URBAN TAPESTRY: ARTIST BIOS

Mario Bustamante

President of the Board of Art Loisaida Foundation - Sculptor-and owner of Mario Metals, an architectural metal fabrication company located in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY. He is from Medalllin Columbia and has lived in the East Village/Lower East Side since 1987. His sculptures can be seen in La Plaza Cultural Community Park and Garden on the s/w corner of E. 9th St. and Ave C , in his sculpture park in Middleburgh, NY, and in private collections. His work can be viewed http://www.mariometalss.com. He has over 48 years experience in working with metal, first working with his father in their auto accessory factory in Medellin, then apprenticed himself to a jeweler, and progressed to working as a tool and die maker. Mario is one of the founders of Artistas de Loisiada and Art Loisaida Foundation. Website.

Christopher Batenhorst

Peter Cramer (Le Petit Versailles Dancers and Allied Artsts Kali-eidosape Collaborators-" include PeeWeeNyob, David Sokolowski, Carlo Maria Ampil, Peter Cramer and Jack Waters)-

Petit Versailles Dancers creates "Kali-eidoscape", a live visual weaving of twine, twigs, and talent on May 7th from 5-7pm. at Theater for the New CIty for "Urban Tapestry” a multidisciplinary exhibit featuring visual, conceptual and performing arts interwoven by Arts Loisaida Foundation into a two day event as part of the New Museum initiated Festival of Ideas for a New City. "Kali-eidoscape" evokes the Hindu goddess of energy also revered as Bhavatarini (literally "redeemer of the universe").Since Shiva is called Kāla - the eternal time, Kālī, his consort, also means "the Time" or "Death" (as in time has come). Hence, Kali is considered the goddess of time and change.

"Kali-eidoscape" collaborators include PeeWeeNyob, David Sokolowski, Carlo Maria Ampil, Peter Cramer and Jack Waters, who will transform the interior lobby of Theater for the New City with movement, materiality and media.

Petite Versailles Dancers is a performance loop born of an East Village garden that debuted in "Where's Dorothy?" ,

TABBOO!'s 2006 production at Gail Thacker's Gene Frankel Theater. Subsequent PVD appearances include 2007 "Golden Fruittie" award winning performance for The Fresh Fruit Festival at the Cherry Lane Theater. Previous incarnations of Petit Versailles Dancers include 2002 debut of DanceTube at Theater For the New City and POOL (1981).

"Dancetube, a multithreat crew of the finest ands,ifs\or butts this new york hell hole has to offer.

Historical, theoretical and political - but all they really want to do is get naked and sex it up."
- Jack Waters & Peter Cramer

Dancetube is the experimental end of the New Burlesque.

Dancetube is experimental not only in it's extremism, but in that it is comprised of non-dancers collaboratively choreographed as open workshop environment. Performances are orgiastic and organic. At times, Dancetube is orchestrated bedlam on stage. At other times it is meditative, concentrated movement. Dancetube Performance History: Heat@The Kitchen April 2005 Jack Waters and Peter Cramer disrupt with a theatrical intervention in collaboration with danceTube and members of QueerFist. European Tour May - June 2004 London Arrows Of Eros at Picadilly Circus University Of Elche at Altea Barcelona Street Performances Paris Louvre and Gerges Pompidou street Performances Queeruption - Amsterdam Berlin Starship Issue Launch Zurich Heidi on the Elbe Prague White Crow Theater Judson Church, NYC HariKari Marry/ April 2004 Joe's Pub, NYC Flashdance March 2004 *Spectacles Of Religiosities Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics 14th annual Encuentro July 17th The Anti-War Anti-Empire Cabaret Kimmel Center, NYC *"Il Spettacolo Provolone" Theatrical Extravaganza directed by Jack Waters and Co. Theater for the New City, June 2003. *Dancetube "Biomovements" for Trancespace Installation as part of the Sonic Self Exhibit. Chelsea Art Museum, March 29th, 2003. *MAISON DERRIERE, "Dancetube" April 20th 2002, Theater for the New City. With Chris Tanner, Miss Kelly Webb, Dirty Martini, Scotty the Blue Bunny, Flawless Sabrina, Murray Hill, and more. *Critical Mass/Dead Rainforest Tour demo and subway party for Critical Mass and Rainforest Relief, May 2002. *"Take Back the Piers" Parade/Demo from Washinton Square to West Village Piers for FIERCE/Radical Fairies, July 2002. *BEYOND BOLLYWOOD, "River of Blood" September 21st 2002, Le Petite Versailles Community Garden *Dancers Responding to AIDS: The Remember Project, "River of Blood," Dancespace@ St Marks Church, December 7th, 2002. Kathy Creutzburg

is a sculptor and watercolorist whose work reflects the cultural and environmental concerns of particular sites. She often collaborates as she creates for institutions such as Poets House, Sites for Schools: Percent for the Arts, NYC Parks Temporary Outdoor Art Program, and NYS Chenango County Fairgrounds. Her work has been exhibited at Lincoln Center, Abrons Art Center and Theatre for the New City in NYC, and SAVA Fine Art Gallery in San Antonio, TX.

Onno de Jong

Vice President- Graphic and Web Design Company-Circular Creation, Photographer, Videographer, Philosopher and adjunct professor at Parsons, New School. He is the designer of many of our graphics and web site as well as host of Art Loisaida Foundation's web site. Has been involved as participating artist with Artistas de Loisaida since the late 1990's. He is a longtime East Villager, married to a performing artist and has a son Taiyo and is passionate about the environment. Website"

Kris Enos

Assistant Treasurer-Kris has been a resident of the East Village for twenty-six years. He works as an assistant cameraman on films such as “Black Swan”, “Spiderman 2”, and “25th Hour”. In his spare time he is a freelance still photographer. He shows in numerous Art Loisaida Foundation exhibitions. Kris lives with his wife Kathy, and their two sons. His website is Website

Elodie Lauten

Secretary of Art Loisaida Foundation-Elodie Lauten is a composer, performer, producer and media artist. She has taught at NYU and is on the faculty at CUNY's New York City College of technology. She has over 20 years of experience as a composer and producer of recordings and live events. She is also artistic director of Lower East Side Performing Arts. She holds a Bachelors in Economics and Finance from the Paris Institut d’Etudes Politiques and a Master's in Composition from NYU. She aims to bring forth a progressive and viable vision for the future of classical music and art. She received awards from the National Endowment for the Art, the Massachusetts Council on the Arts, Meet the Composer, ASCAP, the American Music Center. Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and Argosy Foundation. She writes a blog for music internet magazine Sequenza21. Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. , phone 212-388-0202 Website Kathleen McDermott- graduated from Cornell University in 2009 with a BFA in Sculpture. Kathleen has had several recent installations in public sites, including a window installation in the Donnell Public Library building on w. 53rd Street. She is a freelance fabricator and sculptor currently employed with Tom Otterness Studio.

Carolyn Ratcliffe

Artistic Director and Treasurer - Carolyn is a photographer, curator, arts producer and non profit management consultant. She holds an MS degree in Non Profit Management from Milano School of Management, New School and her BA degree is in Art from the University of Alabama where she majored in painting with a minor in European History. She was the Executive Director of La Plaza Cultural Community Park and Garden from 1995-2003 where she founded/directed the La Plaza Cultural Performance Festival from 1996 and until 2003(it hosted events such as Tamar Rogoff's Demeter's Daughter, Yoshiko Chuma's Neighborhood Living Room Project, Dance Space 's Urban Bushwomen Dance project , and Lincoln Center Out of Doors.

She founded Artistas de Loisiada in 1995 with Mario Bustamante, and Robert Slaughter when they mounted two art shows in store fronts on Ave B and Ave C in conjunction with Earth Celebration's Rites of Spring Pageant. They continued to show the work of Lower East side/East Village artists including a 10 year stint at the Cork Gallery, Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center. In 2008 Carolyn, Mario Bustamante and Onno de Jong incorporated Art Loisaida Foundation as a non profit and she has continued to organize art exhibits, screenings, garden events, and monthly children's art classes at Tompkins Square Library.

She is also President of the Board for the Lower East Side Performance Project, Steering Committee for the Lower East Side Preservation Initiative and Chair of the 9BC Tompkins Sq. Block Association and serves as Chair of the Landmarks subcommittee, as well as on the Parks Recreation and Culture committee and the Arts and Culture Task Force of CB#3.

Her photographs and articles have been published in the Villager and CIty, and shown in all of the shows organized by Artistas de Loisaida and Art Loisaida Foundation, as well as solo shows at Tompkins Sq. Library, and Planet One Cafe. She also serves as Development consultant for Downtown Music Productions, The Lower East Side Performing Arts and the Lower East Side Preservation Initiative. This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Alexia Weidler-Graphic design, photography, and active in East Village Community gardens with strong commitment to raising public awareness on issues of climate change and need to care for the environment. Jeffrey Cyphers Wright poems have recently been in Vanitas, Tribes Magazine, Big Hammer, The Bicycle Review, Omega, Boog, Beet Magazine and Hanging Loose. Author of eleven books of poetry, he also writes art criticism which has appeared in Artnews, Art and Antiques, Chelsea Now and Artnexus. He contributes a regular column of poetry reviews called “Rapid Transit” to The Brooklyn Rail. Since 2006, he has published Live Mag! and hosts events at La Mama, Etc. and The Bowery Poetry Club. His website is: http;//www.livemagnyc.com

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Theater for the New City
Crystal Field
Executive director
Presents:

May 7, 2011 from 10 am through 11pm Presented by Theater for the New City, 155 First Avenue (9-10 St)

URBAN TAPESTRY A Vision for the New City Curated by Carolyn Ratcliffe

a multidisciplinary exhibition, weaves visual, conceptual, and performing arts into a two-day event that combines preservation and innovation, building a base for a heterogeneous and sustainable city using visual art, installations, music and performance to engage the public.

Topics: Art & Design, story telling and local history, party (reception), Exhibition, Lecture/Discussion, Performance

PROGRAM DETAILS

May 7, 2011

3:00-4:30 Art Exhibit and Panel Discussion, Supported by Art Loisaida Foundation Panelists: Kerri Culhane, Architectural Historian, Richard Moses, RA, Magali Regis, AIA and Leeds Fellow, Warren Riznychok, Environmental Engineer

4:30-5:30 Reception in the gallery

5:30-7:00 Performances: Elodie Lauten, Jeffrey Cyphers Wright, and Le Petit Versailles Dancers in Kali-eidoscape supported by Allied Productions

8pm The Death of Don Juan, an Opera by Elodie Lauten, supported by L.E.S. Performing Arts, presented by Theater for the New City

May 8, 2011

10:00 Art Exhibit-featuring works by Mario Bustamante, Christopher Batenhorst, Kathy Cruetzburg, Onno de Jong, Kris Enos, Elodie Lauten, Kathleen McDermott, Carolyn Ratcliffe, Alexia Weidler and including historical images of Theater for the New City

2:00 Presentation by ELodie Lauten on the creative process of The Death of Don Juan based on ancient correspondence systems translated into modern technology

3:00 Performance The Death of Don Juan

This program is made possible in part by public funds from The NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs in Partnership with the New York City Council (Many thanks to Rosie Mendez, NYC Councilperson) and support from Materials for the Arts.Create new article

Urban Tapestry: A Vision for the New City

Panel Discussion: May 7th 3-4:30pm in the Johnson Theater, Theater for the New City, 155 First Ave., New York NY 10003(212)254-1109

Moderator:

Mark Vacarro, NYC Parks Manager

with the New York City Department of Parks where he has recently assumed responsibility for Community Boards 6 and 8, which span from East 14th Street to East 96th Street, as well as the East River Esplanade which extends to 125th Street.. One of his previous districts, Community Board 9, which included West Harlem, Central Harlem and Manhattanville, was awarded the “Greenest District Award” by the Parks Department under Mr.. Vaccaro’s stewardship. As a landscape designer, Mr. Vaccaro has been central to the development of NYC’s new Pier/Recycling Facility in Sunset Park Brooklyn. This project has already earned an award from the Public Design Commission. Mr. Vaccaro worked as an environmental consultant in the Northeast, Mountain States and Florida. He is the former chair of the Citywide Recycling Board (CRAB) and a former member of the Solid Waste Advisory Board (SWAB). Over the years he has held positions with the New York Botanical Garden, Queens Botanical Garden and Staten Island Botanical Garden. He is a longtime community gardener and practicing horticulturalist in his home community, the Lower East Side.

Panelists:

Richard Moses RA

is a preservation architect working for a private New York City architecture/engineering firm that specializes in historic preservation / exterior restoration in the New York metropolitan area. He has helped plan and execute the restoration of numerous residential, institutional and commercial New York City landmarks, National Historic Landmarks, and buildings listed in State and National Registers of Historic Places. Previously he served for several years as Architect at the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission. He serves on Manhattan Community Board #6’s Parks and Landmarks Committee and is on the Board of Directors of the Historic Districts Council. In 2007 he helped found the Lower East Side Preservation Initiative, a preservation group that advocates for landmark protection for the historically intact areas of the East Village / Lower East Side, where he serves on the Steering Committee.

Magali Regis AIA, Leed AP

-was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, attended middle and high school in Rome, Italy then moved to New York where she studied architecture at Pratt Institute. A world traveler, the cosmopolitan character of New York suited her so she decided to stay and make New York her home. She has been practicing architecture for the past 25 years, working at a variety of firms both large and small, as well as her own small private practice. Her experience includes historic preservation, adaptive reuse, civic buildings, public schools and colleges, high-end residential, retail, hotels and corporate interiors. She is also a community gardener and garden activist, working for the past 15 years to preserve New York’s communal green spaces from looming development. She is also a photographer and a dancer

Kerri Culhane

consults on natural resources conservation and cultural resources preservation projects with a particular interest in cultural landscape studies, including the urban landscape. Since 2002, she has worked with Two Bridges Neighborhood Council to document to history of neighborhoods of the Lower East Side, focusing on architecture as a framework for exploring the social history of the community. In December 2010, she and Two Bridges received the New York State Preservation Award for Outstanding National Register nomination for the Chinatown & Little Italy Historic District. She is currently writing the forthcoming Bowery National Register Historic District nomination, sponsored by Two Bridges Neighborhood Council and Bowery Alliance of Neighbors. After receiving a B.A. in Humanities from SUNY’s Purchase College, she earned a Master of Arts in Architectural History and Historic Preservation from Virginia Commonwealth University; and a Master of Arts in Sustainable Landscape Planning and Design from the Conway School.

Warren Riznychok

received his Masters Degree in Environmental Engineering in 1982 from Manhattan College’s Graduate School of Environmental Engineering. He also was an Adjunct Professor in Manhattan’s Graduate School of Environmental Engineering where he taught Unit Operations of Water and Wastewater Treatment and often lectured on groundwater remediation technologies.

Mr. Riznychok’s professional experience includes work for the Westchester County Health Department, IBM & Malcolm Pirnie Inc. a private Environmental Consulting firm. As a laboratory analyst for Westchester County he was principally responsible for air pollution monitoring throughout the County. For IBM he worked at IBM’s Thomas J Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY where he provided laboratory and consulting services on industrial waste recycling, sanitary wastewater treatment and ultrapure water treatment and supply. He also provided internal consulting services to other IBM locations nationwide. As a consultant he provided technical and professional services to NY City Department of Environmental Protection (NYCDEP), US Environmental Protection agency (USEPA), US Department of Defense (USDOD), US Asia International Development (USAID) and various other municipal governments and industry.

For NYCDEP he provided professional and technical consulting services regarding NY City’s drinking water supply, wastewater treatment and hazardous waste remediation. For USEPA he conducted or was involved in over 200 site assessments which included groundwater investigations, on-site observations and recommendations to the extent of contamination. He was also an invited guest speaker where he lectured nationwide for USEPA’s, “Contaminated Sediment Series”. For USDOD he also conducted groundwater and site investigations. His work for DOD included treatability studies on wastewater treatment at Ft. Dix and McGuire Air Force bases to protect the NJ Pine Barrons. He also developed pre-treatment processes for industrial military operations to meet local and state regulatory discharge requirements. He also lectured nationwide for the US Department of Navy on groundwater remediation technologies.

For USAID Mr. Riznychok worked with foreign governments to develop regulatory standards aimed at protecting human life and the countries natural resources as well as area wide planning strategies for development of country-wide treatment and disposal alternatives for wastewater and solid waste disposal. His work for other municipal governments and industry were of a similar nature.

He is the recipient of the Kenneth Allen Memorial Award for his research, “Air Stripping of Contaminated Compounds from Sanitary and Industrial Effluents”.