Claudia, Esteban, Greg and Jameelah made up the fourth group of HUB-BUB residents. Their positive attitudes and vibrant personalities had a tremendous impact on the organization and the community. Throughout the year, they each made significant strides in their personal art/writing. Their involvement in the community included partnerships and projects with the Spartanburg Ballet, SPACE, COLORS Program, Hollywild Animal Park, Healing Arts Council, Wofford College, and more.
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Jameelah Lang (B. 1985, Lawrence, Kansas). Her mother is from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia and her father is from Bridgeport, Connecticut. Jameelah spent most of her life living within a mile radius of her childhood home, and her mother was very happy about this.
She received her undergraduate degree at the University of Kansas in English literature, and she is currently working on her thesis in order to complete an MFA in creative writing, also from K.U. She writes fiction and creative non-fiction, and she also sometimes writes folktales. Her philosophy on writing is, “Lie, cheat, steal.”
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Esteban del Valle (B. 1984, Chicago) is a painter currently exploring issues surrounding the relationship between theology and the pursuit of “true” democracy. Drawn to the iconic imagery of revolutionary struggles as they appear in the genre of history painting, photography, and film, Esteban has been investigating the moral and ethical questions pertaining to the use of “force” in the struggle for justice and equality. His work often takes the form of large mixed media drawings on canvas.
Esteban completed his BFA at Southern Illinois University where he received a 2007 REACH Creativity Award, and became a McNair Scholar. He has recently completed his MFA at the Rhode Island School of Design, where he received a Presidential Scholarship and the Toby Devan Lewis Fellowship. Esteban has produced murals throughout various parts of the USA, such as Chicago, IL, San Antonio, TX, and Kansas City, MO. He has been in numerous publications and his mural work has been featured on HGTV. Esteban has also been a part of various exhibitions including the 2009 New Insight exhibition at Art Chicago, and Geography of Imagination curated by Phong Bui in New York City
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Gregory Bae (B. 1986, Salt Lake City) is an artist who most frequently paints from observing the quotidian and distinct moments of the day. He also creates spontaneous tangential works that vary in interest and lie in various traditions. In this sense, he is happily confused. An interest in the presence of physicality in a piece is prevalent.
Gregory received his B.F.A from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2007 with a concentration in History, Philosophy and Social Sciences. He has been living and working in New York City, namely with the Fred Dolan Art Academy and The Space (also known as Fardom). His work has been exhibited in New York City, Salt Lake City, Providence, and Rome. His paintings are included in several private collections.
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Claudia Dishon (b.1983 Louisville , KY) is a trained printmaker with a curiosity for medicine and cuisine. Her body of work spans printmaking, drawing, collage, paper sculpture, design, photography, and performance with some clumsy forays into video. Drawing will always be the therapeutic core to her creative process. She received her MFA in Printmaking at Clemson University and her BFA in Printmaking at Murray State University. She is proud to belong to the loyal and dysfunctional family of printmaking alumni from both of these universities. Her work is exhibited routinely in print portfolios at Southern Graphics Council conferences annually. In 2008 Dishon represented Clemson at the Charles E. Daniel Center for Architecture Research in Genoa, Italy, where she ate things that changed her life forever.
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