ABOUT THE ARTISTS

ROSE MARIE PRINS, PhD

Rose Marie Prins’ mixed-media paintings and sculptures have been featured in solo and group exhibitions in museums, cultural centers and galleries throughout North America well as in her native country, South Africa. These include the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Jonson Gallery at the University of New Mexico, the Art Museum at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville; the Polk Museum of Art in Lakeland, Florida; the Gulf Coast Museum in Largo, Florida; the Gallery at Creative Pinellas, Largo, Florida; the Center for Contemporary Arts in Santa Fe; the Bridge for Emerging Contemporary Art in New Orleans; Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art in Newark, New Jersey; Florida CraftArt, St. Petersburg; the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in Sweet Briar and at Moulin à Nef, Auvillar, France; the Erector Square Gallery in New Haven, Connecticut; the Bridge Street Gallery in Big Fork Montana; the Courtyard Gallery in Alameda, California; the Merlin Gallery in San Francisco; the Woman’s Building in Los Angeles, Casa Jupiterfab in Mexico and the Johannesburg Municipal Art Gallery in South Africa.

Her work is in public, corporate, and private collections in the United States, Canada and Europe including the Museum of Encaustic Art, Cerrillos, NM; Jonson Gallery at the University of New Mexico, Hillsborough Community College in Tampa, Alfonso Architects in Tampa; Meridian Asset Services in St Petersburg, Florida; Perconti Data Systems in St. Petersburg; Dr. Stephen H. Groff, in St Petersburg; Fulcrum Blu in St Petersburg; Island Massage Therapy in Tierra Verde, Florida; SoulAction, Santa Fe in New Mexico; Dietrich Niesitka Teppichboden in Hamburg, Germany, and Creative Network, Toronto.

Prins is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including, most recently, a Creative Pinellas Mentorship Grant in 2020; a Specific Cultural Projects Grant from the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs in 2019, an Individual Artist Grant supported by the St Petersburg Arts Alliance and funded by the Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs in 2018, and a 2016 Creative Pinellas Individual Artist Grant.

Residency fellowships include  Wild Rose Retreat, Ontario, Canada; Avíario Studio, Ferreira do Zêzere, Portugal; Buinho FabLab, Messejana, Portugal; Jupiterfab Arts Residency, Guadalajara, Mexico; Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in Amherst County, Virginia and Moulin à Nef in Auvillar, France; the Sanskriti Kendra in New Delhi, India; the Mary Anderson Center for the Arts in Louisville, Kentucky, and the Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts and Sciences in Rabun Gap, Georgia.

Rose Marie received a PhD in Studio Art from The Union Institute and University, an MA in Art from Goddard College and a BFA in Painting from the San Francisco Art Institute.

SANDI J LUDESCHER

Sandi J Ludescher is a New Mexican painter and printmaker celebrating the distinctiveness and sometimes quirkiness of everyday people and their struggles. Growing up during the unrest of the 1960’s has influenced quite a lot of her work.

She is a summa cum laude 2006 graduate of the University of New Mexico, College of Fine Arts and McNair Scholar where she majored in painting, drawing, printmaking and a minor in art history. Other life experiences include professional musician and award winning journalist.

She is widely known for her emotional and expressive portraits, figurative paintings, drawings and etchings, sometimes with social commentary. Sandi had exhibited her work extensively and has works in public and private collections worldwide. 

www.adifferentpainter.com

LINDA PIPER, PhD

Statement

I have been writing since the age of eight. My medium is primarily performance. Currently, I am working on an updated version of my 1992 performance, "I Believe Anita.” This new adaptation will look at the similarities between the Hill and Ford testimonies in light of social and political challenges: for women, for the #MeToo movement, and for immigrant children separated from their parents at internment camps in Texas.

I participate in Indigenous Day, anti - Columbus Day; I also demonstrate against chemical dumping on Native lands.

Biography 

Linda Piper holds a PhD in Language, Literacy, and Socio-Cultural Studies from the University of New Mexico. She is founder and artistic director of the former Tapestry Players (Albuquerque, NM) and Black Arts Center Repertory Company (Houston, TX).

https://about.me/lindapiper

KIMBERLY WAHPEPAH

Kimberly Wahpepah was secretary of the Parents Teachers Organization at Gallup Head Start. While in Gallup she made the Proclamation Against Human Trafficking at a City Council meeting. She is currently the Street Outreach Director for Moms Demanding Action and is a Human Trafficking Specialist with Aunties for Justice. As an advocate for MMIWR she has helped to find twelve missing relatives and seven traffickers; also nine drug houses. Wahpepah has lobbied at the Santa Fe Capitol on behalf of MMIR on several occasions, and was interviewed during the Women’s March as part of the #noDapl Water is Life protest in Albuquerque. She is an Ambassador Parent for EPICS and is employed at the Law Offices of Darlene Gomez in Albuquerque.