Founded by Josh Zagoren and Mike Foster in 2004 as a two-man (and one robot, but more on that later…) sketch comedy troupe, Hobo Junction is today a fully incorporated comedic production company based in Chicago. They ended last season with a sold-out run of their original musical-comedy “Bad Guys in Suits”. So, what will they [...]
In the cool of the evening, when ev’rything is gettin’ kinda groovy…
Phillip Stearns is an artist who wears many hats. Also know as Pixel Form, Phil is a practitioner of sound and visual arts, a music composer and performer, and an electronics sculptor and installation artist. He describes his work as “characterized by judicial use of materials, restraint, simplicity, a careful balance between conceptual depth and playfulness.” In this conversation, he discusses his commitment to education, teaching as a form of artistic practice, and his latest project…
Springboard for the Arts aims to cultivate a vibrant arts community in the Upper Midwest by connecting artists with the skills, information and services they need to make a living and a life. Today’s is the first in a regular series of profiles of our Open Arts Network partner organizations.
A DC-based interdisciplinary theatre company devoted to re-discovering and re-inventing the art of narration, banished? productions vows to awaken its audiences’ sense of wonder. Thinking outside the black-box is banished?’s co-founder Carmen C. Wong, who dreams of chocolates and holograms…
Who can find words for an image such as this? It was taken in Wyoming as part of the the fiscally-sponsored documentary journey Project Tandem…
Box Full of Wasps is a New York City-based theatre collective with a bend towards improvisation. In this week’s Featured Member profile, Box’s Jenna Lauren Freed and Emily Floyd discuss backwards adaptation, pipe dreams, and how improvisation is like “a many-headed power tool”… (!?)
Diverse, young (all are under age 30), and fresh from the top music academies in America, the 16-member Opus Nine Ensemble formed in late 2008, “to explore the infinite possibilities offered by chamber music’s diverse instrumentation, sizing, genres, and periods.” In this week’s Featured Member profile, Opus Nine members discuss their passion for classical music and how they bring its dynamism into the greater community.
To Them That’s Gone documents a small group of civilians on their Run for the Fallen, a cross-country journey in remembrance of the American servicemen and women killed in Iraq. Commenting on the filming of the group’s run from Fort Irwin, California, to Virginia’s Arlington National Cemetery, producer/director Rolando Garcia says, “…how much more epic do you get than crossing the entire country on foot? Unbelievable. You can’t even script that.”
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