Marie Lorenz: Newtown Odyssey

Marie Lorenz is a Brooklyn-based artist who has been exploring and documenting urban waterways for many years. Her notable project, Tide and Current Taxi, is a relational performance art piece that uses the tide to navigate New York City. Solo exhibitions of her work include the Albright Knox Museum (Buffalo), Everson Museum (Syracuse), and Jack Hanley Gallery (New York).

Dana Spiotta is the author of five novels, most recently Wayward (2021). She has been a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. She was a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Rome Prize, the St. Francis College Literary Prize, and the John Updike Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She teaches in the Syracuse University Creative Writing Program.

Gaby Collins-Fernandez is an artist living and working in New York City. She holds degrees from Dartmouth College (BA) and the Yale School of Art (MFA, Painting/Printmaking). Her work has been shown in the US and internationally, including at Peter Freeman, Inc., the Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama and El Museo del Barrio, NY. Her work has been discussed in publications such as the Brooklyn Rail and artcritical, and on the video interview series, Gorky’s Granddaughter. She is a recipient of residencies at Yaddo (Saratoga Springs, NY), The Marble House Project (Dorset, VT), and a 2013 Rema Hort Mann Foundation Emerging Art Award. She is a founder and publisher of the annual magazine Precog, and a co-director of the artist-run art and music initiative BombPop!Up.