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Alex Tichane
Alex Tichane is a composer, producer, and engineer. Upon finishing an MFA in Music Composition from SUNY Purchase he went on to work in TV, Film, and live events. He was a member of the creative team that produced the Eisner Nominated graphic novel “Big Black: Stand At Attica” and was a member of the Attica Committee which marked the 50th Year Remembrance of the 1971 prison uprising. Alex will be sharing his extensive experiences creating music with AI.
Alice Limoges
Alice Limoges has been singing since before she could walk. Whether performing her poetic songs about love and nature, or shining a light on mental health, Alice Limoges's canon is lit up by her storytelling, unique, soulful voice and sophisticated instrumentals. She has released 6 original albums/EPs, toured festivals and colleges across North America, and even contributed to Jon Samson’s Grammy Award winning album. Additionally, she is a music educator emphasizing self expression through songwriting, drawing on the healing experience music has provided her through her own struggles (and triumphs!) with bipolar disorder.
Anna Mayta
Anna Mayta, a dance educator, improviser, choreographer, and artist, has taught and performed for over 20 years across the Hudson Valley, NYC, India, and beyond. With a BA in Dance in Education from Empire State College and a yoga certification from Svyasa Swami Vivekananda Yoga University in India, Anna’s innovative approach blends diverse global styles, from African to Classical Indian, Flamenco to Modern dance. She has received multiple accolades, including a Dutchess County Arts Council award and grants from CREATE, which supported her work addressing Latinx linguistic prejudice. Her programs—Spanish Language through Movement, Fusion Dance, and Transcending Linguistic Prejudice through Movement—have reached audiences at Art Omi, Bethel Woods, Caramoor, and beyond. Currently, Anna directs her company, Mayta Fusion Dance, while continuing to teach, choreograph, and perform.
Deborah Thurlow
Deborah Thurlow is a hornist, composer, singer songwriter, narrator, conductor and educator. The founder of Turn on the Music, Deborah Thurlow, developed her vision and mission to create a futuristic chamber music ensemble with a core instrumentation of horn, violin, electric guitar, and electric bass. This Instrumentation is augmented with the occasional addition of other electronically processed acoustic instruments and computer music in the mix, creating a variety of ensemble settings.
Cynthia A. Morgan
Cynthia is an author, poet, and synthographer who weaves compelling narratives that entertain and inspire reflection on social and ethical issues. Her works encourage readers to embrace values such as showing thankfulness through kindness, appreciating blessings through generosity, and cultivating inner peace to achieve harmony in the world. Diversity and acceptance are central themes in her storytelling, adding depth to her imaginative tales. She paints with words and digital software to create characters, landscapes, abstract and geometric art, and digital paintings that blend words and imagery into one. Her art is Synthography, which uses AI only as a starting point. She then utilizes a multi-step process that includes digital and photo editing tools to build layering, create mood and ambiance, enhance &/or reduce, and augment or eliminate. By integrating outside media, digital overlays, filtering, sculpting, and manipulations, she composites a final result to generate emotion, explore spirituality and perception, and invite imagination.
Jayme Fahrer
Jayme, also known as Peachy, is an energetic and bubbly artist who brings a deep passion for creativity to everything she does. With a background in art therapy, she believes that kindness is not just an option but a way of life, and that wellness is deeply connected to the act of making art. Specializing in abstract art and pour painting techniques, Jayme combines her enthusiasm for art with a focus on team building, recognizing the power of creative collaboration in fostering strong, supportive communities. Whether guiding others through a painting session or exploring new creative avenues, Jayme's love for art and commitment to wellness and connection shine through in every project.
Jon Samson
Jon Samson, MA, MTBC, is the first board-certified music therapist in history to win a Grammy award for his self produced 2019 mental health-based children’s album, Ageless: Songs For The Child Archetype. Jon also received the Benedikte Scheiby Pioneering Spirit Award In Music Therapy (2020), has taken first place 4 times in the International Songwriting Competition, won the John Lennon Award and Parents Gold Choice award. Based in Brooklyn, New York, Jon continues to operate his private practice, CoCreative Music, which he founded in 2005 with a mission to help bring music therapy further into the mainstream.
Juan Bellia
Juan Bellia was was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina and began his career as a composer at the age of 16 as a singer-songwriter. He studied Harmony and Composition, Choir Direction, Recording Techniques, MIDI, Sampling, Electro-acoustics, and Sound Design, and soon began composing for TV and radio. He wrote the score of several plays for the National Theaters of Argentina and Spain, and composed, arranged, produced and performed for the biggest names in Argentine popular music, as well as coaching recording artists for major record labels such as Sony Music, PolyGram and EMI.
Leela Kumaran
Leela has dabbled in paper-crafting and embroidery all her life and learned a lot of techniques (and collected random supplies!) along the way. Her ability to dabble in multi-media allows her to make themed sets. Like crochet a baby set and add a custom card; modify a photograph to make cards that look like stained glass; create interactive art pieces for friends. Inspiration and ideas can come from seeing others' art, from casual conversations, from dreams, from words, really anywhere. Sometimes, unrepairable 'mistakes' with art projects morphed into masterpieces like they were always meant to be.
Lisa Marie Mercer
Lisa Marie Mercer is a celebrated artist who discovered her passion later in life, earning accolades for her unique digital collages inspired by Pre-Raphaelite and Art Nouveau styles. Her artistic journey took off after a diagnosis of epilepsy at 63, where digital collage became her voice, merging influences like Alphonse Mucha into vibrant compositions. Lisa has won the Merit Award from the Gainesville Fine Arts Association and was recognized as Best Emerging Artist at the Oak Hammock Art Show. Her work, showcased at Artwalk Gainesville and other local venues, resonates in non-traditional spaces such as churches, restaurants, and medical centers. One of her most impactful projects, "The Art of Epilepsy," is proudly displayed in a neurology unit, bridging her art with her personal experience. Lisa’s designs have also reached a wide audience through T-shirts for a Gainesville bluegrass concert, spreading her artistic vision to an enthusiastic public.
Mariko Endo
Mariko Endo toured throughout Japan and the U.S. with legendary Japanese director, Akaji Maro. Her original works and multimedia performances have been showcased in the garden of the American Museum of Natural History, the Metropolitan Museum, Thalia Symphony Space, St. Paul Chapel Trinity Wall Street and St. John’s the Divine. Her practice is based in Dance and Yoga, and Body Awareness. She trains individuals to become free and creative to express Story, Music, Imagery and Internal Landscape. She is also passionate about bringing positive change to your body of self-confidence and energy.
Michael Braudy
Michael Braudy, a violinist in Western, North Indian and Celtic music, gives Sound and Health through Music workshops which use the silence between musical experiences as a way to greater awareness of the body, emotions and mind. A versatile performer and improviser, he has collaborated with vocalists, storytellers, and poets, and performed in the US, England, Scotland and India, including the International Festival in Jaipur. His recordings include a series of Indian ragas for health, including Sumanas (Ragas for the Heart), Vriddhi and Awakening Peace.
Ritu Bajaj
Passionate and versatile, Ritu excels in creating contemporary artwork drawing from her extensive training in realism techniques. With her experience in oil painting and visual story telling, she has significantly contributed to group exhibitions and fulfilled commissions for private collectors, showcasing her exceptional attention to detail and client relations skills. Her passion for becoming a full time artist led her to start learning realism techniques in an atelier setting. She trained extensively in traditional painting and glazing techniques of 19th century artists. She works with oils, charcoal, graphite and pen & ink. Her goal is to follow her creative instincts and create versatile contemporary artwork that touches the life of people in meaningful and memorable way
Samyukta Kumaran
As a Bollywood and Bollyfusion, teacher for many years, I create unique choreography and experiences for people of all skill levels. My foundation in Bharatnatyam and Bollywood and learnings in styles like kathak and contemporary, helps me customize dance classes that best fit the students
Fitness through Bollywood dance and strength workouts can be a fun and effective way to achieve your fitness goals.
Sasa Cabalquinto
Sasa Cabalquinto is a Filipina independent movement artist, actor, choreographer, and cultural worker from Manila, Philippines. As a performance maker, artist-cultural worker, and dance educator, her work pursues the different possibilities of movement in the realm of Butoh through collaborative arts. She focuses on the authenticity of movement during the spur of the moment, the unconscious personas within, and reimagining collective memories through dance. She is the program director and founder of Kapwa—Movement, an independent platform and intermediary proponent for reintroducing the Butoh form in the Philippines integrating with Indigenous ritualistic practices. Her efforts to create collaborative performances inspired by Butoh expression were recognized on several platforms locally and internationally.
Smita Arora
Smita Arora is a French Pastry Chef who has a passion for creating exquisite pastries, cakes, desserts taking inspiration from many cuisines around the world. While earning her formal education at the French Culinary Institute, NY, she won multiple awards for best product, best presentation and creativity. After working in the corporate world for over 12 years, she quit in 2007 to take care of her newborn twins. Thereafter she was inspired to train as a pastry chef during her extensive travel and culinary experiences in Paris and other European countries. She has honed her pastry and culinary skills over the years with custom orders for numerous social, corporate and special events in Pennsylvania, Connecticut and now in New Jersey. In 2009 she also got introduced to and learnt the healthy and delicious art of cooking with Ayurveda and Naturopathy. She has recently established her home-based bake shop Ooh la la Patisserie to share her extensive French Pastry/Culinary knowledge, skill and enthusiasm with her community through thoughtful catering, dinner events at her own table, workshops and unique in-person experiences.
Somdatta Pal
Somdatta is an interdisciplinary artist, educator, dance/movement therapist, and clinical counselor. She has performed in London, Budapest, Berlin, Hague, Kolkata, Ahmedabad, and the US. Somdatta has a master’s degree in clinical mental health counseling with dance/movement therapy as a concentration. She continues to inspire others to utilize movement and music to embrace harmony and healing through their agency of self.
Dr. Susanna Enriquez
Susana Enríquez is an Australian artist born in Mexico City. She arrived in Australia in 2001 as an international PhD student on two postgraduate scholarships from the University of Newcastle. Dr Enríquez studied music, theater, literature and visual arts at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Since 2018, Dr Enríquez has been developing "Well-being and art" workshops based on Frida Kahlo's Diary, guiding students with tools to clear and rest the mind, opening their path to full self-expression. Dr. Enríquez has 30 individual and 45 group exhibitions in Europe, Japan, Argentina, the United States, Mexico and Australia. Her work has been selected for art awards, including several biennials in Mexico. Prominent Mexican critics and artists, including Sasha Grishin in Australia, have featured her work.
Tanvi Mehra
Tanvi Mehra is a certified abundance coach helping you turn your goals and visions into reality. She has helped countless people release obstacles in their way of success and happiness to bring harmony and peace. It's her passion to help you release the real stressors in your life so that you can achieve anything. She believes when you become a champion of your own wellbeing, you can break the cycle of limitations. She has done innovative workshops using EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) and visualization techniques to help people move from being stuck to achieve their goals. After her sessions you experience clarity and breakthrough. She has motivated and fulfilled clients all over the world.
Trevor New
Trevor is a composer, classically trained Violist, and technologist that explores many contexts through music, visuals, and storytelling. His current projects are focused on exploring how we are connected, how we can make music and together, in-person or not, and how these connections can effect the time and space we see as separate. As the artistic director of Enjinn Arts he brings these opportunities into an educational setting through regular work with school music programs in the northeast United States and workshops connecting from around the world. Apart from writing for orchestra and smaller ensembles his work as a sound designer, engineer/producer, and performer can be found in a variety of media, including film scores, arranging, electronic music, TV. In a Timeout New York review of a recent production of the play "Your Hair Looked Great" his music was described as "Smartly Scored". Trevor designs performances playing his viola, using electronics, looping and effects, and creating real-time synchronized multi-location networked performances with people around the world.
Dr. Padmaja Ganapathy Ph.D, MBA
Padmaja Ganapathy, the founder and CEO of Artsee Wellness is a writer, philosopher, biologist, artist and “artrepreneur” who holds a PhD in Oncology and MBA in Finance. She founded Artsee as a free online portfolio and community platform for artists, providing visibility to artists of diverse genres, countries, and domains. She is also the co-founder and co-director of Artists4Peace, a curated platform dedicated to empowering artists and promoting peace through art. Prior to that she ran the US operations for Godavari Biorefineries, an intensely philanthropic and environmentally conscious bio-refinery based in India. She has previously worked in major pharmaceuticals in areas of benchmarking and clinical trials management. Padmaja is currently writing a multimedia book based on her philosophical blog, “The Naked Soul.”