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Staff - Summer 2006
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Stacy Sims – Program Director and Founder
In 2001, Stacy left a career in marketing and arts management to finish her
first novel. Swimming Naked was released by Viking in 2004 to critical
acclaim. The Chicago Tribune called a “fresh, edgy … brutally moving first
novel” and Border’s Books selected it for its national Original Voices program.
Stacy is also the owner of Pendleton Pilates, which she founded in 2001. She
runs a nationally recognized Teacher Training program, has been published in
national fitness and yoga magazines and had conducted workshops in the U.S. and
abroad. See www.pendletonpilates.com
Stacy is at work on her second novel and is a sought after speaker
and presenter on the topics of addiction, mind and body alignment, and
purposeful leadership.
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Aralee Strange – Lead Teacher
Strange is a poet/playwright whose body of work includes Etta Stone: A Film for
Radio (1990) which she wrote, produced and edited and was aired
nationally on NPR stations including WGBH's Arts & Ideas series. Other work
includes dr. pain on main, a play commissioned/produced by Cincinnati
Playhouse in the Park in 1991 and commissioned/produced again by the 2005
Cincinnati Fringe Festival; The Chronicles of Plague (1992),
commissioned/produced by Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati; and An Evening at the
Sad Café (1995). Strange also wrote, directed and edited This Train
a feature film she worked on from 1996-2001. Awards and fellowships include the
MacDowell Colony, the Kentucky Foundation for Women, the Cincinnati Fine Arts
Fund and the Ohio Arts Council.
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Shannon Ross – Teacher
Shannon R. Ross is currently working on an MA in Art History as well as an MFA
in Painting/Drawing in the College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning
at the University of Cincinnati. She received her BS in Fine Art with a minor
in Art History from Ashland University in 2003. This past year, Shannon served
as a Teaching Assistant to a series of three Art of the 20th Century classes,
as well as a student supervisor in the DAAP wood shop. Her current artistic
endeavors explore a variety of performance types, and are realized in final
form as either live performances or video projections. Shannon is also a member
of a collaborative artist group, The Ghetto Krew, who organize and host a show
of collaborative work annually. Upon receiving her Master’s degrees Shannon
will pursue a career in the arts, whether it be in a museum/gallery setting, or
a non-profit organization working with students. In her free time she enjoys
singing karaoke, tap dancing, and reading.
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Dorit Cypis - Artist in Residence
Dorit Cypis was born in Israel in 1951, emigrated with her family to Montreal
in 1958, and to the U.S. in 1975. Her work has been presented at museums and
galleries nationally and internationally and awards include fellowships from
the NEA, the Jerome Foundation, the McKnight Foundation and the Minnesota Arts
Board. She founded Kulture Klub in Minneapolis to pair homeless teens with
artists. Cypis is interested in working with the True Body teen girls to
understand not only their interiority, but how to resolve conflict and to truly
"see" the other. The Walker Art Center says, "Cypis explores questions of
identity and representation through performance, multi-media installation, and
photography. She often focuses on issues of authorship, the threshold between
subject and object, and mode of seeing. Much of her work is performative,
involving strategies to literally penetrate the image in order to uncover
layers of meaning."
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Kathy Y. Wilson – Guest
Since Cincinnati, Ohio’s April 2001 race and class riots, Kathy Y. Wilson has
been the city’s Sapphire-in-residence. But even a rant needs a resting place.
“Your Negro Tour Guide,” Wilson’s award-winning, now-defunct column and her
National Public Radio commentaries on “All Things Considered” put the city—and
now the nation—on notice. Wilson’s collected columns and commentaries, Your
Negro Tour Guide: Truths in Black and White (2004, Emmis Books), is in
its second paperback printing.
Wilson is a senior writer and editor for CityBeat, Cincinnati’s alternative
newsweekly. Her poems and columns have been published by On the One, Newsday,
Shelterforce and The Independent. The Ohio Associated Press, the Association of
Alternative Newsweeklies, the Society of Professional Journalists and the
Knight Center for Specialized Journalism at the University of Maryland have all
honored her work. Her next book is a meditation on black fathers and daughters
called The Pimp in the Background.
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Barbara Walker, Ph.D. – Guest
Barbara Walker has a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology with an emphasis in sport
psychology and licensed psychologist. She is a performance psychology
consultant for business and performing arts and an nternationally experienced
consultant at multiple athletic levels, from professional to high school
sports. Barbara is a member of the American Psychological Association and the
Association for the Advancement of Applied Sport Psychology. She will lead a
session on biofeedback.
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Gretchen Gogesch – Guest
Gretchen Gogesch is President of Integrale, a research and innovation strategy
consultancy serving clients in the U.S., Europe, and Asia. During her time in
Chicago she studied and performed at famed improv venue Second City, where she
developed the listening and action methodologies used in her consultancy. This
summer Gretchen returns to the True Body Project to share her passion and love
for ensemble with the apprentice artists.
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Guest Instructors
Alice Porte - Water Fitness Instructor
Elizabeth Silas - Yoga Instructor
Marcus Wenner - Self Defense Instructor
Miranda Millard - Break Dance Instructor
Sheila Wilson - Yoga Instructor (Yoga hOMe)
Molly Bortz - Yoga Instructor (Yoga hOMe)
Consultants/Designers
Karen Berger – Web Designer
Karen has been a freelance graphic designer for 14 years. She splits her time
between raising her daughter, designing cool stuff and teaching yoga.
Sue Terwilliger – Web Consultant
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