Monami Nandy is a senior disciple of guru Sharmila Biswas, having gleaned from her a warm and unabashed style of Odissi. As a senior repertory member of guru Biswas’ Odissi Vision Movement Centre (Kolkata), Monami has danced at major festivals across India and internationally. In addition to Odissi, Monami is versed in several folk dances …
Raised in a home where art was a way of life, my love for creativity runs deep. As a student of finance at Trinity College Dublin, I find balance between the analytical and the artistic. My latest piece is a sound exploration that captures both chaos and calm. It layers different sounds, including soothing ASMR …
Last summer, I was part of the collaborative, experimental sound art residency Field Kitchen Academy in Perleberg, Germany (outside of Berlin), studying with sonic thinker and composer Sam Auinger. I created some works with the female-identifying and non-binary residents, recording their voices individually in an 1830s old rusted barn silo. The inside of the silo had a swastika chalked on wall from vandals. We made a new drawing transforming the hate symbol into something positive and used our voices to embody the space into one that was more inclusive. Our residency theme was the Voice as Object, the Object (h)as Voice and each participant repeated the phrase in their 1st language.
Photo by Anais Anderson Colette Copeland is a interdisciplinary visual artist, arts educator, social activist and cultural critic/writer whose work examines issues surrounding gender, death and contemporary culture. Sourcing personal narratives and popular media, she utilizes video, photography, performance and sculptural installation to question societal roles and the pervasive influence of media, and technology on …
Website: www.colettecopeland.com https://vimeo.com/user8477735 Education Teaching Experience Volunteer Work Solo/2 Person Exhibitions 2025 TBD –“Soundings–Let Your Voice Be Heard”, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas April – “Soundings–Let Your Voice Be Heard”, Oak Cliff Cultural Center, Dallas, Texas 2024 September – “Soundings: India–Let Your Voice Be Heard”, Arthshila Art Center, Ahmedabad, India March – “Soundings–Let Your Voice Be …
Soundings is a collaborative community-based experimental sound installation, focusing on amplifying voices from India that have historically been silenced, specifically female, non-binary and queer voices. Each participant selects a phrase or series of short phrases of something they would like to send out into the universe–anything that is meaningful for them. Some of the participants …
Diane Durant (b. 1978) works with image, text, and found objects to tell true stories, from remaking childhood moments to exploring familial relationships and societal expectations through humor (and trophies). She is a graduate of Baylor University (BFA ’01), Dallas Theological Seminary (MA/BC ’04), and the University of Texas at Dallas (MA ’07, PhD ’13) …
Carmen Menza is an interdisciplinary artist creating fine art and technology-based installations utilizing light, painting, interactive software, music composition and sound design. Her work explores themes of time, space, color, perception and human connection. Her public and commercial installations have been created for the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, the Perot Museum of Nature and Science, Dallas, …
Juan Carlos Escobedo (B.1985 El Paso, TX) explores his identity as a brown, Mexican-American queer male, raised in a low-socioeconomic community along the US/Mexico border. His work addresses residual class and race shame that arises from living in a predominantly white structured United States which favors light-skinned individuals and middle-class and above socioeconomic classes. Escobedo …
Soundings is a collaborative community-based experimental sound installation, focusing on amplifying Texas voices that have historically been silenced, specifically female, non-binary and queer voices. Over the past year in Texas with the loss of women’s rights through the overturning of Roe vs. Wade, as well as the proposed legislation that threatens LGBTQIA+ rights, we feel …
