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by Meredith Monk
Anne Waldman is our bard, our Cassandra and fearless warrior who tells the unvarnished truth as she weaves the earth plane with the celestial, the particular with the universal, her visions of past, present, and future. I have known her since I came to New York in the 1960s and our lives have intertwined over the years in myriad and delicious ways. We have called each other “Dharma sister,” “partner in crime and art,” “dear sister in the wild cosmos beyond the binaries.” Anne is a force of nature whose energy is unstoppable. Her generosity and buoyant spirit have resounded throughout the world. May the beauty and passion of her life and work continue to soar on and on!
Meredith Monk (https://www.meredithmonk.org/) is a composer, singer, director/choreographer, and creator of new opera, music-theater works, films, and installations. Recognized as one of the most unique and influential artists of our time, she is a pioneer in what is now called “extended vocal technique” and “interdisciplinary performance.” Celebrated internationally, Monk’s work has been presented at major venues throughout the world. In conjunction with her 50th Season of creating and performing, she was appointed the 2014-15 Richard and Barbara Debs Composer’s Chair at Carnegie Hall. Recently Monk received three of the highest honors bestowed to a living artist in the United States: induction into the American Academy of Arts and Letters (2019), the 2017 Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize, and a 2015 National Medal of Arts from President Barack Obama.
Alystyre at Poetry Project at St Mark’s Church, Matt Kohn foto..
After MoMA, 18″ x 24” acrylic on paper
Dollmaker, 28″ x 36” oil on canvas
Fishermen, 28″ x 36” oil on canvas
Man Listening to Music, 6″ x 8” acrylic on paper
Nightshade-acrylic-on-canvas-24×18-inches
Stairway, 24″ x 48” acrylic on canvas
Subway, 9″ x 12” acrylic on canvas
Brooklyn-Pieta-oil-on-canvas-48×36-inches
Cat, 28″ x 36” oil on canvas
Constellation, 18″ x 24” acrylic on canvas
Cycles of Change, 12″ x 16” acrylic on canvas
Joanne Pagano Weber (http://www.bewareoftheyear7000.com/) is a visual artist, writer, and educator. As a painter of the “theatre of life,” she has exhibited socio-political narratives throughout the tri-state area, most meaningfully for her at Art 101, presided over by the beloved, now deceased artist and curator Ellen Rand, and at East Village venues such as Tribes Gallery, ABC No Rio, Kenkelba Gallery, and the Tompkins Square Library Gallery. She has contributed cover art to numerous “What Happens Next” anthologies compiled at A Gathering of the Tribes, and other publications.
In recent years she has collaborated with the sculptor Janice Mauro on cross-disciplinary installations, such as Beware of the Year 7000 (see above url), which include text and combine humor and social critique concerning the ramifications of global warming.
She created the first of many sets for the Alternative New Year’s Day Spoken Word/Performance Extravaganza, establishing thematic set design as an integral part of the yearly East Village event instituted by then boyfriend, now husband, Bruce Weber. (Other artists, especially Su Polo, as well as Mindy Levekove and Nigia Stephens have created sets for the event too, and Yuko Otomo and Joanne collaborated on two sets.) Joanne was involved in “The Alternative’s” evolution from the start, as a performer, graphic designer, greeter, and organizer at the communal book table. While the “Alternative” continues in NYC, this year she and Bruce have begun a new upstate tradition for New Year’s in Ulster County, where they now live. Joanne is an avid member of Shout Out Saugerties, a vibrant town arts organization that spans all creative disciplines, and includes activism.
Joanne had a long career as a textile designer in N.Y., and has just retired from her second career as an adjunct professor of studio art and art history, but she continues to teach for Greenwich House Senior Center in N.Y.
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