Persistence of Vision

Saturday May 28 1:30-3PM at Front Street Studios

PANELISTS:

MODERATED by Nicholaus Arnold (The Blue House Arts in Dayton, OH)

Nicholaus Arnold - The Blue House

Nicholaus Arnold received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from Wright State University and his Master of Fine Arts from Syracuse University where he received the prestigious Shaffer Fellowship, quite a few pats on the back, and numerous “thumbs-ups”. He currently runs The Blue House with his wife Ashley and is the Galleries Coordinator for University of Dayton. Despite managing these multiple jobs he maintains his own studio practice in Dayton and exhibits locally and nationally with pointed works of art designed to make his audience feel at home with his weird sense of humor. Nick is generally at home with practicing in most mediums, and writing about himself in the third person.

Adam Farcus - Lease Agreement

Adam Farcus (they/them/theirs) is an activist, artist, curator, feminist, and teacher. Farcus received their MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago, BFA from Illinois State University, and AA from Joliet Junior College. Their work has been exhibited at numerous venues, including the Modern Museum of Art Fort Worth; Vox Populi, Philadelphia; the American University Museum; and Advance Art Museum, Changsha, China. They have lectured on their work at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Performance Studies International 16 conference, among many others. Farcus’s creative writing has been published in Rattle Journal and Funny Looking Dog Quarterly, and the 2016 book, "MACRO: An Anthology of Image Macros." Farcus is the director of Lease Agreement, an alternative and nomadic curatorial project and they are an MA candidate in Teaching English as a Second Language at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where they also teach academic writing for ESL students. They live and work in Urbana, Illinois.

Lindsey Stapleton & Corey Oberlander - GRIN, The Rib, Take it Easy

Lindsey Stapleton & Corey Oberlander co-founded and ran GRIN; a brick-and-mortar gallery space from 2013 - 2018 and now exists as an ongoing nomadic curatorial project. From 2017-2019, they produced a decentralized online publication showcasing artists, spaces, curators, and advocates working outside of major arts communities in the United States called The Rib. After a brief. hiatus, they founded Take it Easy in Atlanta's Old Fourth Ward with Jamie Steele in October 2021.

Ann Trondson - Vinegar

Ann Trondson’s (she/her) artistic practice is based in live performance, video, sound, and drawing. Recent exhibitions of her work have been held at The Gadsden Museum of Art, (2021), Louis B. James Gallery, New York City (2014); College for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI (2013), and MAK Center of Art and Architecture, Los Angeles (2012). Her films have been screened at Salon 94 Gallery, New York (2014) and the Palm Springs Art Museum (2010). In 2014, she was selected to participate in one of two artists fellowships in Giverny, France at the Terra Summer Residency. Previous residences include The Guesthaus Residency, Los Angeles (2012), The Vermont Studio Center (2009), and The Banff Centre (2009). Trondson received her MFA from the University of Southern California; and lives and works in Birmingham, Alabama.

Melissa Yes - Vinegar

Melissa Yes (she/her) is a multimedia artist whose work scrutinizes mainstream American myths and attitudes. Yes received an MFA from the Ohio State University in 2017, and currently lives in Birmingham, Alabama, where she was recently awarded an artist fellowship for photography/media from the Alabama State Council on the Arts. Yes will join the faculty at the University of Alabama as the Assistant Professor of Digital Media in August 2022. In 2019 she co-founded a nonprofit gallery, Vinegar which showcases artists who are working in emerging and experimental art forms, and art that pushes the boundaries of its medium.

Rachael Gochov - Tiger Strikes Asteroid

Rachael Gorchov, a painter whose work spans a variety of media, had her second solo exhibition with Owen James Gallery in New York in 2020. In 2021 she was an artist-in-residence at Yaddo. She is a founding member and co-director of Tiger Strikes Asteroid New York. Having received her BFA from Tyler School of Art and her MFA from Hunter College, she is currently Assistant Professor of Fine Arts at Northampton Community College. Her work and curatorial projects have been featured in Hyperallergic, Two Coats of Paint, and Philadelphia Inquirer. Originally from Philadelphia, Gorchov lives and works in New York City and Bethlehem, PA.

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