Bob Krasner: The Shape of Things | Artist Talk with Savannah Spirit
2022-10-13 18:00 (America/New_York) | HA/HA, 250 Bowery, 2nd Floor, New York, NY, 10012, United States
Howl! Arts/Howl! Archive invites you to experience the work of Bob Krasner and learn more about his artistic process through dialogue with fellow New York-based photographer and critic, Savannah Spirit. A multi-talented photographer whose work has appeared in the New York Times, Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, and the Village Voice, among other publications, Krasner’s current exhibition of abstract city views explore the intersection of the architecture and atmosphere of New York City.
The talk will be followed by a Q & A and a walk through of the exhibition.

Bob Krasner has been a professional photographer for over 25 years. He has survived photo sessions with heavy metal hair bands, reluctant politicians, nervous brides and camera shy children (and adults). His pictures have been published by Rolling Stone, People, Vanity Fair, Town & Country, Penguin Books, Random House and The Villager, for whom he also writes. The New York Press Association has awarded him first prize for best art photograph for the last three years. He can frequently be found, camera in hand, on the streets of New York City (where he lives), looking for the next great shot.

BOB KRASNER:The Shape of the City
2022-09-17 - 2022-10-30 | HA/HA, 250 Bowery, 2nd Floor, New York, NY, 10012, United States
Photography Exhibition
Opening Reception: Saturday, September 17 / 3–7 PM / Free
Special Performance by Female Genius on the terrace at 3:30 PM.

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Bob Krasner: The Shape of the City

Howl! Arts/Howl! Archive is pleased to present photographer Bob Krasner’s abstract city views that explore the intersection of the architecture and atmosphere of New York City. Unlike his well-known pictures of cultural events, which concentrate on the life and people of the downtown scene, these photos represent the joyful moments of image-making that condense man’s creations and the sun into painterly and sublime abstraction.
Krasner has been a photographer since high school. He’s photographed rock stars and presidents, weddings and bar mitzvahs, performance art and paintings, shopping malls and private estates, writers and publishers, CEOs and sailors. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, and the Village Voice, among other publications. He is currently a weekly contributor to the Villager and AM New York, concentrating on events and people below 14th Street, which brings him in touch with some of the most important artists and creators working in the city today.
“When I’m not shooting portraits or concerts or parades, I relax by taking more pictures,” he says. Posted daily on his Instagram page (@bobkrasner) for more than six years, his unpopulated abstracts are inspired by his jaunts around the five boroughs, reflecting his love for New York City and the deep emotional resonance he finds in the collaboration between the sun, the city, and the artist.
“I can’t imagine living anywhere else but New York City. It’s the best place for me. I can walk out of my apartment, go around the block and see the sun hitting a building in a way that results in a picture that I’ve never taken before,” Krasner says.

The Full Moon Show with John Pizza: Pants and Shirts
2022-08-12 | NY
Visit Howlarts.org on Friday, August 12, 2022 from 12 a.m. to 11:59 p.m. to watch the Full Moon Show!

Pants and Shirts. It’s such an obligation to walk around clothed. To make sure our wayward nakedness is covered and seemly. To see that our inner desires and our wacky motives, our ugly tendencies and our stupid mistakes, are rightfully adorned. That we are completely and thoroughly dressed.
Join John Pizza for a new Full Moon Show called Pants and Shirts, an anti strip show, because if everybody’s wearing them, I guess I gotta wear them too.
John Pizza is a performer, builder, and drawer. He uses trash and thrift-store detritus scrounged in his Brooklyn neighborhood to tell stories and make his shows. He loves the macabre and the mushy sweet. His sculptures are performative, and his performances involve sculptures—an object theatre of weird surprises.

About Tom Murrin and the Full Moon Show
Performance is anything done with purpose and style. —Tom Murrin
Howl! Happening is home to the archive of Tom Murrin, aka the Alien Comic and the Godfather of Performance Art. Every full moon—without fail, paid booking or not, in all seasons and whatever the weather—he performed his Luna Macaroona Full Moon Show. When he had a club date that fell on the full moon, he’d wrangle his friends to perform as guests—pushing the careers of such groundbreaking performers as David Cale, David Sedaris, Amy Sedaris, Blue Man Group, Ethyl Eichelberger, Lisa Kron, and many others. When he didn’t have a club date, he performed on the street for passersby, transforming the pedestrian atmosphere with his madness and magic.

Female Genius &Friends
2022-07-26 20:00 - 21:00 | NY
Every Tuesday in July @ 8 PM on Howlarts.org
Howl! Happening is pleased to present another in its &Friends residencies curated by Female Genius every Tuesday night in July on Howl TV. Howl’s monthly &Friends series features programs curated by notable artists—with the voices, commentary, music, and writing of friends they admire and collaborate with. Watch Female Genius &Friends July 5, 12, 19, and 26.
Female Genius is a collaborative musical group comprised of multidisciplinary artists: Julie Hair, Marnie Jaffe, and Nikki D’Agostino. Their debut record was released by Howl! Arts in 2021 and is available on the Howl website. In this iteration of the program, Hair has curated and compiled a series of videos representing a diverse group of artists and musicians in the band’s orbit—many at the very beginning of their careers.

Included, are early videos from Jaffe’s band Live Skull and Hair’s influences from 1980’s Lower East Side. Videos from this era feature the Pyramid Cocktail Lounge, 3 Teens Kill 4, Brian Butterick, and more. “These videos show a part of the thread that has brought us to where we are now and honor my experience working at the Pyramid Cocktail Lounge and the exposure it gave me to a steady stream of radically divergent artists coming together and being intrigued by each other,” says Hair.
In more recent years D’Agostino and Hair have intersected musically with Eric Hoegemeyer, Christian Lee, and Grace Bergere. Videos from these artists as well as D’Agostino’s collaborations with Hair on Isolation Society and one-off recording project Century Waste will be included. This polyamorous approach has evolved organically through relationships and is not limited by genre.
Female Genius &Friends will also include videos from D’Agostino’s bands Vestments, And The Wiremen, The Art Gray Noizz Quintet and her fellow collaborator Bradford Reed and Sugarlife Orchestra. Other more recent content will include The Creepy Julie Project, Rob Mayson, and other collaborators past and present: Lin Culbertson, Janice Sloane, Grace Bergere, Anni Rossi, and of course, Female Genius! The Death Of Art and other videos by Matt Reekie that capture the spirit of the underground will also be introduced.
Image: Douglas Landau , “I Feel Better Now”, Video Still.

Female Genius &Friends
2022-07-19 20:00 - 21:00, 2022-07-05 20:00 - 21:00 | NY
Every Tuesday in July @ 8 PM on Howl! TV
Howl! Happening is pleased to present another in its &Friends residencies curated by Female Genius every Tuesday night in July on Howl TV. Howl’s monthly &Friends series features programs curated by notable artists—with the voices, commentary, music, and writing of friends they admire and collaborate with. Watch Female Genius &Friends July 5, 12, 19, and 26.
Female Genius is a collaborative musical group comprised of multidisciplinary artists: Julie Hair, Marnie Jaffe, and Nikki D’Agostino. Their debut record was released by Howl! Arts in 2021 and is available on the Howl website. In this iteration of the program, Hair has curated and compiled a series of videos representing a diverse group of artists and musicians in the band’s orbit—many at the very beginning of their careers.

Included, are early videos from Jaffe’s band Live Skull and Hair’s influences from 1980’s Lower East Side. Videos from this era feature the Pyramid Cocktail Lounge, 3 Teens Kill 4, Brian Butterick, and more. “These videos show a part of the thread that has brought us to where we are now and honor my experience working at the Pyramid Cocktail Lounge and the exposure it gave me to a steady stream of radically divergent artists coming together and being intrigued by each other,” says Hair.
In more recent years D’Agostino and Hair have intersected musically with Eric Hoegemeyer, Christian Lee, and Grace Bergere. Videos from these artists as well as D’Agostino’s collaborations with Hair on Isolation Society and one-off recording project Century Waste will be included. This polyamorous approach has evolved organically through relationships and is not limited by genre.
Female Genius &Friends will also include videos from D’Agostino’s bands Vestments, And The Wiremen, The Art Gray Noizz Quintet and her fellow collaborator Bradford Reed and Sugarlife Orchestra. Other more recent content will include The Creepy Julie Project, Rob Mayson, and other collaborators past and present: Lin Culbertson, Janice Sloane, Grace Bergere, Anni Rossi, and of course, Female Genius! The Death Of Art and other videos by Matt Reekie that capture the spirit of the underground will also be introduced.
Image: Douglas Landau , “I Feel Better Now”, Video Still.

MY COMRADE: Final Gathering
2022-07-13 18:00 - 20:00 | Howl! Happening, 6 East 1st Street, New York City, NY, 10003, United States
Join Linda Simpson for the final special event in connection with her exhibition My Comrade Magazine: Happy 35th Gay Anniversary. Celebrate the release of The My Comrade Anthology, a collection of pages from past issues of My Comrade selected by Linda Simpson, printed in a substantial 256-page volume on newsprint. Linda will be signing books at the event.
Come mix and mingle, see a fashion show of the newest My Comrade T-Shirts, and listen to DJ Michael Magnan — Designer of the latest issue of My Comrade.
If you can’t make it to the event Click Here to purchase The My Comrade Anthology published by Boo-Hooray.

Linda Simpson’s My Comrade Magazine: Happy 35th Gay Anniversary is a special exhibition celebrating Linda Simpson’s photographs and her groundbreaking magazine, My Comrade. Included are never-before-seen images and artifacts documenting a revolutionary and seminal period in gay history. In conjunction with the exhibit, a brand-new issue of My Comrade will be published, the first in 16 years.

The Full Moon Show with John Pizza: Paralysis
2022-07-13 - 2022-07-14 | NY
The Full Moon Show: A Tom Murrin/Alien Comic Invention Presents
John Pizza: Paralysis
Visit Howlarts.org on Wednesday, Jul 13, 2022 from 12 AM to 11:59 PM to watch the Full Moon Show!
Every week, every day, every minute, if you don’t respond to the times up to the second – you’re paralyzed. We have mucho responsibility to our community, and our own bodies are the greatest metaphor for that responsibility. — John Pizza
Join John Pizza for Paralysis, a Full Moon performance that hopefully taps in to the feeling that we need to act, want to act, and that sometimes we are frozen stiff.
John Pizza is a performer, builder, and drawer. He uses trash and thrift-store detritus scrounged in his Brooklyn neighborhood to tell stories and make his shows. He loves the macabre and the mushy sweet. His sculptures are performative, and his performances involve sculptures—an object theatre of weird surprises.

About Tom Murrin and the Full Moon Show
Performance is anything done with purpose and style—Tom Murrin
Howl! Happening is home to the archive of Tom Murrin, aka the Alien Comic and the Godfather of Performance Art. Every full moon—without fail, paid booking or not, in all seasons and whatever the weather—he performed his Luna Macaroona Full Moon Show. When he had a club date that fell on the full moon, he’d wrangle his friends to perform as guests—pushing the careers of such groundbreaking performers as David Cale, David Sedaris, Amy Sedaris, Blue Man Group, Ethyl Eichelberger, Lisa Kron, and many others. When he didn’t have a club date, he performed on the street for passersby, transforming the pedestrian atmosphere with his madness and magic.

MY COMRADE READS
2022-07-06 19:00 | Howl! Happening, 6 East 1st Street, New York City, NY, 10003, United States
“The exhibit emphasizes the magazine’s graphic design, but each issue featured plenty to read, too.” — Linda Simpson
Howl! Happening presents “My Comrade Reads,” a reading of articles from past issues of the magazine in connection with the exhibition, Linda Simpson My Comrade Magazine: Happy 35th Gay Anniversary. An illustrious cast of performers and others share funny, provocative, and sexy articles chosen for them by editor Linda Simpson. Classic and hilarious articles from the gay zine are read by: Mike Albo, Nora Burns, Glace Chase, and Eileen Dover.

Since the 1980s, Linda Simpson has worked as a nightlife personality, writer and game-show host. Her photos of NYC’s drag scene of the 1980s and ‘90s have been featured in books, magazines, exhibits and documentaries, as well as her own touring slideshow.
My Comrade’s importance as a piece of gay history was made apparent in 2021 when it was acquired by Harvard for its Houghton Library, which specializes in literary and performing arts archives.
Read My Comrade: the revolutionary zine that transformed the New York drag scene In DAZED

Mike Albo
Writer, playwright and performer, whose upcoming sci-fi novel is Another Dimension of Us.

Nora Burns
One-third of the comedy trio Unitard and creator of the one-woman show David’s Friend.

Glace Chase
Recently returned from Australia where she starred in her play Triple X, a trans love story.

Eileen Dover
Nightlife veteran and social butterfly.

My Comrade LIVE
2022-06-22 19:00 - 21:00 | Howl! Happening, 6 East 1st Street, New York City, NY, 10003, United States
Join us for a Live Talk Show on Wednesday, June 22 at 7pm. In conjunction with the My Comrade magazine at Howl! Happening, editor Linda Simpson hosts a live talk show with special guests:
International DJ Honey Dijon (@honeydijon), photographer Andrew Whyland (@andewhyland), performer Macy Rodman (@macyrodman), cover girl for the new issue of My Comrade, and performer Jonah Almost (@jonahalmost), the centerfold model.
Honey Dijon is an internationally-known DJ who moved to NYC in the late 1990s and now lives in Berlin. Her recent projects include collaborating on a fashion label with Comma des Garcons.

Ande Whyland is a photographer who has shot many images for My Comrade’s lesbian flip side, Sister! Tonight she shows slides from her photo book Shots, which spotlights the creative scene going on in the early 1980s at such venues as Club 57 and the Pyramid.

Macy Rodman is the covergirl of the new issue of My Comrade, which is the first in 16 years and was published to coincide with the exhibit. Over the past several years, she has developed a cult following as a rock and pop performer in Brooklyn and beyond.

Jonah Almost is the centerfold model of the new issue of My Comrade. He is en electric music performer, nightlife enthusiast and part-time model and skateboarder.

Since the 1980s, Linda has worked as a nightlife personality, writer and game-show host. Her photos of NYC’s drag scene of the 1980s and ‘90s have been featured in books, magazines, exhibits and documentaries, as well as her own touring slideshow.
My Comrade’s importance as a piece of gay history was made apparent in 2021 when it was acquired by Harvard for its Houghton Library, which specializes in literary and performing arts archives.

Linda Simpson's Indie Gay Magazine Panel
2022-06-16 19:00 - 21:00 | Howl! Happening, 6 East 1st Street, New York City, NY, 10003, United States
Howl! Happening presents a panel discussion in connection with the exhibition, Linda Simpson My Comrade Magazine: Happy 35th Gay Anniversary. My Comrade editor Linda Simpson moderates a discussion about the joys and travails of publishing an alternative queer publication with staff members from Buds Digest, Butt, Frock, Gayletter and Straight to Hell.

Buds Digest is an online magazine for queer stoners. Frock is a showcase for photographer Eli Schmidt’s erotic images. BUTT reigned from 2001 to 2011 with its chic, sexy and conversational format. A new issue was printed earlier this year. Gayletter focuses on queer art, fashion and culture. Straight to Hell was founded in 1971 and features real life sex adventures submitted by anonymous contributors.

Since the 1980s, Linda Simpson has worked as a nightlife personality, writer and game-show host. Her photos of NYC’s drag scene of the 1980s and ‘90s have been featured in books, magazines, exhibits and documentaries, as well as her own touring slideshow.
My Comrade’s importance as a piece of gay history was made apparent in 2021 when it was acquired by Harvard for its Houghton Library, which specializes in literary and performing arts archives.
Read My Comrade: the revolutionary zine that transformed the New York drag scene In DAZED

Nora Burns:David's Friend
2022-06-09 18:00 - 21:00 | Howl! Happening, 6 East 1st Street, New York City, NY, 10003, United States
NYC Premiere of David’s Friend by Nora Burns. Directed by Adrienne Truscott, featuring Billy Hough, and Filmed by David Ebersole and Todd Hughes.
Performance by Kevin Aviance to follow the screening.
A feisty and funny one-woman show…..her odyssey will bring alive the period and its pleasures (and poisons) with pungent animation… —Charles Isherwood, New York Times
Howl! Happening is pleased to present the hometown premiere screening of Nora Burns’ David’s Friend, The story of a crazy friendship in 1980s New York City—a restless city during a reckless time, the film began as a solo show by Burns that opened at La MaMa in 2017 and toured for the next 3 years. It is a comic odyssey about cruising, disco, drag queens, strippers, sex, love, loss, and AIDS, told with music, videos, costumes, characters, tall tales and torrid truths.
Filmed In March 2020 at Casita del Campo in Los Angeles, it played at a few film festivals, which were mostly virtual, and due to the pandemic, it never got to have its hometown premier.
Burns is a founding member of the comedy groups Unitard and the Nellie Olesons. She has performed across the country in various venues including PS122, La MaMa, and Joe’s Pub in New York City, Highways, Cavern Club and The HBO Workspace in Los Angeles and appeared in the comedy festivals Just for Laughs in Montreal and We’re Funny That Way in Toronto, and at the Aspen Comedy Festival (now HBO Comedy Festival). Her first solo show, “Honey, I’m Home,” premiered at Dixon Place in NYC, and toured to Los Angeles, Provincetown and Hudson, NY.
Since 2014 Nora has curated and hosted a series called New York Stories at the historic Stonewall Inn where celebrated New Yorkers like Michael Musto, Anthony Haden-Guest and Brenda Bergman tell entertaining and sordid stories about their lives in the city of yore.
Her show “David’s Friend,” opened at La MaMa in January 2017 after premiering at Dixon Place and the Provincetown Afterglow festival and touring Los Angeles, Toronto and Seattle.
In addition to stage work, Nora has appeared in the films “Broken Hearts,” “Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist,” “Club,” “Boys Life 3” and the documentary “Florent: Queen of the Meat Market.” Her TV appearances include Logo’s “Wisecrack” comedy show and “The Sandra Bernhard Experience.” noraburns.net
Photo by Christopher Makos

Linda SimpsonMy Comrade Magazine: Happy 35th Gay Anniversary
2022-06-04 - 2022-07-17 | Howl! Happening, 6 East 1st Street, New York City, NY, 10003, United States
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Linda Simpson: My Comrade Magazine: Happy 35th Gay Anniversary

Howl Happening presents a special exhibition celebrating Linda Simpson’s photographs and her groundbreaking magazine, My Comrade. Included are never-before-seen images and artifacts documenting a revolutionary and seminal period in gay history. In conjunction with the exhibit, a brand-new issue of My Comrade will be published, the first in 16 years.
My Comrade magazine was founded by drag queen Linda Simpson in 1987 during the dark era of the AIDS crisis and served as a symbol of hope and frivolity to the East Village gay scene and beyond. Armed with a tongue-in-cheek “revolutionary” agenda, the magazine glorified heroic drag queens and sexy guys in a cut-and-paste mishmash of articles and photo spreads. Lesbians got their due when the flip side became Sister! The sporadic publishing schedule produced a total of eleven issues until 1994. It was revived in 2004 for two more.
The exhibit features reproductions and enlargements of My Comrade’s black-and-white pages. Notable contributors to the magazine included photographers Jack Pierson and David Armstrong, painter Stephen Tashjian a.k.a. Tabboo!, and drag stars RuPaul and Lady Bunny. The exhibit also features Simpson’s color photos of the era from her acclaimed 2021 photo book, The Drag Explosion, published by Domain.
The Drag Explosion by drag artist Linda Simpson is a first-hand account of a very creative and vital moment in queer life from the 1980s to the early ’90s, in which activism, nightlife, a D.Y.I. approach to drag, and pre-Giuliani New York culture crash into each other, creating a vibrant chapter in queer history. Mining her collection of snapshots from adventures with fellow drag queens, Club Kids, models, performance artists, and aspiring celebutantes, Simpson creates a wonderful and vivid chronicle of a bright time that has since passed. —Peter Piatkowski, popmatters.com, March 2021
Since the 1980s, Linda has worked as a nightlife personality, writer and game-show host. Her photos of NYC’s drag scene of the 1980s and ‘90s have been featured in books, magazines, exhibits and documentaries, as well as her own touring slideshow.
My Comrade’s importance as a piece of gay history was made apparent in 2021 when it was acquired by Harvard for its Houghton Library, which specializes in literary and performing arts archives.
Read My Comrade: the revolutionary zine that transformed the New York drag scene In DAZED
Image: Linda Simpson, Hapi Phace with George and Adam, Color Photograph, 1988.

Alan Moore: A World in Which
2022-05-28 19:00 - 21:00 | Howl! Happening, 6 East 1st Street, New York City, NY, 10003, United States
Book Signing and Panel Discussion
A World in Which—an allusion to the Zapatista slogan, “A world in which many worlds fit.” (Un mundo donde quepan muchos mundos.)
Howl! Happening is pleased to present an evening celebrating the release of Alan Moore’s Art Worker: Doing Time in the NY Artworld, a memoir that casts a raking light on a classic period in cultural history—the 70s and 80s in downtown Manhattan. Confirmed participants in the panel discussion: Marc H. Miller, Yasmin Ramirez, Leonard Abrams, Alan W. Moore, Stephen Zacks. Published this year by Journal of Aesthetics & Protest Press, books will be on sale at the event.
The New York City artworld of the late 20th century seems far more fluid and changeable, with many more positions for its different actors to inhabit than the artworld of today. The market rules in all spheres of image-making, enforced by super-high valuations of traditional artwork, and global social media and streaming platforms.
From art critic and video artist to radical organizer and academic, Moore played multiple roles in a seething scene of art galleries, nightclubs, and small publications. Written in an accessible style, Art Worker is in three parts, with characters, anecdotes, footnotes, and an extensive bibliography. It’s a book by a scholar written for a general audience.
About the Participants
Alan W. Moore worked as a critic, artist, and organizer in NYC for 30 years. He worked with the artists’ group Colab, and co-directed ABC No Rio and the MWF Video Club. He took a PhD in Art History from CUNY in 2000, and published Art Gangs in 2011. He has recently studied squatting in Europe; he published the zine House Magic (2009-16), co-edited Making Room: Cultural Production in Occupied Spaces and wrote Occupation Culture (both 2015). He lives in Madrid, and blogs at “Occupations & Properties” and “Art Gangs”. His book Art Worker launches this month.
Marc H Miller arrived in New York from California in 1968 and lived at 98 Bowery, NYC from 1969 to 1989 with extended stays in Washington DC and Amsterdam, Holland. Miller is an artist, curator, writer, publisher, and educator. His multi-faceted career is unified by an interest in pictorial images and their inherent ability to tell stories. He holds a Ph.D. in art history from New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts (1979). He runs the website 98bowery.com.
Yasmin Ramirez is an art worker, curator, and writer. She holds a Ph.D. in Art History from the Graduate Center, CUNY. Born in Brooklyn, Ramirez was active in the downtown art scene of the early 1980s as a club kid and art critic for the East Village Eye. She has curated exhibitions on the Young Lords, Martin Wong, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and the Nuyorican art movement, and collaborated on curatorial projects with the Bronx Museum, El Museo Del Barrio, the Loisaida Center, the New Museum, the Studio Museum in Harlem, Franklin Furnace, and Taller Boricua.
Leonard Abrams is a writer, editor, and filmmaker. He was editor and publisher of the East Village Eye monthly newsmagazine, in circulation from May 1979 until January 1987. From 1987-89 he co-produced the underground clubs Milky Way and Hotel Amazon, venues that mixed early hip hop with reggae, funk, soul and house music. In 2007 he made the documentary film “Quilombo Country,” about contemporary Brazilian communities founded by escaped slaves. He presented the East Village Eye Show at Howl Happening in 2016.
Stephen Zacks is an advocacy journalist, architecture writer, urbanist, and project organizer based in New York City. He publishes regularly in Abitare, L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui, Architect’s Newspaper, Architectural Record, Art in America, Dwell, Landscape Architecture, Oculus, and Metropolis. He was director of the Flint Public Art Project, co-founder of the Bring to Light–Nuit Blanche festival, and past co-director of Collective Unconscious performance space. He wrote Situationist Funhouse on the work of artist G.H. Hovagimyan which launches this month.
Photo: Alan Moore in 1975 by Marc Miller.

Christy Rupp in Conversation with Carlo McCormick
2022-05-21 15:00 - 17:00 | Howl! Happening, 6 East 1st Street, New York City, NY, 10003, United States
Artist Talk and Book Signing
An informal conversation with cultural critic and curator Carlo McCormick and artist Christy Rupp growing from the exhibition Othered, currently at Howl! Happening through May 29, and also celebrating the recent publication of Rupp’s monograph, Noisy Autumn, published by Insight Editions. The book’s title pays homage to Rachael Carson’s groundbreaking book Silent Spring upon its 60th anniversary. Six decades after the publication of Silent Spring, chemical companies still maintain a website venting their anger at the journalist who would point out that 90% of all insects are beneficial. Special guest Bob Holman will join Rupp and McCormick, reading new poems inspired by the events in Ukraine and Buffalo, New York.
In the exhibition Othered, Rupp investigates topics including resource extraction and water pollution through the lens of Discard Studies, a discipline that examines the wider role of society and culture, social norms, and power on the waste stream. Embodying irony and resilience, her sculpture of fish, mammals, and micro-organisms made from single use plastic and bits of industrial debris expresses the voices of invisible microbes and species caught in the crosshairs. Rupp has long explored how we form our opinions of nature and the role of art in helping us understand climate chaos.
Using wall-scale collage, “she juxtaposes scenes of nature and industrial development with biological specimens and nature-based patterns that are stylized, tamed and made decorative for human consumption,” says art critic Eleanor Heartney in a recent catalog.

About Christy Rupp
Christy Rupp is an American eco-artist and citizen scientist. Born in the Rust Belt of Upstate New York, she was too young for Elvis and too old for Barbie. For the past five decades, Rupp has continued the search for clues that might explain how we have arrived at the edge of the Extractocene, a world permanently altered by the presence of Homo sapiens.
Rupp was part of the artist collective Collaborative Projects (Colab)—organizer of the historic Times Square Show—as well as ABC No Rio and other East Village-era artist groups.
She has received grants from Anonymous was a Woman Foundation, Joan Mitchell Foundation CALL Award, National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, and Art Matters Inc. Her work has been recently shown at the Schunck Museum in Heerlen, Netherlands; Museum of Arts and Design, New York; Zimmerli Art Museum; and ABC No Rio in Exile.She has just launched a career survey, Noisy Autumn: Sculpture and Works on Paper, published by Insight Editions.
About Carlo McCormick
Carlo McCormick is an American culture critic and curator living in New York City. He is the author of numerous books, monographs, and catalogs on contemporary art and artists.

The Full Moon Show with John Pizza:John Pimplepopper
2022-05-17 | NY
Visit Howlarts.org on Tuesday, May 17, 2022 from 12 AM to 11:59 PM. to watch the Full Moon Show!
“I try to remain zen, keep it smooth, go with the flow, but under my skin festers an agent of chaos. I wanna be chill but there’s a fidgety ingrown hair that calls me to act out. I gotta pick it. It’s the polite thing to do.”

Join John Pizza for his newest Full Moon show called John Pimplepopper, a poetic personification of the impacted side of the soul, and our nagging desire to squeeze it out.

John Pizza is a performer, builder, and drawer. He uses trash and thrift-store detritus scrounged in his Brooklyn neighborhood to tell stories and make his shows. He loves the macabre and the mushy sweet. His sculptures are performative, and his performances involve sculptures—an object theatre of weird surprises.
About Tom Murrin and the Full Moon Show
Performance is anything done with purpose and style. —Tom Murrin
Howl! Happening is home to the archive of Tom Murrin, aka the Alien Comic and the Godfather of Performance Art. Every full moon—without fail, paid booking or not, in all seasons and whatever the weather—he performed his Luna Macaroona Full Moon Show. When he had a club date that fell on the full moon, he’d wrangle his friends to perform as guests—pushing the careers of such groundbreaking performers as David Cale, David Sedaris, Amy Sedaris, Blue Man Group, Ethyl Eichelberger, Lisa Kron, and many others. When he didn’t have a club date, he performed on the street for passersby, transforming the pedestrian atmosphere with his madness and magic.

LiVE MAG! No. 18 A Journal of Art and PoetryThe EDGY ISSUE
2022-05-13 19:00 - 21:00 | Howl! Happening, 6 East 1st Street, New York City, NY, 10003, United States
HOWL! HAPPENING PRESENTS Another in the long line of fabulous celebrations of LIVE MAG! and its contributors Join us for a night of Howling Fun as we celebrate the 18th issue of the edgiest magazine East of the Pecos. With Legends and Downtown royalty: Andrei Codrescu of NPR notoriety, Bowery Poetry Club’s Bob Holman, and radical deconstructionist photographer and Howl! artist Gail Thacker. Plus award-winning translator and poet brilliante, Mr. Smoothie, Vincent Katz! Paragon of Gen Noo; Elizabeth Guthrie; and the poetic pile-driver, Ama Birch. Photo kaliedoplosions by photographer and filmmaker Luigi Cazzaniga. With Live Mag! Deputy Editor, Ilka Scobie, LIVE’s token socialite. Hosted by Jeffrey Cyphers Wright, aka Uncle Fun, joined by Contributing Editor and Designer Lori Ortiz.
With
Ama Birch
Luigi Cazzaniga
Andrei Codrescu
Elizabeth Guthrie
Vincent Katz
Bob Holman
Gail Thacker

Hosted by
Jeffrey Cyphers Wright,
Editor and Publisher
Ilka Scobie, Deputy Editor
Lori Ortiz, Designer and Contributing Editor
www.livemag.org

Margaret RandallReading and Book Signing
2022-05-13 18:00 - 19:00 | Howl! Happening, 6 East 1st Street, New York City, NY, 10003, United States
Howl! Happening is pleased to present Margaret Randall, a longtime friend of the gallery and revered feminist poet, essayist, translator, photographer, and social activist. Coming from her home in Albuquerque to New York, we are excited to host her in celebration of her two new books–Artists in My Life and Risking a Somersault in the Air, both published by New Village Press.
Artists in My Life is a collection of intimate and conversational accounts of the visual artists that have impacted the renowned poet activist Margaret Randall on her own journey as an artist. Randall writes of each relationship through multiple lenses: as makers of art, social commentators, women in a world dominated by male values, and in solitude or collaboration with communities and the larger artistic arena. Each story offers insight into the artist’s life and work and analyses the impact it had on Randall’s own work and its impact on the larger art community. The work strives to answer bigger questions about visual art as a whole and its lasting political influence on the world stage.
Among those playing major roles in the 1979 Nicaraguan revolution were many of the nation’s leading poets and writers. First published in 1983, Risking a Somersault in the Air is a collection of interviews with fourteen of Nicaragua’s most important writers/revolutionaries. Filling in the gaps with new photographs and updates on the writers in the time since the original edition, the book looks at the sacrifices, conflicts, and solutions of the creative artists of Nicaragua’s revolution.
About Margaret Randall
Margaret Randall is a feminist poet, essayist, translator, photographer, and social activist. A New York native, she lived among the city’s abstract expressionists in the 1950s, Mexico in the ‘60s, Cuba in the ‘70s, and Nicaragua in the ‘80s. She returned to the US in 1984 only to fight deportation due to the controversial content of her books. She is the founder and former editor of the bilingual literary journal El Corno Emplumado / The Plumed Horn, which started an iconic bridge between cultures in the 1960s. She has more than 150 published books in several genres.

Kerouac Festival
2022-04-30 19:00 - 21:00 | Howl! Happening, 6 East 1st Street, New York City, NY, 10003, United States
6th New York Edition
Poetry | Music | Performance
Poetry mixes with music in this meeting of poetic voices from both sides of the Atlantic. A cultural synergy that works as a communicating vessel between cities and that takes musicians and poets from one continent to another, with artistic collaborations that enrich the poetic language and its expansion towards the stage, either as a play, classical reading or in concert. of pop and hip-hop.
POETS FROM SPAIN MEET POETS FROM NEW YORK
Anne Waldman
Fátima Delgado
Malvares
Lupita Hard
Marcos de la Fuente

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A Wolf Inside:Natives, Nuyoricans, and the Beats
2022-04-29 19:00 | Howl! Happening, 6 East 1st Street, New York City, NY, 10003, United States
A film by Sandra Hale Schulman and Damian Rojo
Howl! Happening is pleased to present the world premiere screening of A Wolf Inside: Natives, Nuyoricans, and the Beats, a documentary film by Sandra Hale Schulman and Damian Rojo featuring the Native American poet Diane Burns, Joy Harjo, Allen Ginsberg, Bob Holman, Pedro Pietri. A panel discussion with poets Bob Holman of Bowery Poetry and Chavisa Woods, executive director of A Gathering of the Tribes follows the screening.
In the mid-1980s, Native poet Diane Burns, whose searing words cut through the noise of the Santa Fe reservations and New York City’s Lower East Side, took a once in a lifetime trip to Nicaragua with the Father of the Beats, Allen Ginsberg.
Organized by Bob Holman of the Bowery Poetry, a group of indigenous poets joined them, including future Poet Laureate of the U.S. Joy Harjo, and Nuyorican Poets Café member Pedro Pietri.
Deep in the heart of the jungle, it was a rollicking event filled with love, poetry, revolution, and the search for identity in a time of radical changes in the Americas.
With narration by award-winning musician and Navajo activist Jeneda Benally, interviews and performances from Diane Burns, Allen Ginsberg, Bob Holman, and Joy Harjo; and never before seen archival photos from Joy Harjo, Ilka Hartmann and Patrick Warner.
Burns (Chemehuevi and Anishinabe) is currently featured in Greater New York at MoMA PS1. “A 1989 video of poet Diane Burns reciting a punk poem on the Lower East Side crackles with humor around Indigenous politics, gentrification and displacement” says Marth Schwendener in her New York Times review of the show. Stills from the film debuted in the exhibit.
A Gathering of the Tribes, the poetry salon Burns was an original member of, is currently featured in the Whitney Biennial “Quiet as its Kept.”
As understanding of Native Americans in the arts deepens, and the legacy of the Beat Poets is celebrated, this archival documentary tells the story of what happened when those cultures clashed and sparked a revolution with poetry at its center.

About Sandra Hale Schulman and Damian Rojo
Sandra Hale Schulman is an author of four books, has contributed to shows at the Museum of Modern Art, Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, The Grammy Museum, The Queens Museum, and has produced four films on Native musicians. Her work has appeared in Billboard, Variety, Rolling Stone, The New York Daily News, and Entertainment Weekly. She appears regularly on PBS Indian Country Today Newscast.
Damian Rojo is an art director, set designer, production designer, filmmaker, artist and sound designer. He debuted a film on Tomata du Plenty at Howl in 2017. He was art director for MTV U.S. and Latino, stage sets and ad campaigns for personalities Grace Jones, David Byrne, and Calvin Klein. He has created videos for Coca Cola, US / Brazil, Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, The de la Cruz Collection, the Lowe Art Museum, Miami, Digital Images Visual Arts, Experimental Works, Taipei, Taiwan.

Key Image: Pedro Pietri, Bob Holman, Allen Ginsberg, Diane Burns, Joy Harjo, Carlos Rigby. Photo by Ilka Hartmann

HA/HA PRESENTS Female Genius Live
2022-04-23 15:00 | HA/HA, 250 Bowery, 2nd Floor, New York, NY, 10012, United States
Howl Arts/Howl Archive is delighted to present a live performance by Female Genius, the trio of multi-instrumentalists Julie Hair, Marnie Jaffe, and Nikki D’Agostino in concert. The performance will include pieces from their recent vinyl released on Howl! Records, as well as new material. They will be joined by surprise guests in their orbit.
The band’s collective, intuitive spirit is expressed in this artistic statement:
We, as Female Genius, work outside of the typical, striving to create connections through chance, habit, and the subconscious. Our work is structured yet amorphous, flippant yet potent, disquieting but nourishing.
Our “musicality” is not the connective tissue that keeps us together as a music making collective. Rather, we draw on friendship, respect, and shared history to express and understand our place in this world.
Performance art and indeterminacy find a place here. The chance element of this event will affect us as well as the audience. We will become an audience to ourselves.
About Julie Hair

In an artistic practice spanning decades, Julie Hair explores personal and political issues such mental illness, addiction and the military industrial complex through varied materials and mediums ranging from screen printed wallpaper to metal work and video. In her first year in New York she created an installation for the pivotal Times Square Show, followed by a guerrilla installation with David Wojnarowicz that included bloody cow bones in the stairwell of the Leo Castelli gallery. She also worked with Lucy Lippard and others to create P.A.D.D – the pre-digital Political Art Documentation and Distribution archive for political art.
Julie began experimenting with music in the 1980s with the art rock band 3 TEENS KILL 4 and decided that this form of expression would work for her, having the added benefit of not filling up her tiny East Village apartment. She continued to create and play music with diverse outfits like anarcho-post-punk marching band, The Hungry March Band and Glen Branca. She currently plays with and writes for Isolation Society and Female Genius and others and makes art for art’s sake, as well as videos, props and merch for her projects.
About Marnie Jaffe

Marnie Jaffe (nee Greenholz) has been involved in the New York City and Brooklyn art community since 1978, when she moved to attend graduate film school at NYU. She collaborated with dancers and musicians designing multi-projector slide installations at clubs and art venues including the Kitchen, The Collective for Living Cinema, Danceteria, The Pyramid Club and Limelight. From 1980 until 1988 she played bass and sang with the alternative (noise) band Live Skull. She co-wrote songs for the band and released albums on the labels Homestead and Caroline Records.
In 1993 she moved to Cincinnati and had her daughter Noa. She also became the founding member/bass player of The Fairmount Girls and put out the record Seven seconds from anywhere, as well as winning best local band for 2 years in a row from the Cincinnati Enquirer.
She received her MFA in Performance and Interdisciplinary Media in the Arts (PIMA) from Brooklyn College in 2017 and along with artist/musician Julie Hair, she started the art rock band Female Genius. She currently continues to work as a teaching artist and is recognized as a creative force.
About Nikki D’Agostino

Nikki D’Agostino is an award-winning “wildly creative” composer, musician, conductor, educator, and multi-disciplinary artist, Nikki D’Agostino has both performed and had her works performed nationally and internationally. She received her B.A. from The University of North Texas in 2004 after studying with Joseph Klein, Phil Winsor, and Joseph “Butch” Rovan, before pursuing her M.M. in Music Composition (2008) at CUNY Brooklyn College to study with Amnon Wolman and George Brunner.
As an educator, Ms. D’Agostino has given lectures on topics ranging from musicology to performance practice as well as holding a position as an Adjunct Professor at CUNY New York City College of Technology in the Emerging Media program. Compositionally, Nikki is currently focused on publishing a book of scores and recording an album of works using a notation system she developed to allow both performer and composer/conductor creative control. As a “beautifully brash” saxophonist, synthesizer enthusiast, and sound artist, Nikki performs actively in the NYC music scene in several groups ranging in style from indie pop to harsh noise.

Christy Rupp Othered
2022-04-21 - 2022-05-29 | Howl! Happening, 6 East 1st Street, New York City, NY, 10003, United States
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Christy Rupp: Othered

We live as part of an amazing organism that has the capacity to regenerate, given a chance. We also live in the waste stream. Garbage is a combat zone where our desire for comfort and function meets the limits of our nest. —Christy Rupp
Plastic—as both form and content—has figured prominently in her art… It serves as a perfect signifier for the conceptual underpinnings of her work, its pointed critique, and subversive humor. —Nina Felshin, Noisy Autumn: Sculpture and Works on Paper, 2021
Howl! Happening is pleased to present Othered, a new installation integrating images and objects by artist, activist, and thought-leader Christy Rupp. The conceptual underpinnings of her long career have consistently called attention to our interconnectedness with non-humans and habitat—transmuting urban detritus through collage, sculpture, public art, and activism to reveal what is hidden away from common view and understanding. A monograph on Rupp’s work, Noisy Autumn: Sculpture and Works on Paper, with essays by Lucy Lippard, Nina Felshin, Amy Lipton, and Carlo McCormick, and poetry by Bob Holman, was published in 2021 by Insight Editions.
As artists rummaged through the remnants of a crumbling city in the mid 1970s, Rupp developed an interest in urban ecology, noting that the city is an ecosystem with a delicate balance. Transforming that discovery, she created work at the intersection of performance and site, joining a stream of artists breaching the boundaries of the gallery system’s white box.
Subversive and prescient, her early intervention into the landscape during New York City’s garbage strike of 1979—when swarms of rats became the symbol of urban decay—“was a seminal episode in the emergence of street art and a paradigm of what urban art can tell us,” says writer Carlo McCormick. “But as much as the deluge of rubbish and rat attack may have constituted the kind of sensationalist scandal this town has always trafficked in, this was very much Rupp’s point—that rats, like the humans whose filth they have long thrived in, are denizens of the city, neither good nor evil, they simply are.” Her work is less concerned with representation of animals than with the framing of our attitudes toward habitat, and how we construct our opinions of nature.
In Othered, Rupp investigates topics including climate chaos, the industrialization of our food supply, and water pollution through the lens of Discard Studies, a discipline that examines the wider role of society and culture, social norms, and power on the waste stream. Her sculptures of birds, fish, mammals, and microorganisms made from plastic, commercial packaging, credit cards, and bits of industrial debris manifest the voices of invisible microbes and species long displaced. Using wall-scale collage, “she juxtaposes scenes of nature and industrial development with biological specimens and nature-based patterns that are stylized, tamed, and made decorative for human consumption,” says art critic Eleanor Heartney in a recent catalog.
Long before the climate crisis confronting us all was headline news, her work was “galvanized by climate chaos and other ecological nightmares,” says critic Lucy Lippard, “and she pioneered a down-to-earth urban eco art at a time when ecology was understood as politically peripheral and nostalgically wilderness-oriented.”
For Rupp, the materiality of the work—plastic debris and other recycled examples of our rampant consumerism—is “both the medium and the message,” and the subject of her practice points to issues that are current here and now. It is through the artist’s imagination that these timely topics come to life. As independent curator Amy Lipton says in Noisy Autumn, “Few can match the wit, irreverence and impeccable skills of Christy Rupp. Play between the poetic and the real requires a hard-sought balance that Rupp strives for and understands as necessary for taking on some of the most challenging issues of our time.”
About Christy Rupp
Christy Rupp is an American eco-artist and citizen scientist. Born in the Rust Belt of Upstate New York, she was too young for Elvis and too old for Barbie. For the past five decades Rupp has continued the search for clues that might explain how we have arrived at the edge of the Extractocene, a world permanently altered by the presence of Homo sapiens.
Rupp was part of the artist collective Collaborative Projects (Colab)—organizer of the historic Times Square Show—as well as ABC No Rio and other East Village-era artist groups.
She has received grants from Anonymous was a Woman Foundation, Joan Mitchell Foundation CALL Award, National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, and Art Matters Inc. Her work has been recently shown at the Schunck Museum in Heerlen, Netherlands; Museum of Arts and Design, New York; Zimmerli Art Museum; and ABC No Rio in Exile.She has just launched a career survey, Noisy Autumn: Sculpture and Works on Paper, published by Insight Editions.

Bobby Grossman: Low Fidelity
2022-04-16 - 2022-05-29 | HA/HA, 250 Bowery, 2nd Floor, New York, NY, 10012, United States
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Bobby Grossman: Low Fidelity

Bobby Grossman had the foresight to bring his camera to CBGB and to start shooting photos that chronicle those intense and important early days. —Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth
Howl! Arts/Howl! Archive (HA/HA) is pleased to present Low Fidelity, a selection of photographs by Bobby Grossman that documents and sheds new light on icons of New York’s punk-rock scene and the culture that bred other trailblazing artists and musicians of the 70s, 80s, and 90s.
Grossman arrived in New York in 1976 after receiving a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), where he studied alongside friends Chris Frantz and David Byrne of Talking Heads. His first job was assisting Richard Bernstein, the artist responsible for the covers of Andy Warhol’s Interview magazine. At Bernstein’s studio in the legendary Chelsea Hotel, Grossman found himself at ground zero in the early days of punk and the downtown scene.
Taking photographs of friends and newfound acquaintances—including Jean-Michel Basquiat, Debbie Harry, the Ramones, David Bowie, Iggy Pop, and the milieu around Andy Warhol’s Factory—Grossman became a regular fixture at CBGB, the Mudd Club, and other downtown haunts.
Grossman also served as the official photographer for Glenn O’Brien’s TV Party, the seminal weekly public-access television show that David Letterman once described as “…the greatest TV show anywhere, ever!” TV Party ran from 1978–1982 and captured the countless artists and innovators on the scene including Blondie, George Clinton, Basquiat, “Fab 5 Freddy” Brathwaite, and Klaus Nomi.
Bobby was one of the first serious photographers to capture me in action back then, and each image brings back valuable memories of a time when we did successfully change and subvert the direction of pop culture. —“Fab 5 Freddy” Brathwaite
Grossman’s work was included in the groundbreaking 1981 exhibition, New York/New Wave, at P.S.1 alongside more than a hundred artists including Kenny Scharf, Robert Mapplethorpe, Keith Haring, Brian Eno, and Nan Goldin. Grossman’s work has appeared in numerous publications and documentaries, though the majority of his archive has remained unseen until now.
The exhibition includes photos of Andy Warhol, Talking Heads, Blondie, the Ramones, Lou Reed, David Bowie, The B-52’s, Iggy Pop, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Diego Cortez, Cookie Mueller, John Waters, Jackie Curtis, Anya Phillips, Lester Bangs, Nile Rogers, Robert Fripp, Anya Phillips, Richard Hell, Grace Jones, Glenn O’Brien, William Burroughs, and countless other cultural icons from the period.
Bobby, above all an empathetic person, has the ability to contribute to his subject’s freedom in front of the lens. —Debbie Harry
The exhibition also marks the start of a Kickstarter campaign to publish Low Fidelity, a book that captures personal, firsthand accounts by personalities including Debbie Harry, Chris Stein, Clem Burke, “Fab 5 Freddy” Brathwaite, Richard Boch, Walter Steding, Sylvia Reed, Godlis, Vincent Fremont, Duncan Hannah, Victor Bockris, Tina Weymouth, Chris Frantz, Lisa Jane Persky, Robert Fripp, Lenny Kaye, Amos Poe, Suzanne Mallouk, Meg Griffin, Jamie Nares, Max Blagg, Kate Simon, Ed Stasium, Robyn Geddes, Guy Furrow, Julia Gorton, Hal and Randy Ludacer, Claudia Summers, Chocomoo, and Punk magazine publisher John Holmstrom. With a preface by Lisa Jane Persky, introduction by Glenn O’Brien, and afterword by Richard Boch.

ABOUT BOBBY GROSSMAN
Bobby Grossman is an artist and photographer. He was born in Manhattan, grew up in Westchester, New York, and earned his BFA at the Rhode Island School of Design. Grossman moved to New York City in 1976, taking up residency at the Hotel Chelsea. Working as a freelancer by day, he found his way to Warhol’s Factory on Union Square, where he was regarded as an insider. During that same period, he became a regular presence while documenting the scene at CBGB and eventually the Mudd Club. Grossman’s reputation as a contributing photographer to both major publications and underground journals was soon well established. His work has appeared in numerous exhibitions, catalogs, and films. His first photo credit was the cover shot for Talking Heads’ 1977 single “Psycho Killer”.
Group exhibitions include the legendary 1980 Times Square Show and the 1981 New York/New Wave at P.S.1. Bande a part, The Cool and the Crazy, and the 2013 show Just Chaos! Images of Early Punk Style at Bookmarc continued to place his work in the public eye. Grossman’s photographs have been shown in museums and galleries worldwide, including solo exhibitions in New York, Boca Raton, Sarasota, and the 2016 Low Fidelity show in Providence, Rhode Island. His earliest contributions to film include The Radiant Child, about Jean-Michel Basquiat; the William Burroughs documentary A Man Within; and the No-Wave documentary Blank City. Grossman was the official photographer for Glenn O’Brien’s public-access TV Party and made a cameo in the film Downtown 81. His work is included in the documentary Fifteen Minutes Eternal, celebrating the Andy Warhol Museum’s 20th anniversary; the 2017 award-winning documentary Basquiat: Rage to Riches; and filmmaker Sara Driver’s 2018 release, Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat. Grossman collaborated with Richard Prince on the book Cowboy, Shepard Fairey on the documentary Obey Giant, Debbie Harry on her fashion collection with Obey, and Junya Watanabe for Comme des Garçons. The iconic portrait of Harry shown at Deitch Projects in 2010, along with the 2017 Blondie wall mural at Bleecker Street and Bowery, are additional Fairey collaborations. Other photographic contributions include multiple images for Glenn O’Brien’s 2017 book Intelligence for Dummies: Essays and Other Writings, a 2018 episode of Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown, and Debbie Harry’s 2019 memoir Face It.

The Full Moon Show with John PizzaYou Can't Grow Down
2022-04-16 | NY
Visit Howlarts.org on Saturday, April 16, 2022, from 12 AM to 11:59 PM to watch the Full Moon Show!
The Full Moon Show: A Tom Murrin/Alien Comic Invention Presents John Pizza’s You Can’t Grow Down
I recently had a big birthday. One of those nice round number ones, the kind that officially takes you squarely from one decade and tosses you up a bracket to the next age tier. You’ve experienced it. If not you will. Sure as the full moon and the bones in your body, you will.
Join John Pizza for You Cant Grow Down, a reflection on the universal experience of growing up, inwards, diagonalwise, and all around.
John Pizza is a performer, builder, and drawer. He uses trash and thrift-store detritus scrounged in his Brooklyn neighborhood to tell stories and make his shows. He loves the macabre and the mushy sweet. His sculptures are performative, and his performances involve sculptures—an object theatre of weird surprises.

About Tom Murrin and the Full Moon Show
Performance is anything done with purpose and style—Tom Murrin
Howl! Happening is home to the archive of Tom Murrin, aka the Alien Comic and the Godfather of Performance Art. Every full moon—without fail, paid booking or not, in all seasons and whatever the weather—he performed his Luna Macaroona Full Moon Show. When he had a club date that fell on the full moon, he’d wrangle his friends to perform as guests—pushing the careers of such groundbreaking performers as David Cale, David Sedaris, Amy Sedaris, Blue Man Group, Ethyl Eichelberger, Lisa Kron, and many others. When he didn’t have a club date, he performed on the street for passersby, transforming the pedestrian atmosphere with his madness and magic.

The Full Moon Show with John PizzaHead Dread
2022-03-18 | NY
Visit Howlarts.org on Friday, March 18, 2022, from 12 AM to 11:59 PM to watch the Full Moon Show!
The Full Moon Show: A Tom Murrin/Alien Comic Invention Presents John Pizza’s Head Dread
I haven’t cut my hair for the whole pandemic. Well, I’ve shaved my beard and trimmed my ear hair. But my head hair, I just let it grow out. Down my back, all long and crispy, swirling it up like a big nest in a bun. Every day like a shield. Tonight though, I’m getting it cut, whether it’s a good idea or not…
John Pizza is a performer, builder, and drawer. He uses trash and thrift-store detritus scrounged in his Brooklyn neighborhood to tell stories and make his shows. He loves the macabre and the mushy sweet. His sculptures are performative, and his performances involve sculptures—an object theatre of weird surprises.

About Tom Murrin and the Full Moon Show
Performance is anything done with purpose and style—Tom Murrin
Howl! Happening is home to the archive of Tom Murrin, aka the Alien Comic and the Godfather of Performance Art. Every full moon—without fail, paid booking or not, in all seasons and whatever the weather—he performed his Luna Macaroona Full Moon Show. When he had a club date that fell on the full moon, he’d wrangle his friends to perform as guests—pushing the careers of such groundbreaking performers as David Cale, David Sedaris, Amy Sedaris, Blue Man Group, Ethyl Eichelberger, Lisa Kron, and many others. When he didn’t have a club date, he performed on the street for passersby, transforming the pedestrian atmosphere with his madness and magic.

Mark Cooper Unbounded: Angels in the Nursery
2022-02-26 - 2022-04-10 | Howl! Happening, 6 East 1st Street, New York City, NY, 10003, United States
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Mark Cooper Unbounded: Angels in the Nursery

Howl! Happening is pleased to present Mark Cooper’s fantastical and ornate mixed-media installation Unbounded: Angels in the Nursery. The installation uses visual signifiers to suggest multiple subtexts—from the importance of experiencing boundless joy to addressing the many issues that challenge our present and our future.
The wildly diverse elements of this immersive experiential artwork are composed of an equally colorful array of materials that create the gestalt of the installation. The component parts reference the beauty and unpredictability of nature and reflect Cooper’s diverse influences, from art and cultural history to biology, architecture, and cross-cultural exchange.
The biomorphic wooden sculptural forms suggest curio cabinets gone wild. The same shapes and images reappear in the quirky ceramic vessels and figures, and in the paintings and rice-paper relief forms on the wall that incorporate photographic and printed imagery tucked into their many layers. Considering this riot of shapes and colors and materials in relationship to each other, the notion of a singular genius moment is called into question, and the viewer experiences a series of moments and events that form the foundation for bringing new ideas to the conversation and questioning the hierarchy of value.
“I am interested in the conversation between the parts serving as triggers for individual viewer associations rather than presenting a linear narrative,” says Cooper. “My work is based on collaboration and the idea that ‘the whole is greater than the sum of its parts’—using collage, assemblage, and installation as a metaphor for working together in a complex world.”
In creating the individual components in collaboration with others and in collaboration with the materials themselves—responding to how they bend and fold—unexpected outcomes arise in the same way that bringing individuals from different disciplines together can lead to solutions beyond one specific approach.
“It is like an improvisational jazz piece,” says Cate McQuaid, writing in the Boston Globe. The conceptual framework brings individual voices together and references cultures and philosophies that allude to unbounded possibilities, joy, and love. A place of wonder and humanity, the installation is a reminder for all of us to be our best selves and to work together to heal our planet.
Cooper is an internationally recognized artist known for large-scale and site-specific installations and public commissions. His commissions include works for the Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston Medical Center, and Massachusetts Cultural Council; he has received a Gund Grant, Daynard Grant, and an Open Society Fellowship. In July 2020, Cooper completed three permanent large-scale marble sculptures for the Da Nang Fine Arts Museum in Vietnam. In 2006, he authored Making Art Together through Beacon Press.
Cooper’s major exhibitions include shows at the Vietnam National Fine Arts Museum; Vietnam University of Fine Arts; Da Nang Fine Arts Museum; Rough Point Museum—Doris Duke Mansion; Yuandian Art Museum; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City; Lesley University, Cambridge, MA; Street Museum, Seoul, Korea; Whitney Museum at Philip Morris; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; ICA Boston; Corcoran Gallery of Art; The Butler Institute of American Art; Peabody Essex Museum; DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum; City Museum of Paris; and WestLicht Museum, Vienna. The artist has had more than 100 solo and group shows combined.
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Making Personal Mandalas With Ed Woodham
2022-02-25 08:00 - 17:00 | NY

Janie Heath &Friends
2022-02-22 20:00 | NY
Every Tuesday in February on Howlarts.org!
February 1, 8, 15, and 22, 2022 at 8 PM
Expect the spontaneity of a party when Howl Arts gives Janie Heath an open channel to introduce her work and that of some of her fascinating friends. Heath hosts the &Friends series every Tuesday in February. Howl’s signature &Friends programs feature weekly shows curated by one notable creator—with the voices, commentary, music, art, films, and writing of friends they work with and admire.
I wish I could give out refreshments through the screen! Seriously, I think of this event like a party. I know Howl viewers are interesting, unconventional, talented people. It is as if I am saying, ‘You remember this person, and you have wanted to meet this person, and you will just love this person, and wait—look who just flew in from out of town!’
—Janie Heath
Like an old-fashioned TV variety show, Heath will showcase writers, musicians, and others who express their own unique qualities through a diverse but contemporary range of work. “The emphasis is on literature, but anything might happen with this crowd,” she says.
Joining her on the program are friends Rhona Bitner, Tom Cole, Maggie Dubris, Leah Hennessey, Wanda Phipps, Kid Congo Powers, Gregg Shapiro, Philip Shelley, and Dana Wachs.
We ask our &Friends resident artists to respond to the question, “What does collaboration mean to you?” Heath said:
Collaboration to me is a bit of shock at this time in my life. It requires me to gingerly crawl out of my cave—my isolated working life as a writer, which has been all the more isolated due to the pandemic. It’s a beautiful shock, and a gift from the very special team at Howl!, which for years has been like a home away from home to me. I get the precious and exciting chance to receive energy and inspiration from some of my many talented friends, and to have the privilege of sharing them with a new and wider audience. I am so grateful for the people I know. I have always thought myself lucky—I love people, but I also love solitude. I want it all! And I want to share it with my friends in Howl TV land.
Photo by Dorothy Shi.
Janie Heath’s writing has been published in Big Bridge, Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood, Boog City, Brink, and Whiskey Tit Journal. An essay she wrote appears in the liner notes for the box-set G Stands for Go-Betweens Volume 2. She worked as a reporter for her hometown daily newspaper before moving to New York in the mid 1970s to get her BFA in film production at New York University. She worked on movies—a rock ’n’ roll-themed feature and a now-cult slasher—before her love of music led her to live in a London squat until she landed a job with an indie record label. She now lives back in New York, writing fiction and giving public readings.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Rhona Bitner
Rhona Bitner is a native New Yorker. Her work has been widely shown in the United States and internationally. In the U.S., her work is included in the collections of The Art Institute of Chicago; The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers; Bayly Art Museum at the University of Virginia; The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art; University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach; Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College; and Whitney Museum of American Art. Her work has appeared in publications including Artforum, Beaux Arts, The Brooklyn Rail, The New Yorker, The Nation, and Rolling Stone. She was awarded a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant in 2020. She is on the faculty of the School of the International Center of Photography in New York.
Tom Cole
Tom Cole is a writer and artist living in the Lower East Side. His work has been presented at Participant Inc, Le Petit Versailles, Thread Waxing Space, Art on Air, Clocktower Gallery, ICA Boston, Performa, Oni Gallery, and the Boston Center for the Arts. He is a three-time MacDowell Playwriting fellow, and a 2015 Albee Foundation Playwriting fellow. Cole heads the New Play Commissioning Program at True Love Productions, where he has commissioned new work by Heidi Schreck, Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas, Craig Lucas, Nathan Alan Davis, and Sheila Callaghan, among others. He co-curates Experiments and Disorders, a literary series at Dixon Place. He has collaborated extensively with Anohni, most recently appearing in She Who Saw Beautiful Things at The Kitchen.
Maggie Dubris
Maggie Dubris’s latest book, BrokeDown Palace (Subpress), is drawn from her work during the 1980s, 90s, and early 2000s as a 911 paramedic in New York City and the hospital—now closed—she worked for. It is currently being adapted into an opera with the creative team of Dubris, composer Andy Teirstein, and choreographer Donald Byrd. She is also the author of Skels (Soft Skull) and Weep Not, My Wanton (Black Sparrow Press), and is a musician (Homer Erotic, Lulu Revue) and sound artist.
Jon Hammer
Jon Hammer is a painter and writer living in New York City. He also plays rhythm guitar in Susquehanna Industrial Tool & Die Co., arguably East 14th Street’s favorite purveyors of hillbilly boogie.

Leah Hennessey
Leah Hennessey is performer, writer, and filmmaker from the Upper West Side. Most recently, she debuted her film Byron & Shelley: Illuminati Detectives at the Biennale de L’Image en Mouvement in Geneva, a pilot episode for a show which imagines the romantic poets as undercover agents of the Enlightenment in a science-fiction-weird world. The film is a collaboration with her artistic partner Emily Allan, with whom she has performed the critically acclaimed play Slash at MX Gallery and Joe’s Pub, and Star Odyssey at MoMA PS1. Leah is currently working on her debut solo album, a collection of songs written under the influence of possession by Lord Byron.
Robert Leslie
Robert Leslie is an indie-folk artist known for performing on streets across Europe, North Africa, and New York City. His alluring voice, soaring melodies, dense poetic imagery, and freewheeling approach to life have garnered him a large and loyal following. Born in New York City, raised in London and Amsterdam, Robert left home at a young age and spent two years supporting himself as a traveling street performer, ping-ponging with the seasons between northern Europe and Morocco, finally winding up in Brooklyn. Since arriving stateside he’s made himself a well-known figure in both the venues and streets of New York, and has been featured in the New York Daily News, Time Out, Deli Magazine (voted upcoming artist of the month), and various other blogs and publications. He’s toured across three continents and yodeled his heart out to crowds large and small. Robert’s fourth LP, Halfway Home, is due for release in the spring of 2022, and is his first collaboration with industry heavyweights. Until his ship comes in, you’ll find Robert enjoying a desperate, hand-to-mouth existence in Brooklyn.
Wanda Phipps
Wanda Phipps is a writer, translator, and editor. She is the author of seven books, including the full-length collections Field of Wanting: Poems of Desire and Wake-Up Calls: 66 Morning Poems, and the recently released Mind Honey. Her poetry has been translated into Ukrainian, Hungarian, Arabic, Galician, and Bangla. She has received awards from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the National Theater Translation Fund, and others. As a founding member of Yara Arts Group she has collaborated on numerous theatrical productions presented in Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, Siberia, and at La MaMa E.T.C. in New York City. She has curated reading series at the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church and written about the arts for Boog City, Time Out New York, Paper Magazine, and others.
Kid “Congo” Powers
Photo by Luz Gallardo
The legendary Kid Congo Powers, the premier voodoo guitarist for seminal sexy swampy bands like Gun Club, Nick Cave and The Cramps, is a restless aesthete. He used his early solo efforts to explore vocals and mix genres. With DRACULA BOOTS, Kid came back to his roots as a crackerjack guitarist playing the primitive music that inspired him; the raw sounds of garage and early Chicano rock. He has written a soon-to-be-published memoir.
Gregg Shapiro
Gregg Shapiro is the author of eight books, including the forthcoming poetry collection Fear of Muses (Souvenir Spoon Books, 2022). Recent and forthcoming lit-mag publications include Exquisite Pandemic, RFD, Gargoyle, Limp Wrist, Mollyhouse, Impossible Archetype, Red Fern Review, Instant Noodles, Dissonance Magazine, and POETiCA REViEW, as well as the anthologies Moving Images: Poems Inspired by the Movies (Before Your Quiet Eyes Publishing, 2021), This Is What America Looks Like (Washington Writers’ Publishing House, 2021), and Sweeter Voices Still: An LGBTQ Anthology from Middle America (Belt Publishing, 2021). An entertainment journalist whose interviews and reviews run in a variety of regional LGBTQ+ and mainstream publications and websites, Shapiro lives in South Florida with his husband Rick and their dog Coco.
Philip Shelley
Photo by Meagan Maguire.
Philip Shelley is co-editor of Whiskey Tit Journal, an offshoot of the Vermont-based independent press, and his writing has been featured in publications including Pitchfork, Sad Girls Club, and Words & Images, and in the Word Portland anthology Ungatherable Things. He came of age as the guitarist and principal songwriter for influential New York City all-teenage art-pop band Student Teachers (recently the subject of KCRW’s Lost Notes podcast). The first chapter of his upcoming novel, Willett, received the Andre Dubus Award for short fiction.
Dana Wachs
Dana Wachs is a Brooklyn-based composer and audio engineer who performs under the name Vorhees. She studied cello and electric bass from an early age, and joined the D.C. hardcore group Holy Rollers (Dischord Records) when she was 19. Audio engineering would define the following 20 years of her life while working at Greene St. Recording studio in New York, and then touring the world with St. Vincent, Grizzly Bear, and MGMT among many others. Vorhees’ debut EP, Black Horse Pike, was released in 2016 via Styles Upon Styles (Brooklyn). The EP was written, recorded, and produced by Dana Wachs in her Brooklyn home between tours. February 2019 saw the release of her latest work, Tracks for Movement, a compilation of scores for dance and film. Currently, Dana is in pre-production of her first score for a feature film, Confession, directed by Dayna Hanson (whose directorial credits include HBO’s Room 104 season 1, episode 6, “Voyeurs”).
Title Image by Barbara Lewis-Marco

Impromptu Reading by Edgar Oliver
2022-02-17 19:00 - 21:00 | Howl! Happening, 6 East 1st Street, New York City, NY, 10003, United States
Howl Arts is pleased to present a reading of various works selected by renowned poet and playwright Edgar Oliver.
“Edgar is, without doubt, the greatest raconteur in the world,” says George Dawes Green, founder of The Moth.
Edgar Oliver (b. October 31, 1956) is a legend of the Lower East Side and has lived there since 1977. Oliver made his debut in New York City’s Pyramid Club in the mid 1980s and is a mainstay at La MaMa. He has written at least a dozen plays, including The Poetry Killer, The Ghost of Brooklyn, When She Had Blood Lust, The Master of Monstrosity, I Am a Coffin, My Green Hades, and Chop Off Your Ear. Oliver has published two poetry collections, A Portrait of New York by a Wanderer There, Summer, and the novel The Man Who Loved Plants.

Janie Heath &Friends
2022-02-15 20:00 | NY
Every Tuesday in February on Howlarts.org!
February 1, 8, 15, and 22, 2022 at 8 PM
Expect the spontaneity of a party when Howl Arts gives Janie Heath an open channel to introduce her work and that of some of her fascinating friends. Heath hosts the &Friends series every Tuesday in February. Howl’s signature &Friends programs feature weekly shows curated by one notable creator—with the voices, commentary, music, art, films, and writing of friends they work with and admire.
I wish I could give out refreshments through the screen! Seriously, I think of this event like a party. I know Howl viewers are interesting, unconventional, talented people. It is as if I am saying, ‘You remember this person, and you have wanted to meet this person, and you will just love this person, and wait—look who just flew in from out of town!’
—Janie Heath
Like an old-fashioned TV variety show, Heath will showcase writers, musicians, and others who express their own unique qualities through a diverse but contemporary range of work. “The emphasis is on literature, but anything might happen with this crowd,” she says.
Joining her on the program are friends Rhona Bitner, Tom Cole, Maggie Dubris, Leah Hennessey, Wanda Phipps, Kid Congo Powers, Gregg Shapiro, Philip Shelley, and Dana Wachs.
We ask our &Friends resident artists to respond to the question, “What does collaboration mean to you?” Heath said:
Collaboration to me is a bit of shock at this time in my life. It requires me to gingerly crawl out of my cave—my isolated working life as a writer, which has been all the more isolated due to the pandemic. It’s a beautiful shock, and a gift from the very special team at Howl!, which for years has been like a home away from home to me. I get the precious and exciting chance to receive energy and inspiration from some of my many talented friends, and to have the privilege of sharing them with a new and wider audience. I am so grateful for the people I know. I have always thought myself lucky—I love people, but I also love solitude. I want it all! And I want to share it with my friends in Howl TV land.
Photo by Dorothy Shi.
Janie Heath’s writing has been published in Big Bridge, Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood, Boog City, Brink, and Whiskey Tit Journal. An essay she wrote appears in the liner notes for the box-set G Stands for Go-Betweens Volume 2. She worked as a reporter for her hometown daily newspaper before moving to New York in the mid 1970s to get her BFA in film production at New York University. She worked on movies—a rock ’n’ roll-themed feature and a now-cult slasher—before her love of music led her to live in a London squat until she landed a job with an indie record label. She now lives back in New York, writing fiction and giving public readings.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Rhona Bitner
Rhona Bitner is a native New Yorker. Her work has been widely shown in the United States and internationally. In the U.S., her work is included in the collections of The Art Institute of Chicago; The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers; Bayly Art Museum at the University of Virginia; The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art; University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach; Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College; and Whitney Museum of American Art. Her work has appeared in publications including Artforum, Beaux Arts, The Brooklyn Rail, The New Yorker, The Nation, and Rolling Stone. She was awarded a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant in 2020. She is on the faculty of the School of the International Center of Photography in New York.
Tom Cole
Tom Cole is a writer and artist living in the Lower East Side. His work has been presented at Participant Inc, Le Petit Versailles, Thread Waxing Space, Art on Air, Clocktower Gallery, ICA Boston, Performa, Oni Gallery, and the Boston Center for the Arts. He is a three-time MacDowell Playwriting fellow, and a 2015 Albee Foundation Playwriting fellow. Cole heads the New Play Commissioning Program at True Love Productions, where he has commissioned new work by Heidi Schreck, Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas, Craig Lucas, Nathan Alan Davis, and Sheila Callaghan, among others. He co-curates Experiments and Disorders, a literary series at Dixon Place. He has collaborated extensively with Anohni, most recently appearing in She Who Saw Beautiful Things at The Kitchen.
Maggie Dubris
Maggie Dubris’s latest book, BrokeDown Palace (Subpress), is drawn from her work during the 1980s, 90s, and early 2000s as a 911 paramedic in New York City and the hospital—now closed—she worked for. It is currently being adapted into an opera with the creative team of Dubris, composer Andy Teirstein, and choreographer Donald Byrd. She is also the author of Skels (Soft Skull) and Weep Not, My Wanton (Black Sparrow Press), and is a musician (Homer Erotic, Lulu Revue) and sound artist.
Jon Hammer
Jon Hammer is a painter and writer living in New York City. He also plays rhythm guitar in Susquehanna Industrial Tool & Die Co., arguably East 14th Street’s favorite purveyors of hillbilly boogie.

Leah Hennessey
Leah Hennessey is performer, writer, and filmmaker from the Upper West Side. Most recently, she debuted her film Byron & Shelley: Illuminati Detectives at the Biennale de L’Image en Mouvement in Geneva, a pilot episode for a show which imagines the romantic poets as undercover agents of the Enlightenment in a science-fiction-weird world. The film is a collaboration with her artistic partner Emily Allan, with whom she has performed the critically acclaimed play Slash at MX Gallery and Joe’s Pub, and Star Odyssey at MoMA PS1. Leah is currently working on her debut solo album, a collection of songs written under the influence of possession by Lord Byron.
Robert Leslie
Robert Leslie is an indie-folk artist known for performing on streets across Europe, North Africa, and New York City. His alluring voice, soaring melodies, dense poetic imagery, and freewheeling approach to life have garnered him a large and loyal following. Born in New York City, raised in London and Amsterdam, Robert left home at a young age and spent two years supporting himself as a traveling street performer, ping-ponging with the seasons between northern Europe and Morocco, finally winding up in Brooklyn. Since arriving stateside he’s made himself a well-known figure in both the venues and streets of New York, and has been featured in the New York Daily News, Time Out, Deli Magazine (voted upcoming artist of the month), and various other blogs and publications. He’s toured across three continents and yodeled his heart out to crowds large and small. Robert’s fourth LP, Halfway Home, is due for release in the spring of 2022, and is his first collaboration with industry heavyweights. Until his ship comes in, you’ll find Robert enjoying a desperate, hand-to-mouth existence in Brooklyn.
Wanda Phipps
Wanda Phipps is a writer, translator, and editor. She is the author of seven books, including the full-length collections Field of Wanting: Poems of Desire and Wake-Up Calls: 66 Morning Poems, and the recently released Mind Honey. Her poetry has been translated into Ukrainian, Hungarian, Arabic, Galician, and Bangla. She has received awards from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the National Theater Translation Fund, and others. As a founding member of Yara Arts Group she has collaborated on numerous theatrical productions presented in Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, Siberia, and at La MaMa E.T.C. in New York City. She has curated reading series at the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church and written about the arts for Boog City, Time Out New York, Paper Magazine, and others.
Kid “Congo” Powers
Photo by Luz Gallardo
The legendary Kid Congo Powers, the premier voodoo guitarist for seminal sexy swampy bands like Gun Club, Nick Cave and The Cramps, is a restless aesthete. He used his early solo efforts to explore vocals and mix genres. With DRACULA BOOTS, Kid came back to his roots as a crackerjack guitarist playing the primitive music that inspired him; the raw sounds of garage and early Chicano rock. He has written a soon-to-be-published memoir.
Gregg Shapiro
Gregg Shapiro is the author of eight books, including the forthcoming poetry collection Fear of Muses (Souvenir Spoon Books, 2022). Recent and forthcoming lit-mag publications include Exquisite Pandemic, RFD, Gargoyle, Limp Wrist, Mollyhouse, Impossible Archetype, Red Fern Review, Instant Noodles, Dissonance Magazine, and POETiCA REViEW, as well as the anthologies Moving Images: Poems Inspired by the Movies (Before Your Quiet Eyes Publishing, 2021), This Is What America Looks Like (Washington Writers’ Publishing House, 2021), and Sweeter Voices Still: An LGBTQ Anthology from Middle America (Belt Publishing, 2021). An entertainment journalist whose interviews and reviews run in a variety of regional LGBTQ+ and mainstream publications and websites, Shapiro lives in South Florida with his husband Rick and their dog Coco.
Philip Shelley
Photo by Meagan Maguire.
Philip Shelley is co-editor of Whiskey Tit Journal, an offshoot of the Vermont-based independent press, and his writing has been featured in publications including Pitchfork, Sad Girls Club, and Words & Images, and in the Word Portland anthology Ungatherable Things. He came of age as the guitarist and principal songwriter for influential New York City all-teenage art-pop band Student Teachers (recently the subject of KCRW’s Lost Notes podcast). The first chapter of his upcoming novel, Willett, received the Andre Dubus Award for short fiction.
Dana Wachs
Dana Wachs is a Brooklyn-based composer and audio engineer who performs under the name Vorhees. She studied cello and electric bass from an early age, and joined the D.C. hardcore group Holy Rollers (Dischord Records) when she was 19. Audio engineering would define the following 20 years of her life while working at Greene St. Recording studio in New York, and then touring the world with St. Vincent, Grizzly Bear, and MGMT among many others. Vorhees’ debut EP, Black Horse Pike, was released in 2016 via Styles Upon Styles (Brooklyn). The EP was written, recorded, and produced by Dana Wachs in her Brooklyn home between tours. February 2019 saw the release of her latest work, Tracks for Movement, a compilation of scores for dance and film. Currently, Dana is in pre-production of her first score for a feature film, Confession, directed by Dayna Hanson (whose directorial credits include HBO’s Room 104 season 1, episode 6, “Voyeurs”).
Title Image by Barbara Lewis-Marco.
