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Who's Who at Hooked on Art 2009 Sharon Hathaway Sharon Hathaway explores the Jersey shore with a unique perspective: “I strive for a humble spirituality in my work. There is amazing beauty in the common and simple things we see every day,” she notes. Soft and vibrant colors capture common but beautiful scenes, including those she finds at Sandy Hook. After earning a BA in studio art from the College of St. Benedict in St. Joseph, MN in 1982 and taking graduate courses at the University of Minnesota, her work was accepted into the highly competitive Northern Lights Juried Art Shows in White Bear Lake, MN in 1987,1989,1991,1994, and won the Award of Excellence in 1996. After moving to New Jersey in 2000, she concentrated on portrait and other commission work, and in 2004, began exploring acrylics as a medium and returned to painting landscapes. Sharon exhibits at Beacon Fine Arts in Red Bank and is completing commissions through Beacon for local residents. In her spare time, she helps with scenery for Mother Teresa Regional School’s Drama Club, is completing a commission for St. Catherine’s Church in North Middletown, and can be seen traipsing around Sandy Hook. Jersey Homesteads: In the Architectural Vanguard "Jersey Homesteads, In The Architectural Vanguard," a documentary video produced by Roosevelt Arts Project (RAP) member Ben Johnson and co-edited by Roosevelt resident Fletcher Grayson has been selected for screening at the New Jersey Film Festival Fall 2009. It examines the town planning and architectural sources of influence that resulted in the construction of the unique town of Roosevelt. Ron Kostar Ron's site at PoetsandArt.com The French Connection: Tracking Rimbaud's Influence Nate Kostar Nate's site at PoetsandArt.com David Herrstrom is a poet and president of the Roosevelt Arts Project in Roosevelt, NJ. Wes Czyzewski is a poet, teacher, and a member of the Roosevelt Arts Project in Roosevelt, NJ. Michael Sodano and Nancy Sabino Official site for the film "Rock and a Heart Place" produced by Nancy Sabino and Michael Sodano Website for The Showroom, Asbury Park's newest (and only) movie house Brad Garton Brad's site Brad Garton (b. 1957) is on the Music Faculty of Columbia University, where he serves as Director of the Computer Music Center (formerly the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center). He originally studied engineering/biology at Purdue University, ultimately receiving a BS in Pharmacology. At the same time, he co-founded (with Richard K. Thomas) Zounds Productions, a multi-track recording facility specializing in sound design work for live theater. He entered the graduate program in Speech and Hearing Science at Purdue, doing psychoacoustic research under the supervision of Edward Burns and Larry Feth. Soon his professional sound activities became time-consuming (and lucrative!) enough that he left graduate school, picking up a grant from the Indiana Association of Cities and Towns to work with local governments in developing noise control programs. After several years, Garton decided to "get serious" about his music again, and entered the graduate program in music composition at Princeton University. He received his PhD. from Princeton in 1989, studying primarily with Paul Lansky and Jim Randall. His dissertation was the development of a natural language/learning system for doing loosely described signal processing tasks, along with a series of compositions realized using the system. He has assisted in the establishment and development of a number of computer music studios throughout the world, and is an active contributor to the greater community of computer musicians/researchers, formerly serving on the Board of Directors of the International Computer Music Association as editor (with Robert Rowe) of the ICMA newsletter and artistic director/co-organizer of several high-profile festivals and conferences of new computer music. His current work includes focused research on the modeling and enhancement of acoustic spaces as well as the modeling of human musical performance on various virtual "instruments". He is also the primary developer (with Dave Topper) of RTcmix, a real-time music synthesis/signal-processing language. His most recent work includes writing "Looching" apps: jlooch (JSyn) and mlooch (Max/MSP). The point of all this work is to continue to make fun new pieces of music, which he does every day. Terry Pender Terry's site Terry Pender is the Technical Director of the Columbia University Computer Music Center and an Adjunct Professor at the Columbia University Music Depatrtment. He studied composition with Darrell Handel and Allen Sapp and computer music with Brad Garton. Terry was the Sound Manager for the 1997 International Computer Music Conference, Technical Coordinator and Sound Engineer for the interactive portion of the Sonic Boom Festival 1997, and the Technical Director for the Columbia University Interactive Arts Festival 1999. Selected Compositions: Enter, activity (1999), for electric guitar and interactive electronics Ascension (1998), for computer generated tape Re-Bach, (1998), for mandolin orchestra air2.blow2 (1997), for computer generated tape Three Places I've Never Been (1996), for soprano and mandolin Recognitions (1996) A Multimedia Opera for soprano and chamber orchestra Selected Recordings as a performer/composer: Mandolin X 4, PSD 006, Plucked String Discs, 1998 - Terry played mandolin on 6 songs including his own Three Places I've Never Been. Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music Wind Symphony Songs and Dances, MCD-1116,, Mark Records, 1993 - Terry played electric guitar on Envelopes and Dog Breath Variations by Frank Zappa. Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music Wind Symphony, KCD-11047, Klavier Records, 1992 - Terry played tenor banjo on Rhapsody in Blue by George Gershwin. Selected Recordings as an engineer/technician: Morton Subotnick All My Hummingbirds Have Alibis, New Albion Records, 1997. Charles Ives Universe Symphony - Cincinnati Philharmonia Orchestra, CRC 2205, Centaur Records, 1994. Selected writings and presentations: Mandolin Quarterly - Contributing Editor, 1997 to present. Connecticut Council on the Arts - panelist for Council's awarding of grants for composition of new works, 1998 USA/Japan Intercollege Computer Music Conference - lecturer and panelist regarding the future of music technology, 1997. Governor's Conference on Art and Technology - panelist and moderator regarding the future of music and technology, 1997. Selected Publications: The Brooklyn Waltz, from MelBay's Collector's Edition, An Anthology of Mandolin Solos, 1999 Letter To Gorbachev, Plucked Strings Inc., NLP 009 for mandolin and guitar, 1998 Re-Bach, Plucked Strings Inc., NLP004, for mandolin orchestra, 1998 Three Places I've Never Been, Plucked Strings, Inc., for mandolin and soprano, 1998 (text by Langston Hughes) Dan Trueman The Basics: Dan is a composing performer on both the 6-string electric violin and the Norwegian Hardanger fiddle. His duo Trollstilt released its first CD of original tunes in 2000 and has performed widely at both contemporary music festivals and folk music festivals; Trollstilt has recently expanded and become QQQ. Dan also plays and teaches traditional Hardanger fiddle music. Dan has been active as an experimental instrument designer and has built spherical speakers and the Bowed-Sensor-Speaker-Array, among other things. He co-founded and directs the Princeton Laptop Orchestra (PLOrk), an ensemble of laptop-ists with 6-channel spherical speakers and various control devices, for which he was awarded amajor grant from the MacArthur Foundation. He is a member of interface, an electronic improvisation ensemble. Their first CD, ./swank, was released in early 2001 and their DVD, RECORDING FIELD, H, with guest Pauline Oliveros, was released by the Deep Listening label in 2003. While many of Dan's compositions are for his own ensembles, he also composes for various chamber ensembles and occasionally for orchestra. Several of his chamber works are included in his recent Bridge Records CD, Machine Language. A CD/DVD of his evening-length Five (and-a-half) Gardens (for So Percussion and Trollstilt, with animated paintings) will be released in the March of 2008 by So Percussion's new labelShhh Productions. Five (and-a-half) Gardenshas been presented at the Whitney Museum, the Third-Practice festival, and elsewhere. Recent work includes: -- Lasso and Corral: Variations on an Ill-Formed Meter, for me (hardanger), Todd Reynolds (violin), Kathy Supove (piano), and Ken Thomson (bass clarinet), all with laptops and wacked-out audiovisual click-track thingy; premiered at NIME in NYC, subsequent performances at Banglewood and ICMC in Copenhagen. -- more PLOrk madness, including a commission from turbulence.org, and a commission from the American Composers Orchestra, premiered in April 2008 at Zankel. -- a piano trio, Triptick, for the Society for New Music. -- a solo cello piece, Scales and Metronomes, for Florent Renard-Payen. -- several pieces for PLOrk. -- the premiere of Traps Relaxed with the American Composers Orchestra at Carnegie Hall's Zankel Hall (read about it here). In the works: -- a brand-spanking-new BoSSA, redesigned to be completely wireless (with integrated amplifier and CPU) and also to sound much better than the original. -- music for QQQ! just about the most fun in the universe (for us anyhow). -- next year, PLOrk collaborates with Matmos, So Percussion, and Laurie Anderson! -- and some big projects brewing with Janus, So Percussion, post-Post (Dan's new new band), and others.... Obligatory creds: Dan studied physics at Carleton College, composition and theory at the College-Conservatory of Music in Cincinnati, and composition at Princeton University. He has taught at the Columbia University Computer Music Center and Colgate University. Dan is an Associate Professor in the Music Department at Princeton and is affiliated faculty with the Princeton Computer Science Department. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2006. Busy kids: Dan is whipped by his 7.65-year-old daughter, Molly Clare, who is undoubtedly wicked-awesome-smaaht, and his 3 year-old red-head son, Otto Vincent, who is a force of nature (aka "the little viking"). Timothy Jahn Timothy's site Scott Nickerson Scott's site Scott & Timothy are going to have a joint show at Monmouth University in Spring 2011. The show will feature paintings of interior and exterior scenes of Wilson Hall. Alexandra Passage Alexandra's site Art Kaney, The Doodle Dude Art's site Teachers at Art Center Shine: Doodle Dude Art Kane Profiles in Talent Very few people call him Art. Once you meet the Doodle Dude and absorb some of his boundless energy, you'll enjoy addressing him as all the kids do: with a big smile and yelling out, “Hey, Doodle Dude!” Doodle Dude teaches several courses at the Middletown Arts Center - Cartooning & Animation I, Doodle Dude's 3-D Mania, and Doodlism — History of Art from Caveman to Computer. He teaches classes to various age ranges and hosts children's parties at the MAC. Additionally, he offers presentations for Scout troops and at schools. His enthusiasm is a key element in communicating with children. Doodle Dude is like a tornado and the kids get swept into the fun without a chance to escape. “At first I didn't look at myself as a teacher, but as a performer or entertainer. But then I discovered that if you rock the kids back on their heels, you have an opportunity to get your lessons across to them,” said Doodle Dude. Art has been teaching animation and cartooning for 24 years at schools such as the Art Connection and the Seashore Day Camp & School in Long Branch. It's clear why Art Kaney can easily manage and control lots of kids at the same time. He has three children of his own and his three-year-old boy is often found happily hanging onto Art's leg. “I'm happy to be back in Middletown and have my children attending these wonderful schools,” said Art. When he was 16, Doodle Dude's Middletown South art teacher, Douglas Havet, spotted him drawing on a chalkboard and noticed how stylish and entertaining his work was. He had never seen Art doodle before and was amazed at how fast he could create strong impressive images. Mr. Havet immediately pushed Art into volunteering at Art Happenings at Middletown grade schools. Art resisted, but Mr. Havet had his way. “No kidding, he actually forced me to go,” said Art laughing, “but it changed my life forever.” It wasn't long before the word was out and the school began to receive requests for the Doodle Dude to come and doodle his doodles for the younger kids at all kinds of events. Once, several days after a performance, an unsolicited check arrived for him at the school. The principle at the time, Dennis Jackson, used to say that his school had its own “professional performing artist.” “I got such encouragement from Mr. Havet and Mr. Jackson. They were so proud of me and let me know I had an artistic gift and, that I could teach. They were the ones who steered me in the right direction. I am forever thankful,” said Art aka the one and only: Doodle Dude. Broeck Steadman Broeck's site The Movement Motion Project - a modern dance company "Love Is"--music Cirque du Soleil, Dancers: Holly Jahn, Kimberlie Jones, Amanda Katchisin, John Katchisin "1B"--music Yo-Yo Ma, Dancers: Holly Jahn, Kimberlie Jones, Amanda Katchisin, John Katchisin, Asia Vaganeck. The Movement Motion Project: Interactions between binocular eye movement control and motion perception. This scientific statement reflects on our commitment of creating movement that is visually stimulating for our audiences. We also hope to share our passion for dance. TMMP, based in Metuchen, NJ, is a modern dance-based company that was founded in 2009 with 5 accomplished NJ native dancers who found each other at Metuchen Dance Centre. Some were former students, some are current faculty/staff. Holly Jahn of East Brunswick, Kim Jones of Rahway, Amanda Katchisin of Edison, John Katchisin of Edison, and Asia Vaganeck of East Brunswick. This past year the company performed in National Dance Week at Union County Arts Center in Rahway, NJ in conjunction with Rahway Dance Theatre’s Dance Get Moving. Dancer bios: Kimberlie Jones: has studied extensively at Broadway Dance Center and Metuchen Dance Centre. She danced as a featured dancer with the Dawn Lau Dance Company as well as being a key member of Dance Reflections as dance captain for four years. Her interests have led her to choreography and she is now one of the resident choreographers for Dance Reflections. Kim has been teaching all levels of dance at Metuchen Dance Centre for seven years, as well as teaching dance workshops around the state in many forms of dance. Asia Vaganeck: graduated from Metuchen Dance Centre in June of 2008 and began dancing at Middlesex County College in the fall of 2008. She attended Metuchen Dance Centre for twelve years and studied every type of dance. During her experience there, she participated in performances and activities such as recitals, company shows, the Duke Ellington Nutcracker, fairs, competitions, parades and even on a cruise line. In her senior year of high school she was the captain of Dance Reflections, the Metuchen Dance Centre’s Teen Dance Company. She participated in the Middlesex County College Dance Ensamble in her past two semesters and was inspired to choreograph her own piece with John Katchisin this previous semester. She is now choreographing again for Middlesex County College’s Dance Ensemble this current semester and was asked to put her latest piece on Metuchen Dane Centre’s Teen Dance Company, Dance Reflections. Asia hopes to continue participating in MCCDE, and to pursue choreographing and teaching even more in the future. Holly Jahn (Choreographer): is an established teacher, choreographer, and performer with a degree in dance from Rutgers University. Her performance credits have included working along the east coast as well as working with the following companies: Van Zandt/Milmore Productions, Stage Door Theatre, Loretta Fois and Dancers, Shenandoah Conservatory, University of the Arts, Villagers Theatre, Circle Playhouse, Plays-in-the-Park, Dances-in-the-Park, and the Pantheon Theatre in NYC. Choreography for musicals is her passion and she has worked with Van Zandt/Milmore Productions, the Forum Theatre, Brooks Art Center, Villagers Theatre, Newton High School, and Piscataway High School Drama Club for over 8 years. Most recently Holly was nominated by Papermill Playhouse Rising Star Awards for outstanding choreography with New Milford HS’s production of “Thoroughly Modern Millie” with co-choreographer Amanda Katchisin. Other choreography credits include: Reflections Dance Company, “A Night at the Nutcracker”, an original play with music and voted into the top 10 productions in NJ, “Urinetown! the Musical” (nominated for best choreography and best musical), “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat”, “Anything Goes”, “Little Shop of Horrors”, “Crazy for You”, and many others. Her teaching credits started back in her high school years and have brought her to studios around the state including the Art & Education Center’s Arts Middle School and High School in both Middlesex and Monmouth Counties teaching modern dance and theater dance. Currently she teaches at Metuchen Dance Centre. Holly has also had the privilege to teach dance at the Papermill Playhouse Summer Conservatory. Amanda Katchisin: (Choreographer), born in Edison, NJ, began her training at a local studio in Metuchen, NJ. By the age of 16 she was a certified dance instructor through Dance Educators of America. Amanda then went on to attend Montclair State University where she received her B.F.A in Dance under the direction of Lori Katterhenry. At Montclair, she had the opportunity to work with artists such as Freespace Dance Company, Alexandra Beller, and Maurice Hines. Amanda spent her summers in NC attending the American Dance Festival, with whom she worked with Gerri Houlian, Robert Battle, David Dorfman, and Bill T. Jones. While attending MSU, Amanda joined the Dawn Lau Dance Company. John Katchisin: Has been dancing since the age of 3, instructed by June Vagenek Owner of Metuchen Dance Centre, John has ever since wanted to do nothing else but dance. After nearly 3 decades of dance instruction under his belt John branched out into the world of arts by teaching himself how to play the drums, and acquiring acting, and singing lessons. John is now a certified dance Teacher with Metuchen Dance Centre, as well as a choreographer for the Middlesex County College Dance ensemble alongside Asia Vagenek. Now moving into the newly created Motion Movement Project, John hopes to break the barrier with his company members and exceed the limits that bind them in this life. "The world has no limit, dance has no limit, we have no limit." - John Katchisin Student bands NO JOKE Andrew Tort - keyboard Nick Piescor - lead guitar, lead vocals Alea Sharpe - bass guitar Grant Giftos - rhythm guitar Andrew Tachine - drums |
