Westbeth celebrates the Westbeth artists whose personal journeys intersected with their art practice creating work that broadened our world.

Barbara Hammer photographer and filmmaker

Hammer was an American feminist film director, producer, writer, and cinematographer. One of the pioneers of lesbian film genre, whose career spanned over 50 years, Hammer is known for having created experimental films dealing with women’s issues such as gender roles, lesbian relationships and coping with aging.
Links:
Barbara Hammer Website
Internet Movie Database
The Brooklyn Museum

David Del Tredici composer

David Walter Del Tredici is an American composer. He has won a Pulitzer Prize for Music and is a former Guggenheim and Woodrow Wilson fellow. Del Tredici is considered a pioneer of the Neo-Romantic movement.
Links:
David Del Tredici Website
Westbeth Icon Film: David Del Tredici
Harvard Library Collection

Kate Walter writer

Kate Walter’s books, newspaper articles and essays explore heartbreak, the pandemic, urban gardening and more. Her books include “Looking for A Kiss” which chronicles the breakup of a decades long gay partnership, and “Behind the Mask”.
Links:
Kate Walter Website
Profile in Arts: Kate Walter
Amazon Books

Edward Field poet

Edward Field won an Academy Award for writing narration for the documentary film To Be Alive (1965). His other awards include the Lamont Award from the Academy of American Poets, the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, the Prix de Rome , and the Lambda Literary Award.
Links:
Westbeth Icon Film: Edward Field
Wikipedia
Poets.org
Profile in Arts: Edward Field

Karen Ludwig actress, playwright, filmmaker

Karen Ludwig has appeared in films including “Manahttan” , wrote plays produced by HB Studios, and produced and directed a film, “Uta Hagen’s Acting Class”, about the legendary acting teacher. She has led a group of women writers and performers called Stories Around the Table for over 40 years.
Links:
New School for Drama
Westbeth Artist Page
Wikipedia

David Greenspan actor and playwright

David Greenspan who has won numerous awards for his acting and playwriting including 7 Obie Awards has been described as “a classicist in experimental clothing” for his unique, mesmerizing performances.
Links:
Two River Theater
David Greenspan: Profiles in Art
Broadway World

Carole Byard painter, illustrator, sculptor

Carole Byard received multiple Coretta Scott King Award for her visual work as well as being an award-winning illustrator of children’s books, and the recipient of a Caldecott Honor Award.
Links:
The Rent Series at NYPL
Wikipedia
Goodreads

Barton Benes artist

Barton Benes was an artist whose work interrogated loss, mourning, grief and release through sculpture and collage, often juxtaposing the trivial with the sublime to create work of unimaginable beauty and conception.
Links:
Artsy.net
NY Times: Benes Apartment a Work of Art
Wikipedia

Roger Braimon artist and illustrator

Roger Braimon’s rich and expressive watercolors filled with vibrant blocks of color explore issues of display and private spectacle. Roger also served for many years as the President of the Westbeth Artists Residents Council and is its in-house graphic designer.
Links:
Roger Braimon Website
Profile in Arts: Roger Braimon
Westbeth Artist Page