Leon Johnson (Director-in-Residence) produces work in film, performance, and site-specific events and is the proprietor of The Long Bell Press and a founding member of Creative Material Group, a non-profit arts collective. He is the recipient of a Pollock/Krasner Foundation Grant for Painting and a Yaddo Residency Fellowship. His film FAUST/FAUSTUS IN DEPTFORD was selected for the KunstFilmBienale in Cologne, Germany and the Raindance Film Festival in London, UK. AFTER, a recent video, was published by Chiasmus Press last summer as part of The End of Reality, a DVD and fiction anthology. His new video project, FORTRESS BOY BRIDGE, was finished in 2007 during a Cuts + Burns Residency at The Outpost in Williamsburg. He is Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Studio + Theory in the Graduate Program at The Transart Institute and will lead a workshop for them, in Berlin, in the summer of 2009. Johnson lives in Portland, Maine with his partner, Megan O’Connell and two sons. www.leonjohnson.org
Bonnie Bastien (AIR Co-curator) is a working artist and is employed at Jameson and Thompson Fine Art Services in Jamaica Plain. She received her BFA from Massachusetts College of Art in 2001. Bonnie worked with the Esprit De Corps Art Collective producing multi-media events in venues and non-venues throughout Boston for over two years as an artist, collaborator, and curator. She joined the Berwick as a Board Member in 2005. Currently, Bonnie Bastien and Nova Benway are Co-Curators for the Berwick’s Artist in Research (AIR) Program.
Nova Benway (AIR Co-curator)
began her work with the Berwick as assistant and later Co-Curator of
Meet Me at the Table, with Meg Rotzel and Susan Sakash. She received
her BA in English Literature and Criticism from McGill University in
2001. She manages an intern program for visual arts students at the
Boston Center for the Arts and teaches middle school English and Math
with the Steppingstone Foundation. Currently, Nova and Bonnie Bastien
are Co-Curators for the Berwick's Artist in Research (AIR) Program.
Daniel DeLuca (SPI Cooordinator) is a curator, organizer, and performance artist who received his BFA with honors from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design where he majored in the Studio for Interrelated Media. As an undergraduate he curated and organized collaborative multi-media performance events with students, faculty, and practicing artists. He co-directed and co-curated the 2007 Eventworks festival, an annual festival of experimental artwork in all media. DeLuca was president of the Student Government Association at MassArt where he founded a $5000 grant program for MassArt students. Last spring he was awarded a grant from the Center for Arts and Community Partnership at MassArt for an installation project that addressed issues related to nature and art. In addition to working with the Berwick as a program coordinator, he maintains a studio in Waltham, MA.
Ryan Sciaino (SPI Cooordinator) graduated with a dual degree in Music Technology and Multimedia Studies from Northeastern University. He has worked as Technical Director for exhibitions in galleries throughout Boston including Art Interactive, Axiom Gallery, and the Huret and Spector Gallery at Emerson College. He also piloted a web video series for WGBH and Public Radio International's "The World." He is currently a teaching artist at the Institute of Contemporary Art where he runs audio and video editing workshops for high school students as part of their Teen New Media program. He also produces his own music, DJ's locally and abroad, and does freelance audio and video work.