Bea Ortiz is a Spanish-American artist based in the Catskills whose work centers on painting, drawing, and participatory installation. Trained in fine art and art education in Spain, she moved to New York in 1998 and has continued to evolve a personal practice rooted in collaboration and cross-disciplinary experimentation. Her work often merges visual art with music, dance, and live performance, inviting audiences into the creative process. She creates opportunities for connection and creativity, believing that art becomes most powerful when it’s made—and experienced—together.

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Ilona Kohlová is a Czech intermedia artist and graphic designer residing in Brooklyn. She enhances events as a VJ artist and leads children’s art workshops at the Czech Center New York. She has organized a summer art camp in Prague and a workshop in Miami. Her multidisciplinary approach blends various mediums, music, and performance, embodying her belief that art transcends barriers. She encourages children to experiment and explore, fostering individual growth, and believes that “through creation lies the path to the soul.”

Heather Craig is a performance artist based in the Catskills whose work explores somatic and primal themes through movement, character, and play. She studied cinematography, acting, and clowning, and has performed Off-Broadway and at venues including The PIT, Brooklyn Comedy Collective, and the Jacob Burns Film Center. Following a traumatic brain injury in 2023, she began exploring Polyvagal Theory, later developing The Polyvagal Clown—a trauma-informed performance class shaped by her training with Deb Dana and Pandemonium Studios.

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Cris is a neon fine artist and educator based in the Catskills. He graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and trained under master mentors in the neon arts, carrying forward the rare craft of glass bending to create luminous works that blend cultural memory—deeply rooted in his heritage—with contemporary vision.

Outside the studio, Ortiz shares his creative energy through outdoor installations, pop-up exhibitions, and hands-on work as a teaching artist in local schools. His approach invites curiosity, encourages experimentation, and celebrates the creative process as something joyful and accessible.

Michael Suchorsky has spent decades performing and recording around the world in a wide variety of musical genres—from Middle Eastern jazz, to microtonal music, to punk rock. He has appeared at venues that stretch from CBGB (NYC) to the Berlin, Montreux, Zurich, Copenhagen, and Bologna Jazz Festivals, the Moers New Music Festival, the Fête de l’Humanité (Paris), and Lincoln Center, as well as composing music throughout the years.

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From the Catskills of New York, I pour over 20 years of experience designing digital experiences into branding and marketing websites for startups and established companies.

Gloria McLean is a choreographer, performer, and educator based in New York City and Andes, NY. She is the founder and artistic director of LIFEDANCE/Gloria McLean and Dancers, a platform for collaborative,interdisciplinary performance. Her choreography has been presented at venues such as the 92nd Street Y, Alvin Ailey Citigroup Theater, La Mama, and in international festivals across Europe, Asia, and North America. A leading member of the Erick Hawkins Dance Company from 1982 to 1993, she also served as rehearsal director and faculty member at the Hawkins School. McLean has held teaching positions at Keimyung University (South Korea), UW–Madison, and George Washington University, among others. She continues to create dances that honor the expressive body and our shared human experience.

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Marshall Coid is a Juilliard-trained violinist, countertenor, composer, and interdisciplinary artist. Hailed by The New York Times as “astonishingly versatile,” his work spans Broadway, classical music, and experimental performance. He has performed at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, MoMA, and international festivals in Moscow, Oxford, and Belgium, and held residencies at the Met Museum and St. John the Divine.

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On Broadway, he appeared in 12 productions, including over 6,000 performances as the onstage violin soloist in Chicago. Coid has toured with Emerson, Lake & Palmer and composed for theater, film, and dance. His Whitman Cantata premiered at Tully Hall and won First Prize from the Dessoff Choirs. He currently collaborates with LIFEDANCE and performs with the MOSS Ensemble and CMF, dividing his time between New York City and the Catskills.

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Alan Powell is a media artist who has worked in electronic arts since the early 1970s, creating video, installations, artist books, and digital imagery. Trained at the Rhode Island School of Design, his education spans modernist and postmodernist approaches in photography, film, and video.

Collaboration is central to his practice, from the “Video Mix” (1974) at the National Center for Experiments in Television to his work with Electron Movers, Coleman/Powell, and Termite TV.

A Professor Emeritus at Arcadia University, Powell serves on the boards of Signal Culture and Termite TV. His recent projects explore environmental perception through multi-channel video, collage, and sound, with work rooted in sites such as Walden Pond, Platte Clove, Beqa Island, and Big Bend.

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Barbara Siesel is an international, multi-genre classical flutist, educator, and entrepreneur who believes in the power of music to bring people together. A Juilliard graduate, she has performed as a soloist across Europe, Asia, and the United States and regularly gives masterclasses around the world. With warmth, creativity, and deep experience, she shares music that connects across generations, genres, and cultures.

She is the co-founder of the award-winning Green Golly Project, which introduces children to classical music through storytelling, humor, and imaginative performance. Barbara is also a founding editor of The Flute View; a groundbreaking digital magazine that helps flutists navigate the evolving music landscape.

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