Maria Alos is an interdisciplinary artist living in Brooklyn, New York. She was the recipient of an American Photography Institute-National Graduate Seminar Fellowship, Tisch School of the Arts and participated in the AIM Program at the Bronx Museum. Her work has been exhibited at The Everson Museum of Art, P.S.1/Clocktower Gallery, the Bronx Museum of the Arts, Exit Art and Artists Space.

Laura Barnett recently produced and co-curated WindowBOX, a three-month festival of performances that took place in a 19 x 7-foot window on West 42nd Street and Broadway. Recent site-specific work includes SPINNING, a solo performance work that was part of the DUMBO Art Under The Bridge Festival in October 2001. She currently works with The Faux-Real Theatre Company.

Rebecca Carney is an illustration student at prett Institute who is originally from Detroit, Michigan. Carney has an interest illustrating children's books and in art therapy.

Cassis is a German born accordionist, composer, singer and founder of the band b-blush, which was described in Rolling Stone as "taking pop to new places." In addition she is part of the DJ Duo scratch-'N-sniff creating the best ambient musical mix combined with chocolate chip cookie baking. Her work in film includes co-creating 'Marc Ribot  Descent Into Baldness' as well as co-producing Jim Jarmusch's short film "Coffee and Cigarettes  somewhere in California," winner of The Golden Palm at The Cannes Film Festival. Also a photographer, Cassis will present a solo show 'What Remains' at a festival in Huatulco, Mexico in March 2002.  For more information see: www.b-blush.com

Anna Mosby Coleman: For many years Anna has been engaged in projects similar to the "The Love a Commuter Project."  During the drought of 1999 she walked along coastal areas (England, Maine Connecticut, New York) and gave people fresh water in cups on which she  drew the word 'water'.  "It was a water draft two ways... as a drink and a drawing," Coleman explains.

Molly Dilworth is a visual artist based in New York interested in visual communication and the intersection of art and daily life.

Maggie Ens work combines collage, assemblage and construction to make sculpture, installation, performance and video. She has had solo and group exhibitions since 1984. Her work is in private and public collections, including MOMA, the Whitney Museum, and the Guggenheim Museum, among others.

Nicolas Dumit Estevez is an interdisciplinary artist working mostly in performance art. His work has been exhibited at Henry Street Settlement/Abrons Art Center, P.S.1/Clocktower Gallery, the Bronx Museum of the Arts, the Queens Museum of Art, P.S.122, Dixon Place, Exit Art, and Smack Mellon in New York, and at the Museo de Arte Moderno  and  Museo Del Hombre Dominicano in the Dominican Republic. He currently holds a Special Editions Fellowship from the Lower East Side Printshop.

Sarah Farsad and Richard A. Wager are two artists who have been collaborating since 1999.  Past projects include, "The Kissing Project" at the Brooklyn Museum of Art in 1999, and "The Paper Project" 2001. The couple lives in Jersey City, NJ and is currently working on The "BedExtension," a practical solution to virtual housing.

Pablo Helguera is a visual artist living in New York whose work has been widely exhibited  in the US and internationally.  Helguera has exhibited at Artist Space, PS122, Whitebox, El Museo del Barrio, the Bronx Museum, Smack Mellon Studios, Kentler Drawing Space, and others.  He is included in the exhibition "Museutopia" at the Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum der Stadt Hagen, to open in conjunction with Documenta in 2002. In addition he writes for art publications, is an opera singer, a performer and playwright.

Nicole Horlacher is an artist living and working in Brooklyn, NY.  She has worked on many public pieces including doctoring Calvin Klein advertisements and sticking them on the sides of buses in Chicago.  Horlacher was part of "The Club, Billboard Restoration" team, layering graffiti with a fine touch.

Tony Jarvis is a performing artist and multi-instrumentalist (guitar, saxophone, flute, keyboards, voice, bass, etc &) based in New York City. His music draws on a diverse pool of influences ranging from old-school Prince, soul standards, East Indian ragas and Trip Hop resulting in eclectic, catchy pop tunes, edgy spirituals and all-out anthems for a better, brighter world. He is known for his dynamic, unpredictable solo performances, burning guitar styling and his continued involvement in unique, challenging side projects.

Victoria Libertore is an actress, playwright and hula hooper. In New York, she has performed her show stalk(her) about unrequited love and obsession.  stalk(her) will again be performed in NYC, VT and RI.  She is currently writing Let's Talk to the Freak on the Hill Because We Want a Garden Gnome.  Her public hula hooping debut is on January 26, 2002 in Earth Celebrations.

LuLu LoLo is an installation and performance artist whose work highlights her immigrant family heritage and the struggle of women in New York City's past. She will perform her acclaimed one-woman show, "LuLu LoLo Takes Her Hat Off to the Fair Sex--Unfair Victims", March 21-25, 2002, returning by popular demand to the Tenement Theater. She has exhibited at the Lower Eastside Tenement Museum; Contemporary Museum, Baltimore; Islip Art Museum; and is currently on view at "Small Works", NYU.

Jillian Mcdonald Jillian Mcdonald is a Canadian visual artist living in Brooklyn and working in media and performance. Her video work has been shown in Canada, The U.S. and Ireland. Recently, her work has been shown at Art in General, Star 67 Gallery in Brooklyn, and online at www.chambreblanche.qc.ca/projets. Mcdonald will participate in Hunter College´s curated alumni show this February, and is co-curator of Peepshow 28 (www.nolivegirls.org), which opens Feb 14 in San Francisco.

Jenny McGowan can do things with a hula hoop that would make your head spin.  She is currently exploring the burlesque circuit in NYC and has performed at such places as the Va Va Voom Room and Dixon Place.  Jenny is an artist of all trades, having acted at HB studios and rigged a sailboat traveling up the East Coast.  She was the 2001 hula hoop champ at Tortilla Flats.

Amanda Rodd has a BFA in costume design and has recently started her own business designing and creating lamps and lampshades. She has been hula hooping for 10 years and won the hula gala 2000 at Tortilla Flats. This year she will be a judge in the upcoming hula gala.

Gretchen Skogerson works on video, performance and installation. She teaches in Boston, MA.

Sandra Spannan is a painter, performance artist, model, and business woman, who moved to New York City from Berlin and Nord Rhein Westphalia, Germany, nine years ago.  In New York, she has been involved in various art projects and exhibitions, such as  Vanessa Beecroft's first NYC performance at the Deitch Gallery in Soho. Recently, she did a full-day interactive painting performance entitled Paint Box in a theatre window on 42nd Street in Times Square (for information and a description of this project visit www.funboxtimessquare.com).

Marisa Sullivan is a writer and performance artist. She has choreographed, directed and performed  throughout the hippest clubs and theaters in New York, including PS122, Judson Church, LaMama and The Performing Garage, with her troupe, "Marisa's Peaches," as a solo act and as a guest artist/collaborator with such greats as Mimi Goese, Jo Andres, Dawn Saito, Claude Wampler, Wadada Leo Smith, Tal Yarden and Joseph Jarman.  She has acted, danced and choreographed in commercials in Japan and Korea and films by Marina Zurkow, Lisa Rinzler and Dan Sallit.  She has performed her own work in Japan, Ireland, England, and Boston.  She has performed at Middlebury College, Columbia University and Bard College. She teaches yoga, writing, and acting.

A thespian at heart, Constance Tarbox is the Producing Manager and President of the Faux-Real Theatre Company, a site-specific company with which she has been acting and directing since 1996. She has performed in venues including Central Park, The Tall Ship Peking at The South Street Seaport, and in parks and playgrounds throughout the city.  She has also acted and/or directed around town with Gorilla Rep, Expanded Arts, The 2Texans, The Fringe Festival, Todo con Nada, Sun & Splendor, and Synapse Productions.

Over the past twenty years, Marya Triandafellos' work has been developed through photography, collage, mail art and live events. In 1994, the artist produced several shows and specials for the cable station Manhattan Neighborhood Network in conjunction with Patricia Lewis. Triandafellos has also produced four short videos which include: "Black and Blue & Gold," "Juliana,"  "On Daily Life" and "Subhuman": The New York Subway System." Her work has been featured in the MoMA  and Trenton State Library Permanent Collection, Grey Art Gallery, Ward Nasse Gallery, Mastel+Mastel Gallery, and at the Leroy Neiman Gallery at Columbia University.

Charmaine Wheatley New York based performance artist Charmaine Wheatley exhibits video, sculpture, drawing, and printed matter. She has received much critical attention, with recent feature articles in C magazine, Canadian Art, and an upcoming feature in Arts Atlantic. Collasping popularly accepted distinction between public and private, her work questions appropriate behaviours for either arena.