BIOS: THE ARTISTS OF WORKS CORPS

Presenting "House Bound" this April at Performance Works NW
Co-presented by 2GQ

BIOS
Tiffany Lee Brown (www.magdalen.com) integrates various artistic and literary media to explore relationship, ritual, the American West, and the meaning of "home." Author of A Compendium of Miniatures, she co-edits PLAZM magazine and is the editor/director of 2GQ. She has performed for Wordstock, PICA, Performance Works NW, and the Enteractive Language Festival; her writing appears in Utne, Bookforum, Tin House, Portland Monthly, Wired, and Bust, among others. Most recently, her music and spoken word pieces appeared on the compilations Women Take Back the Noise and the newest CD from Gargoyle, a literary journal. Willamette Week calls her "a publishing and performance powerhouse."

Sponsors may read her House Bound blog at magdalen.blogs.com/tiffany .

Clare Carpenter (tigerfoodpress.com) is a letterpress printer and book artist living in Portland, Oregon. She is the proprietor of Tiger Food Press, which produces limited edition books, broadsides, and ephemera often using her own writing to create mostly fictional narratives. The themes that pervade her work are urban myths, historical subjects, and the meaning of place in peoples lives. This year, she created installations and presentations for Portland Art Center, the Pacific Northwest College of Art, Pacific University, and the group show Construct/ReConstruct at Cathedral Park Place. Eugene Weekly recently described her work as “sly.”

Sponsors may read her House Bound blog at magdalen.blogs.com/clare .

Lilian Gael is a performing artist working with movement, environments, elusive sentiment, and sound. The first piece in her rituals for a new America series, titled "Revery/The Kitchen Project," was performed at Oregon College of Art and Craft for audiences of one. Two new pieces from this series were shown as part of 2GQ's six-week Public Works series at the Someday Lounge. At Performance Works NW in 2007, Lily was a house performer for the I Love PWNW Valentines fundraiser, cut her hair in The Richard Foreman Festival, and curated the final Sunday installment of Holy Goats.

Sponsors may read her House Bound blog at magdalen.blogs.com/lily .

Nora Robertson (www.solanova.us) writes fiction, poetry, reviews, and essays, which have appeared in such publications as Portland Monthly, Redactions, 2GQ, and Plazm.  Her recipe poem, “How to Boil an Egg,” was nominated by Redactions for the 2007 Pushcart Prize. Her spoken word performances have been spotted in the Public Works multidisciplinary performance series curated by 2GQ, the Enteractive Language Festival, and in Phase One: Words + Music.  She lives in Portland, Oregon and teaches high school English and ESL by day.

Sponsors may read her House Bound blog at magdalen.blogs.com/nora .

Emily Stone is an interdisciplinary artist who makes dance, devised theater, and installation art. Her work has been produced in Seattle and Portland by Performance Works Northwest, Portland Art Center, Conduit, Velocity, On the Boards, SFADI, 10 Tiny Dances, defunkt theater and PICA's TBA Festival, among others. As a performer, she has co-created works with Sheri Cohen, Beth Graczyk, Corrie Befort, Tahni Holt, Angelle Hebert and Philip Kraft, and Linda Austin. She performs and directs for her company Salvage Yard, with fellow Lewis and Clark College alum James Moore.

Sponsors may read her House Bound blog at magdalen.blogs.com/emily .