PUBLIC WORKS CORPS: the bios

Find out more about the corps of performers appearing weekly at Someday... Emily Stone, Lilian Gael, Nora Robertson, Clare Carpenter, and Tiffany Lee Brown.

PUBLIC WORKS CORPS, April-May 2007
Portland, Oregon
presented by 2GQ and the Someday Lounge

BIOS

Tiffany Lee Brown is a writer, performer, and interdisciplinary
artist. Her fiction, poetry, and nonfiction appear in various books,
anthologies, and periodicals, and she's presented work in venues
ranging from Wordstock to Burning Man. See http://www.magdalen.com for
deets. A recipient of residencies from Caldera and Soapstone, Miss
Brown received her BA in Dramatic Art from the University of California at
Berkeley and is currently pursuing an
MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts from Goddard College. This summer, she
and Clare Carpenter will publish a limited book arts edition of her
first book, "A Compendium of Miniatures." She edits 2GQ and is a
co-editor of Plazm magazine.

Clare Carpenter is a book artist and letterpress printer living in
Portland, Oregon, where she has been the proprietor of Tiger Food
Press since 1999. She uses hand-set type, linoleum and wood block
prints, and her own writing to create mostly fictional narratives
that take the form of illustrated books, broadsides and posters. The
themes that pervade her work are urban myths, historical subjects,
and the meaning of place in peoples lives. Recently she has been
working collaboratively with Tiffany Lee Brown, and is co-publishing
a short story by writer Maria Caruso.

Lilian Gael is a performing artist working with improv-movement,
dance, enviornments and sound. Her performance art piece, "Revery/The
Kitchen Project" was performed at the Oregon College of Arts and
Craft in 2006 for audiences of one at a time. She is a recipient of a
Soapstone writing residency in poetry and a 2006 RACC grant. She is a
founding collaborator for the Begging Project.

Nora Robertson is a writer living in Portland. With 2GQ, she has
performed in the Enteractive Language Festival, in Powell's readings,
and is a regular contributor to the 2GQ.org website. Her poem "How to
Boil an Egg" was recently published in the journal Redactions, and
subsequently nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

Emily Stone bridges dance and theatre worlds by being an actor,
dancer, choreographer and director. Her work has been produced in
Seattle and Portland by PICA's TBA Festival, On the Boards' Northwest
New Works and 12 Minutes Max, 10 Tiny Dances, Performance Works
Northwest, Telegraph Arts' Chroma Project, Velocity Studio and
defunkt theater. As a dancer, she has appeared in work by Sheri
Cohen, Linda Austin, Linda K Johnson, Corrie Befort, Tahni Holt,
Angelle Hebert and Philip Kraft. Stone performs and directs for her
own theater/dance company Salvage Yard with fellow Lewis and Clark
College alum James Moore. She is currently earning her MFA in
Interdisciplinary Art at Goddard College and most recently created a
porno staircase installation as part of "Catacombs" at Portland Art
Center.