CARISSA CARMAN is an artist, seamstress, and teacher. She is managing the Waterpod Living Systems team. Her work incorporates social activity, collaboration and public interventions that infuse botany, ecology, print, edibles, objects, editions and education. She has shown at Exit Art, Figment, The Muster, Creative Time, Islip Museum and the Women's Studio Workshop and is the recipient of funding from NYSCA, Andy Warhol Foundation, NYFA and LMCC Swing space. In 2008 she created public projects using "Buttercup," her vegetable-grease powered car, for State of Progress and A.T.T. Taxi Service at the Scope Art Fair, NY. Carissa is a co-founder of Dusty Hollows and collaborator of SP Stationers Group and SP Potluck. She has created projects for Socrates Sculpture Park, Brooklyn Children Museum, and The Children's Museum of Manhattan. She has works in private collections at Yale, RIT, RISD and Virgina Commonwealth and lives and works in New York City.
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VERONICA FLORES was born in 1974 in Guadalajara, Mexico. Flores’ is an emerging artist working between Guadalajara and NY. She studied Architecture in Guadalajara and completed a degree in sociology and development in London at Roehampton University. In 1997 she discovered an interest in carpentry while working in a wood workshop in London and has since designed and produced several pieces of furniture. Flores’ background in architecture and sociology informs her newly found interest in art. She started her art practice at the end of 2005 and has since been involved in alternative plastic tecniques. She was an International artist in residence at Braziers workshop 2007 in Oxfordshire, England. She has exhibited at the Raul Anguiano Museum and in the City Museum of Guadalajara. Her art work is represented by the Curro y Poncho Gallery in Guadalajara.
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MARA G. HASELTINE's love of the natural sciences and form has been a constant theme throughout her work. Her work is figurative in that even her most abstract forms relate to the internal-external body, as well as human psychology. In the past year she has taken the leap to combine her art practice with scientific experiments and environmental restoration her work is now truly alive! Mara G. Haseltine received her undergraduate degree in Studio Art and Art History from Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, and her master's degree from The San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California, with a double degree in New Genres and Sculpture. She has worked as a sculptor throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia and at the National Museum of Trinidad and Tobago in the Port of Spain, Trinidad. Mara G. Haseltine currently resides in New York City and works out of Brooklyn, New York. She has created a design for a contemporary Oyster Midden made especially for Waterpod™ Project.
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CORY MERVIS is an artist and a producer of Waterpod™ Project. She has worked on large-scale projects
like “Voter
Drive,” where she transformed a bus into mobile art
(a bald eagle with the word "vote" painted across
its body), and drove across America registering voters and administering political questionnaires, launching the journey from New York
City and driving through 30 states, the route spelling out "vote"
across the U.S. map. In 2007, she produced a life-sized re-creation
of Astor Place, New York, in the middle of Black Rock Desert
as part of a festival.
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EVE K. TREMBLAY is an artist working between
Berlin, New York and Montreal. She is an artist, creative advisor,
and co-curator of the Waterpod. Eve is also an advisory member
of the administrative counsil of Occurence in Montreal for the Waterpod. Her works have been exhibited
and published internationally. She has upcoming projects with
the Musée National Des Beaux-arts Du Québec in
Quebec city, Abbaye Saint-André Centre D’art Contemporain,
Meymac, France, as well as Program in Berlin. Her work is represented
by Galerie Donald Browne in Montreal, and she recently presented her ongoing project Becoming Fahrenheit 451 at a solo
show in New York.
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ALISON WARD is an artist whose work incorporates performance, video and sculptural installation. She focuses on issues of identity interpreted through physical and slapstick humour. Exhibitions include Mastel+Mastel Gallery, Haven Arts, Dumbo Arts Center, Diesel Gallery and the Bronx Museum in New York and Liquid Blue Gallery and Red Dot Project in Miami, as well as the CCCB Museum in Spain and Castlefield Gallery in England. She has performed at Smack Mellon Gallery, Dumbo Arts Center, and the Philadelphia Fringe Festival. She has done residencies at Raw Space in Australia, The Artist in the Marketplace Program, and the LMCC studio program.
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