Brendan Carroll, Works in Progress, Teaching Artist

Brendan Carroll is an artist. His materials are accessible and utilitarian: the Polaroid camera and the Remington Sperry-Rand typewriter. He types anecdotes in the lower white margin of each Polaroid. The anecdotes are derived from his personal memory, other people's memories, from actual events, or from his imagination. He cofounded Agitators Collective in 2006. Agitators Collective creates site-related installations in urban locales that have fallen into neglect or dereliction.

Brendan has exhibited his work at The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY; Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ; Leubsdorf Art Gallery, NY, NY; Center for the Book Arts, NY, NY. His work has been eatured in several periodicals, including The New York Times, Village Voice, and Time Out New York. He has participated in AIM 28 (Artist in the Marketplace) at The Bronx Museum of the Arts. He received his BFA from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, PA, in 1996.

Kathleena Howie-Garcia, Works in Progress, Teaching Artist

Kathleena Howie-Garcia (Lady K-Fever) is a New York City based multi-disciplinary visual artist. She began exploring her social/political visual voice in the early 1990’s through painting graffiti and murals in Canada while studying theatre and film at Gastown Actor’s Studio/University of British Columbia. She put herself into graffiti herstory being the first Canadian female to paint at the legendary Harlem Graffiti Hall of Fame in 2003 and 2004. Her graffiti murals have been featured in books Graffiti Woman and Burning New York as well as numerous magazines and websites. She has exhibited her work for over 15 years throughout United States and Canada and most recently in the Art for Change exhibition Haiti: Beyond Mountains there are Mountains. Her photography and writing has been published in magazines, newspapers and websites globally from the New York Post to Backspin magazine (2002-2004) from Germany. Her visual expressions are a creative balance pioneering her own feminine style and documenting life through the combination of mediums. She has also taken on the role as a curator to create exhibitions for The Bronx Museum’s Project Space and The Aurora Gallery.

Since 2004, her passion has focused on education development through community projects, creating curricula that celebrate the positive aspects of urban arts education that is engaging to children, youth and adults. As a Teaching Artist, she teaches with The Bronx Museum of the Arts, El Museo del Barrio, and Urban Arts Partnership. She is also a recipient of the Arts in Education Grant from the Bronx Council on the Arts.

Shani Peters, Works in Progress, Teaching Artist

Shani Peters is a New York based artist (born in Lansing, MI) primarily working in video, collage, printmaking, and social practice public projects. Peters completed her B.A. at Michigan State University and her M.F.A. at The City College of New York. She has exhibited and screened throughout New York, including group shows/screenings at Rush Arts Gallery, the International Print Center New York, and the Schomburg Center for Black Culture and Research. She has completed residencies at The Center for Book Arts, and LMCC’s Swing Space and is currently participating in the Bronx Museum’s 2010-11 Artist in the Marketplace program and is a Keyholder Resident at the Lower East Side Printshop. In addition to personal and public arts projects she works as a teaching artist with Harlem Textile Works and other community organizations.

Rosemary Taylor, Works in Progress, Teaching Artist

Rosemary Taylor lives and works in New York City and is a 2007 Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA Grant Recipient. She earned her Master of Fine Arts degree at Brooklyn College in 2007 and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA. Rosemary’s work has been included in many group exhibitions including: tART @ A.I.R., AIR Gallery Brooklyn, NY, My Heroes, Jack the Pelican, Brooklyn, NY Joan Mitchell Foundation Recipient Exhibition, CUE Foundation NY, NY, RE: GENERATION: Emerging Women Artists Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY curated by Joan Snyder and RE: GENERATION: Works on Paper, Kentler Drawing Center Brooklyn, NY. She has presented lectures at Tufts University and Brooklyn College.

Maya Valladares, Works in Progress, Teaching Artist

Maya is a textile artist and museum educator and works as an art teacher in the Gallery/Studio Program at the Brooklyn Museum. She has taught in Peru, Brazil and New York, and hopes to travel things around them, instead of thinking art is only paintings hung on a gallery wall. She is from Lima, Peru, where her family still lives, but grew up on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Her favorite food is either chocolate or sweet potatoes.