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.
Musician/Singer/Speaker
“People need to know that you can be a trans woman of color and still have a successful career.”
Tona Brown is an African American transgendered violinist and vocalist who has had a career to span North America and Europe. Starting the violin at the age of 10 years old and winning scholarships and competitions since the age of 14 her destiny as a performance artist was etched in stone at an early age. Ms Brown attended the prestigious Governor’s School for the arts from 1994 to 1998 studying with Darrell Huskey, Dr. John MacCormack,Lisa Bishop,Jorge Aguirre, and Leslie Stewart. While in attendance at the Governors School for the Arts, Tona received many awards for her leadership in various ensembles from symphony to chamber music and winning concerto competitions her junior and senior years. Ms Brown also performed with the GSA orchestra and quartet in England, France.
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