& OTHER ILLUSTRATIONS
Meet The Artists Who Contributed To This Program
Photography by Stephanie Matthews
Jonathon Hunter | lighting design for duet & solos
Jonathon Hunter received his MFA in Lighting Design from The University of Virginia and BA in Theatre Arts from The University of Akron after studying dance from a young age. He has worked for Cleveland Play House, Heinz Poll Summer Dance Festival, OhioDance Festival, and New York Stage and Film; as well as with local and national companies such as: GroundWorks DanceTheatre, Neos Dance Theatre, Dancing Wheels, Pilobolus, and Bill T Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company. He collaborated with the Akron Symphony Orchestra for two concerts on their 2017-2018 season and has worked with Rubber City Theatre, Akron All-City Musical, and Mercury Theatre Company.
He found his way into technical theatre while volunteering with Weathervane Community Playhouse in Akron and discovered a love for video programming on the 2015 production of Ordinary Days. This programming got him involved with Neos Dance Theatre’s production of A 1940’s Nutcracker and their M.A.D.E. in Ashland series. Most recently he served as the Lighting and Video Assistant for Cleveland Playhouse.
Kathryn Nusa Logan | film production of Land, Sugar, Bone
Kathryn Nusa Logan is an interdisciplinary artist imagining new futures through the ongoing themes of perspective, lineage, and environment. Her work extends across contemporary dance, video art, multi-media installation, sound design, and performance. She takes on supportive, cooperative, and leadership roles in art making processes, often performing in a fluid disciplinary capacity: acting as dramaturg, collaborative performer, musician, camera choreographer, video editor, art methodologist, or director. Her primary research is based in integrated dance-with-camera works that holistically consider the camera in the making process. Through this work, she is interrogating the dominant gaze by engaging in new, somatic-based practices of looking and interacting with cameras. kathrynnusalogan.com
Mark Lomax | music composition for duet
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Michael J. Morris | costume collaboration for Petry's solo
Michael J. Morris is an artist, astrologer, tarot reader, writer, educator, and facilitator. They hold a PhD in Dance Studies from The Ohio State University, and they were a Visiting Assistant Professor at Denison University from 2015-2021 where they taught in Dance, Women’s and Gender Studies, Queer Studies, and Environmental Studies. They have also been visiting faculty at SNDO—the School for New Dance Development—at the Academy of Theatre and Dance in Amsterdam since 2020, teaching the gender theory workshop for choreographers. Their choreographic and performance work has been presented at universities, galleries, community spaces, theaters, bars and nightclubs, films, domestic spaces, and most recently the Wexner Center for the Arts. Their writing appears in The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Theater, TDR: The Drama Review, Choreographic Practices, Dance Chronicle, and the European Journal of Ecopsychology. In 2019, Michael founded Co Witchcraft Offerings through which they offer astrology and tarot readings, movement-based rituals, and workshops to support people in cultivating more meaningful living while pursuing personal and collective healing and liberation. They are currently a contributing artist with Livable Futures, a contributing writer with the CHANI App, and a teaching assistant with astrologer Kelly Surtees. Michael is based in Columbus, Ohio—the ancestral and contemporary territories of the Shawnee, Potawatomi, Delaware, Miami, Peoria, Seneca, Wyandotte, Ojibwe, and Cherokee peoples.
Erica Rodney | costume design for Land, Sugar, Bone
Erica Rodney is a fashion designer and interdisciplinary artist who resides and works in Columbus, Ohio where she completed her MFA at Columbus College of Art and Design in 2018. Through her practice, she explores the creative space between fine arts and clothing design, utilizing these two disciplines to create and exhibit wearable works of art. Inspiration for her work often come from ideas that deal with invisibility, dignity, progress, hereditary skills, and identifying expressions that are manifestations of those very same ideas. She hopes that her work can be a servant to the efforts of restoring dignity to a people. Her creations are often made from unconventional materials for clothing such as artificial hair and transparent fabric. These works of art are sometimes multifunctional. She also believes that creating clothing in this way, along with her intentions helps with fashion sustainability, as the process itself is slow, and it presents alternative ways to view and think about clothing.
Paul Tenwalde | visual art & set pieces for duet
Paul Tenwalde serves as the Fabrication Manager at the Columbus College of Art & Design and oversees the Tab Jeffery Fab Lab and Grant Lab Woodshop. In 2006 he received his B.F.A. in Art Education with an emphasis in Ceramics from Bowling Green State University, and in 2018 he graduated from the Columbus College of & Design with an M.F.A. focused on Industrial Design. He has taught art K-12, instructed studio ceramics classes, served as a creative arts summer camp counselor, worked as a “lumberjack” and interned at Electrolux North America’s model shop. Specializing in fabrication and model building, Paul possesses a highly diverse range of fabrication skills and an in-depth knowledge of finishing techniques. In 2012 he successfully completed a through hike of the 2,180 mile Appalachian Trail and enjoys fishing, biking, climbing, paddling his custom built canoe, and generally speaking all things outdoors.
Photography by Stephanie Matthews