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Featured Member: Synapse Arts Collective

The Chicago-based performance group Synapse Arts Collective creates opportunities for all types of artists to work collaboratively on performance-based projects. Integrating movement experimentation, theater, photography, music, visual art, video, creative writing, and stage design, the group strives to both inspire their audiences and evoke critical thinking and emotion.

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Featured Member: Kira Lynn Harris

New York-based visual artist Kira Lynn Harris uses drawings, light and reflective surfaces, such as mirrors and Mylar, to call attention to and even “destabilize” everyday space. Her work creates an intersection of fact and fiction, real and surreal, and asks the viewer to consider the question “what if?”

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Tell Obama About the Arts and Health Care

The Obama administration is looking for personal stories about the need for health care reform. This is a great opportunity to ensure that the arts community isn’t left out of this debate.
Remember that not all health care reform proposals are created equal. Some - such as those designed to expand employer-based coverage - would actually [...]

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Featured Member: Conni’s Avant Garde Restaurant

A theatre ensemble that presents delicious home-cooked meals through staged performances, Conni’s Avant Garde Restaurant creates a social dinner party setting as it would be run by a troupe of visionary artists of the avant-garde theatre. A dinner theatre, you ask? Absolutely not, says producing director Connie Hall…

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Featured Member: Umbrage Editions

In 1991, Nan Richardson founded Umbrage Editions, an artistic, socially conscious, and photojournalism-oriented publishing company, and has published nearly seventy books under the imprint. Umbrage also represents a human rights organization, Speak Truth to Power, that produces plays, events, colloquia, films and more.

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Do you want better health insurance options (and live in NY State)?

If you’ve ever considered hopping the border to Canada to see a doctor, then this survey is for you.
Fractured Atlas is partnering with the NY State Health Foundation on a project to improve health insurance options for artists in NY State. This isn’t something that’ll happen overnight, of course, but we’re working hard to lay [...]

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Featured Member: Carrie Ahern

Carrie Ahern Dance uses deceptively simple movement to distill questions about the complex nature of being human. Inspired largely by philosophical works, the company’s next project is a dance interpretation of “Thus Spoke Zarathustra”, to premiere in Fall 2009.

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Featured Member: Ellen Priest

A Philadelphia-area visual artist and member of Fractured Atlas since December 2003, Ellen Priest has taken jazz as the subject of her paintings since 1990. She creates a series of mixed-media paintings based on a single jazz composition. Her recent work has used jazz pianist/composer Edward Simon’s “Venezuelan Suite” as its inspiration.

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Featured Member: Small Pond Entertainment

New York-based Small Pond Entertainment is an emerging theatre arts organization that was started five years ago by artistic director Michael Roderick when he found that it was virtually impossible for an artist to be at their best when they also had to produce.  In this interview with Fractured Atlas, Michael elaborates on his organization’s [...]

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Featured Member: Cara Winter

Name: Cara Winter
Website: www.carawinter.net
Hometown: New York, NY
Artistic Disciplines: writing, acting
Fractured Atlas Member Since: February 2002
Fractured Atlas Services Used: Fiscal Sponsorship, Health Insurance, Liability Insurance
Cara, tell us about your work in a few sentences.
For about a decade, my focus was on performing, and I worked and toured all over the country.  But I’ve always written, on [...]

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