Amber Hawk Swanson, born 1980, is a New York-based artist born in Davenport, Iowa. Hawk Swanson's video and performance work blurs lines between victim and victimizer, care and punishment, self-love and self-objectification to examine the still unresolved questions in contemporary feminism. Recent exhibitions and screenings include Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Denny Gallery (NYC), Momenta Art (Brooklyn), and Locust Projects (solo, Miami). Recent residencies include Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, LMCC, Workspace (NYC), MacDowell (New Hampshire), Yaddo (New York), Marie Walsh Sharpe Space Program (NYC), Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture (Maine), Atlantic Center for the Arts (Florida), and Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts (NYC). Recent visiting artist lecture appointments include Columbia University (NYC), NYU's Tisch School of Arts (NYC), McGill University (Montreal), Hunter College (Studio Arts and Film, NYC), and FIT (Photography, NYC). Her work is included in the permanent and MPP collections of the Museum of Contemporary Photography (Chicago) and has been profiled and reviewed in The Drama Review (TDR), Criticism, GLQ, The Huffington Post, and by The Associated Press. Hawk Swanson holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Studio Arts, 2006) and is a recipient of a 2014 Franklin Furnace Fund Grant.
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Jason Martin is a visual artist and musician. His current works include a series of performances, videos, and photographs called Power Animal System: Species and gender-queer explorations of mysterious forces channelled through hybrid beings from elsewhere. As a musician with an extensive discography and touring history, Jason has played in many ensembles and projects including leading a multi-media performance troupe Brown Cuts Neighbors (1989 – 2002), based out of Schenectady NY’s local Public Access television station, featuring countless members. He has an extensive history in community media and Public Access television as both a creator and teacher. Jason retuned to school, receiving an MFA at New York University in 2010.

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Jessica Lauffer was born in Northwestern Pennsylvania. After earning her MFA in Poetry at the New School, she still resides in New York City. Her poems have been featured in B. E. Literary and for the Reader’s Pick on the Birdsong Micropress website. Her poems are often obsessive reflections of her passion for cult stars, underground films, slasher movies, monsters, and Catholic imagery.

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Libby Rothfeld was born in 1990 in New Brunswick, New Jersey. She received her BFA from New York University in 2012. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

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Mindy Rose Schwartz is a sculptor and installation artist living in Chicago. She makes work that shows the morphing effect use, experience, and emotion can have on our perception of things. Schwartz has shown her work at The Gowanas Ballroom, NY; Three Walls Gallery, Chicago; Renaissance Society, University of Chicago; Old Gold Gallery, Chicago; Rose Museum, MA; Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions and the Spertus Museum, Chicago. Publications/Bibliography includes: Studio Life by Sarah Trigg, Bad at Sports, Art 21 Blog, ArtForum, Flavorpill, Frieze Magazine, New AmericanPainters #71, Art in America, Mouth to Mouth, Dialogue, WBEZ, and AJS Perspectives. She is the recipient of a Helen Coburn Meier and Tim Meier Charitable Foundation for the Arts award and recently had a solo show at QT gallery in Chicago.

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