Fabric Art
Wolfie E. Rawk is a genderqueer fabric artist. Their work deals with themes of fragmentation, repetition, anonymity/erasure and communion. He uses fabric and embroidery to discuss the body as a site of ongoing trauma, a series of tenuous connections and a locus of earthly revelation.
Artist/Writer
Raised in Central Florida to be a good little Catholic girl, Bastian found out he was really a nice Jewish young man fairly early in life, but did not come out as trans* until 2005, when he was 23 and living in Kansas. Bastian is a writer and poet who dabbles in watercolor and oil painting, printmaking, and Native arts and crafts. He also plays trumpet, piano, baritone, bassoon, french horn, and sings…but does not practice as much as he should, aside from his trumpet in pep band.
Artist, Musician – Old Country
Chastine Crystal Patterson is an artist in wood and engraving, teaching art, as well as performing and writing music. She has been blessed for 63 years with bringing this alive with a strong passion for music, as well as the performing arts.
Artist/Writer
Samael C. S. Bowens started to write as soon as he could read. He discovered his passion to quench the large imagination he had developed to cope with having to move around a lot. He’s been to such places as North Carolina, Guam, California and the United Kingdom.
Let’s Rock Together!
That’s right folks! We are at it again!
Announcing the Call for Submissions for the 2nd Trans-Genre Compilation CD! (set to release Jan. 2010)
What We’re Looking for:
…to showcase their amazing talent on the next Trans-Genre Compilation CD!
Visual Art, Writer, Spoken Word Performer, Actor, Activist/Speaker
Cooper Lee Bombardier is a Visual Artist, Writer, Performer, Actor, Carpenter, Welder and Activist. He lives in New Mexico, with his two genius dogs. He works as an organizer with LGBT and straight ally youth and as a journeyman stagehand/carpenter.
Writer, Artist, Musician
(Former female Sam Peterson describes his forays into a brave new world of masculinity via therapy and testosterone: one that involves “manfirmations,” sublime hilarity at the expense of self, and just general all’round trananigans. – ThaManSam.blogspot.com)
Sam Peterson is a Sam-of-all-trades. He’s tattooed AIDS activist/performance artist Diamanda Galas, been filmed by the Discovery Channel for their documentary on artists and piercing, been filmed by Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato (TransGeneration, The Eyes of Tammy Faye), taught feminist porn-writing with Gynomite!, escaped from a cult, and played guitar at CBGBs. And that was before he manned-up!
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Writing / Poetry, Photography
Pat Paul Jammernegg was born in Salzburg, Austria in 1979. Paul used to live in both Asheville, NC and Salzburg, currently he is planning on relocating and touring (new live readings in 2009).
Reader’s Round Table Prize by the House of Literature in Salzburg, 2000.
Published in the anthology book Langeweile! (Boredom!), 2002.
First poetry in English featured in the compilation book Bound By The Secrets We Share, 2008, debut poetry book “Prototype”, May 2008.
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Queer Fabulist, Puppeteer, Art Educator
…embracing melancholy with magical…
performing ‘The Neck Hater’ from Hear Them Howling: Surreal Fables and Mental Health Survival
“reflective and imaginative…an intimate moving experience” - New Haven Pride Center
Amid cups of tea, mounds of fabric and thread, piles of cardboard, and altars of found objects, Geppetta fervently builds tiny heads and arms, sculpts mystical creatures, paints imaginary, yet nostalgic landscapes, and collects piles of rusty found objects. What crawls from the wreckage become twisted tales, whimsical puppet theater, and story-punk melodies described as “mournful but ingenious” with delightful twists and turns.
Inspired by classic fables and myths, occult symbolism, street art, and surrealism infused with a pension for social/ environmental activism and transfeminist sensibilities, Geppetta presents art/performance as a cryptic, yet politically aware language that is imaginative and enlightening.
Geppetta has been featured with the Tranny Roadshow, the Femme Show, and Puppet Uprising, and featured visual work with Fresh Meat Productions Defying Gravities and Critical Views through Red Sun Press among others. She is a principle artist and organizer for the upcoming Trans Fusions National Tour.
Additionally, she teaches art and social workshops at schools and universities across the country.
For further inquiries, commisions 0r booking, as well as forlorn love letters, please contact Geppetta at stitchingtentacles@gmail.com
Links:
Stitching Tentacles – Geppetta’s Blog
Author, Artist, Performer, and Activist
Sassafras Lowrey is a genderqueer high femme, militant storyteller, author, artist, performer, and activist. Ze believes that everyone has a story to tell, and that the telling of those stories is essential in order to create social change. (more…)
Artist, Musician, Performer, & Educator
A.J. Bryce is
an in the moment 1 line poet
whose “Affix Label Here” sign
winds around his female lines…
and curves, before you know it you’re inside,
he’s sold it he’s still broke, but he owns it’
… kind of guy.
Author, Artist
Dylan Scholinski was born Daphne Scholinski. As a young girl growing up in the Chicago suburbs, she played first base in Little League and preferred drawing to playing with dolls. When she was 15 years old she was locked up in a mental hospital, diagnosed as “an inappropriate female”, and spent the rest of her high school years undergoing extreme femininity training. At 18, her insurance ran out and she was discharged.
