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N I C O L E G A R N E A U
Nicole Garneau is a Chicago-based performance and
conceptual artist. Nicole is a Rogers Park resident
and has worked with Insight Arts since 1994 as a
resident artist, teaching artist, and board member.
Nicole staffs the Arts in Youth and Community
Development concentration of Columbia College
Chicago's Master's in Arts Management. She also serves
on the board of the National Performance Network.
Nicole holds a B.A. in Theater from the University of
Illinois at Chicago and an M.A. in Interdisciplinary
Art from Columbia College Chicago. Her web site is
www.nicolegarneau.com.
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D A V I D A I N G R A M
Chicago-native Davida Ingram is a cultural worker who writes, occasionally does performances and lives in Seattle. Her research areas of interest are gender studies, feminisms, Cultural Studies, contemporary visual art and HIV/AIDS
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L E E A N N N O R M A N
Lee Ann Norman is an educator, interdisciplinary artist, and cultural worker who is interested in the ways artistic practice, race and ethnicity, class, and culture collide in contemporary art and how those interactions affect cultural policies. Currently, Lee Ann works as a senior arts coordinator for the city of Chicago, teaches a visual arts survey course to youth on the city's west side, and helps plan and facilitate programs at the Experimental Station in Chicago's Woodlawn community. In addition, she recently deepened her involvement with Beyondmedia Education by joining the board of directors. Ms. Norman has a Bachelor of Music Education degree from Michigan State University and a Master of Arts Management degree from Columbia College Chicago. |
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K Y M O L S E N
Kym Olsen is a performance artist whose primary focus is a collaboration with Trevor Martin. In addition, she creates solo work and performance installations that have been shown in a varitey Midwest and Northeastern locations. Outside of performance work, she has served on N.A.M.E. Gallery's Time Arts Committee, Insight Arts' Women's Performance Jam, has volunteered for New Haven's Independent Film Festival and independently organized performance events at (untitled) space, a contemporary art gallery in New Haven, Connecticut and Insight Arts in Chicago. She has taught part-time at the School of the Art Institute and been a visiting artist at several Universities including Columbia College and Transylvania University, and held performance workshops at Links Hall and the Spareroom in Chicago. Currently, Kym lives in San Francisco.
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Coman Poon is a communications and development professional with a background in the philanthropy and government and stakeholder relations. Working within and outside of the funding equation in Canada and the United States, his passion for the third sector resonates the most strongly with youth, arts, community media and grassroots activism.
In Toronto, he co-hosted and produced the first decade of Sex City, a ground-breaking sex-positive weekly talk radio program that explored the intersections between sex, sexuality, culture and politics. With Chicago-based Diana McKay/Dion Walton, he co-founded Gender Impressions, an arts-centered social enterprise for trans and gender non-conforming youth interested in developing skills in gender performance.
Coman is a theater and performance artist who also holds a private practice as an Expressive Arts therapist. He prizes asset-based initiatives as an effective way of increasing individual capacity and developing social cohesion within and across marginalized and complex groups. Through diverse interdiscilpinary modes of art-activist practice, Coman strives to create transfomative connections between the personal, the communal, the political and the metaphysical.
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A I S L I N N P U L L E Y
Aislinn Pulley is a performance artist, poet and visual artist. She is a founding member of Insight Arts, as well as a member of the performance ensemble, End of the Ladder. She is a founding and former member of the performance ensemble Edges. She is a founder of the young women's performance ensemble, Visibility Now and also the founder and creator of urban youth magazine Underground Philosophy. Aislinn has received a couple of awards, some of which include a Congressional award in art and an award from the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts for her poetry. Currently, Aislinn is serving as the President of the Board of Insight Arts. |
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A H A L Y A S A T K U N A R A T N A M
Ahalya Satkunaratnam is a dancer, educator, activist and former Art Education Director of Insight Arts. She currently is pursuing her Ph.D. in Dance History and Theory through the Department of Dance at University of California Riverside. Her research is on Bharata Natyam dance practices in Colombo, Sri Lanka and studies the intersections of war, identity and cultural production. She received her B.A in Political Science from Loyola University Chicago.
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