Creative Capital

Michael Mejia
Salt Lake City, UT

Conquests of Mexico

Conquests of Mexico is an illustrated experimental essay in three forms: art book, trade paperback and tablet app. It explores stratifications in Mexican-American identity through the multiple histories of my grandmother's immigration to the United States in 1924 and my attempts to achieve some authentic re-connection to our roots in Tequila, Jalisco.

http://english.utah.edu/profile.php?unid=u0143165
michael.mejia@utah.edu

Amanda Miller Rothlein
Philadelphia, PA

White and Black: Braiding Myth and Modernity

The premiere of White and Black, an evening-length performance exploring the passage of time through the Cambodian river that flows two ways. This co-creation, featuring my choreographic work and vision alongside the work of Cambodian dance artist Sophiline Cheam-Shapiro, represents the culmination of five years' cultural and artistic exchange. The piece will be performed in Pennsylvania and Cambodia, before heading out on tour.

http://www.millerrothlein.org
amanda@millerrothlein.org

Saint Genet
Seattle, WA

Transports of Delirium

Transports of Delirium represents site and time specific work transforming elements of ballet, symphony, installation and opera into a hypnotic, visceral, and compelling piece of experimental image-based performance. Traversing interstitial space between theater and holy communion, everything is touched and nothing is left unscathed. Everything is sacred, nothing is profane.

Saint Genet is a collaboration of Derrick Mitchell and Jessie Smith, Casey Curran and NKO .

http://www.saintgenet.org/
info@saintgenet.org

Lenelle Moïse
Northampton, MA

Ache What Make

In Ache What Make, Haitian-American performance poet, Lenelle Moïse, creatively responds to the January 2010 earthquake that devastated her birthplace. Fusing rhythmic text, all-vocal jazz, fabric installation and ritualized movement, Moïse zooms in on contemporary Haitian Diaspora narratives of disaster, dignity, heartbreak, hope, resilience, compassion and positive action.

http://www.lenellemoise.com/
booking@lenellemoise.com

Marianna Moneymaker
Astoria, NY

Lesbian Meets World

Lesbian Meets World is a transmedia project about being an out lesbian. The project will feature stageplays, web series, vloggers, bloggers, and profiles curated from the best online and offline has to offer with a lesbian theme.

http://lesbianmeetsworld.org/

Jennifer Morales
Milwaukee, WI

Complice

A lesbian feminist Sunday School teacher with a disability tackles the story of Jesus healing the Bent Woman to uncover themes of illness, gender and the limits of faith, in a funny and furious 45-minute performance piece using ordered/disordered movement and spoken word.

http://www.moraleswrites.com/
cleancopy@cleancopy.biz

Amitis Motevalli
Los Angeles, CA

Everyday Imamzadeh

Imamzadeh a Farsi term, which literally means a descendant of an Imam. It also refers to the Shia shrines throughout Iran and Iraq. Everyday Imamzadeh is a series of workshops, skillshares and collaborative public art pieces working in communities of transnational Muslims in diaspora for labor and remittance.

http://www.amitismotevalli.com
salaam@amitismotevalli.com

Jan Mun
Brooklyn, NY

ProfileUS: Invasive Species

ProfileUS: Invasive Species explores the biopolitics of the immigration of humans and plants through the U.S. judicial system, exploring the control of species through prohibitive historical and current laws. In the form of installations and social practice events, this project creates new relationships in political decision-making through information distribution and knowledge production.

http://janmun.com/profileus_invasivespecies/
profileus@janmun.com