Kristen Anchor and Andrea Shearer - Sun. February 4, 2007
Andrea Shearer is an accomplished musician with 4 album credits plus a bucket full of 7″ and compilation releases. She is currently drumming with Pariah Piranha (Queer Control Records), and is a guest drummer for Brooklyn-based pop duo NA+AN. Pariah Piranha’s second album “Animus Unanimous” is in production.
Kristen Anchor is a Baltimore video artist and musician. Her goofy, political videos have screened all over the U.S. and appeared on several independent film compilations. She’s the drummer for The Degenerettes, Baltimore’s all-girl underground garage group.
Project Name: Monster Drummer Thunderupagus
Project Description: Monster Drummer Thunderupagus is an unlikely untenably metal-head drummer from another dimension. Thunderupagus is not cute; it is fierce, jamming on its sweet fifteen-piece monster drum kit. Thunderupagus will be on Earth for one show only, Sunday, Apr 6th for Pedestrian Service Exquisite.
David James Armacost and April Danielle Lewis met in 2006. Since then they’ve exhibited their artwork and curated shows in Baltimore, at Large Glass Project Space; Sub-Basement Gallery, and Spin Alternative Art Space ; in Annapolis, at the Maryland Federation of Art ; in Wilmington DE, at the Lo-Fi Gallery; and at the University of Delaware. Armacost, who received his BFA from the Corcoran College of Art in 2002, is a native resident of Baltimore Lewis recently earned an AA in visual art from Anne Arundel Community College and is pursuing her BFA in printmaking at Towson University. By subscribing to contemporary art on a local, regional, and national level, David James and April Danielle both remain committed to enriching the arts in Baltimore.
Kelley Bell is an Artist, Animator, Designer and dilettante extraordinaire living and working in Baltimore city.
Andrea Bocchio is a Peruvian artist, graduating from MICA in May with a degree in Fiber and Art History. She studied Fashion Knitwear in London and has been working in knit and print fashion collections. She is interested in the cycle of luxury, the real and the counterfeit, roles of bodies and identity in fashion.
Alessandro Bosetti is a composer and sound artist working on the musicality of spoken words and unusual aspects of spoken communication, producing text-sound compositions featured in live performances, radio broadcastings and published recordings. In his work he moves across the line between sound anthropology and composition, often including translation and misunderstanding in the creative process. Field research and interviews build the basis for abstract compositions, along with electro-acoustic and acoustic collages, relational strategies, trained and untrained instrumental practices, vocal explorations and digital manipulations. In 2006 he\’s been living and working in West Africa, China, Taiwan, Holland, Scandinavia, United States , Germany and Italy.
Hannah Brancato is an artist and textile designer who researches how lifestyle is affected by décor. A graduate from the Fiber Department at the MICA, she is based in Baltimore, where her work is currently on view at the Pinkard Gallery. She is the founder of The Doll Project at the House of Ruth and was co-curator of Made Home at the Current Gallery.
Ingrid Burrington is from California, and has made terrible mistakes. Her website is 
DiTolvo and her accordion are recent transplants to the Baltimore area from Seattle. DiTolvo was the ringmistress for three years for Carnival Reverie, played percussion for carnies in The Bad Things, and is otherwise associated with several other dark characters.
Lara Emerling is an interdisciplinary artist who produces work in drawing, sculpture and video. Her recent work comments on contemporary cultures constant ability to grow and collapse at the same time. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Maryland Institute College of Art, and will continue her studies there in art education. Emerling has shown her work at Current Gallery, Load of Fun, Maryland Art Place, Not Just Another White Cube, Substation Gallery, and Whartscape.
Fluid Movement is a Baltimore-based performance art group that juxtaposes complex subject matter with delightful and unexpected mediums. We create art that is accessible, and often educational, for audiences of all ages and backgrounds. Our performances are created for urban spaces, in Baltimore and beyond. For ten years, Fluid Movement has been working hard to share our joy and silliness and we do it all for one reason: we do it for the LOVE!
Ilana Goldszer formerly of Michigan was raised by wolves. Ilana grew up in an animal-free traveling circus of thieves and magicians. Ilana’s astrological sign is Capricorn.
The Good Taste Committee is dedicated to fostering tastefulness in live human interaction. In an age of media interface, we find that Game structures ease the anxiety many feel in close contact with others.
Nicole Herbert resides in Harrisburg, PA where she has worked as an art educator for the past six years. She graduated from Lafayette College with degrees in anthropology and art and served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Niger, West Africa. Nicole is currently working towards her MFA at the Maryland Institute College of Art and expects to graduate in the summer of 2009. She has exhibited her work and created outdoor installations in central and eastern Pennsylvania.
Working across a range of media – painting, performance, craft and more – Hildebrandt recently moved into The Creative Alliance at the Patterson as a Resident Artist. Prior to her move to Baltimore, Hildebrandt traveled in a 6-month residency on the Artrain USA, which travels the country with studios and a museum on board. From reimagining Mary Pickersgill and the making of the Star Spangled Banner, to her ongoing correspondence with the Pope, Hildebrandt combines a wicked sense of humor with innocent joy in the act of making things. She appears in the 2008 Mid Atlantic edition of New American Paintings.
David London was trained as a magician and filmmaker, and much of his recent stage work places an emphasis on the deconstruction of the magic trick. He has toured with four of his own productions- “Cerebral Sorcery, “…Art of Dreams,” “The Adventure to the Imagi Nation,” and most recently, (insert title here), which features excerpts of the three other shows. He has done a handful of site-specific installations and performances. He also paints, wanders, and glues random things together.
Project Name: Your Favorite Celebrity Drawing Survey
J.W. Mahoney is a Washington, D.C.-based artist, critic, and independent curator who serves as Washington’s Corresponding Editor for Art in America. He is currently a Professor of Visual Arts at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and has been writing and curating on the idea of transmodernity since 1992. His most recent nationally published piece on this subject was “Transmodern Yoko,” which appeared in Art in America in February 2002. His latest one-person show, “Stella Maris,” was on exhibit in January 2007, at Curator’s Office in Washington, D.C..
Ellen Nielsen is the kind of person who puts new rolls of toilet paper directly into the dispenser as opposed to leaving them on the back of the toilet. She has a habit of forgetting vegetables in the crisper and finding them, weeks later, reduced to bags of black slime. She would like to be remembered as a public intellectual, but so far she has only made a public spectacle of herself. She has a multitude of talents, such as caramelizing onions and dressing to impress. She was born on March 20 (the first day of spring) which makes her a Pisces-Aries cusp.
Thach Thao Nguyen lives for food and adventure. Born in Vietnam and raised in Texas, she grew up chowing down drive-thru hamburgers and slurping up her mom’s pho. Now living in Baltimore as a student, she sometimes makes money selling homemade spring rolls and rice cakes. Recently she re-visited Vietnam, a journey that brought her closer to her food and family. She brings you treats reminiscent of the homeland, prepared in the most home-down manner.
Natalia Panfile was born in the Republic of Moldova, and came to the United States when she was 17. She attended the Community College of Baltimore County for 2 years and then transferred to MICA. After graduating from MICA with a BFA she was accepted into the IMDA (Imaging and Digital Arts) Graduate program at UMBC. Panfile is a performance artist and in her performances explores social, cultural and gender issues. She wants to see how all of these issues affect her as an immigrant and as a woman.
Valeska is a graduate of the Maryland Institute College of Art, and holds degrees in fine arts and art education. Since arriving in Baltimore, Valeska has been an active member of the Baltimore arts community, performing original puppetry productions, participating as a stiltwalker in parades, exhibiting her work in galleries, and teaching arts workshops to kids and adults at public schools, craft schools and museums. The Cause Company is a pseudonym used for the various aspects of her artistic practice.
Right-Geist Connections, Ltd. is the result of a merger/mutually hostile takeover™ between New Jersey-based members of two international artists’ collectives, the Meme Rider Media Team and the Post-NeoAbsurdist Anti-Collective. Participating members include (but are not limited to) Warren Fry and Olchar E. Lindsann of Post-Neo, and Nathan Shafer and Joelle Howald of the Meme-Riders.
Smelling Salt Amusements is Heather Romney and Peter Redgrave. They are educators by trade and entertainers by whim. Please visit 
SHUA GROUP is a New York/New Jersey based performance company and not for profit organization directed by choreographer Joshua Bisset and artist Laura Quattrocchi. Shua Group is committed to broadening the interface of movement based art and public life. 2008 projects include a mass performance opposite ground zero at the World Financial Center (May) and the development of a physical installation on the sides of Federal Hill Baltimore (Fall) through the American Visionary Arts Museum. (Please contact 
The Theft and Rescue Society: Daniel Huyberts, Michael Ries, and Dana Solano was formed in 2006 by interactive media artists Daniel Huyberts and Dana Solano. The Society held their first event in Baltimore, Maryland in December of 2006. Since that time, the group has expanded to include fellow interactive media artist Michael Ries and the group has participated in a number of festivals including the Conflux Festival in Brooklyn and the Enzimi Festival in Rome.
Daniel Van Allen has been creating a visionary environment in Baltimore since 1980. He has been driving an art car since 1976. Van Allen has operated his own furniture restoration business for 35 years. He is the founder and organizer of the Intertribal Powwow (an annual cultural expo) and The Arabber Preservation Society (for our horse cart vendors); Dan directed The Sowebo Arts Festival for 6 years and helps organize several art organizations around town. His work includes multimedia art and architecture documentation, installation; mixed media, found object and wood sculpture; painting and performance.
Kathryn Williamson believes an artwork should never reveal all to the viewer, some things should be left unsaid. This gives the viewer the opportunity to be active; the chance to think for themselves and later contemplate what they experienced.
Shannon Young is a multi-media artist that lives and works in Baltimore. She received and MFA in painting from American University and will be graduating from Imaging Media and Digital Arts program at UMBC. Shannon has exhibited at Maryland Art Place in Baltimore, The Warehouse in Washington DC and 1708 Gallery in Richmond VA. 
