Amy Melissa Reed CEO of MASARTS and is an artist, creator of Ma Series and Organizes MA Ensemble . www.amymelissareed
Drucella Anne Miranda Woodland, CA
drucella anne miranda is a daughter, sister, decolonizing feminist,
artist, caretaker, and fur mama. she likes to collect, seek, hoard, and
find random objects to make things out of, hence leaving her with a
cluster of stuff that she creates and transforms into art. may you find
some piece/peace of whatever it is you may seek in my creations.
she was born in the borderlands of Texas and has been a long time resident of the Central Valley. an alumna from the University of California Davis, she has a bachelors in Women and Gender Studies as well as American Studies. as a student she worked as a community activist with youth to foster consciousness through critical dialogue and the arts. she continues her artivism and healing through vulnerability through both the visual arts and her words.
J. Andrea Porras / yAyA is a Queer, Two -Spirit, Coahuiltecan descendant ~ ChicanIndia, madre, cultura cura curator/producer, intersectional artist/ practitioner; with over 25 years’ experience in performance, organizing, facilitation, grant making, grant reviewing, philanthropy, and mentoring.
Khimberly Marshall Sacramento, CA (MacBeth Project)
Khimberly Marshall (MacBeth Project) has 18 years combined experience in both Theater and Film production having written, directed and produced national commercials spots, short films and regional theater productions. She has won numerous awards for art and literature. Khimberly has also worked for major clients such as the California Music Theater, Sacramento Ballet, Sacramento Area Theater Alliance, Theater El Dorado Board, Celebration Arts Board, El Teatro Espejo, and the Creative Arts League of Sacramento. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Theater Management with a second Bachelor’s degree in Film from The Art Institute of California. Previously engaged at the Crocker Art Museum as an Art Corp Fellow, she was embedded in the Block by Block Initiative, creating social practice art in underrepresented communities. Khimberly finds her most rewarding work in providing support to people and organizations that foster community.
Currently, she is delving deeper into her own artistry as a sculptor, having shown her work as several galleries in Northern California, she hopes to one day find her art in the very museums that began her love for the arts.
Shanna Sordahl Brazil/Oakland, CA
Shanna Sordahl is a sound artist and composer based in Oakland, CA. Using amplified cello with analog and digital electronics and installation art as her primary mediums, Shanna’s work is a continual exploration of one’s relationship to both sound and physical spaces. She emphasizes timbral changes, the resonant body of objects, and the re-contextualization of sound through the use of unconventional playing techniques, feedback, and audience immersion. Shanna strives to create sonic and physical spaces that induce a focused state of awareness, where one is encouraged to reflect on or reconsider their relationship to sound, people, spaces, and ultimately, ideas.
Biggi Vinkeloe Oakland, CA /Sweden
Biggi Vinkeloe is one of few women musicians of her generation that has been influential in jazz and improvisational music. She has an enormous musical range and has initiated a great number of genre-bending projects and focuses on bridging traditional and folk music from India and Europe, sacred music and jazz, field recordings and electronic with acoustic music, compositions and improvisations. Music is the most wonderful and magic universal language not limited by any border.
http://www.openhorizonrecords.com/
Tarisse Iriarte-Medina San Juan, PR/Brooklyn
Tarisse Iriarte Medina is an independent curator, and
consultant working in New York City and Puerto Rico
She is simply referred to as “Tee” in her beloved
Brooklyn Community. In 2017 Tee co-founded Curated Concepts LLC, a New York based Arts Consulting Firm that provides an array of services from Art Sales, curatorial & project management to full exhibition production. She is a proud arts activist and Afro Boricua working diligently on the liberation of Puerto Rico and Brooklyn by collaborating directly with arts activist on the island and in NY. Tee curates exhibits that contextualize the intersections of cultural arts, social justice and revolution. Her show Healing Drum of the Sun was a solo exhibition with multimedia artist Patrick Dougher, discusses the resilience of the Sacred Black body.
What you have been doing and your plans for the Ma series [Arts] are important, and necessary, not only for culture, or for us as women artists (though these are important), but for everyone’s communities urban and rural, and for life itself which is dependent on these creative energies .
Susan Alcorn – Pedal Steel Guitarist, Musician, Composer
MA Series Arts.org 