Education, Training
2023
Certificate: Brooklyn Public Library – Brooklyn, NY
Heritage Ambassador Program, Artist Cohort
Professional Development Workshop Series:
Archival practices, grant writing, public programming development,
marketing for artists, oral history fieldwork
2021
M.A. - Columbia University
Oral History
2015
B.S. - Fredonia, State University of New York -
Sensory Studies and Application (Interdisciplinary Studies, Self-Design)
Light, color, sound, movement-based practices and research.
Theory and performance practice
Group dynamics
Butoh, Noguchi Taiso / Performance Training – Various
T’ai Chi, Movement, Stage Performance – W Terry Beck
Music Improvisation - Dr. David Rudge – Music For People
Awards, Scholarships
2021
Diversity Project Grant - Office of Academic Diversity & Inclusion -
Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, Columbia University
2019
DCA Art Fund Grant – Council on the Arts and Humanities for Staten Island
2018
DCA Art Fund Grant – Council on the Arts and Humanities for Staten Island
2017
DCA Premier Grant – Council on the Arts and Humanities for Staten Island
The Ume Group: Ren Gyo Soh Winter Training – Let Wave Us – Yokko
Select Exhibitions
2023
Brooklyn Folk: Voices From NYC’s International Folk Music Traditions — Brooklyn Public Library, Park Slope Branch (Brooklyn, NY)
2021
Listen Here… - Columbia University Oral History M.A. Department (Online)
There's a lot to say so we'll say this - solo pop-up - Bessie’s Brooklyn (Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY)
2020
Ethereal Epiphany - 33 Contemporary (Online / ARTSY)
Embrace - Farmingdale State College (Online)
2019
To Perseverate - solo pop-up - Areté Venue & Gallery (Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY)
YouTooCanWoo Gallery (Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY)
Resonance no. 1 - Happy Lucky no. 1 (Crown Heights, Brooklyn, NY)
2018
LEIMAY - SOAK - CAVE Block Party (Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY)
YES I AM IN HERE – UNFIX NYC (NYC, NY)
2017
MVMT : Sketches – solo exhibition – Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art (Staten Island, NY)
Burlesque Imitates Art - [be]muse (New Orleans, LA)
2016
MVMTMVMTMVMT – solo pop-up – The Living Gallery (Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY)
Tribute to the Disappeared – Andrea Arroyo – The Halls at Bowling Green – (NYC, NY)
A Day In the Life of Staten Island, SI MakerSpace (Staten Island, NY)
Juried: Staten Island Triennial of Photography, Alice Austen House (Staten Island, NY)
2015
still-moving, Emmitt Christian Gallery (Fredonia, NY)
MVMTMVMT Installation - Daniel A. Reed Library (Fredonia, NY)
The Lost Marbles Salon – Identity – The Cloud Club (Boston, MA)
1999
0 to 9: Artists Born in the 1990s – MoMA PS1 (LIC, Queens, NY)
Collections
Areté Gallery – Flat Files Program (Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY)
AI-AP : Latin American Fotografía 2018 (Digital)
Tribute to the Disappeared - Andrea Arroyo (Digital)
Performance, Screenings
2022
Oral History interview-derived soundscapes
A Meal - Art Dir. LEIMAY - HERE Arts Center (NYC, NY)
2021
A Meal - Art Dir. LEIMAY - HERE Arts Center (NYC, NY)
UNFIX NYC (Online)
‘The Tyranny of Kindness’ Zack Fuller Dance Performance
Woodstock Shivastan Poetry Ashram: Book Store, Art Gallery & Giftshop (Woodstock, NY)
2020
Fisk University Jubilee Day Convocation - Keynote Presentation by Civil Rights Icon Angeline Butler (Online)
Correspondences - Astor Place - art dir. LEIMAY - #stillhere IRL (NYC, NY)
HERE RAW / Resident Artist Works - A Meal - art dir. LEIMAY (NYC, NY)
2019
Performer for Humberto Díaz “It’s All In Your Head” - Tabula Rasa, The Watermill Center Summer Gala 2019 (Hamptons, NY)
Lower Eastside Girls Club of NY - Spring Fling Gala, performance with Sylva Dean and Me - Ventiko (NYC, NY)
Butoh Festival Amsterdam - music accompaniment by Brittany Anjou - Teatro Munganga (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
“Daffodil” - shadow puppeteer, dancer - art dir. Karen Zasloff - Bushwick Book Club 10 Year Anniversary (Brooklyn, NY)
2018
heart-strung - live score by Brittany Anjou - Kathy Moore Presents: Synthesis New and Experimental Music (Seattle, WA)
Sylva Dean And Me - Ventiko - Superfine! Art Fair (Washington D.C.)
heart-strung - live score by Brittany Anjou - Shinka Cabaret by Ren Gyo Soh - Benefit for the World Wildlife Fund (NYC, NY)
Messengers Divinos - a meditation on space, time, and impermanence - Art. Dir. Ivan Espinosa - Studios at La Mama (NYC, NY)
New York Restoration Project (Bette Midler), Summer Gala – art dir. LEIMAY (NYC, NY)
The Watermill Center Winter Gala : Northern Lights, Zac Posen, Robert Wilson – ft. Phillip Glass – art. dir. LEIMAY (NYC, NY)
2017
LEIMAY Winter Gala : KALAVINKA – ft. Meredith Monk (Brooklyn, NY)
SHE NEVER MADE IT TO BERLIN - MVMTMVMT – Socrates Sculpture Park (LIC, NY)
Living Sculpture Garden – Socrates Sculpture Park (LIC, NY)
Atlas Obscura – The Great Forgotten Garden Party, Untermyer Park & Gardens (Yonkers, NY)
Green Festival Expo – Jacob Javits Center (NYC, NY)
“bone chorus” – Lokasparśa Dance Projects - (Woodstock NY) (NYC, NY)
UNFIX NYC (NYC, NY)
St. George Day / Earth Day Festival (Staten Island, NY)
Butoh & Beyond : Diego Piñón – Coney Island USA (Brooklyn, NY)
2016
Performance Anxiety, curated by Ventiko – Chinatown Soup (NYC, NY)
The Longest Night – Holly Chernobyl / Night Parade - DfbrL8r (Chicago, IL)
I Feel The Earth Move – Lucy Kerr – IDIO Gallery (Brooklyn, NY)
Butoh Performance In Peace – Vigil 4 Peace & Ecology 15th Anniversary, Naumburg Bandshell – Central Park (NYC, NY)
The Ume Group – Dream Dances – Physical Theater Intensive Conclusion (NYC, NY)
The Eccentrics Performance Program – Kira Nova / Ieva Misevičiūtė, SculptureCenter (LIC, Queens, NY)
DanceArtVideo // #impulsenocontrol, Otion Front Studio (Brooklyn, NY)
2014
Rock the Cradle or Cradle the Rock? - Florence Poulain – Deep Tanks Butoh, Alice Austen House (Staten Island, NY)
2010
Uryonstelaii - No Longer Empty - Pablo Helguera (Governor’s Island, NY)
Curation
2019
Performance Anxiety - collaboration with birdhaus & MVMTprojects, Ventiko (NYC, NY)
2018
Coney Island Ritual Cabaret Festival – Int’l Culture Lab (Brooklyn NY)
2017
MVMTMVMT Festival– Socrates Sculpture Park (LIC, NY)
2012 - 15
Curator, Installation, Operations - birdhaus Arts Space (Dunkirk, NY)
2011 - 13
Music Director - Mandragoras Arts Space - MAAS (Queens, NY)
Lectures, Workshops, Residencies
2023
Heritage Ambassador Program, Artist Cohort – Brooklyn Public Library (Brooklyn, NY)
Lecture: Visual Research Conference, Society for Visual Anthropology –
American Anthropological Association Meeting (Toronto, Canada)
Residency: Heritage Ambassador Artist – Brooklyn Public Library (Brooklyn, NY)
Lecture: European Social Sciences History Conference (ESSHC) – University of Gothenburg (Gothenburg, Sweden)
Career Conversations: Oral History M.A., Columbia University (New York, NY)
European Social Sciences History Conference: ESSHC - Gothenburg University (Gothenburg, Sweden)
2021
Recipe Storytelling Circle & Japanese Bookbinding Workshop with Irena Romendik -
A Meal - Art Dir. LEIMAY - HERE Arts Center, New York Restoration Project, Various. (NYC, NY)
Panel Moderator - UNFIX NYC (Online)
Panel Chair - Oral History & Movement of the Body - Paper Session - Oral History Association Annual Meeting (Online)
2020
Roosevelt University, Murray-Green Library - Guest Lecture (Chicago, IL)
Animamus Arts Salon - Guest Lecture, performance (Brooklyn, NY)
Florida Holocaust Museum - Keynote Presentation (St. Petersburg, FL)
2018
House of Tangerine Dreams - New Orleans, LA
Ailfionn Studios – Drumcondra, Dublin, Ireland
2017
Artist Lecture - MVMT with guest panelist Ventiko -
Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art (Staten Island, NY)
Masks for MVMT: Makers Workshop – Teaching Artist, Socrates Sculpture Park (LIC, NY)
Socrates Sculpture Park – LIC/Queens, NY
earthBODYment – Lasqueti Island, BC, Canada
In Print
2024
Oral History Transcript Excerpt with MLK Collaborator Angeline Butler – Greenpoint Star (Brooklyn, NY)
2021
sheddingsomethingshedding
Vol. i, ii, iii (Limited Proofs)
2020
Accordion Babes Calendar 2020 - Susan Hwang, March
2019
Marietta Magazine vol. ii – Interview by Audrey Dimola – Pub. Analog Cinema
2018
Marietta Magazine vol. i – Pub. Analog Cinema
2016
NYSAI – Literary Magazine – “Anti-Verse” – Summer 2016
2014
Chautauqua County Visitor’s Guide (NY)
Author Photo, Book, Got Abstract? Vincent Quatroche
2011 - 14
Various, Newspaper, The Leader (Fredonia, NY)
Related Professional Experience
2021
Photographer for Chun Hua Catherine Dong, I Have Been There — New York (NYC, NY)
2019 - 20
Exhibition Coordinator - Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect / Anne Frank Center USA (NYC, NY)
2016 - 20
International Judge – Art Competition – Peace Pals International (Int’l)
2016
Installation Artist, Kaylee Boyer for fashion designer Runa Ray - The Space at Skylight Clarkson Sq.
New York Fashion Week (NYC, NY)
Installation Assistant - Patrick Dougherty - Stickwork, McKee Botanical Garden (Vero Beach, FL)
2015 - 17
Photography Assistant – John Turner Photo Rep. - Troy Word, Nick Suttle
2014 - 17
Photography Assistant, Webmaster – Kristopher Johnson
2012
Installation Assistant - Hudson River Park Gala (NYC, NY)