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December 2012
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VAGINA II Artist Spotlight: The Ye-Ye's
Music
www.facebook.com/yeyechicago
These ladies sling instruments and sing 1960s pop gems to you in French. If you know them from their debut at The Fly Honey Show, you’ve probably been dreaming about them ever since. A dream team indeed - Rachele Eve (singer/songwriter), Heather Perry (Bring Your Ray Gun), Erica Jaree (Vamos), Lindsay Weinberg (singer/songwriter), and Sierra Dufault...
VAGINA II Artist Spotlight: Laura Dunne
Video
Laura Dunne is new to VAGINA, and in the midst of her third year of studying moving image at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her recent work has expressed an interest in the human spirit, and how this may enhance or cause conflict with the human mind. In prior works, she has also dealt with exposing what it means to be a woman within the various stereotypical molds of society, and how...
VAGINA II Artist Spotlight: Natalie Krick
Photographer
http://nataliekrick.com
Natalie Krick grew up in Portland, Oregon and Fort Collins, Colorado. She received her MFA in Photography from Columbia College Chicago in 2012 and her BFA in Photography from School of Visual Arts in 2008. She is currently living and working in Chicago, Illinois.
Natalie will be showing an except of ‘Natural Deceptions’. A collection of...
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VAGINA II Artist Spotlight: Erin Kilmurray
Choreographer
www.theinconvenience.org
Erin Kilmurray is a dancer, choreographer, and facilitator of movement-centric events. She also bakes and bikes. Erin is the dance programmer for The Inconvenience, where she has devised and directed The Fly Honey Show and Standing Room Only, as well as choreographed various concert dance and theatrical works for the company, including Hit The...
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VAGINA II Artist Spotlight: Shannon Matesky
Performer
www.shannonmatesky.com
Shannon Matesky is an artist, activist, educator from Berkeley Ca. with a BFA from Depaul University’s Acting Program. Shannon is a national slam champion and an HBO Def Poet that has performed and led workshops around the country at numerous venues and universities. Select theatrical credits include Hit the Wall (The Inconvenience), Sonnets For...
VAGINA II Artist Spotlight: Trina Mabborang
Painter
This is Trina Maeby’s first time debuting her work at the VAGINA Exhibition. She currently attends the University of Illinois at Chicago Art & Design College with a concentration in Painting. Her childhood dream of working for Disney and her rejection of how Disney wrongly portrays young women (princesses) clash and come together in her work. Though one might only see these...
VAGINA II Artist Spotlight: Sallee Zearing
Painter
Sallee Zearing is a senior studying at the University of Illinois at Chicago, she will be receiving her Bachelors in Fine Art this coming Spring. Sallee works mainly is the realm of painting, yet photography is a close interest as well. Her paintings are most commonly done by manipulating fabric dye. The dye is bought in powder form and slightly mixed with water in order for the dye to...
November 2012
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VAGINA II Artist Spotlight: Aga Furtak
Photography
http://agafurtakphotography.wix.com/agnieszkafurtak
I was born in Krakow, Poland in the year 1977. I graduated from the School of Banking and Management in Krakow with a degree in Economics in 2000. I currently reside and create in Chicago, USA.
I believe that spiritual surrealism and its visualization plays the most important role in my creative life. Within my photography and...
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VAGINA II Artist Spotlight: Laura Peterson
Painter
Laura Peterson is a figurative oil painter whose current body of work is focused on a person’s sense of identity. She is curious in learning more about the dichotomy between the elements that a person identifies with, vs. the things that provoke a sense of discomfort. Laura’s work speaks of human experiences and connections that are both relatable and uncomfortable in their unveiling of...
VAGINA II Artist Spotlight: Kelly Wilson
Actor
Kelly Davis Wilson is a Chicago-based actress and singer. Kelly recently performed in Ma Fille, Ma Naturelle in Tangier, Morocco for the International University Theatre Festival were her group received nominations for Best Director, Best Ensemble and Special Jury Prize. Her most notable credits include Sandy in the Jeff Award winning The Original Grease and Janey in the Jeff Nominated A...
VAGINA II Artist Spotlight: Sarai Redmond
Visual Artist
http://sarairedmond.wix.com/artwork
Sarai Redmond is a Chicago born artist who uses dreams and the organic world as inspiration for her fantastical and often offbeat pieces. In attempting to portray a sense of imagining to her audience, Sarai uses multiple mediums including oil paints, copper, found objects, and at times household ingredients. As an Anthropology student who is...
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VAGINA II Artist Spotlight: Tien Tran
Performer
www.ladiezhomejournal.tumblr.com
Tien Tran is a writer, performer and sometimes dancer from Pennsylvania. She is a member of Chicago and NYC-based sketch group, Astronaut Theatre, which has performed Earth-based comedy at Austin, Chicago and New York City Sketch Fests. A frequent face at Salonathon, Chicago’s home for genre-defying art, she can be seen as one-half of queer...
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VAGINA II Artist Spotlight: Ashley Thompson
Photographer
Ashley Thompson, whose work was shown at VAGINA, is finishing up her last year at The University of Illinois at Chicago where she is studying photography. She is currently working on a couple of pieces dealing with the pressures women face in the everyday, and the idea of being too eager to please. In the past, her work has focused on photographs replacing memory, site specific...
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VAGINA II Artist Spotlight: Jessie Winslow
Visual Artist
www.jessiewinslow.com
Jessie Winslow is a visual artist who creates mixed media paintings based on personal recollections of people she’s met in her life and travels. Her work is mannered with child-like simplicity employing the blind contour line drawing method to loosen up preconceived ideas of drawing. Winslow’s work invites the viewer to explore expression for the sake of...
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VAGINA II Artist Spotlight: Cailin Short
Installation Artist
arctheatrechicago.org
Cailin is a freelance theatre artist and florist who has a passion for nature and odd found objects. Most of her artistic inspiration comes from nicknacks found on the street, in alleys, and on beaches. With these materials Cailin discovers a mired of uses including, but not limited to, collages, mosaics and costume pieces. Cailin is the head of Design...
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VAGINA II Artist Spotlight: Irene Marquette
Performer
www.irenemarquette.com
Irene Marquette is a Chicago based writer, director and actress. Directing projects include a longstanding partnership with The Mary Kay Letourneau Players who debuted material at Chicago Sketchfest 2011 and 2012, had a celebrated run at iO in 2012 (Chicago Reader 2012 runners up for best sketch group) and created the spec pilot 15 Minutes to Obscurity. She...
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VAGINA II Artist Spotlight: Jordan Fuller
Visual Artist
http://jordanfullerphotography.com/
Jordan Fuller is a visual artist who primarily works in photography. In many aspects, her work often deals with intimacy and gender roles. As a visual creator in such an image based culture, she is focused on how gender is represented in current media. Recently she has taken an interest in creating zines and artist books. Fuller received her...
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October 2012
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September 2012
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The 2013 Ladies Empowerment Project
Are you a female performer? Are you interested in working with The Good Night Ladies? Then audition for The 2013 Ladies Empowerment Project, details below:
Audition Dates: Oct 6 12pm-4pm Oct 13 1pm-2pm (Callbacks)
Audition Location: The Theatre School at DePaul University 2135 North Kenmore Avenue Chicago, IL 60614
Category: Non-Equity Audition Pay: TBD
Description: The Good Night...
August 2012
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CUT Artist Spotlight: Justin Flocco
Justin and his company, Color Flow Productions, have been a frequent collaborator of The Good Night Ladies. We are thrilled to be screening his film ‘Nomad’ at CUT.
Why did you become a filmmaker? It began with an obsessive habit of recording every second of my life with a camcorder with friends from highschool. We would cut together short experimental shorts with footage from our...
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CUT Artist Spotlight: April Lynn
April Lynn’s amazing visual art, see more here www.aprillicks.tumblr.com, will be featured in the gallery at CUT. Here’s a little bit more about the artist herself:
Why did you first become an artist? Tell us a little bit of your journey to where you are now? I have been expressing myself through the visual arts for as long as I can remember! In 2009, humans began to provide me...
Cut Artist Spotlight: Nick Drew
Nick Drew is the founder of Red Hat Collaborative, we will be screening a music video he directed called ‘Squirrel Killer”, in addition to that Nick is the editor for The Good Night Ladies film ‘Sunday Morning’. You can check out Nick work here: www.vimeo.com/redhatfilms
Why did you become a filmmaker?I became a film maker because I am a storyteller who wants to tell...
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Cut Artist Spotlight: Ashley Thompson
Ashley’s film ‘Whisper Trip’ will be screened at ‘CUT. An Evening of Short Films’ and her photography work was last seen at The Good Night Ladies present VAGINA, you can also see her acting in The Good Night Ladies film ‘Sunday Morning’ (also being screened at CUT).
Why did you become a filmmaker? i make films because photos aren’t enough...
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July 2012
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CUT Artist Spotlight: Wonjung Bae
We are thrilled to be screening Won’s student Academy Award winning documentary ‘Vera Klement: Blunt Edge’ at CUT.
Why did you become a filmmaker?I am a storyteller before a filmmaker and a story-collector before a storyteller. I like intimate and delicate portrayal of human experiences that bind us. Why I became a filmmaker? Because I am such a sucker for good human...
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