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SUMMARY:Westbeth Celebrates Women's History Month
DESCRIPTION:Women’s History Month at Westbeth reflects on the extraordinary contributions that Westbeth’s women artists have made to history\, art and culture.\n Those featured on the poster represents a fraction of our resident emerging and established women artists\, past and present. We have also included on this page\, other Westbeth women artists whose work has been featured on the website as Westbeth Icons\, Profiles in Arts\, and Westbeth Boldface.   \nPele Bauch dancer\nPele grew up at Westbeth and later returned with her husband and children as fully accomplished dancer and choreographer exploring indigenous Pacific Islander movement. Her work has been presented at the Brooklyn Museum\, Chocolate Factory\, Danspace Project\, HERE’s American Living Room and Best of the American Living Room\, Joyce SoHo\, Dixon Place\, BAX\, and other venues. Pele has received funding from LMCC\, Harkness Foundation\, and BAC.\nDance NYC Town Hall Discussion\nNew Dance Alliance \nMelika Dave visual artist and musician\nMelika grew up in Westbeth with her father\, a visual artist. She is a multi-media artist working in the realms of music\, poetry\, painting and design. Melika is a 2021 Still Standing Artist in Residence and the founder of the emerging artist community Public Fruit.\nMusic\nArt on the Avenue\nWebsite \nGwen Fabricant visual artist\nOnce the costume designer for the Open Theater\, Gwen’s visual work preserves and investigates the changeability and fragility of natural forms\, for which she has been awarded Joan Mitchell\, Pollack Krasner\, MacDowell Colony grants. She is a 2018 Westbeth Icon honoree.\nWestbeth artist page\nWebsite\nWestbeth Icon film \nNancy Gabor theater director and teacher\nA long-time collaborator with Joseph Chaikin as an actor in The Serpent and directing him in The War with Heaven \, Nancy was a Master Acting teacher with the New Amsterdam Theater Conservatory for 25 years. She co-founded the senior acting storytelling workshop\, You’re Never Too Old to Play\, whose most recent performance was at Little Island NYC in 2021.\nWestbeth artist page\nLittle Island Performance \nArlene Gottfried photographer and singer\nA dedicated gospel singer\, Arlene was one of the finest NYC street photographers of her generation\, receiving belated recognition for her candid photographs of people in under-represented neighborhoods. Her books include Mommie\, “Midnight\, and Sometimes Overwhelming\, and is currently on exhibit at the Daniel Cooley Fine Art Gallery\, NYC.\nWikipedia\nDaniel Cooley Fine Art\nWebsite \nPenny Jones puppeteer\nPenny and her company since the 1970’s specializes in puppet shows for the very young\, and puppet ballets. Her company has performed at the Henson International Puppet Festival and at Avery Fischer Hall\, Currently her work is included in Puppets of New York\, at the Museum of the City of New York. She is a 2017 Westbeth Icon honoree.\nWebsite\nPuppets of New York\nWestbeth Icon film \nChristina Maile visual artist and writer\nChristina co-founded the Westbeth Playwrights Feminist Collective. Her Garden for Children with Aids was published in Landscape Architecture Magazine. She won two Chaikin Writing Awards\, and a Pollack Krasner Foundation Grant for her printmaking which explores her Dayak and West Indian heritage. She is a member of Stories Around the Table which will perform in April 2022\, and of the Westbeth Board of Directors.\nWebsite\nWestbeth Playwrights Feminist Collective\nChaikin Writing Award \nGloria Miguel actor and playwright\nGloria is Kuna/Rappahannock and co-founder of Spiderwoman Theater Company\, the first Native American theater group. Touring extensively in Spiderwoman productions\, as well in her own one woman shows\, she also taught drama workshops at Navaho Nation Reservations. In Spring 2022\, she will perform Spiderwoman Theater’s Misdemeanor Dreams  at La Mama ETC\, NYC. Gloria is a 2018 Westbeth Icon honoree.\nSpiderwoman Theater\nWikipedia\nWestbeth Icon film \nMadeleine ‘Yayodele’ Nelson musician\nYayodele\, composer\, and crafter of the group’s instruments\, was the founder of the “Women of the Calabash”\, whose music drew on the roots of Caribbean\, and African music to underscore issues of liberation and civil rights. As a solo artist\, Yayodele was featured by Paul Simon on The Rhythm of the Saints\, and taught master classes at Julliard and at the Fresh Air Fund Camp in Fishkill NY.\nWomen of the Calabash performance\nWestbeth Artist in Profile\nThe Globe and Mail \nCarol Nolte dancer and choreographer\nco-founded WESTFEST Dance – a curated dance festival that supports cutting edge performances by emerging and established movement artists which take place in unusual and traditional locations at Westbeth. Carol also created over 50 dances for her company Dance Collective\, a collaborative and a diverse community based program.\nWestbeth artist page\nWESTFEST Dance\nDance Collective \nWESTBETH ICONS\nis a project that celebrates the life and work of senior Westbeth artists who continue to work passionately in their artistic field. It is produced by the Westbeth Artists Residents Council. \nBlack Eyed Susan Obie award winning actor and winner of the 2018 Contemporary Arts award\nhttps://westbeth.org/westbeth-icons/black-eyed-susan/ \nScheila Scheid painter\, in a recent show at Carter Burden featuring her 14th Street series\nhttps://westbeth.org/westbeth-icons/sheila-schwid/ \nEdith Stephen dancer\, choreographer and filmmaker devoting over 85 years of her life to art\nhttps://westbeth.org/westbeth-icons/westbeth-icons-edith-stevens/ \nVija Vetra dancer and choreographer whose work celebrates world dance\, and at 99 years old\, is a national treasure of Latvia\nhttps://westbeth.org/westbeth-icons/westbeth-icons-vija-vetra/ \nPROFILES IN ART\ninterviews by Terry Stoller celebrating Westbeth artists. \nPat Lasch sculptor\nhttps://westbeth.org/profiles-in-art/pat-lasch-sculptor/ \nHuguette Martel writer and painter\nhttps://westbeth.org/profiles-in-art/huguette-martel-painter-writer/ \nLeni Schwendinger urbanist designer\nhttps://westbeth.org/profiles-in-art/leni-schwendinger-urbanist-designer-artist/ \nBrenda Buffalino tap dancer and choreographer\nhttps://westbeth.org/profiles-in-art/brenda-bufalino-dancer-choreographer-author-ceramicist/ \nAnn Hamilton designer and textile artist\nhttps://westbeth.org/profiles-in-art/ann-hamilton-designer-and-textile-artist/ \nJoan Hall collage and assemblage artist\nhttps://westbeth.org/profiles-in-art/joan-hall-collage-and-assemblage-artist/ \nJayne Holsingerpainter\nhttps://westbeth.org/profiles-in-art/jayne-holsinger-painter/ \nShelley Seccombe photographer\nhttps://westbeth.org/profiles-in-art/shelley-seccombe-photographer/ \nFrancia Tobacman Smith artist and activist\nhttps://westbeth.org/profiles-in-art/francia-tobacman-smith-painter-printmaker-arts-activist/ \nZe’Eva Cohen dancer and choreographer\nhttps://westbeth.org/profiles-in-art/zeeva-cohen-dancer-choreographer-educator/ \nValerie Ghent singer songwriter and producer\nhttps://westbeth.org/profiles-in-art/valerie-ghent-musician-singer-songwriter-producer/ \nJoyce Aaron actor director teacher\nhttps://westbeth.org/profiles-in-art/joyce-aaron-actordirectorteacher/\nKate Walter writer\nhttps://westbeth.org/profiles-in-art/kate-walter-writer/ \nSherry Lane cartoonist\nhttps://westbeth.org/profiles-in-art/sherry-lane-caricaturistcartoonist/ \nEve Zanni vocalist and composer\nhttps://westbeth.org/artist-page/eve-zanni/ \nWESTBETH BOLDFACE\n Patti Bown pianist and composer\nhttps://westbeth.org/westbeth-boldface/patti-bown/
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