MFA - Maryland Institute College of Art
BFA - School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Solo Shows
Spring Solos at Arlington Arts Center - Arlington, VA
Group Shows
Discomfort Zones at Carroll University - Wauneka, WI
State of Our Shared Land at St. Louis Artists’ Guild
Out/Side & In/Between at School 33 - Baltimore, MD
Echo Chamber - Gallery CA - Baltimore, MD
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5500 North St. Louis Avenue
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M.F.A. - Writing - School of the Art Institute of Chicago
B.A. - Creative Writing (Poetry) - Colorado State University
Professor Matthew Sage is a multimodal artist who has worked across many genres and forms; from writing poems for Rocky Mountain National Park, to collaborating as a musician and sound designer with acclaimed performance artist Pope.L at the Art Institute of Chicago, to operating an internationally acclaimed private press record label out of his basement for nearly a decade. Sage makes work interested in exploring how historical forms interact with modern technology. Schooled in classical poetry, Sage transmits his interests in fine arts and classical historicism into new technological manifolds. He has performed at the MOMAPS1 in New York, and has worked extensively with the Art Institute of Chicago as a performer and graduate ambassador.
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5500 North Saint Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
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Duke University
History, Ph.D.
“Denouncing the Spendthrift: Debating Social Identity in the Court of Law and Public Opinion,” in Names and Naming in Early Modern Germany, edited by Beth Plummer and Joel Harrington. Berghahn Publishers (Oxford, UK), May 2019.
Awards & Honors:
National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Institute “Global Histories of Disability,” 2018
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation & Council for European Studies, Dissertation Completion Fellowship, 2016-2017
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Research Scholarship, 2013-2014
Central European History Society, Research Grant for Dissertation Travel, 2013
Duke University, James B. Duke Fellowship, 2010-2014
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Middle Tennessee State University, BFA
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, MFA
Foster, John. "Album Art, New Music Graphics". London: Quarto Publishing plc. 2018. Book.
Putnam, Mitch. "OMG Posters: A Decade of Rock Art". New York: Regan Arts, 2016. Book.
Sisson, Patrick. “This is Chicago”. Chicago: AIGA, 2015. Book.
Foster, John. “Paper and Ink Workshop.” Minneapolis: Rockport Publisher, 2013. Book.
–Williamson, Caspar. “Low-Tech Print: Contemporary Hand-Made Printing”. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2013. Book.
Borrelli, Christopher. “Taking stock of the Chicago concert-poster scene”. Chicago Tribune, July 11, 2012. Print.
John. “New Masters of Poster Design, Volume 2: Poster Design for This Century and Beyond”. Minneapolis: Rockport Publisher, 2012. Book.
Perry, Mike. “Press, Pulled: A Catalog of Screenprinting”. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2012. Book.
Foster, John. “1,000 Indie Posters”. Rockport Publisher, 2011. Book.
Lijklema, Hans. “Design For Music, Pictographic 2”. Amsterdam: Pepin Press, 2011. Book.
Klanten, Robert. Hellige, Hendrik. “Impressive: Printmaking, Letterpress and Graphic Design.” Berlin: Gestalten, 2010. Book.
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I'm Not Trying to Change Anything, I'm Just Changing. Saugatuck Arts Center, Saugatuck, MI, 2019
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Puddles, Gelbes Haus, Lucerne, Switzerland, 2018
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Shape Song, Hatch Show Print's Haley Gallery, Nashville, TN, 2018
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Café Avatar, Cress Gallery, University of Chattanooga, TN, 2017
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Gaussian Blur, Experimental Sound Studio, Chicago, IL, 2017
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byobuoy, Armory Gallery, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, 2017
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Plane Shapes, Facebook Classic Campus, Menlo Park, CA, 2017
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Sonnenzimmer: The Arts Club of Chicago at 100, The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 2016
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Greige Fabrik, Vebikus Kunsthalle Schaffhausen, Switzerland, 2016
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Vector Sculptures, Elastic Arts Foundation, Chicago, IL, 2016
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Objects of Practice, Morrissey Gallery, St. Ambrose University Art , Department, Davenport, IA, 2015
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The Impossibility of Language of Construction, Catich Gallery, St. Ambrose University Art Department, Davenport, IA, 2015
The Past Is A Stranger, The Future Is A Guest: New Work by Sonnenzimmer, Gallery 1 & 2, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX, 2015
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Performance, Zine Not Dead VIII, Elastic Arts, Chicago, IL, 2018
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Performance, Graphic Impulse w/ Parlour Tapes Residency, Comfort Station, Chicago, IL, 2017
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Dubbing Stills, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, IL, 2016
Grafikklang, Grafisches Forum Zürich, Rosengarten, Zürich, Switzerland, 2014

Ph.D., University of Florida
M.S., Cairo University
B.S., Cairo University
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Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Illinois at Chicago with a concentration in Race, Ethnicity, and Gender

Research Interests: Iron and Bronze Age Levant, zooarchaeology, economies, empire, ethnicity, trade, ritual, animal sacrifice, site abandonment.
Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2003
M.A. Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium 1997
B. A. Anthropology, University of Lethbridge, Canada 1993
2018 Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age IB Fauna from Beqo’a. ‘Atiqot 90: 67-73.
2017a E. F. Maher and B. Hesse. The Iron Age II Faunal Remains. In: S. Gitin, ed., The Tel Miqne-Ekron Excavations 1985-1988,1990, 1992-1995: Field IV Lower – The Elite Zone Volume 9/2 Part 2: The Iron Age I Early Philistine City, pp. 357-363. Eisenbrauns.
2017b E. C. M van den Brink, R. Beeri, D. Kirzner, E. Bron, A. Cohen-Weinberger, E. Kamaisky, T. Gonen, L. Gershuny, Y. Nagar, D. Ben-Tor, N. Sukenik, O, Shamir, E. F. Maher, and D. Reich. A Late Bronze Age II clay coffin from Tel Shaddud in the Central Jezreel Valley, Israel: context and historical implications, Levant 49: 105-135.
2017c Flair of the Dog: The Philistine Consumption of Canines. In: Justin Lev-Tov, Paula Hesse, and Allan Gilbert, eds., The Wide Lens in Archaeology:Honoring Brian Hesse’s Contributions to Anthropological Archaeology, pp. 117-147. Lockwood Press.
2016 E. F. Maher and B. Hesse. The Middle Bronze Age II and Iron Age I Faunal Remains. In: S. Gitin, ed., The Tel Miqne-Ekron Excavations 1985-1988,1990,1992-1995: Field IV Lower – The Elite Zone Volume 9/1 Part 1: The Iron Age I Early Philistine City, pp. 515-570. Eisenbrauns.
2014a Lambs to the Slaughter: Cultic Orientations at Philistine Ekron in the 7th century BCE. In: John R. Spencer, Aaron J. Brody, and Robert A. Mullens, eds., Material Culture Matters: Essays on the Archaeology of the Southern Levant in Honor of Seymour Gitin, pp. 111-130. American Schools of Oriental Research.
2014b Temporal Trends in Animal Exploitation: Fauna Analysis from Tell Jemmeh. In: David Ben-Shlomo and Gus W. Van Beek, eds., The Smithsonian Institution Excavation at Tell Jemmeh, Israel (1970-1990), pp. 1038-1051. Contributions in Anthropology Series. Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press.
2013 Animal Husbandry. In: D. M. Master, ed., The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Archaeology. Oxford University Press.
2012 Mortuary Faunal Remains. In: David Ben-Shlomo, ed., The Azor Cemetery: Moshe Dothan's Excavations, 1958 and 1960 (IAA Reports 50), pp. 195-198. The Israel Antiquities Authority.
2006/07 Imminent Invasion: The Abandonment of Philistine Ekron. Scripta Mediterranea, Special Issue - Cyprus, The Sea Peoples and the Eastern Mediterranean: Regional Perspectives of Continuity and Change 27-28: 323-337.
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M.F.A., Directing- Northwestern University
B.F.A., Acting- New York University's Tisch School of the Arts
Adam is an accomplished director with a long history developing critically and nationally acclaimed new work. He brings credits and assistant credits at Steppenwolf, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Court Theatre, CityLit, Redtwist, The Side Project, Bristol Riverside Theatre, South Bend Civic Theatre, and leading companies across Chicago and the east coast. One of Chicago’s leading voice and dialect coaches, Adam has vocally designed nearly sixty productions in Chicago with his work praised by Chris Jones of the Chicago Tribune as “remarkable." As an arts leader, he has helped to build, shape, and support major institutions such as Bristol Riverside Theatre, Hartford Stage Company, and William Morris Endeavor. Adam previously taught at Columbia College Chicago and Northwestern University before joining NEIU. In addition to his time on campus, Adam continues to serve young artists as the head of musical theatre at Actors Training Center in Wilmette. His other interests include his wife, young son, a dog and cat, baseball, golf, crossfit, and his amazing neighborhood in Evanston. MFA-Directing, Northwestern University, BFA-Acting from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.
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5500 North Saint Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
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B.F.A - Theatre/Musical Theatre, University of Michigan-Flint
M.F.A - Acting, Michigan State University
Leslie has been working as an Artist/Educator in the Midwest Region for over a decade. In addition to working on stage and screen and off, she works as a voice-over artist, audio book narrator, and amateur photographer. She is a proud member of Actors' Equity. Some regional theatres include Williamston Theatre, Tipping Point Theatre, Performance Network Theatre , The Henry Ford Museum, Metropolis Performing Arts, Idle Muse, Dandelion Theatre and Quest Theatre Ensemble.
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5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States

Ph.D. Spanish. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 2016
M.A. Spanish. Ohio University, Athens, OH 2007
B.A. Spanish, Ohio University, Athens, OH 2005
Book Chapters:
"A Neoliberal Love Spell: Race, Tourism and the Yucatan Peninsula and an
Analysis of Televisa’s Sortilegio." In Mobilized Identities: Mediated Subjectivity and Cultural Crisis in the Neoliberal Era. Ed. Cameron McCarthy. Champaign, IL: Common Grounds Publishing, 2014
Peer-Reviewed Articles:
“Yucateco Pirate Novels and the Discourses of the Mayan Rebel in the Nineteenth-Century Creole Imaginary.” Revista de Estudios Hispánicos. Washington University, St. Louis. Forthcoming.
Manuscripts--In Preparation:
“Nombrar(se) para ser. Aproximaciones al concepto de raza e identidad en Un hereje y un musulmán (1867) de José Pascual Almazán.” Article in Progress.
The Caste War Narratives: Race, Economy, and Literature in Yucatán and Chiapas, 1841-1958. Book Manuscript Proposal in Progress.
INVITED LECTURES
“History and Uprising in the Yucatán Peninsula.” The Royal Ontario Museum: ROM Summer Club. Skype. 13 July 2015. Invited Speaker.
CONFERENCE PAPERS DELIVERED
“Mayanism, Caste War and the Mexican Revolution: The Shifting Discourses of Race
in the Literatures of Early Twentieth-Century Yucatán.” Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies. Nashville, Tennessee. March 8-11, 2018.
“Toward a Literary History of Mexico’s Henequen Culture.” Latin American Studies Association Conference. Lima, Perú. April 29th-May 1st, 2017.
“Of Savages and Royalty: The Rhetoric of Mayanness in Yucatán’s Nineteenth-Century Literary Register.” Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies. Chapel Hill, North Carolina. March 23-26, 2017.
2018- Assistant Professor, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, Illinois
2017-2018 Visiting Instructor, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Washington
2010-2017 Graduate Teaching Assistant and Research Assistant, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois
2009-2010 Adjunct Professor, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio
2007-2009 Instructor, Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana, Mérida, Yucatán, México
Colegio de Negocios Internacionales, Mérida, Yucatán, México
Study Abroad Instructor, Ohio University, Mérida, Yucatán, México
2005-2007 Teaching Assistant, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio
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PhD, Social Work, University of Illinois at Chicago
MSW, University of Michigan
BA in Psychology and BA in Sociology, University of Michigan
Mattaini, M. A., & Holtschneider, C. (2016). Foundations of social work practice: A graduate text (5th ed.). Washington, DC: NASW Press.
Mattaini, M.A., & Holtschneider, C. (2017). Collective leadership and circle processes: Not invented here. The Journal of Organizational Behavior Management, 37, 126-141
Holtschneider, C. (2016). From independence to interdependence: Redefining outcomes for transitional living programs for youth experiencing homelessness. Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Services, 97, 160-170.
Holtschneider, C. (2016). A part of something: The importance of transitional living programs within a Housing First framework for youth experiencing homelessness. Children and Youth Services Review, 65, 204-215.
Holtschneider, C. (2017). Supporting students in their time of need: Addressing hunger and housing insecurity on college campuses. Keynote Presentation, Governor’s State University, Chicago, IL.
Holtschneider, C. (2016). It saved my life: From homelessness to community with youth in transitional living. Invited webinar, Alliance for Strong Families and Communities.
Holtschneider, C. (2016). Rethinking aftercare: Experiences of youth exiting housing programs. Paper presentation at the Society for Social Work and Research Annual Conference, Washington, DC.
Holtschneider, C. (2015) Youth voices on transitional living: Policy and practice implications. Workshop presented to the Family and Youth Services Bureau Annual Conference for Runaway and Homeless Youth Grantees, New Orleans, LA.
Holtschneider, C. (2015). The impact of transitional living programs: Perspectives of homeless youth. Oral presentation at the Council on Social Work Education Annual Program, Denver, CO.
Holtschneider, C. (2015). Qualitative research methods in community practice. Invited talk, DePaul University, Chicago, IL.
Holtschneider, C. (2014). Engaging young people in adult housing programs. Workshop presented at Illinois Collaboration on Youth and the Chicago Youth Worker Collective, Chicago, IL.
Holtschneider, C., & Wade, B. (2014). Introduction to positive youth development. Workshop presented at Illinois Collaboration on Youth, Chicago IL
Dr. Casey Holtschneider completed her PhD in social work at the University of Illinois at Chicago and joined the social work faculty of NEIU in August 2016. Dr. Holtschneider has twenty years of social work practice experience, and is the former director of an emergency shelter, transitional living program, and aftercare program for unaccompanied youth experiencing homelessness in Chicago, Illinois. While in this position, she worked with a team to successfully transition the organization to a trauma-informed, youth-centered model of practice and she has received awards for her individual contributions in this process at both the state and national level. She has subsequently trained other social work professionals and organizations across the country on how to initiate and sustain similar change within their own practice context. Before coming to NEIU, Dr. Holtschneider was part of the Child Welfare Research Collaborative at the University of Illinois at Chicago, a research team examining foster care placement stability as well as services promoting successful transitions after emancipation for older youth in the child welfare system. Dr. Holtschneider’s current research focuses on improving services for young people through the implementation of intervention models that are youth-driven, evidence-guided, and grounded in anti-oppressive practice. She is also the cofounder and executive director of the LYTE Collective, a nonprofit organization supporting young people experiencing poverty and homelessness in Chicago, IL. Dr. Holtschneider teaches in both the BSW and MSW programs with a focus on policy and practice courses.
Licensed Clinical Social Worker- Illinois
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Chicago, IL 60625
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Ph.D., Social Work, University of Illinois at Chicago
M.S., Social Work, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia
B.A., Sociology and Social Administration, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia
Ibrahima, A. B. (2017). 16 Asset Based Community Development (ABCD). Transforming Society: Strategies for Social Development from Singapore, Asia and Around the World, 91, 229.
Ibrahima, A. B., & Mattaini, M. A. (2018). Social work in Africa: Decolonizing methodologies and approaches. International Social Work, 0020872817742702.
Aissetu Barry Ibrahima got her Ph.D. in Social Work from University of Illinois at Chicago, Jane Addams College of Social Work. Dr. Aissetu has more than 10 years of post-master's social work field experience in the areas of HIV/AIDS prevention and care, community health, education, peacebuilding and conflict resolution, addiction, and monitoring and evaluation in Ethiopia as well as the U.S. Dr. Aissetu’s research area can fall under community health and grassroots development. Her research broadly examines indigenous knowledge and cultural relevance in social services, and international polices, and health disparities in maternal health service provision and utilization.
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PhD, University of Illinois at Chicago, Jane Addams College of Social Work
MSW, New York University, Silver School of Social Work
Dr. Aguado earned a Ph.D. in Social Work from the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is a bilingual/bicultural clinical social worker with more than 15 years of practice and research experience in the field of HIV/AIDS. Her research interests focus on the social and cultural determinants of sexual health and retention in HIV care.
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Chicago, IL 60625
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B.A. Liberal Arts, St. John's College (Annapolis, MD)
Ph.D Philosophy, Boston University
Overcoming Epistemic Injustice, Co-Editor, Forthcoming (Rowman & Littlefield)
LWH 3086
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States
MFA Interdisciplinary Book and Paper Art, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago IL
BFA Graphic Design, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago IL
Journal of Artists’ Books 38
Journal of Artists’ Books 37
• New Impressions in American Letterpress, Hamilton Woodtype and Printing Museum, Two Rivers WI
• Albert P. Weisman Awards Exhibition, Arcade Gallery, Chicago IL
• EXPO Chicago, Navy Pier, Chicago IL
• Pulp, Ink, Thread, C33 Gallery, Chicago IL
• Art Crank Chicago, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago IL
• Hot Off the Press, Spudnik Press Cooperative, Chicago IL
• The Documentary Book, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago IL
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Salme Harju Steinberg Fine Arts Center
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States

B.M., Arizona State University
M.M. DePaul University
William is a freelance musician in Chicago where he performs extensively as an orchestral and chamber musician, and as a member of Alliance Brass. He is also a member of funk/hip-hop cover band J-Livi & the Party; the High Hat Second Line; and Arcana—a quartet that has been described as “Third Stream meets Second Line.” William is an alumnus of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago. As a classical, jazz, and pop instrumentalist, William has performed across the US in venues from the Corn Palace to Carnegie Hall, and he has performed on European tours with both the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. His principal teachers include Steve Layman, Sam Pilafian, Mike Roylance, Floyd Cooley, and jazz trumpeter John D’earth. William can be heard on the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s Grammy-winning 2008 recording of Shostakovich’s 4th Symphony, and if you look hard enough, you might spot him acting as a background musician in the 4th season of 20th Century Fox's Empire.
Fine Arts
5500 N. St. Louis Ave
Chicago, IL 60625
United States
MFA in Painting and Drawing, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
BFA in Painting, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
Moving Crew: Conspire: Collaboration, Cooperation, Collection, Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, FL
Exquisite Corpse: Head to Toe and End to End, Francis Hardy Gallery, Ephraim, WI
Additional Experiments, Eve Drewlowe Gallery, Iowa City, IA
Instructions_13, (Scene)Metrospace, East Lansing, MI
Love for Sale, The University of Michigan School of Art & Design work•detroit gallery, Detroit, MI
Cut-Ups: Ellen Campbell, Neva Sills, Johannah Silva, Mary Lou Zelazny, Peter Paul Luce Gallery, Cornell College, Mount Vernon, IA
New Directions in Collage, Fine Arts Center Gallery at Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, IL
Moving Crew: Ideal X: What’s Inside, Faulkoner Gallery, Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA
Displaced, SGC Global Implications Conference, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
Dia Del Los Muertos, Geunzel Gallery at Peninsula School of Art, Fish Creek, WI
Floating Through, MacRostie Art Center, Grand Rapids, MN
Moving Crew: Transfer-Mation, The Urban Institute of Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, MI
Moving Crew: Land Grant Flag State Construct, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha,NE
My Place/Your Place: Paula Brandel and Neva Sills, Kiehle Gallery, St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, MN
You Were Never Here, Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN
Speaker, Humanities Plunge, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
Resident (with The Moving Crew), Anchor Graphic and the Center for the Book at Columbia College, Chicago, IL
Panel Participant (with The Moving Crew), College Art Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL
Visiting Artist, Luther College, Dekorah, IA
Resident, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Nebraska City, NE
Community Arts Assistance Program Grant-Illinois Arts Council
Iowa Arts Fellowship-University of Iowa
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5500 St. Louis Ave.
Chicago, IL 60625
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M.F.A. Michigan State University (Production Design)
B.A. Ashland University (Scene & Lighting Design)
G. "Max" Maxin IV works also a freelance theatrical designer in Chicago & is one of the co-founders of Another Door Theatre Project. Favorite Design Credits include: Gypsy, Little Women, Cabaret, Bare (Another Door); Urinetown (Jeff Nomination Lighting), Three Days of Rain, Next to Normal, (BoHo); The Nance, Priscilla: Queen of the Desert, Angry Fags, Design for Living, The Submission, Book of Merman (Pride Films & Plays); First Date (Royal George); Spamalot (Nightblue); From These Fatal Loins, Home Before Dark (The Ruckus), & Story of a Story (The Untold Story) (Underscore).
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Chicago, IL 60625
United States

D.M.A., Northwestern University, Music Performance, Orchestral Conducting (In Progress)
M.M., Penn State University, Orchestral Conducting
M.M., Yale University, Instrumental Performance
B.M., SUNY Potsdam, Music Education and Instrumental Performance
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Chicago, IL 60625
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M.A. Geography & Environmental Studies, Northeastern Illinois University
B.A. Geography, Northeastern Illinois University
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Ph.D. in Applied Management and Decision Sciences, Walden University, Minessota
MBA in Finance, Inter American University, Rio Piedras Campus, San Juan, Territory of Puerto Rico, USA.
BA in Economics, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus, Mayaguez, Territory of Puerto Rico, USA.
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Chicago, IL 60625
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Ph.D., Ecology, University of Illinois at Chicago
B.A., Biology, Knox College
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Chicago, IL 60625-4699
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Ph.D., Geography, Rutgers University
M.A., Geography, California State University, Los Angeles
B.A., Geography, Northern Illinois University
BBH 344D
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625-4699
United States
BA Digital Art and Design, Loras College, Dubuque, IA
BA Social Work, Loras College, Dubuque, IA
MFA Interdisciplinary Art, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
Selected Solo and Two Person Exhibitions
The Female Thing, Arlington Art Center, Arlington, VA
Not My City, The Parking Lot, K-Town Studio, Baltimore, MD
Public Art Collaborations
Hack The Patriarchy (ongoing, online and Baltimore based)
Thommason Theater Series (Curator), Thommason Theater, Baltimore, MD
We Should See Each Other More Often, Koban Project, Baltimore, MD
Pattern Perception, CoLab Project, School 33, Baltimore, MD
BrowserAs (online)
Selected Group Exhibitions
Wave and Particle, School 33, Baltimore, MD
Satellite Art Show with Terrault Contemporary, Miami Art Week, Miami, FL (forthcoming)
Art Night, Hickock Cole Architects, Washington DC
Objects of Construction Space Camp, Baltimore, MD
VOX XII: NEWS AND WEATHER, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA
We Should See Each Other More Often, Koban Project, Baltimore, MD
All of the Things and All of the Time, Platform Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Texture of the Drift, Gallery CA, Baltimore MD
Baby in the Corner, Transmodern Festival, 14 Karet Cabaret, Baltimore, MD
Pixelated App for Party of the Century, Baltimore Museum of Art (with Wham City Lights) Baltimore, MD
Loop, Performed at Slam Up, Gallery CA, Baltimore MD
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Chicago, IL 60625
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D.M.A., Ohio State University
M.M., Westminster Choir College
B.M., SUNY Fredonia
Dr. Petersen was most recently heard singing the role of Mimi with Opera Columbus in their production of La bohème. She also appeared with Opera Columbus last spring in their main stage production of La Traviata as Annina. Season 2015/2016 highlights include concert performances with several chamber orchestras throughout Utah performing concert repertoire including Dona Nobis Pacem by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Barber’s Knoxville: Summer 1915, Villa-Lobos’s Bachianas brasileiras No.5, and the soprano solos in Handel’s Messiah. She has appeared as Musetta in Bay View Music Festival’s production of La bohème and in the spring of 2014, Katherine sang the role of Valencienne in the Opera Columbus OOTE production of The Merry Widow. With the Russian Opera Workshop in Philadelphia, she performed the title roles in Rachmaninoff’s Francesca di Rimini and Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet. Her other roles include Pamina, Die Zauberflöte; Micaëla, Carmen; The Mother/Sandman, Hänsel und Gretel; Una Conversa, Suor Angelica.
An active pedagogue and teacher, Katherine is currently Assistant Professor of Voice at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago where she teaches Studio Voice and Diction for Singers. She holds a DMA in Voice Performance from Ohio State University where she studied with Scott McCoy. During her time at Ohio State University, Katherine was head of the Swank Voice Lab for Research and Pedagogy and taught several courses including Voice Pedagogy and Advanced Measurement Techniques for Voice. She co-hosted the 2014 NATS Summer Intern Program and the 2015 International Voice Pedagogy Summit. Katherine’s doctoral dissertation “Russian Repertoire: Developmental Perspectives” investigates the paucity of Russian Song Repertoire in the American voice studio and recital hall. From her research, Katherine has created a repertoire selection guide and lecture recital to better acquaint singers and teachers with Russian Art Song.
In June 2017 Katherine will travel to Toronto, ON to participate in the NATS Summer Intern Program, an intensive training program that seeks to pair expert and recognized master teachers with talented young members of NATS.
Fine Arts, 125
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States