Executive Directors

Bowie Zunino, Eve Biddle and Jeff Barnett-Winsby are Founders and Co-Executive Directors of the Wassaic Project. They have curated performance at Mass MoCa, served as visiting artists at Columbia University, The City College of New York, Parsons The New School for Design, and School of Visual Arts and panelists at The Aldrich Museum, Storm King, and Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation’s Studio-X.
 

Eve Biddle

eve@wassaicproject.org
Eve Biddle is an artist and has worked with Philadelphia Mural Arts, Indianapolis Arts Council, LAND Studio Cleveland, Dieu Donne Papermill, and NYCares.  In collaboration with her husband, Joshua Frankel, she has created over 16,000 square feet of public murals across the country.  She holds and BA in Art History from Williams College. // bowieandeve.com // evebiddle.com
 

Bowie Zunino

bowie@wassaicproject.org
Bowie Zunino is a social practice artist and educator. She has worked with Creative Time, The Go Project, and Readnet Bronx Charter School. She received her MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in Sculpture and holds a BA in Psychology and Studio Art from Williams College. // eveandbowie.com  // bowiezunino.com
 

Jeff Barnett-Winsby

Program Directors

Music: Scott Anderson

music@wassaicproject.org
Scott Anderson is founding Partner and Chief Strategy Officer of Control Group, a NYC-based innovation strategy, technology & design company. Scott serves on the Board of Open House New York, a non-profit organization that promotes New York City architecture and design by encouraging public access to famous buildings and spaces in the New York City area. In addition to being Music Director, Scott also serves on the Wassaic Project’s Board of Directors.
 

Exhibitions and Festival:  Shannon Finnegan

shannon@wassaicproject.org
In addition to working for the Wassaic Project, Shannon Finnegan is a practicing artist based in New York. She grew up in Berkeley, California and received her Bachelor of Arts from Carleton College. Since graduating in 2011, Shannon has been focused on arts administration and curatorial practices. // shannonfinnegan.com
 

Dance: Charmaine Warren

charmaine@wassaicproject.org
Performer, historian, consultant and dance writer, Charmaine Warren is a faculty member at Alvin Ailey/Fordham University, The Ailey School and Empire State College’s online division, Center for Distant Learning. She holds a Ph.D. in History at Howard University where she taught for eight years, a Masters Degree in Dance Research, Reconstruction and Choreography, and two Bachelor’s Degrees: one in Speech & Theatre/Dance and the other in English. After performing for many years with major New York dance companies, Charmaine joined the internationally known, New York-based, dance/theater company david rousseve/REALITY in 1989. Over the years, she has made numerous television appearances and has been interviewed by WBAI and the National Public Radio representing REALITY. She has also been interviewed on various dance programs in Germany, Jamaica and the U.S. on issues in dance history, performance and teaching. Today, she can be seen as a special guest for various contemporary modern dance companies.

Charmaine writes on dance performance for Dance Magazine and The Amsterdam News, among other magazines and journals. Her works have also been published in Juice, Movement Research Journal, and Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next Wave Festival Journal. Her most recent entry can be found in BAM’s 150th anniversary book – BAM: The Complete Works, Edited by Steven Serafin. Charmaine is a dance consultant for Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), 651 ARTS and is a co-curator for Harlem Stage’s critically acclaimed dance series E-Moves. Charmaine was a member of the New York Dance and Performance Awards Committee (BESSIES) for more than ten years.

www.charmainewarren.com
 

Film: Liliana Greenfield-Sanders

film@wassaicproject.org
Born and raised in the East Village of New York City, Greenfield-Sanders’ films have screened at the Museum of Modern Art, on PBS and won Best Short and Audience Awards at major film festivals, screening at over 50 more. After earning her B.A. from Brown University, she went on to pursue her Masters degree at NYU’s Tisch Graduate Film program. Her work there earned her several grants and scholarships including the National Board of Review Student Grant Award, the Ang Lee and Women in Film & TV Scholarships and most recently the Sloan Foundation Feature Film Grant. Greenfield-Sanders won the Creative Promise Honorable Mention at the 2012 Tribeca All Access Program and was chosen as one of eight directors to participate in the prestigious Sundance Director’s and Screenwriters labs. // www.lilygs.com
 

Education: Hallie Scott

education@wassaicproject.org
Hallie studies art history at the Graduate Center, CUNY and teaches it at Brooklyn College. She has worked at MASS MoCA in North Adams, MA and the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, TX and is thrilled to be involved in another rurally-located art space, especially one that is a train ride away from Brooklyn. Hallie looks forward to working with local students, teachers, and parents in expanding the Wassaic Project’s education programming.
 

Installation: Ryan Frank

ryan@wassaicproject.org
Ryan is an artist and curator based in Brooklyn, NY and Sharon, CT. He was a Wassaic Project resident artist from 2010-2011 and co-curated the exhibition Ode Hotel in Maxon Mills last summer. Ryan works as the Collection Director and Director of Education at The Granary, a private exhibition space in Litchfield County, CT where he recently organized the exhibition Reflective Landscape. // www.ryanmfrank.com
 

2013 Design Fellow: Isaac Gertman

Isaac Gertman is a designer, educator, writer, and typography enthusiast. His design work has been recognized by the American Institute of Graphic Arts and the Society of Publication Designers. He currently teaches advanced courses in Graphic Design and Typography at the Maryland Institute College of Art and at City College, in the Department of Landscape Architecture. He has taught previously at Rhode Island School of Design and Parsons, The New School for Design. His writing has appeared in Print magazine, Step magazine, DesignBureau, and the design blog SpeakUp. Isaac received an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, and a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art. // www.paperwhite-studio.com
 
 

2013 Summer Interns

JACKIE BRANSON

Jackie Branson holds a BFA from the University of New Hampshire, where she studied printmaking and drawing, and an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania, where she studied printmaking, digital media, and sculpture. She has held artist’s scholarships at the Chautauqua Institute and the Vermont Studio Center, a fellowship at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and has recently received invitations to be a fellow at the Millay Colony and Sculpture Space. Her work has been exhibited at galleries in New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Pennsylvania. She lives and works in Pawling, New York. // jsbranson.com
 

ELLA JENSEN KAMPELMAN

Ella Kampelman is a rising senior at Carleton College. Born in Washington, D.C., she now lives in Chevy Chase, MD. Last fall, she lived and studied in Ghana where she learned how to make batik fabric. She works as a Teaching Assistant for Carleton College’s Geology Department.
 

EMMA LAUKITIS

Emma Teal grew up on a homestead on the Aleutian Islands of Alaska. Emma spent four good years at Williams College as an English and Studio Art major and rowing on the varsity crew team. She lived a year in Florence, Italy at SACI (Studio Arts College International) and has worked at the Clark Art Institute since returning. Emma and her sister, Claire started their own company called Salmon Sisters, and make clothing and art inspired by the ocean. This is the first summer Emma will not be returning to the Bering Sea to catch salmon on her family’s commercial fishing boat, and though she will miss the big ocean (and her puppy, Smokey), Emma is excited to be part of a new community of creative people. //aksalmonsisters.com //aksalmonsisters.bigcartel.com
 

ALEX NICOLAIDES

Alexandra Nicolaides is an MFA student in Art Criticism and Writing at the School of Visual Arts. For the last five years, she worked as an art consultant for international clients. Previously, she was employed in the Education and Contemporary Art departments at the Brooklyn Museum.
 

BARBARA PEARSALL

Barbara Pearsall recently graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Art & Art History from the College of William and Mary. She is a 2012-13 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Artist Fellow for Sculpture. In the future, she would like to get an MFA in Sculpture.
 

CARLA FRANKENBACH

Carla Frankenbach is currently studying film and television production at The University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts. A Lakeville native, she graduated from The Hotchkiss School in June 2012. While there, she directed several short films, including the short documentary in conjunction with Global Village Media, Democracy Outside the Voting Booth, which won best picture at the Williston Northampton Film Festival. She founded and co-directed the first Hotchkiss Film Festival, which screened student films from schools all over the world and featured several professional filmmakers as special guests. After spending last summer as a production intern for the Alaska Channel in Anchorage, she’s excited to work with amazing artists in a grizzly-bear-free zone!
 
 

Staff Alumni

Founding Co-Director, 2008 – 2010: Elan Bogarin

elan@wassaicproject.org
Elan Bogarín is a filmmaker/photographer who is in post-production on Invisible Murals, her first feature length documentary to be distributed by PBS. Elan produced the feature film Big Fan for director Robert Siegel which was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival and screened in over 30 US cities. She was nominated for the John Cassavetes Independent Spirit Awards prize and a Gotham IFP Award for Best Picture. Other recent projects include work for The Whitney Museum of American Art; the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros; God’s House, a feature-length documentary about Muslims who saved Jews during the Holocaust for JWM Productions; and a short documentary for the National Gallery of Art for Oscar-winning director, Aviva Slesin. In 2008, she co-founded The Wassaic Project, an annual multidisciplinary arts festival and residency program in Wassaic, New York. She has received grants from Latino Public Broadcasting, Experimental Television Center, Urban Artist Initiative NYC, The Joyce and Robert Menschel Foundation, The Dutchess County Arts Council, The Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation, and the Charles and Lucille King family. Elan received her BFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago for MFA work. // invisiblemuralsmovie.com