An Art Party at The Home Of in Beautiful Gowanus
8pm, December 14, 2011
Free with free drinks
Please email contact@thehomeof.org to RSVP and to find out our location.

Poetry by John Coletti, Corina Copp and Christine Kanownik.
Music by Nathan Bontrager and Julianne Carney
Monologues by Michael O’Brien, Jordan Coughtry and Catherine McNelis.
Art by Katya Grokhovsky, Leah Schrager, and Paige Taggart

Photos from the event:

BIOS
Visual Artists:

Katya Grokhovsky (video in yellow room) was born in Odessa, Ukraine and moved to Melbourne, Australia in 1992. She has an MFA (2011) from School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she majored in Sculpture and minored in Photography and Performance Art. Grokhovsky’s work has been exhibited in Australia, USA, UK and Europe. She has traveled extensively, partaking in various residencies and performance art events and received awards and scholarships, such as Freedman Traveling Scholarship and SAIC Graduate International Scholarship. Most recently, Grokhovsky was an artist in residence at Robert Wilson’s Watermill Center, New York, where she was commissioned to create a major installation/performance project for the annual benefit and Open House. She is a director and founder of Art Space, The Bedroom, in Brooklyn, NY.

Leah Schrager (videos and phoems in white room) is an artist based in NYC. She is the resident choreographer for Inverse Theater and the resident videographer for The Home Of. She graduated from the University of Washington with the 2007 Dean’s Medal in the Arts. She is on staff at the Performance Club NYC. You can read and see all about her at www.leahschrager.com.

John Gideon (music in Be Story Free videos) has composed music for a number of theatrical productions, including seven traveling Broadway shows, as well as all the plays and musicals of Kirk Wood Bromley since 2003.

Paige Taggart (jeweler) is a poet and jeweler living in Brooklyn. She hails from Northern California, where she studied jewelry metalsmith at California College of the Arts. She was the sole employee of a jeweler in Williamsburg for 3 years, and now pursues her own business.She’s currently at work on a website, in the meantime she posts on mactaggartjewelry.blogspot.com.

Performers (in order of appearance):

John Coletti (poet) is the author of Mum Halo (Rust Buckle Books 2010),Same Enemy Rainbow (fewer & further 2008), and Physical Kind (Yo-Yo-Labs 2005). He recently served as editor of The Poetry Project Newsletter and co-edits Open 24 Hours Press with Greg Fuchs.

Catherine McNelis (monologist) has acted in five Inverse Theater productions. Apparently that means something.

Corina Copp (poet) hails from Lawrence, KS, Boulder, CO, and New Orleans, LA. She is most recently the author of the e-book, Carpeted (Faux Press, 2004) and Play Air (Belladonna* Books, 2005). Her poems and reviews have appeared or are forthcoming from Fence, The Germ, The Poetry Project Newsletter, Pom2, and Magazine Cypress. She was the Monday Night Reading Series Coordinator at the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church, and currently lives in Brooklyn.

Michael (Mick) O’Brien (monologist) – Recent NYC highlights have included playing Carl Jung in Carey Harrison’s Scenes From a Misunderstanding (UTC#61) in the Festival of Jewish Theater and Ideas and at the historic Byrdcliffe Theater in Woodstock, a concert reading of Stephen Schwartz’s Seance on a Wet Afternoon (American Opera Projects), the critically acclaimed Notes From Underground (The Brick – Michael Gardner, dir.), Scenes From an Execution, Mad Forest (Julia Beardsley, dir.), Antigone, and Arcadia (all QED Productions), World Gone Wrong (Gemini Collisionworks), Greed: A Musical Love Story (The Brick – Robert Honeywell, dir.), Nevada Territory (DM-Theatrics – Frank Cwiklik, dir.), and Dracularama (Alternative Theatre Machine).

Christine Kanownik (poet) lives in Brooklyn. Her poems, reviews and artwork have been featured in Little Red Leaves, 42Opus, Shampoo, Moria, Delirious Hem and Another Chicago Magazine.

Jordan Coughtry (monologist) has acted with a number of theater companies, including New Jersey Shakespeare and Hoi Polloi.

Nathan Bontrager (cellist): Nathan Bontrager is a cellist and educator. Currently based out of New Haven, CT, he performs frequently in the New York/New Haven area in addition to touring both nationally and internationally. He has collaborated frequently with composers and performers such as Carl Testa, James Ilgenfritz, Al Margolis, and others. Bontrager has also performed with Anthony Braxton, Michael Moore, the Tri-Centric Orchestra, Taylor Ho Bynum, Kyoko Kitamura, Hugues Vincent, and many others in venues such as the Stone, Roulette, Zaal 100, and Bab-ilo. He can be found at www.nathanbontrager.com

Julianne Carney (violinist): Julianne Carney is a violinist who has performed with Jay Z at Radio City Music Hall and at Royal Albert Hall, recorded with Sufjan Stevens for his album Illinois, and has appeared onstage with Beyonce, Jenny Scheinman, Bill Frisell, Adam Matta (beatbox), Ambitious Orchestra, Luminescent Orchestrii, My Brightest Diamond (formerly AwRY), & Duane Pitre/Pilotram Ensemble. She conducted a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship “wanderjahr” in Europe from August 2001 – July 2002 & received her Bachelor of Music in Violin Performance, Summa Cum Laude, at Lawrence University, in Appleton, WI. Julianne teaches violin at the Brooklyn Conservatory, where she is Director of the Suzuki Division, and at Brooklyn College Preparatory Center, and has completed extensive teacher training in the Suzuki Method.

Kirk Wood Bromley (writer of monologues) is a playwright and artistic director of Inverse Theater Company (www.inversetheater.org), co-curator of the The Home Of (www.thehomeof.org), co-operator of The Performance Club (www.theperformanceclub.org), and co-musician and lyricist for The New Cigarette (www.thenewcigarette.org). He can be reached at verseplays@gmail.com.