Category: Five Questions

  • Five Questions With Jennifer Mazza

    Name: Jennifer Mazza Title/Occupation: Artist / Adjunct Professor Organization/Company: Various URL: jenmazza.com 1. Where did you grow up and how did you end up where you are now? I was born in Washington D.C., but grew up 50 miles west of the city, in Wheatland, VA. The place is marked by a green and white…

  • Five Questions for Tommer Peterson

    Name: Tommer Peterson Title: Deputy Director, Grantmakers in the Arts URL: www.giarts.org 1. Where did you grow up and how did you end up where you are now? Grew up here in Seattle, and after bouncing around a bit, Tuba City, Arizona and Kyoto, Japan, ended up back here, and still like it a lot.…

  • Five Questions With Nova Ren Suma

    Name: Nova Ren Suma Title/Occupation: fiction writer, author of DANI NOIR (http://daninoir.com) Organization/Company: self URL: http://novaren.com 1. Where did you grow up and how did you end up where you are now? When I was a kid, we flung ourselves between the states of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, but I mostly grew up…

  • Meet the Curator – Patrick Grant

    Name: Patrick Grant Title: Composer/Performer/Producer Affiliation: Curator & Co-Producer of “The MMiX Festival of Interactive Music Technology” URL: http://www.theaterlabnyc.com/Theaterlab3/MMiX.html 1. Where did you grow up and how did you end up where you are now? I grew up in Detroit where I studied music composition and classical performance by day while playing in Punk/New Wave…

  • Five Questions with Derek Ahonen

    Name:  Derek Ahonen Title/Occupation:  Playwright Organization/Company:  The Amoralists 1. Where did you grow up and how did you end up where you are now? I grew up just outside of Chicago and I moved here to become someone important at 18. 2. Which performance, song, play, movie, painting or other work of art had the…

  • Five Questions For Michael Krumenacker

    Name: Michael Krumenacker Title/Occupation: Artist Organization/Company: Self URL: Chinati 1. Where did you grow up and how did you end up where you are now? I grew up in very rural New Hampshire, completely ignorant of anything considered “high” art, although also far away from any suburban sprawl, cable, fast-food restaurants or malls too, so…

  • Five Questions for John Collins

    Name: John Collins Title/Occupation: Artistic Director Organization/Company: Elevator Repair Service URL: www.elevator.org 1. Where did you grow up and how did you end up where you are now? I grew up in Vidalia, Georgia. I now work full time for ERS as Artistic Director and live on The Lower East Side. How I ended up…

  • Five Minutes with Nils Folke Anderson

    I met the artist Nils Folke Anderson at a party a few weeks ago where he told me about his work and showed me some pix on his iPhone. I was incredibly excited by these freestanding sculptures of interlocking rectilinear shapes. Last week I visited his gallery show at Phillips de Pury, just off the Highline,…

  • Five Questions for Kenneth Collins

    Name: Kenneth Collins Title/Occupation: Writer, Director, Designer Organization/Company: Temporary Distortion URL: www.temporarydistortion.com 1. Where did you grow up and how did you end up where you are now? Born in Freehold, NJ. Spent a number of years in Harrisburg, PA. Moved to NYC in the summer of ’99. 2. Which performance, song, play, movie, painting…

  • Meet The Curator – Michael Green

    Name: Michael Green Title: Artistic Director Affiliation: One Yellow Rabbit/High Performance Rodeo 1. Where did you grow up and how did you end up where you are now? I was born outside of Toronto, the first child of English immigrants to Canada. We lived all over Canada, but the FLQ crisis of 1972 sent us fleeing…

  • Meet The Curator – Ron Berry

    Name: Ron Berry Title: Curator and Creator Affiliation: Fuse Box Festival 1. Where did you grow up and how did you end up where you are now? I grew up in the Houston suburbs. Strip-malls, bayous, astronauts. I was a NASA kid. My father was an aerospace engineer and my mother a counselor and teacher.…

  • Five Questions for Michael Cyril Creighton

    Name: Michael Cyril Creighton Title/Occupation: Actor/Writer/Sometimes Comedian Organization/Company: Frequent Guest Artist with The Debate Society, Founding Member/Alumni of The New York Neo-Futurists, formerly of VH1’s Best Night Ever, Writer/Creator/Performer of the online sitcom JACK IN A BOX URL: www.youtube.com/mccreighton 1. Where did you grow up and how did you end up where you are now?…