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Carri Skoczek is a visual artist who works in a wide range of mediums, drawing and printmaking, painting, and sculpture. She is also a costume designer and doll maker.

She was the resident costume designer for Theater X in Milwaukee for 12 years. Carri traveled in the Caribbean working on costumes for carnival in Trinidad and Junkanoo in the Bahamas. She has also curated several exhibitions, The Bed Show at the Williamsburg Art and Historical Center, The Bedroom at Holland Tunnel Gallery, Brooklyn, The Doll Show at Gallery Gaia in Brooklyn and The Doll Show at Byrdcliffe Gallery in Woodstock, NY. She curated The Annual Mermaid Show for 10 years celebrating the Coney Island Mermaid Parade of which she was an award winning participant.

She also makes hats for the annual Easter parade. Creates soft sculpture dolls and voodoo dolls from recycled jewelry.

Her NYC solo exhibitions include Sideshow Gallery, Causey Contemporary, Holland Tunnel Gallery, Figureworks, Thomas Werner Gallery, Williamsburg Art and Historical Society and the Right Bank Gallery.

She has also had solo exhibitions in Milwaukee, Chicago, New Orleans, Denver, Santa Fe, Jamaica and Mexico.

Carri’s painted dress and mask were included in “Covidesign” at the Greve Museum in Denmark, 2020. Her dolls were included in “Dolls in Contemporary Art” at the Haggerty Museum in Milwaukee WI, 1988 and “Stories On Our Environment: Trash to Art” at the

American Museum of Natural History in NYC, 2000.

She’s exhibited in numerous group exhibitions in NYC since 1996.

She studied drawing and printmaking at UW-Eau Claire and graduated from Rocky Mountain Institute of Art and Design, Denver, CO.

Social media: carri skoczek fb @carriskoczek instagram

Eva Melas works and lives as an artist Saugerties, and in Brooklyn, NY. She has exhibited at a number of venues including the John Michael Kohler Arts Center and the Armory SOFA show. In the past few years she has exhibited with Rachel Uffner, PS 122, Brooklyn Souvenir, Una Gallery (Portland OR), Girls Club (Miami), BKBX, TWAT at Joyce Goldstein gallery, and “Artists Draw their studios” at the Hewitt Gallery, Marymount Manhattan college. Her ceramic installation was shown in the NY times Art section in June 2015. Her work appears in the hardcover books: Art/Industry Collaboration and Revelation (Ruth De Young Kohler), Confrontational Ceramics (Judith Schwartz), TedXGowanus Talk 2013, and the NY Times (Westchester) review 2008. Her awards include the John Michael Kohler Arts and Industry Residency and an Empire State Crafts Alliance Grant. She is on the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Exhibiton Committee presently. She attended Cooper Union, The School of Visual Arts (BFA), and has an MFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University.

Website: Evamelas.com

Instagram: Eva_Melas

"Responsibility",1985, 23"HX13"WX4"D, glazed earthenware, porcelain, oil paint and mixed media

JoAnne McFarland is a multidisciplinary artist, writer, and independent curator from Brooklyn. Her poetry collections include: American Graphic, winner of the Wishing Jewel Prize for poetic innovation, Green Linden Press 2024; A Domestic Lookbook and Pullman, Grid Books 2024 and 2023; and Identifying the Body, the Word Works 2018. McFarland has artwork in the permanent collections of the Cooper/Hewitt Smithsonian, the Library of Congress, the Columbus Museum of Art, and the Department of State, among many others. McFarland's artwork is represented by Accola Griefen Fine Art.

Website: www.joannemcfarland.com

@joannemcfarland55

Armed and Dangerous, 2022, 18 X 14, oil and cold wax on wooden panel

Robyn Love (b. 1965) is an American-born artist who lives and works in Elmastukwek, Ktaqmkuk (Bay of Islands, Newfoundland), Canada. She received a BFA from Cooper Union in New York City in 1988. She has exhibited at galleries and museums internationally and has received numerous project grants to create new work from foundations and public agencies. Her work is in collections around North America. Love’s site-specific projects include a New York City Percent for Art commission for the High School for Law Enforcement and Public Safety in Jamaica, Queens, NY, a five km-long handmade installation in Cheongju, South Korea, and a large-scale, multimedia installation titled The House Museum in Ktaqmkuk.

Love has received several ArtsNL Project Grants as well as grants from the Canada Council. She has presented her participatory performance piece, SpinCycle, at The Brooklyn Museum in New York City and galleries in the US and Canada. Her online video series, Small Things Brought Together, features long-format conversations exploring creative processes with artists from all disciplines. Her current piece, Jinker, is a multidisciplinary project with presentations in Newfoundland and Scotland.

Website: www.robynlove.com

Instagram: @robynlove_art

She Came From Stone (Jinker), 2023. Performance in Joe Batt's Arm, Fogo Island, NL. Photo by Heather Nolan.

Yonadav Greenwood is a Brooklyn based artist and arts educator. They graduated with a BA in Studio Arts from Yale University in December 2015, with a senior thesis titled The Body-Puppet-Object Continuity. They work in many media, including drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, photography and performance—as well as design work in jewelry. Their work often deals with themes of queer temporality, (homo)erotiscm, camp, doubling, and identity. Yonadav has shown in group exhibitions in the United States and Brazil.

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"The Doll Show"