Personalities of artists, musicians, athletes, directors, actors, singers, teachers, producers +
Within photography, Kopenhaver considers herself a blend between an anthropologist and a journalist - sometimes making photographs and sometimes seeing photographs. Portraiture especially holds a unique and special place because of the collaboration it entails of photographer, camera, and subject. She is unique in approach, vitally aware of the power structure embedded in the photographer / subject relationship. Kopenhaver ultimately attempts to capture the unspoken truths and genuine essence of whomever she is asked or seeks to photograph.
DALLIN APPLEBAUM
Singer, Songwriter, and Educator
Dallin Applebaum is an alternative songwriter with a knack for melodic piano-driven songs with a dark-humored spirit. Originally based in New York City, she moved to Nashville in early 2022. After attending college in New York, Dallin began touring with major pop artists Ryan Star & Rachel Platten, in addition to working with recording artists such as Passion Pit, Phil Phillips, and Matchbox 20. She also won runner up for Best Folk Song in the John Lennon Songwriting Contest in 2009. Her new album Grey Matters, due out in January 2023, explores extremes as a means to understanding and appreciating what's between them. Dallin produced and arranged most of the record herself with the help of her husband & a few extremely talented friends.
Singer, Songwriter, and Pianist
Ashni’s work meditates on the relationships we build with the self, others, and community. Ashni has performed at Joe's Pub, National Sawdust, Music Hall of Williamsburg, WNYC's The Greene Space, Rough Trade, the Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center, and more. She is a member of Treya Lam's trio and the Resistance Revival Chorus. Her music has been featured on Spotify's Women of Jazz playlist, Bitch Media's Podcast: Growing Up Immigrant, and the acclaimed, Emmy-nominated web series Brown Girls.
Musician and Fitness Trainer
Dara holds real world experience, certifications and qualifications in the arts, in fitness and movement training, yoga, meditation and integrative healing therapies. She was a founding member of the New York and LA fitness sensation DOGPOUND and has served as a wellness trainer, coach, and consultant to industry leaders, supermodels, CEOs, entrepreneurs and creatives and continues to share celebrated teachings to a global audience of diverse communities.Dara’s vision is to help others to lead a life of inclusion, creativity, strength and artistry. She is currently creating musical offerings which aim to reveal, heal and uplift through soulful resonance, sound and song.
LABARIAN
WILLIAMSON (LBito Rose)
Photographer, Filmmaker, Vigilante
I'm a student of everything and everyone. Constantly trying to figure out my place in this world and how I can contribute. Hopefully, my art can lead me to some of those answers.
Artist
Born in Grosseto, Italy, Michela Martello is a multidisciplinary artist whose research is influenced by both traditional and contemporary sources. She has been living and working in New York City since 1996 where she often collaborates with Pen & Brush, an association that supports women’s work in literary and visual art.
CACIA
ZOO
Performance Artist, Comedian, Actor, Musician
Right after she popped out from her mama’s womb she was dancing. She was the first free woman in her family. There is no obedience in her. She lives in the space from her heart to her throat. Imagination. She creates her world. Force of nature. Inside out. Forever fluid. Wildly Free.
Actor and Maker
Sarah Suzuki is a Japanese/Jewish-American actor and maker based in Brooklyn. She has performed with Target Margin Theater, the American Shakespeare Center, Red Bull Theater Company, and Dixon Place. Sarah's work is informed by her own experiences as a biracial actor within the theater and film industry.
MICHAEL HUGHES
Professional Boxer
Born and raised in Hell's Kitchen, 30 year old fighter Michael Hughes has an exceptional relationship with violence and combat. Growing up in New York City’s harsh concrete jungle is where Hughes discovered his talent, gift, and maybe sometimes, a curse. He's had setbacks and victories, self discoveries and brutal fights - not just in the ring. Every move he has taken, has brought him here, to Church Street Boxing Gym.
Painter and Sculptor
Dove is an artist located in New York City. She has exhibited widely in the United States and internationally, including recent exhibitions curated by Young Space (Brooklyn, NY) and by Warbling Collective (London, UK). She has shown in a two-person exhibition with Sadie Halie Projects (Brooklyn, NY), and with every iteration of the Every Woman Biennial (New York, NY). Her work focuses on the breaking apart of soft and strong as a binary.
Artist
“Is There No Way Out?”, 2021
Nora Evita Aresti is a New Jersey native currently residing in Peekskill, New York. “Is There No Way Out” 2021 by performance artist Nora Evita Aresti pays homage to Ana Mendieta and spotlights the raw and vulnerable states in which humans perpetually find themselves. It begs to be free from the trappings of chronic pain yet finding beauty while caught in the web of it. This work ties together the freedom of nature and artistic expression
Sorry, I'm Stuck, 2021 is an immersive installation using threads and personal objects created by Nora Evita Aresti to create a web-like site-specific sculpture. Woven in the threads are personal objects, toys, writings, papers, and research that gives a glimpse into the artist's life. Aresti also creates effigies of herself out of personal clothes and stuffing to be included in the web. This piece conveys feelings of being trapped to the audience and the web is thus weighed down by life's adversities.
Musician
Glassio is an indie-pop musician based in New York City. The Irish/Iranian singer-songwriter debuted with the Poptimism EP in 2016, an endeavor that garnered praise from The Village Voice as "an encyclopedia of Pop" and other publications like The FADER and XLR8R. People have described his work as “electronic music through a singer-songwriter lens” or “if Paul Simon made an album on Mars.” His latest album in 2020 “For The Very Last Time” can be found on Spotify.
KEITH JOHNS
Ferrier and Blacksmith
During the day Keith Johns is a full-time farrier, and in the evening Keith is a part-time blacksmither who works out of his shop on his family farm. His blacksmithing allows him to work with metal in alternative ways, creating things that intrigue him thus allowing him to better express himself.
Creative Director
Michael is a Veteran, Photographer, Filmmaker and the Artistic Director of SoHo Creative Studio. Michael's purpose revolves around helping individuals and organizations to use the power of story to connect with others in a meaningful and sustainable way.
Women in the Arts
Musicians, Actors, Producers, Writers
This is a study, admiration, and highlight of creatives in NYC. In a time when the majority of photography is severely manipulated, self-absorbed, and more about the place (or object) than the person, I am using the camera cautiously, to create portraits of real, everyday people with genuine opinions, struggles, and creations.
Musician, 2017-2021
beccs has been critically acclaimed by Refinery29, NYLON, AudioFemme, PopDust, Huffington Post Queer Voices and featured on The BUILD Series with Monet X Change (RuPaul’s Drag Race). Hailed as one of NYLON Magazine’s “favorite cool girls”, a John Lennon Songwriting Finalist, and an “indie-pop vocalist of astonishing candor” by the HuffPost, beccs confronts and heals audiences with a soul-stirring voice that is as dynamic as it is vulnerable. Holding up a mirror to herself and society at large, beccs’ songwriting has been awarded by the John Lennon Songwriting Contest, the International Songwriting Competition, Coffee Music Project, and more.
THE BOUQUET, Short Film, 2020 “Born from an impromptu night-time stroll by a flower stand, "The Bouquet" was conceived and created in one spontaneous burst by music artist beccs and photographer Katelyn Kopenhaver
By The Sea, Music Video, 2019 By The Sea is a collaboration and a short film for beccs’ single By The Sea. Written, directed, edited by beccs & Katelyn Kopenhaver, filmed by Katelyn Kopenhaver
Musician and Meditation Teacher
Paul is a NYC-based singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist whose music has been compared to that of Jeff Buckley, Leonard Cohen, Nick Drake, and David Byrne
FELICIA HARRSCH + HEADLINES
(Robbie)
Equestrian and Pharmacist
Felicia Harrsch holds multiple national titles in the hunters and hunt seat equitation including Reserve Champion in the International Hunter Derby at the Garden State Horse Show and National Champion in the IHSA Open Over Fences.
Actor, Singer-Songwriter, & Teaching Artist
Nancy was born in Washington, D.C., but raised overseas in Turkey, Switzerland, Thailand, and Greece. She has performed at venues such as LaMama, New York Theatre Workshop Next Door, LaGuardia Performing Arts Center, the Brick and the New Ohio. Her one-woman show Shenandoah has been produced locally and internationally, at the Prague Fringe Festival, where it won the Fringey Award for “making audiences fall in love with America again”.
Actor and Producer
Jess Jacobs is a feminist, artist, activist, and co-founder of a women-led, New York-based production company, Invisible Pictures. A creative storyteller, Jess is galvanizing the movement for women’s reproductive rights and justice, using filmmaking and partnerships with organizations like Planned Parenthood, National Women's Law Center, and international NGOs to move the needle on abortion access, contraception and sex education.
Musician
Ryan is a singer/songwriter living in New York City, originally from Newton, Massachusetts. Mixing heartfelt singer/songwriter themes with driving grooves and thoughtful guitar playing, Whooley evokes hints of Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, and The War on Drugs. Whooley exhibited his debut EP, Same Dream, in the Fall of 2019 and recently completed his latest record “Until Further Notice” in 2021 now streaming everywhere.
Director and Editor, 2021
Based in New York City, Lauren has freelanced for Manhattan Productions, Ogilvy & Mather, Humble, Suite Spot, Homestead, SweetEye, and Google Brand Studio. Branching away from commercials and into the world of TV documentary, Lauren has worked as an Assistant Editor for multiple critically acclaimed shows such as Frontline, The Clinton Affair, Murder in the Bayou, and Hillary. Lauren is currently working on her first documentary film “Platinum.” The documentary parallels the lives of Jean Harlow, Jayne Mansfield, and Anna Nicole Smith, all platinum blonde sex symbols with a complicated relationship to fame who died tragically young.
Actor
Eden Ohayon is a Palm Springs, California native, but now a Brooklyn-based writer and performer currently in her final year at Actors Studio Drama School, pursuing an MFA in Acting. She has worked at the Marin Shakespeare Company as well as in the literary department at Manhattan Theatre Club and the artistic department at the New Repertory Theater in Boston. Eden gets great joy writing plays and collaborating with New York-based theater companies to devise new work. She received her undergraduate training at Yale University, where she majored in Theater Studies and English with a concentration in Playwriting.
Opera Singer
Praised by Opera News for her “unusually rich and resonant” voice, contralto Sara Couden is a premiere interpreter of operatic, chamber, and song repertoire.
SHLOMO FRANKLIN
Musician
Franklin’s songs situate him in a long lineage of troubadours and poets, who manage to make sense of our nonsensical world, from the kind of fresh perspective that makes it feel like virgin ground. He wrings every ounce of honesty and emotion from the music when he sings, delivering a series of intimate, unforgettable performances.
MOLLY
URELL-POE + CHARLES HENRY
Engagement in the Rain
