STart Installations on Broadway

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Artist Portrait produced for Seattle Channel of painter / graphic artist Warren Dykeman.

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Excerpt from the Seattle Channel In Studio Profile on Amy O'Neal | producer/editor - Patricia O'Brien | DP - Gabriel Miller | sound design - Ollie Glatzer | PA - Joseph Walker | Music Zeke Keeble Amy O'Neal is a performer, choreographer, teacher and the co-director (along with Zeke Keeble) of locust (music/dance/video company) based in Seattle and touring nationally. Amy teaches contemporary dance technique and funk regularly at Velocity Dance Center in Seattle and has taught and/or conducted residencies at the University of Washington, University of Idaho, Idaho State University, Texas Woman's University, University of Oregon, Lane Community College (Eugene, OR), Northwest Vista College (San Antonio, TX), Cornish College of the Arts (Seattle, WA), and Dance New Amsterdam (NYC). Her work has been commissioned by Spectrum Dance Theater, Cornish Dance Theater, Moving Current in Tampa, FL, and Seattle Theatre Group (collaborating with Sonia Dawkins and Savion Glover). As a performer, she worked with the Pat Graney Co. for 3 years, was a 6-year member of Scott/Powell Performance, and performed in Mark Haims acclaimed "Goldberg Variations". Amy also frequently collaborates with musician/comedian, Reggie Watts, touring nationally in his show Disinformation. For locust, Amy has received funding from the Seattle Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs, the international DanceWEB scholarship, the Mary Levine Fund, Artist Trust , 4 Culture, the Bossak/Heilbron Charitable Foundation, the National Dance Project, the National Performance Network, and the Creative Capital Foundation. Amy was choreographer in residence at Bates Dance Festival in 2007, will be in residence at Headlands Center for the Arts in 2008, and in residence in Japan, New York, and Massachusetts through Dance Theater Workshop and the Japan Society in 2009. Amy holds a BFA in dance from Cornish College of the Arts. You can check out her company's site locustsucka.com and on myspace.com/locustsucka. Amy also likes to make dance for music videos! locustsucka.com

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Excerpt from unfinished video of the Sound Transit temporary installations on Capital Hill. Evan Blackwell's piece called life cycle.

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Stefan Gruber is a Seattle based animator. To see more his work check his web site, the fantasy pleasure complex, at www.stefangruber.com This piece was produced by Kindred Media for Nancy Guppy's Seattle Channel show In Studio. Producer - Patricia O'Brien DP - Gabriel Miller Editor - Patricia O'Brien Opening Music - Noah Dassel Thanks to: Stefan Gruber - www.stefangruber.com Nova High School - http://www.novaproj.org/ Nova Student - Danton Domike- http://robotcloud.net Ballard Public Library Curan Dory Gross Lynne White (Stefan's Mom) Brian Chapman Haruko Nishimura - Degenerate Art Ensemble Paige Barnes for use of still from Stenophobia Director Paige Barnes Group Name: Paige Barnes and The Grizzlies Photographer: David Rueter Title of Piece: Stenophobia (the fear of narrow spaces)

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Stefan Gruber, Animator Producer - Patricia O'Brien DP - Gabriel Miller Editor - Patricia O'Brien

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Tell us what you think of this short sample of our work from Verve.....

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Designer and woodworker, Laura Yeats uses domestic woods and steel to create sculptural and functional works of art. The designs are simple, modern, and timeless. In her recent work, Laura transforms dead, diseased, or unwanted trees into fine furniture, bowls and sculptural elements. She seeks inspiration from the piles of logs that surround her studio, a virtual graveyard of Seattle's natural heritage - such as the recently felled Honey Locust trees planted for the 1962 World's Fair. She gives these dead trees new life by finding and revealing their interior character and beauty and turning them into lasting, handcrafted objects. Her work is a available at Urban Hardwoods, and Ornamo. For more information visit www.yeatsdesign.com.

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Born in Utah, Ree worked for a petroleum company in Seattle and San Mateo, California, until the late 1960's when he decided to return to Seattle and retire. Along with his partner, Ree scoured western Washington for antiques and then "peddled what we could, but there really wasn't much money in it." In the mid 1970's Ree began to draw, and then paint, pictures of "no one in particular", scenes containing birds, cats, and people. Ree paints his delicate paintings onto scraps of paper, cardboard, bits of matting, brown paper bags, and just about anything else that will hold paint. "I was always interested in art," says Ree. In the late 1980's, Ree's paintings caught the attention of MIA Gallery who began to show his work. Currently, Ree is represented by Seattle-based Garde Rail Gallery, and in several galleries across the U.S. Ree is also included in 20th Century American Folk, Self-Taught, and Outsider Art by Betty-Carol Sellen.

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Midnight tangos with ghosts, journeys into the minds of suicidal insects, childhood memories set off-kilter by bad dreams: reality is sometimes elusive but always uniquely beautiful in Johanna Kunin's melodic meditations. She may sing you an infectious pop song, but not without twists of harmony and turns of phrase that set it refreshingly off the beaten track. She possesses the kind of sadly angelic voice that compels you to follow on whatever journeys she has in mind, strange though they may be. Her thoughtful, minimalist piano parts form the strong sonic backbone around which her melodies are built. She writes for the piano with a subtle complexity that calls to mind the music of Chopin or Erik Satie while still having a decidedly pop language all her own. For more information visit www.johannakunin.com or Johanna Kunin on MySpace

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"A question: if there were no past or future, no notions of racism, sexism, fascism, feminism, materialism, humanism, Christianity, Buddhism, oppression, depression, repression, indigenous resurgence, peace, war etc. If there were nothing but this moment....What would you choose to create?" Evan Flory-Barnes A composer, bassist, thinker, and kind human. Evan's passion for life and learning translates into amazing music. He plays in a number of bands in and around Seattle -- check out Threat of Beauty, The New Seattle Orchestra, Industrial Revolution, and Siendo and you can watch him jam at The Hang every Thursday at Lo-Fi in Seattle.

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Harnessing a spectrum of rich color, a strong sense of depth, and repetition of forms, Maija Fiebig creates paintings that transport and move the viewer with their beauty and the other-worldly environments she creates. Fiebig is currently working with paint and canvas after a period of years working with fabric, glue, sugar, resins, office labels, even cake crystals in addition to paint and canvas. Those paintings were noteworthy for their complexity, richness and depth, and Fiebig is now creating works with some of those same strengths, but greater simplicity. Fiebig is a Seattle native who spent her student years in Bellingham and now resides on Queen Anne, where she spent her childhood. She is represented by G. Gibson Gallery. www.maijafiebig.com

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Robert Hardgrave has inhabited the city of Seattle for the past 15 years. He adores coffee, delicious breakfasts, and listening to metal. Most days you can find Robert painting at his studio in Ballard, adorned with headphones, jacked up on caffeine. As a self-developed artist, Robert creates work both highly intricate and abundant with personal symbols. Inspired by experiences from disease and recovery, his paintings and drawings reflect ideas of reincarnation and the richness of life beyond death. Robert is represented by BLK/MRKT Gallery in Culver City, CA with an upcoming solo show in November, 2007. He has exhibited nationally and internationally, had work featured in books and magazines, and regularly does work for skateboard and snowboard companies. You can find more information about robert at farmerbobsfarm.com

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Christian French's Transitman project. Christian's Mission Statement - Growing out of my tenure as Artist-in-Residence for Sound Transit (2005-06), Transitman is a personal project assessing the role of the individual in society, exploring the public vs. hidden natures of being an artist, and embodying the idea of commuting as an act of heroism any citizen can perform. A meditation on the power of choice, and the ramifications of its exercise, this project expresses some of my assumptions about the hidden capacities we all have to make a difference in the world. Every act has infinite consequence. Even a simple choice like how you commute. We have the power to shape the world through our thought, speech or actions. Awakening to this potential is both liberating and unnerving. If you truly believed that you could save the world, would you do what it would take? Even if it meant walking around town in brightly colored Spandex? Careful how you answer...

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Duet Rehearsal unedited

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Dufon Smith, a.k.a. Orb/Orbit/Orbitron, is a free-style dance expressionist, as well as an MC and rapper. Dufon's crew, Circle of Fire, has been together for ten years, and can be seen and heard every Monday night at the War Room. More information about Dufon can be found on his myspace page: myspace.com/orbcircleoffirecrew

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Tina Bafaro has been tattooing since 1993. She specializes in large custom pieces that are very individual for each of her clients. The personal nature of tattooing is one of her favorite things about the art. Tattoos become a physical and mental part of the client's identity. Her pieces are varied in subject matter but her singular style shines through on each piece and she has become a widely known name in the industry as well as in the public eye. People get tattoos for many reasons, as an expression of self, a mark in time, charm or purely for the artistic aspect. Whatever the intention for the original design, her pieces flow with the body and compliment it's overall beauty. When she designs a tattoo it is a process of consultation. A project is approached in much the same way as she would approach a painting or illustration also taking into account how a design will fit on the body and be executed to withstand the test of time. The client's concept about the tattoo is integrated with her own to bring about the final piece. One of a kind well thought out pieces are her goal. Being from an artistic background with a mother who was a painter all through her childhood years she has always been interested in and encouraged to create art of all types including music and dance. She moved on to graphic design in her twenties adding to her knowledge in composition and design. Exploring different mediums for creativity and just viewing the world around all of which influence each other is a diversion that has always been in her life. Evolving and learning more fuels her belief that art is life. Tina has been featured in Tattoo Magazine's special edition "tattooing by women", Skin Art, Skin and Ink, the book "Electric tattooing by women" and the MSNBC special 'Women in Tattoo".

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Artist Portrait from Verve

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Portrait of Haruko Nishimura from Seattle Channel's show Verve. http://www.degenerateartensemble.com/

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*CHARLES KRAFFT is considered a pioneer of the "low brow" or Pop Surrealism movement. This is an alternative visual arts universe with roots in California custom car culture, surfing culture and '60s era underground comix. It*s a streetwise aesthetic that has been evolving and spreading out across the globe while remaining still overlooked by most mainstream art critics, museum curators and historians. He is the inventor of DISASTERWARE* ( blue and white commemorative ceramics informed by violence, politics, and natural catastrophies) and SPONE* (custom human bone china reliquaries made from crematory ash). Krafft is self-taught. His shrewd art and informal lifestyle evolved out of long friendships with the reclusive painter of startled birds, Morris Graves (l910-2001) and the crackerjack Hollywood hot rod hero, Von Dutch (l926-l992). He can get down with any militantly aesthetic easel painter, multi-media maestro or wooly potter, but when it comes to the mechanics of art making Krafft prefers the company of criminals, undertakers and blue haired grannies. With an excerpt from "What About Charlie...?," the only film made about Fishtown - by Joe McCarthy 1968. www.mccarthycommunication.com to find our more about Charles Krafft visit: http://www.antiquesatoz.com/artatoz/krafft/about.htm

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