Artist: Wen-Ti Sen. Yakima Washington's Millennium Plaza. [ A ] MIKE ALEWITZ alewitzm@ccsu.edu Millennium Artist in Maryland Muralist, educator, public activist and electronic publisher who has created a number of public works in the U.S. and internationally. DAVID ALEXANDER dmateller@yahoo.com Millennium Artist in Missouri Storyteller, performer and writer who has conducted artist-in-residence projects in Beijing, Peru, Bolivia, Thailand, Singapore, Japan, Korea and Indonesia, as well as festival appearances in Tennessee, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska. KAREN AQUA aquak@att.net http://aquak.home.att.net Millennium Artist in Utah Animated filmmaker whose awardwinning work has been screened at festivals around the world, including Japan, Croatia, France, Germany, Italy, and Brazil. Aqua has served as a juror for major animation and film festivals in the US and Canada, and has presented one-person screenings of her work at museums and universities around the United States. Since 1990 Aqua has produced, directed, and animated twenty segments for the acclaimed Sesame Street television program. TOMIE ARAI araiwong@rcn.com Millennium Artist in California Printmaker, installation artist, and public artist who has realized commissions from the Arizona Humanities Council, Cambridge Arts Council, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs' Percent for Art Program, the General Services Administration of the Federal Government, and the National Endowment for the Arts. ROBERTO ARÉVALO roberto@mirrorproject.org www.mirrorproject.org Millennium Artist in Delaware Media educator and documentary filmmaker who founded The Mirror Project in 1992. Since then, teen producers at the Mirror Project have produced over 150 videos documenting contemporary urban American life. Arévalo has also created over twenty videos focusing on immigrant experiences, education, youth, and public health. All Mirror Project videos screen first in the neighborhood where they were created and later at theaters, museums, festivals, and universities nationwide. [ back to top ] [ B ] BILL BAMBERGER b.bam@mindspring.com Millennium Artist in Michigan Photographer whose work has been featured in one-person exhibitions at Yale University Art Gallery, the North Carolina Museum of Art, and the Smithsonian Institution. Bamberger is co-author of Closing: The Life and Death of an American Factory. SASHA BERGMANN-LICHTENSTEIN sashacreations@EROLS.com Millennium Artist in Nevada Installation artist, sculptor, and educator who has work featured in the collections of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Tufts University, Princeton University, the Lied Discovery Children's Museum in Las Vegas, and the Rhode Island School of Design. MICHELLE BERNE celarts@earthlink.net Millennium Artist in Montana Multi-media and interdisciplinary artist, educator and director whose work has been featured at the Yiddishkayt Festival, the Santa Monica Festival, the Getty Center Grand Opening, the Los Angeles Music Center, the Disney Institute, and the Anniversary of Marseille, France. BILL BOTZOW BOTZOW@sover.net www.scrollover.org Millennium Artist in Kansas Sculptor, painter, performer and installation artist who has created site-specific work for the DeCordova Museum Sculpture Park, Williams College Art Museum, Hood Museum of Art, and Albany Institute of History and Art. MARTHA BOWERS mbowers3@aol.com www.dancetheatreetcetera.org Millennium Artist in Colorado Director, choreographer, arts educator and Artistic Director of Dance Theatre Etcetera who specializes in the creation of largescale, site-specific performance events, with recent commissions by Dancing in the Streets, MASSMoCA and Brooklyn Arts Exchange. BELIZ BROTHER bbrother@seanet.com belizbrother.com Millennium Artist in Vermont Sculptor, lecturer and visiting artist whose work has been commissioned for public sites in California, Japan and throughout the Pacific Northwest. [ back to top ] [ C ] PING CHONG pingchong@earthlink.net Millennium Artist in Washington, D.C. Artistic Director of Ping Chong & Company, writer, installation artist, choreographer and director. Chong has created over fifty works for the stage, six installations, and three videos. His work has been presented at major museums, theatres, and festivals throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia. THEODORE CLAUSEN tedclausen@aol.com Millennium Artist in Idaho Sculptor and public artist whose installations place project-specific and compelling text at the core of each work. Clausen has realized commissions for the Cambridge Arts Council, City of Lake Oswego, City of Boston, the Massachusetts Highway Department, and the cities of Reading, Pennsylvania and Sommerville, Massachusetts. MEG COTTAM cottam@sover.net www.scrollover.org Millennium Artist in Kansas Choreographer, educator and performance artist whose work has been produced for the Flynn Theater for the Performing Arts, Mobius, Movement Research, Vermont Arts Exchange, and Goddard and Bennington Colleges. [ back to top ] [ D ] PETER DIMURO dimurop@danceexchange.org www.danceexchange.org Millennium Artist in Massachusetts Choreographer, performer, educator and Associate Artistic Director of Liz Lerman Dance Exchange, whose work has been produced in New York's Riverside Church and St. Mark's Danspace. DiMuro served on the faculty at American Dance Festival (1999) and Bates Dance Festival (1997). AMIE DOWLING Dancegen@aol.com Millennium Artist in Indiana Choreographer, dancer, educator and Director of Dance Generators, a performance company that spans six decades. Dowling is also guest artist in the Five College Dance Department and artist in residence at the Hampshire County Jail and House of Corrections, where she collaborates with prisoners in the creation of Dance/Theatre pieces based on their lives. ANDREW DRURY andrew@andrewdrury.com www.andrewdrury.com Millennium Artist in Wisconsin Composer, percussionist, and recording artist who leads junk percussion workshops and residencies that incorporate recording and digital editing in addition to percussion performance, instrument making, composition, and improvisation. Drury has worked in schools, prisons, festivals, community theaters, Native American communities, Central American villages, housing projects, museums, and with the physically challenged. Drury has received numerous grants for his work, composed for theater and dance, and has recorded three CDs of his compositions with prominent jazz musicians including Myra Melford and Mark Dresser. [ back to top ] [ F ] STEPHEN FARLEY sfarley@igc.org www.tilography.com Millennium Artist in Rhode Island Graphic designer, photographer, muralist, videographer, art director, and educator who is a strong believer in the power of sharing the stories of everyday people to build community. He has realized commissions from the Tucson Department of Transportation, Cuyahoga Valley National Park, the City of Phoenix, the Phelps Dodge Foundation, and the City of San Jose, among others. He invented a new process called "Tilography" for adapting photographic images to permanent, large-scale glazed ceramic tile murals, and was named the 2002 National McKnight Fellow in Interdisciplinary Arts for his work. KEN FIELD ken@kenfield.org www.kenfield.org Millennium Artist in Utah Composer and saxophonist, Field has performed in the U.S., Canada, France, Spain, Portugal, and Japan, and has been Composer-in-Residence at the Ucross Foundation (Wyoming), the Fundacíon Valparaíso (Spain), and the Atlantic Center for the Arts (Florida). He is a member of the modern music ensemble Birdsongs of the Mesozoic, has released two solo CDs of his layered saxophone compositions, and writes music frequently for Sesame Street. HARRELL FLETCHER hfletcher@earthlink.net www.harrellfletcher.com www.learningtoloveyoumore.com Millennium Artist in Minnesota Interdisciplinary artist and educator who has produced public art projects for the San Francisco and Washington State Art Commissions, and has done exhibitions at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and the de Young Museum, San Francisco. [ back to top ] [ G ] STEPHEN GLASSMAN zolart@artnet.net Millennium Artist in Arkansas Internationally recognized expert of freeform, large-scale structural bamboo. Glassman is accomplished in many mediums including prints and drawings, traditional fabrication, light and media, robotics, aerodynamics, theater design, architecture and landscape. Glassman's collaborations and commissions include Robert Wilson / Paris Opera, Jonathan Borofsky, and the Moscow Circus. He was nominated for a 2001 Chrysler Design Award. PAT COURTNEY GOLD patcourtneygold@hotmail.com Millennium Artist in Oregon Master basket weaver and lecturer / educator whose workshops in traditional Native American twined basket weaving have been presented under the auspices of the Smithsonian Institution, the Oregon Arts Commission, National Museum of American Indians, the University of New Mexico Maxwell Museum University, Michigan State University Fine Arts Museum, and the New Zealand Maori Art Symposium. Gold is recipient of the 2001 Oregon Governor's Arts Award. OLIVIA GUDE gude@uic.edu www.spiral.aa.uic.edu Millennium Artist in Kentucky Muralist and mosaic artist who creates work through intensive collaborations. Commissions include works with municipalities, libraries, social service organizations, neighborhood groups and schools. Gude is also an educator and writer who specializes in curriculum design, cultural issues in art education, and the distribution of art curricula through the web. She is a member of Chicago Public Art Group. [ back to top ] [ H ] JOSEPH HODGE JHAJ@earthlink.net Millennium Artist in South Carolina Theater director, performer, and documentarian who has worked in association with the California State Prison, the Mark Taper Forum, and Saratoga International Theater Institute. [ back to top ] [ J ] SEITU KEN JONES seitujones@hotmail.com Millennium Artist in New York Painter, sculptor, and master gardener who has realized commissions for the Minneapolis Community Technical College and Lino Lakes Correctional Facility in Minnesota. He has created designs for Penumbra Theater and Children's Theater in Minnesota and First Stage Milwaukee and Crossroads Theater in New Jersey. [ back to top ] [ K ] ANTHONY M. KELLEY antk@duke.edu Millennium Artist in Virginia Composer, instrumentalist and educator whose work has been performed by the Baltimore, Detroit, Atlanta, Oakland, and Richmond Symphony Orchestras. DON KENNELL ladler@cybermesa.com Millennium Artist in Wyoming Mixed-media sculptor who has received commissions from Raritan Valley Community College and the New Jersey Transit System, and who has created a number of collaborative public sculptures with students and community groups. DONALD KNAACK junkman@vermontel.com www.junkmusic.org Millennium Artist in Oklahoma Composer, percussionist, and performance artist (a.k.a. "The Junkman") who uses junk and discarded materials to create "Junk Music™"projects and sculptures for dance companies, concerts, festivals, children and adult audiences, schools and colleges, film scores, business seminars, and community projects worldwide. [ back to top ] [ L ] LIZ LERMAN borstelj@danceexchange.org Millennium Artist in Maine Choreographer, dancer, company director, writer, educator, and performance artist whose work has been commissioned by Lincoln Center, American Dance Festival, BalletMet, and the Kennedy Center. [ back to top ] [ M ] FREDERICK MARX fdm@fmarxfilm.com www.Fmarxfilm.com Millennium Artist in New Jersey Emmy award nominee and creator of fiction and documentary films for theaters and television worldwide whose work includes Hoop Dreams. NATASHA S. MAYERS natashasiena@gwi.net Millennium Artist in Ohio Painter and educator who has supervised over 400 school and community murals, presents art workshops for the mentally ill, designs sets for dance and theater, completed several Percent for Art commissions, and teaches drawing and painting at the University of Maine, Augusta. Mayers' work is featured in Lucy Lippard's book, Lure of the Local. DAN TAULAPAPA MCMULLIN Taulapapa@hotmail.com Millennium Artist in American Samoa Emmy award nominated filmmaker, theater artist, and writer whose work has been produced by Soho Rep, Theatre Mu and Intermedia Arts, and published by Cleis Press and Bamboo Ridge. ELIZABETH L. MILLER lizmiller@contrition.net www.node.net/lizmiller www.helios.hampshire.edu/~elmIA/ Millennium Artist in Connecticut Videographer and media artist who applies her skills in electronic media towards community-based collaborations, international non-profit organizations, and youth productions. JEREMIAH MILLER Jere46miah@aol.com Millennium Artist in Tennessee Painter, designer, photographer, and educator whose work is featured in the collections of the Alabama Power Company, Blue Ridge Community College, George Washington University, National Park Service, Prudential Life Insurance, and South Carolina State Collection. RICHARD MOCK RichardBMock@aol.com Millennium Artist in North Dakota Printmaker, painter, sculptor, and syndicated cartoonist whose work is featured in the collections of the Alliance Capital Management Corporation, various U.S. embassies, the Bank of America Corporation, International Museum of Cartoon Art, Museum of Modern Art, Prudential Insurance, Roswell Art Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, the New York Public Library, Mexico's Museo de Monterrey, Spencer Museum of Art, Sheldon Art Museum, the Mary Leigh Block Gallery, Northwestern University Art Museum, Purdue University Art Museum, and the University of California Museum of Art at Long Beach. RICHARD MOSS rm@eofc.com www.eofc.com Millennium Artist in Florida Mosaic artist who creates unique figurative and representational work using precious stone, marble and granite, smalti (Venetian glass), and / or ceramic. Moss creates easel pieces, surfaces: floors, walls, ceilings and tabletops. He also offers lecture / demonstrations, workshops, residencies and courses. [ back to top ] [ N ] LANE NISHIKAWA lanenishikawa@earthlink.net Millennium Artist in Hawaii Writer, actor, director, dramaturge, and theater / film / television producer whose work examining the Asian American experience has been nationally broadcast through PBS Television, and presented by Stanford University Lively Arts, Los Angeles' Japanese American Theater, the U.S. Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C., Philadelphia's Annenberg Festival, and Scottsdale's Center for the Arts. His work has also been published in Time to Greez: Incantations From the Third World, Ayumi: The Japanese American Anthology, and Bridge Magazine. [ back to top ] [ O ] CHRISSIE BARRIE ORR chrissie@metamorfosis.com www.tierraadentro.com www.metamorfosis.com Millennium Artist in Georgia Public artist, educator, animator and founding director of Warehouse 21, Teen Project in New Mexico, who has realized commissions around the world and is currently working on Tierra Adentro, a work in progress that deals with issues on the Mexican / U.S. border. PEPÓN OSORIO PeponO@aol.com Millennium Artist in Puerto Rico Multi-media installation artist whose work has been exhibited internationally in communities as well as in major museums. Osorio's work is included in the collections of: El Museo del Barrio, New York City; the National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C.; the Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey; The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, among others. Osorio is the 1999 recipient of the Cal Arts Alpert Award in Visual Arts, and a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship. [ back to top ] [ P ] ANDREA POLLI apolli@hunter.cuny.edu www.andreapolli.com Millennium Artist in Illinois Interdisciplinary artist with specific interest in interactive media, whose video installations have been mounted nationally and internationally, supported by performances, lectures, and broadcasts. VERANDAH PORCHE verandah@sover.net Millennium Artist in New Hampshire Poet whose literary residencies create and display vivid community self-portraits. Porche collaborates with writing partners to craft "told poetry" and narratives that release unvoiced eloquence. Porche has published The Body Symmetry (Harper and Row) and Glancing Off (See Through Books). ROBERT POSSEHL robert@westprarie.com www.westprarie.com www.robertpossehl.com Millennium Artist in Pennsylvania Environmental artist, lecturer, and educator whose work has been featured through the Walker Art Center, St. Francis of the Woods Retreat Center, the Paseo Festival, John Ross Elementary School, and Integris Medical Center. [ back to top ] [ R ] CURTIS REAVES ivibe2@yahoo.com www.JOHNANDSARAH.org Millennium Artist in Alabama Storyteller and producer of video documentary coupling multimedia design with oral tradition. Reaves creates an understanding of a common human spirit by highlighting the particular experiences of everyday people. Through photography, film, video, text and installation design, Reaves situates art and history together on an accessible plane to tell stories that impress themselves on the observer through their literary power. [ back to top ] [ S ] MEG SALIGMAN meg@megsaligman.com Millennium Artist in Louisiana Artist who specializes in mega-scale, exterior paintings. Saligman's vast body of public work is both socially and aesthetically motivated. Her commissions range from a nine-story classical painting that challenges perceptions of inner city youth, to a fresco-covering the front of a theater in Mexico City-that questions the portrayal of political figures in Mexican mural art. JONAS A. DOS SANTOS jonaslink@cs.com Millennium Artist in New Mexico Performance and installation artist who has produced work for The Experimental Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Museo del Barrio, Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Institute of Contemporary Art of the University of Pennsylvania, ARCO Lisbon, Portugal Museu da Praia, Alagoas, Brazil and The 13th International Biennial of San Paulo, Brazil. LAWRENCE (LARRY) SIEGEL larry@tricinium.com Millennium Artist in West Virginia Composer, performer, theater artist, and creator of the Verbatim Project whose Village Store Verbatim has been aired nationally through New Hampshire Public Television. Siegel has been an artist-in-residence with many communities and ensembles, including the American Boychoir and Eugene O'Neill Puppetry Conference, and is currently leading a broad-based initiative to create multiple community arts projects focused on the Connecticut River. TONY M. SMALL Millennium Artist in North Carolina Composer, instrumentalist, playwright, and educator who has developed performing arts programs in Chicago and Indianapolis schools and after-school programs, as well as conducting seminars and creating curricula utilized nationwide. NINA SMOOT-CAIN nscmissy@aol.com Millennium Artist in Iowa Painter, mosaicist, installation artist, curator, project director and teaching artist who has worked with Roosevelt University, Urban Gateways, Gallery 37, and the Illinois Arts Council; and realized commissions for the Chicago Percent for Art Program and Chicago Public Art Group. [ back to top ] [ T ] JOCELYN TAYLOR jocelyntaylor@hotmail.com Millennium Artist in Alaska Videographer, media performer, instructor, curator, activist and producer who has created video installations for the Art Center South Florida, the Museo de Belles Artes in Caracas, Venezuela, and the Public Art Fund in New York. Taylor participated in the Johannesburg Biennial in 1997, and the 2000 Havana Biennial. RALPH CHEO THURMON cheothurmon@hotmail.com Millennium Artist in Mississippi Writer, editor, journalist, folklorist, and educator whose creative writing program entitled Writing in the Circle of Life, Love, Creativity, and More emphasizes youth development and conflict resolution. DANNY TISDALE TISDALESTUDIO@yahoo.com www.site.yahoo.com/tisdale-studio Millennium Artist in South Dakota Mixed-media installation artist, writer, graphic designer, publisher and educator whose work is featured in the collections of the University of Oregon Museum of Art, California Polytechnic University, the Museum of African American Art, the MacArthur Collection, and the Norton Family Collection. GLENN TRUDEL glenntrudel@yahoo.com Millennium Artist in Nebraska Photographer whose work is known for extracting metaphors from mundane moments, and has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Utne Reader, Air and Space Magazine, High Times, and been commissioned by the Children's Defense Fund Conference, University of Wisconsin, and Tap It Theater Company. WEN-TI TSEN tsenevans@earthlink.net Millennium Artist in Washington Painter, sculptor, mixed-media artist, and educator whose public and community work has been featured through the University of Massachusetts, the City of Boston, and various community and cultural organizations. [ back to top ] [ W ] JOHN PITMAN WEBER EweberandJ@aol.com Millennium Artist in Iowa Muralist, mosaicist, printmaker, painter and educator whose work is featured in the collections of Valparaiso University, City College of New York, Elmhurst College, Oakton College, and Northwestern University. WAYNE WILDCAT Wildcat Studio WayneWildcat@sunflower.com www.WayneWildcat.com Millennium Artist in Guam A painter and historian who specializes in portraits, commissions, and epic murals of history and ideas. Wildcat has had work exhibited at the Kansas State Capitol and University of Kansas Museum of Natural History, and has participated in national conferences including the President's Initiative on Race, Brown vs. Board of Education, and Haskell Indian Nations. [ back to top ]