, painter – Solo exhibition of decoupage prints on hand-cut wood at Path Café, NYC, April 1-30, with artist reception on April 5th, 6-8pm.

"all mixed up"
oil, graphite, acrylic on wood
11in x 22in

International Women Artists' Salon is thrilled to announce member Zofia Bogusz’s solo exhibition of decoupage prints on hand-cut wood at Path Café, NYC, April 1-30, with artist reception on April 5th, 6-8pm.

 

All Out Print Show

April 1 - April 30, 2011

 

opening reception:
Tuesday April 5 | 6-8pm

 

Path Cafe
131 Christopher Street
New York, NY 10014

Please join me for a solo exhibition of my decoupage prints on hand-cut wood. I will be selling the mini fishboards from the surf series, as well as brand new first edition prints of all the other sunlit ladies from the mannequin and behind the sun series.

"lyonnaise"

oil and pencils on wood

16in x 31in

Limited edition print sets will also be available.

Every print is handmade, hangable and very affordable. "My paintings explore various constructs of identity through the depiction of individual histories, memories, and experiences. As a woman, I strive to render the remarkable balance of effortless beauty and vibrant strength that exists within the female form." - Zofia Bogusz
http://zofiaart.com
http://zofiaart.blogspot.com

A special invitiation to participate - Join us in Celebrating Women and Women Artists Around the World: Live Art Installation and Open Mic, March 26th- March 31st, NYC and around the world

International Women Artists’ Salon is honored to invite YOU to join us in celebrating Women and Women Artists Around the World by contributing to our collaborative site specific art installation and/or participating in open mic nights at our partner venue, Manhattan Theatre Source in NYC, March 26th - March 31st.  Any woman (artist or non-artist) near or far are invited to contribute and our male friends are invited to show their support in conjunction with the international SWAN Day events around the world (Support Women Artists Now).

A special message from our Founder, Heidi Russell...

Celebrating Women around the World!

In honor of the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day, National Women's History Month, and the international SWAN Day festivities (Support Women Artists Now), I am thrilled to announce that we have secured a venue partnership with Manhattan Theatre Source for a 5-day celebration of women and women's artistry, March 26th through March 31st, with our March Salon gathering closing out the celebration on Thursday, March 31st.

Let's celebrate each other and our connections, our individual and collective creative forces, and being Women, with women all around the world!

You can participate even if you are located outside of NYC! Please read on and send to me ideas of your contribution from your location (if you'd like to do something local in tandem and/or send me something to add to our installation here in NYC).

Looking forward to honoring, celebrating, and supporting women and women artists around the world with each of you!

Creative Cheers~Heidi
646.272.8879 cell
heidirussellpublicist@gmail.com
http://womenartsalon.blogspot.com
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International Women Artists' Salon Celebrates Women and Women Artists around the World

March 26 - March 31, 2011

In conjunction with International SWAN Day (Support Women Artists Now)
Site Specific Installation

We will have the front window box stage of Manhattan Theatre Source, where we will create together a site specific installation throughout the week...you can come by anytime MTS is open (see hours below) to participate/make your contribution...all disciplines are invited to contribute to the installation through visual art, writing, movement, music, sound, performance (think out of the box...dance around the physical piece, embed a video or sound element, perform with the piece, etc). We are also inviting other women artists to make contributions: MTS artists and patrons going in and out of the venue, passerbyers from the street (window box visible from the street), your friends and colleagues. There will be a component where men can even show their support through a SWAN fan book!

Nightly Open Mic and Salon Member Feature Performers
-We have the time period of 6-8pm for showcasing our performance based and writer members and opening up the mic for any other women performers, writers, etc. who would like to participate. Please contact me to let me know if you would like to be one of the feature performers/readers, and which evening you can perform or read.

Documentation of the Installation and Performances
-We would like to document the installation development by video and photographs, so come by with your video camera and camera and contribute to the documentation if you have the equipment and interest.

Other activity at MTS
-Salon member Lourdes Rameriz will be installing her show in the main gallery on Monday, March 28th, and a play honoring the tragedy and transformation that was the Triangle Factory Fire by Looking for Lilith Theatre Company: Fabric, Flames & Fervor: Girls of the Triangle will be playing in the main theater March 24-27th, 2pm. See below for details.

March Salon Gathering
March 31st, 6:30- 9pm, gathering at Manhattan Theatre Source
Let me know if you'd like to present work.
Stay tuned for a Facebook event to share. Feel free to pass this email along to other women and women artists who you would like to invite to participate in this celebration.

Here are the details...
International Women Artists' Salon Celebrates Women and Women Artists around the World at Manhattan Theatre Source
177 MacDougal Street (between 8th Street and Waverly Place, NW of Washington Sq Park area)
http://theatresource.org/contact_us.php
212-260-4698

Directions:
ABCDEFV trains to West 4th Street, exit out of north end of station (8th Street exit), walk one block east to MacDougal on Waverly Place, turn left onto MacDougal towards 8th Street. MTS is on the west side of three, with a pink/red iron detailing on the outside of the building.

Schedule:
Friday, March 25th - Preparation of the installation foundation, lead by Cornelia Jensen and Stella Moulinos during the afternoon. If you are interested in participating in helping with the foundation development, cleaning the stage/window, creating signage, please let me know.

Saturday, March 26th
1pm - 8pm - installation open for contribution on Windowbox Stage
2pm - Play: Fabric, Flames & Fervor: Girls of the Triangle, in main theater space on 2nd floor
6pm - 8pm - performance, readings, and open mic on Windowbox Stage

Sunday, March 27th - Also World Theater Day
1pm - 7pm - installation open for contribution on Windowbox Stage
2pm - Play: Fabric, Flames & Fervor: Girls of the Triangle, in main theater space on 2nd floor
5pm - 7pm - performance, readings, and open mic on Windowbox Stage

Monday, March 28th
1pm - 8pm - installation open for contribution on Windowbox Stage
Afternoon - installation of Lourdes Rameriz' exhibition in gallery space
6pm - 8pm - performance, readings, and open mic on Windowbox Stage

Tuesday, March 29th
1pm - 8pm - installation open for contribution on Windowbox Stage
6pm - 8pm - performance, readings, and open mic on Windowbox Stage

Wednesday, March 30th
1pm - 8pm - installation open for contribution on Windowbox Stage
6pm - 8pm - performance, readings, and open mic on Windowbox Stage

Thursday, March 31st
1pm - 8pm - installation open for contribution on Windowbox Stage
6:30pm - 9:00pm - March Salon gathering - open house

Information about the play:
Tickets for the play at 2pm on March 24th-27th are available for Salon members at each (put in SALON for the promotion code if buy online here or tell ticket person you are a member of Heidi's Salon.

https://www.ovationtix.com/trs/pe/8721425

Here is information about the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire the play is based on:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle_Shirtwaist_Factory_fire

The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City on March 25, 1911, was the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city of New York and resulted in the fourth highest loss of life from an industrial accident in U.S. history. The fire caused the deaths of 146 garment workers, who either died from the fire or jumped to their deaths. Most of the victims were recent immigrant Jewish women aged sixteen to twenty-three. [1] Many of the workers could not escape the burning building because the managers had locked the doors to the stairwells and exits. People jumped from the eighth, ninth, and tenth floors. The fire led to legislation requiring improved factory safety standards and helped spur the growth of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, which fought for better working conditions for sweatshop workers. The factory was located in the Asch Building, at 29 Washington Place, now known as the Brown Building, which has been designated a National Historic Landmark and a New York City landmark.[2]

Member Spotlight: Rica Takashima, contemporary artist and manga graphic novelist, participates in BAAD!'s 'Dykes Draw the Line' slide show, discussion and comix mayhem in Bronx, NY on Sunday, March 20th, 6-7:30pm

International Women Artists’ Salon is honored to announce member Rica Takashima will be participating in a slide show, discussion and comix mayhem at BAAD!  Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance on Sunday, March 20, 2011 , 6-7:30pm...

 

"Rica & Miho" A pair of lovers in Rica 'tte Kanji!? 

 

 

Dykes Draw the Line

Slide Show, Discussion and Comix Mayhem

with cartoonists:

Jennifer Camper (Juicy Mother)

Diane DiMassa (Hothead Paisan)

Joan Hilty (Bitter Girl)

Rica Takashima (Rica ‘tte Kanji!?)

Sunday March 20, 2011   6-7:30pm

BAAD!  Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance

841 Barreto Street, 2nd Floor, Bronx, NY

http://www.bronxacademyofartsanddance.org/

Trains: 6 to Hunts Point Ave., 2 or 5 to Simpson St.

For anyone inspired by comics, no experience necessary.

About the cartoonists:

Jennifer Camper’s books include Rude Girls and Dangerous Women and subGURLZ, and she’s the editor of two Juicy Mother comix anthologies. Her cartoons and illustrations have appeared in magazines, newspapers, comic books, anthologies, and bathroom walls, and have been exhibited internationally. www.jennifercamper.com

Diane DiMassa is the creator of the comic Hothead Paisan, Homicidal Lesbian Terrorist, the castrating classic cult cartoon heroine. She also illustrated the graphic novel, Jokes and the Unconscious, written by Daphne Gottlieb. Her work has appeared in many comic anthologies and has been shown from NYC to Amsterdam. Recently, DiMassa has plunged into oil painting and street art. www.hotheadpaisan.com (and) www.dianedimassa.com

Joan Hilty is the creator of the comic strip Bitter Girl, distributed to print and web everywhere by Q Syndicate since 2001. She was a longtime editor at DC Comics and has contributed to various publications including Gay Comix, The Advocate, Juicy Mother, andMs Magazine. www.joanhilty.net

Rica Takashima is a cartoonist and pop artist. She created the yuri manga series, Rica ‘tte Kanji!? and has had exhibitions and shows in museums and galleries internationally. Originally from Tokyo, she's lived in NYC since 2008. www.AozoraArt.com

 

"Rica & Miho" A pair of lovers in Rica 'tte Kanji!? 

 

Rica Takashima Bio

Contemporary artist and manga graphic novelist Rica Takashima’s vivid and socially challenging work has appeared in a number of exhibits including Instant Gender, part of the 2009 New York City Pride March; A Second Chance through manga art, part of the 2009 ComicArt event in New Jersey, and Who Are You?, a showcase of artists-in-residence presented at the Tachikawa International Art Festival 2006, in Tokyo.  
 
Rica ‘tte Kanji, a graphic novel illustrated and written by Rica Takashima, debuted from ALC Publishing, in 2003, and she was Guest of Honor at the international manga conventions MangaNext, Yuricon and Yurisai. 
 
Takashima’s award-winning short film, Talking About Amy, screened on Young Director’s Night at the Los Angeles Country Museum of Art’s Muse festival, as well as festivals in Canada, Turkey, Japan and elsewhere. Her photographic series, Photos of Aozora Art, was part of the 2000 Japanese Seasons1 exhibit sponsored by the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation Commission of Photographic Art and Heritage, in Moscow. 
 
Director of the Artists Support Council and full member of the Art Resources Development Association, both in Japan, Takashima earned a Bachelor of Art degree in Fine Arts from the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. She currently lives in New York.   Rica can be reached at ricatakashima@yahoo.com

About BAAD!  Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance

Crowned "a funky and welcoming performance space" by The New York Times, BAAD! is an art, performance and cultural workshop space that presents cutting-edge and challenging works by established, evolving and emerging choreographers, playwrights, poets, musicians and visual and performing artists.

BAAD! is the home of Arthur Aviles Typical Theatre and the Bronx Dance Coalition.

BAAD! presents four annual festivals, BAAD! ASS WOMEN, THE BOOGIE DOWN DANCE SERIES, OUT LIKE THAT! and the BlakTino Performance Series. BAAD! celebrates the arts created by and featuring women, people of all colors and/or the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender community.

COME TO BAAD! WHERE IT'S ALL GOOD.

email: crg_bx@yahoo.com

phone: 718-842-5223

web: http://www.BronxAcademyOfArtsAndDance.org

Member Spotlight: Judith Z. Miller, artist, writer and spiritualist, will read her erotic writings in "Essensuality: An Evening of Erotic Expression" in New York, New York on Saturday, March 19th, 8:00-11:00 pm.

International Women Artists' Salon is pleased to announce that Judith Z. Miller will be reading her erotic writing in "Essensuality: An Evening of Erotic Expression" at WOW Cafe Theatre, in New York, NY on Saturday, March 19th, 8:00-11:00 pm.

Essensuality:
An Evening of Erotic Expression

Sex, love, relationship…

 
Anger, passion, longing…

Unspoken desires, unrealized fantasies,

Unheard of sensual adventures…


...Essensuality invites out the essence of sensuality. The raw, vulnerable, uncensored, tender – usually private – moments step out into the spotlight to be shared. In poetry, spoken word, dance. Comedy, storytelling, music. Or some genre of your own imagination.

The evening will include: Featured acts, open mic performances, and spontaneous combustion…not necessarily in that order. Comfortable seating in the round, a limited bar, and an unrushed evening of erotic expression. Opportunities to laugh, cry…and blush.

Bring yourself, your friends, your lovers. Your desire, your embarrassment, your uncertainty. It's all welcome here! After all, that's what it is to be a sensual being. And that's what we're celebrating...the sensuality that lives — whether hidden or on the sleeve — of every single one of us.

Saturday, March 19 · 8:00pm - 11:00pm
WOW Cafe Theatre
59-61 East 4th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY

FEATURED PERFORMERS 3/19/11

*Judith Z. Miller lives in an erotic, musical, spiritual universe; she writes as a way of coping with its beauty, sensuality, frustrations and ecstasies. Here in New York, she has read at events sponsored by organizations such as Nehirim, Zeek Magazine, Essentuality, and at venues such as Blue Stockings, The Jewish Community Center, Wow Café Theatre - and late at night to her girlfriends in bed. (extended bio below)

*She's Black, He's Jewish, They're Married, Oy Vey!
Essensuality welcomes back Epstein and Hassan, known on the NYC comedy circuit as The Black and the Jew, a husband and wife comedy team willing to talk about "all things that make us nervous!" New York Daily News has called them "the Burns & Allen or the Lucy & Desi of the new millennium." They will bring their unique blend of shoot-from-the-hip truth-telling and hilarious insights on relationships, politics, families, race and, of course, sex. Epstein and Hassan will reveal how BlackJew Love Technology could save the planet!

*Jeremy Edwards (www.jeremyedwardserotica.com) writes quirky erotic fiction celebrating joyful sensuality, libidinous urgency, offbeat romanticism, and the pleasures of language and laughter. His novel Rock My Socks Off is an eroto-comedic romp through academia, live television, and a dysfunctional rocking-horse museum. The book takes on a theatrical dimension at Essensuality, as the author performs a favorite chapter in a live reading seasoned with improv and audience participation.

*Performance poet, Aimee Herman, works as editor of erotica for Oysters & Chocolate. She has performed at various reading series including In the Flesh, Queer Lit Carnival and The Red Umbrella Diaries in NYC. She can be read in the anthologies, Best Lesbian Love Stories (Alyson Books), Best Women's Erotica 2010 (Cleis Press) and Nice Girls, Naughty Sex (Cleis). She promises to excite, enthrall, entice and...perhaps even reveal all!

Tickets are $10 in advance, $12 at the door
For tickets and information: www.thesensuallife.com/events 

TO PERFORM: Contact Monica Day by email monica@thesensuallife.com

*Special Note:*
This performance of Essensuality is the finale of the four-day festival:
The Sexual Act: An Experimental Erotic Performance Art Festival
"Exploring intimacy and how we relate to it"
Wed-Sat, March 16-19, 2011

To learn more about the other performances, and obtain a discounted festival pass go to http://passionatepersuasions.blogspot.com/

 

Judith Z. Miller

 

Judith Z. Miller lives in an erotic, musical, spiritual universe; she writes as a way of coping with its beauty, sensuality, frustrations and ecstasies. Here in New York, she has read at events sponsored by organizations such as Nehirim, Zeek Magazine, Essentuality, and at venues such as Blue Stockings, The Jewish Community Center, Wow Café Theatre - and late at night to her girlfriends in bed. Judith was trained as an actress in Washington DC, co-founded The Fine Line Actors Theatre (formerly Earth Onion Women's Theatre) and acted in numerous productions in the DC area. Her grant writing skills and hustling ability enabled the theatre to raise the necessary funds to produce its performances and special constituency projects, including the groundbreaking Women’s Prison Project. She spent six weeks teaching and performing in a women’s federal penitentiary, co-created original works with the communities the company’s various special projects served, developed her own dramatic and comedic original performance material, and was awarded an NEA Arts Management Fellowship in Theatre. Judith was the founder and director of ZAMO! (Zelda Arts Management Organization), an arts management organization that represented a multi-cultural mix of world-class award winning performing artists for over 20 years. She wrote promotional materials for the artists she represented, study guides for the Kennedy Center. and developed curricula for workshops shecontinues to teach on self-promotion for performers, presented by organizations such as The Field, The Red Tent Women’s Project and the Brooklyn Arts Counsel. In 2008 her paper “Sometimes a Tree Isn’t Just a Tree,” was read at the First International LSP-and Translation Studies Oriented Textual Analysis conference at Chouaib Doukkali University, El Jadida, Morocco. She is the Chief Rhythm officer of Microfundo, a crowdfunding platform supporting musicians worldwide, where she co-develops the company’s programs and website content. Judith’s blog, Artist Soul Speaks, is a forum for arts, culture, and community in NYC and beyond. She is also a visual artist who creates primal sculpture and wearable art from trees and stones. Currently Judith is developing as an intuitive healer, via spontaneous chanting and the use of percussive shakers to stimulate trance – all the while attempting to translate these ecstatic experiences into words. She published in Inside Arts magazine, The Washington Post, and American Theatre magazine. Judith is a 2011 British Airways Face-to- Face Opportunity contest winner just recently returned from journeying to Thailand where she met with indigenous woodcarvers and shaman. She resides in Park Slope Brooklyn.

Website: http://www.zamo-zamo.com

Blog: http://www.ArtistSoulSpeaks.wordpress.com

Featured Member Fractured Atlas:
http://www.fracturedatlas.org/site/blog/ 2009/10/16/featured-member-judith-z-miller/
 

Member Spotlight: Lynn McGee, Poet: Feature presenter in “A Celebration of Irish Writing and Fascinations”, Thursday, March 17, 2011, 8pm, The Old Stone House in Brooklyn, NY

International Women Artists’ Salon is thrilled to announce member Lynn McGee will be reading her poetry in “A Celebration of Irish Writing and Fascinations” on Thursday, March 17, 2011, 8pm at The Old Stone House 336 3rd Street, Brooklyn, NY

Re: Blarneypalooza  
(Get Your Irish Up! No Green Beer)

A Celebration of Irish Writing and Fascinations

Thursday, March 17, 2011, 8pm,
The Old Stone House

336 3rd Street, Brooklyn, NY 11215

(718) 768-3195

Presented by Brooklyn Reading Works 

~D/N/R train to 9th St/4th Ave, then walk down 4th Avenue till you take a right on 3rd Street~

Blarneypalooza is a literary celebration of Irish writers and influence planned with Saint Patrick’s Day in mind.

For more information: www.blarneypalooza.com

The following artists will read/perform:

Lynn McGee's poems were just published in The New Guard, where one was a finalist and one a semi-finalist in that magazine's contest judged by former U.S. Poet Laureate Donald Hall. Two of her poems are forthcoming in NYC Big City lit, and others have appeared in the Kennesaw Review, Ontario Review, Northwest Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, Sun magazine, Phoebe, Brooklyn Review, Pittsburgh Quarterly, The Southern Anthology, Laurel Review and other journals. Lynn's poetry chapbook, Bonanza, won the  Slapering Hol national manuscript contest; she won the In Our Own Write and Judith’s Room Emerging Writers contests in New York City, received a MacDowell fellowship, and earned an MFA in Poetry from Columbia University. She spent over 15 years working in literacy, and works now as the Internal Writer for a CUNY college.

On Larry Honig: An avowed Situationist, this dude is way too old to behave the way he does. He's wanted in 6 countries and wishes his epitaph to contain a line from the police report: "He was found without pants."

Barbara O'Dair is a long-time magazine editor and writer who lives with her husband and four children in New Jersey. She graduated from Barnard College with a B.A. in American Studies and from Warren Wilson College in Swannanoa, North Carolina with a Masters of Fine Arts in Poetry. She has edited two collections of writings, Caught Looking: Feminism, Pornography and Censorship, and Trouble Girls: The Rolling Stone Book of Women in Rock. In 2002, as the editor of Teen People, she instituted a regular poetry column and contest. Currently, as the executive editor for Reader's Digest, she oversees poetry in the magazine. Her journalism, essays and poetry have been published in many magazines, newspapers, journals and online publications.


Pat Smith’s play Driving Around the House has been produced in theaters around the country and is published by New Rivers Press. He regularly posts new poems on his blog Not in the News Today . Recent work has appeared in the online journal Haggard and Halloo and is soon to be published in Used Furniture Review.  He will be curating a Brooklyn Reading Works program in September.

Native New York poet Michele Madigan Somerville is the author of Black Irish (2009), a book of verse about being a NYC Irish Catholic, and WISEGAL (2001) a book-length poem.  Her work has appeared in many literary journals, including Fickle Muses and Eureka Street and she has won a few poetry prizes including a MacArthur Scholarship for Poetry, Honorable Mention in Dublin Ireland’s Davoren Hanna contest (sponsored by Eason Books -- judge: Charles Simic), First Place Prize in the 2000 W. B. Yeats Society’s Poetry Competition (judge: Billy Collins).  She posts poems and poems-in-progress on Fresh Poetry  She written about religion for the New York Times, and her essays on religion and education appear regularly on her websites Indie Theology  and Bored-O-Ed respectively as well as regularly on  religion and education pages of the Huffington Post.

Michael Sweeney a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee, earned his M.F.A. from Brooklyn College and teaches at Fairfield University. In Memory of the Fast Break (Plain View Press, 2008).