Petra Bachmaier
Petra Bachmaier,(multi-media artist), has been collaborating with her partner Sean Gallero for over ten years, together they are known as Luftwerk.Their work combines the visual elements of light and projected video with the sculptural facets of architecture and design. Through their work, Luftwerk transforms and creates settings that enhance visual and temporal experiences that invite viewers to be spectators as well as participants. Their work has been exhibited in unique and diverse locations including Frank Lloyd Wright’s Robie House and Fallingwater; Chicago’s Millennium Park; P3 Studio in Las Vegas; the Emirates Palace in Abu Dhabi; and an abandoned Woolworth’s store in New Orleans. Ms. Bachmaier graduated with a BFA in performance from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and received her MFA from the Academy of Fine
Arts in Hamburg, Germany.
Works: ASCENDance (2013); Dance of Forgotten Steps (2010); Earthly Tongues (2008)
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Barbara Cooper
Barbara Cooper (Sculptor) Barbara Cooper works fluidly between sculpture and drawing. The opportunity to work on a big scale, focusing on flow and movement within the context of space and structure is what lies at the heart of this second collaboration with Hedwig Dances. Numerous one-person exhibitions include the Bellevue Arts Museum, Washington, (color catalogue), Gerald Peters Gallery in Santa Fe, the Chicago Cultural Center, and the John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. While working primarily with wood veneer, residencies at Pilchuck, the Kohler Arts/Industry Program, and the Johnson Atelier gave opportunities to explore glass, cast iron and bronze, extending her vocabulary into diverse media. Further scale and media explorations can be seen in public art commissions for the Avalon Branch Library (Chicago) and the Chicago Transit Administration, the Rhode Island Airport in Providence, and the Library at Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Meyers. A Chicago resident, Cooper has received three Illinois Arts Council Fellowships. Barbara received her BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art and her MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art.
Works: ASCENDance (2013); Dance of Forgotten Steps (2010)
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Bernard Chin
Wilhelm Hahn
Wilhelm was a visual artist and a native of South Africa. He passed away in Cape Town in 2008
Works: Fever Tales (1991); Flight/Fight Dance (1991)
Alice Hargrave
Alice Hargrave is a photographic artist and educator; she has had several one-person & group exhibitions, including two one-person shows at The Chicago Cultural Center (1991, 1998). She exhibits & is collected both nationally & internationally, and is included in the collections of The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Nuveen Corporation, Outer Circle Corporation, and Rush Presbyterian Hospital among others. Her work has been seen at The Smart Museum of Art (Chicago, IL.), The Tweed Museum of Art, The Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Yale University Art Gallery, Klein Gallery, and Carol Ehlers Gallery. Hargrave has received several awards for her work; she has been published and reviewed in many journals. Currently she is an adjunct professor at Columbia College, Chicago.
Works: Dancing in My Mother’s Skin (1991)
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David Christopher Krause
Set Designer for Short Stories & Earthly Tongues, David Christopher Krause was reared and educated in North Carolina, studying mechanical engineering and filmmaking and worked in both fields before relocating to Chicago in 2000. He honed his talents as Artistic Engineer for Redmoon Theater for four years building and designing for such shows as Salao: The Worst Kind of Unlucky, Cyrano and Sink, Sank, Sunk as well as innumerable parades and mainstage shows. He also designed for film, television and corporate clients. He currently runs his own company “big works” specializing in scenic design and construction. He is currently production designer for the IFP award winning short On the Rope. He is proud to be a contributor to Hedwig Dances current production.
Works: Short Stories (2006); Earthly Tongues (2008)
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Daniel Kullman
Daniel Kullman (Video Design) co-founded Bitter Jester Creative in 2004, working as a cinematographer and editor. Recently, Daniel was nominated for a Regional Emmy as cinematographer and co-producer for his commercial work with Ravinia Festival and was co-winner of a 2012 and 2013 Emmy for Live Event Coverage, Edited for the Chicago Restaurant Pastry Competition. Since 2008 Daniel has worked as a cinematographer on dance films with many of the films playing at festivals across the country. In 2009, Daniel and his production company worked with Hedwig Dances on their first dance film, Arch of Repose. In 2012, Daniel traveled with the company to Cuba as part of a documentary exploring the roots of ethnic and contemporary dance. That partnership has continued as Hedwig Dances pursues a cross-cultural collaboration with the Cuban dance ensemble, DanzAbierta. Working on dance films and has allowed Daniel to explore the visual possibilities of movement on camera and the narrative links between dance and film.
Works: Trade Winds/Aires de Cambio (2014); Arch of Repose (2009); Touch Cuba (2012)
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Philip Livingston
Philip Livingston is a sculptor/designer with ties to theatre and architecture. His work explores themes of memory, the tension between reality and illusion, the relationship of physical to spiritual, gravity and lightness, and other perplexing contrasts. Livingston has a B.A. from Brown University and an M.F.A. from the University of Wisconsin. He is a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome. His sculpture is in the collections of the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; the Knoxville Museum of Art; the Knoxville Convention Center; the Tennessee Valley Authority (on three sites); Oakton Community College, Des Plaines, IL; and many private collections. He has been represented by Adele Rosenberg Gallery, Chicago; Ward-Nasse Gallery, New York; Sonia Zaks Gallery, Chicago; James Tigerman Gallery, and Perimeter Gallery, Chicago.
Works: Wet Dreams (2006)
Nadia Oussenko
Nadia Oussenko is a Chicago-based choreographer, filmmaker, photographer, and educator. She has been combining her training in choreography and interest in film since 2004. Oussenko has had her works featured nationally and internationally, and she has collaborated with a number of Chicago artists. She holds an MFA in Dance at the University of Illinois.
Works: Trade Winds/Aires de Cambio (2014)
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Jean Parisi
Jean Parisi is an artist, performer, director, and clown. She has developed arts-integrated curricula, conducted visual and performing arts residencies including extensive work with special populations, and provided professional development since 1976. Parisi has performed extensively in the Chicago area: with the Pros Arts Ensemble on school stages and neighborhood parks, in Italy with the Italian American Theater, and on “TV Pros,” a children’s series on CAN TV. Her illustrations are a monthly feature in the Fra Noi newspaper. Parisi has an MFA in Performance and a BFA in Sculpture. She is the recipient of the Public/Community Service Award from the Illinois Alliance for Arts Education, an IAC Artists Fellowship, and several Neighborhood Arts Project grants from the City of Chicago. Polka, The I Depend on Tango
Eileen Ryan
Eileen has been a professional photographer and exhibiting artist for over 20 years. She has travelled the world with her camera, both photographing and exhibiting. Eileen has a Master of Fine Arts from The School of the Art Institute, is the recipient of numerous grants and has taught photography to children from the age of five to college and beyond.
Works: A Room of Wishes (1988)
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Lincoln Schatz
Lincoln Schatz is a contemporary American artist living in Chicago, Illinois. He is best known for his pioneering works that create portraits of people, places, and processes utilizing video and software to collect, store, and display images. Work by Lincoln Schatz has been exhibited at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC; bitforms gallery, New York and Seoul; CONNERSMITH., Washington, DC; Armory Show, New York; Hearst Tower, New York; 21c, Cincinnati; Sundance Film Festival, Utah; Think 21 Contemporary, Brussels; PULSE, Miami; ARCO, Madrid; Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco; Gallery Simon, Seoul; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; Quint Contemporary Art, La Jolla.
Works: Shadowed Ground (1999)
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Bill Swartz
Works: Amma (2000)
Don Seiden
Don Seiden is an artist, art educator and pioneer of art therapy in the Midwest. His artwork has appeared in over thirty-five solo and group shows as well as in private collections, and his work and home have been featured in numerous local and national publications.In addition to founding the art therapy department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, he has also served as a former chair for the sculpture, art education and art therapy departments at SAIC. Seiden is co-author ofDirect Metal Sculpture and author of Mind Over Matter,author and illustrator of Artobiography, and co-author of the just-released Art Works: How Making Art Illuminates Your Life, with Amy G. Davis.
Works: Flight Distance (1986)
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Blair Thomas
Blair Thomas started his first puppet company The Palace Puppeteers when he was 10 years old and for three years toured churches and schools in his home town of Jacksonville, Alabama. The second company he started was Redmoon Theater in 1989, where he served as the artistic director and co-artistic director until 1998, during which time he was principal in the creation of all its productions, parades and pageants. He has now full heartedly returned to the puppet theater with the founding of his current company Blair Thomas & Company in 2002. Twice he has received the international UNIMA awards for excellence in the art of puppetry and twice awarded the Illinois Arts Council Fellowship awards. He was the first artist to fill the Jim Henson Artist-in-Residence position at the University of Maryland and currently teaches puppetry at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He is a drop out from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music but a graduate of Oberlin College.
Works: Sleep of Reason (2005)
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Lynda White
Lynda White is a professional artist, designer & stylist working with ceramics, paintings, drawings and masks.
Works: Falling Into the Sky (1996)
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