BIOS


Jackie Milad & Tom Boram: Jackie is co-founder of CHELA. She ran her own jewelry design business for 4 years before returning to grad school for an MFA degree from Towson. She received a BFA from the School of Museum of Fine Arts. Jackie draws and makes things - getting her inspiration out of repetition and watching people move. Mr. Boram is a local musician and performer - AKA as part SNACKS, part LEPRECHAUN CATERING. Mr. Boram and Jackie love Bollywood circa 1970 and dream of becoming dancing extras with bells and incense.

Chiara Giovando: Chiara is a performer, musician/sound artist currently living in Philadelphia PA. Chiara is interested in making art pieces which are essentially difficult situations. Often her work is about attempting to do something and then doing it the most inefficient way possible, therefore exposing the action. For this show, the cloth chandelier is a way to show the audience something beautiful.

Bonnie Jones: My shoes have fox toes, performer, performer, astro fascist, half snake eyes over chai eye. She formulates burlap-perfect with Assist-Hat Tick, Shot Put, end Catherine Pancake. bonniesite

Dan Breen: I don't on my boat. I count like my sharp something in a. Will you then in a shrimp boat truly suffer though its small you're a veteran.

Melissa Moore: reeds,sound experimenter,instrument builder. in the duo;" space has infinite
density", with local musician/filmaker catherine pancake. Fairly new to the Baltimore experimental/improv scence. using various metals, rods, pipes, springs, strings with magnets, motors, and fire to create otherworldly, spacey vibrations and oscillations. excitation of material, giving voice to microcosmic subatomitry.

Fred Van Dyk: Fred is a local worker, sculptor, video-maker, hunter, gatherer, father. Born and bred in the wooly plains of Montana and currently resides in Baltimore. MICA MFA student, and boat guide on the Amazon. www.fredvandyk.com

Ric Royer is a CHELA Collective member. He leaves for England in September to study in the Performance Writing program at Dartington College of Art.

Lauren Bender makes things in Baltimore. She's as confused as you are. She is also an artist and writer view he work at at www.radarreview.net and www.mobtownwriters.com.

Cindy Rehm: Cindy Rehm is an artist and Visiting Assistant Professor at UMBC. In September 2003, she opened "spare room", an installation space inside her home.