“The Inside Light” - Artist Bios
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Chris & Jona 
Chris & Tahni
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AC DICKSON
(writer, performer)
Andrew Dickson is a West Coast artist who uses video, PowerPoint, music and audience interaction to create satirical character-based performances.
These days he’s working on a film about a 37-year old neighborhood lemonade salesman, a new performance piece and playing a lot with his new daughter Pearl.
andrewdickson.com
ANNA COHEN
(fashion designer, environmental activist)
Anna is a fashion designer that has built and creative directed her own successful apparel company, founded on the idea of bringing excellent design with sustainability into the forefront of the fashion industry. Her strong passion and commitment to building community has maifested itself hrough volunteer work, mentoring youth, and sharing her vision of sustainable design through public speaking engagements for universities, and industry professionals.
annacohen.com
BLAKELY DADSON
(painter)
Originally from San Jose California, Blakely Dadson is an painter currently living and working in Portland. Blake has recently launched the company Land Of Immigrants LLC, that offers a collection of men’s clothing featuring his illustrations. He is currently working on a series of paintings inspired by meerschaum pipes.
dunnandbrown.com
landofimmigrants.us
E*ROCK
(producer, performer, visual artist)
E*Rock is a multi disciplinary artist and electronic musician who runs the record labels Audio Dregs and Fryk Beat and produces animated music videos with the Wyld File crew.
e–rock.com
HONEY OWENS
(musician)
Honey Owens has been an important figure in the Portland experimental music scene for more than 10 years, collaborating with an array of both oscure and well-known music projects including: World, Nudge, Dark Yoga and Jackie-O Motherfucker. Honey lives and works in Portland, Oregon.
myspace.com/honeyowens
JOBY BARRON
(painter)
Joahnna Barron is a painter with a background in biology and art. She is currently a graduate student at UC Davis. Her paintings can be seen at Quality Pictures Gallery in Portland, Oregon.
thelifeart.com/joby-barron/
JONA BECHTOLT
(YACHT)
Jona Bechtolt is the artist going by the moniker YACHT, Jona’s genre-and-media-spanning life project. YACHT’s heart is the shows: uncluttered, inspiring sessions of damaged dance moves and synchronized crowd-waving, backed by constantly changing elements — PowerPoint presentations, audience Q&A sessions, and shamanistic video environments.
teamyacht.com
M. BLASH
(filmmaker, actor)
M. Blash is an artist/ filmmaker and actor based in Portland Oregon . His 2006 film debut Lying (that he wrote, directed and produced) was an offical selection the Cannes Film Festival and featured actors Chloë Sevigny, Leelee Sobieski, and Jena Malone. He recently acted in Gus Van Sant’s film Paranoid Park, released in 2007.
M.Blash
MADGESDIQ
(emcee, poet)
Madgesdiq is a Portland Oregon raised poet/emcee who, once inspired crowds as a college basketball star at both Georgetown University and the University of Oregon, has since taken love for the spoken word and used it to inspire audiences through his unique blend of Hip Hop, Soul, R & B, Reggae, and Jazz.
I Wanna Be Free Madgesdiq’s third LP and latest release will be available Sept. 30th.
myspace.com/madgesdiq
MARTY SCHNAPF
(visual + performance artist)
Marty Schnapf is an artist currently working in Brussels, Belgium in conjunction with Kaaitheater and Klara Festival on a monumental public performance called The Thief’s Requiem which employs Mozart’s Requiem played by a full orchestra overlooking the skyline of Brussels in concert with the city’s many church bell towers and large illuminated balloon lanterns. Needless to say, Marty doesn’t know how to do small scale.
martyschnapf.com
MATT KWIATKOWSKI +
GENEVIEVE DELLINGER
(djs, promoters, couple)
Matt Kwiatkowski and Genevieve Dellinger make up the DJ duo Linger & Quiet. Through their hosted parties under the name NIGHTCLUBBING they have set the standard from what dance parties in Portland should be. They’ve recently married, solidifying a relationship that can out-party just about any married couple that dares try.
myspace.com/nightclubbingparty
OHMEGA WATTS
(emcee, producer, dj, designer)
Emcee and producer Milton Campbell aka Ohmega Watts is part of a bustling Northwest independent hip hop scene including Lifesavas, Boom Bap, Soul Plasma, Libretto, and Lightheaded. He is also resident DJ with THE FIX and an accomplished graphic designer, having produced the cover to his latest album, The Find as well as work for Pigeon John, Adidas, Lightheaded, and Ubiquity Clothing.
myspace.com/ohmegawatts
SEAMUS HEFFERNEN
(illustrator, writer, designer)
Seamus Heffernen is an illustrator, graphic novelist, and designer working in Portland. His work combines the fantastic with the extraordinary as he imagines the possibilities of evolution in alternate universes or the human struggles between heaven and hell. He is currently one of the creative minds at CincoDesignOffice in addition to writing and illustrating an epic graphic novel about the American Revolution, to be finished sometime in the next 10 years.
seaheff.com
TAHNI HOLT
(dancer, choreographer, performance artist)
Tahni is a performer and choreographer who’s work is created with collaborators and contributors such as video and visual artists, musicians, architects, and other performers and object makers. Her choreography explores the map of ideas exchanged back and forth and how those ideas land and take shape in our bodies.
Currently she is working on a yet to be titled performance/project that ruminates on our voyeuristic tendencies in our everyday lives and how these tendencies manifest in modes of architecture and technology.
www.tahniholt.com
CHRIS HORNBECKER
(the photographer)
Chris Hornbecker strives to see everything from a different point of view, a little skewed but still honest to the subject. Chris is a self-taught photographer.
As such, there’s no one standing over your shoulder telling you what you can or can’t do. The impossible becomes possible. Spurred by his curiosity to see what can happen, Chris takes on challenges like shooting 368 people in 6 days for the W+K 12.3 book, and shooting a photo a day for 387 days in his 1millimeter project.
hornbeckerphoto.com
1millimeter.com