Arielle, Derya, Nicholas and Rachel moved to Spartanburg and into their new studio apartments above The Showroom in June of 2007 as the second group of HUB-BUB artists-in-residence. Alix Refshauge also joined the HUB-BUB team in June as the new Director of the AiR Program. Everyone hit the ground running. This class focused on bringing people downtown and attracting folks to The Showroom. In addition to making art and literature and helping out with weekly HUB-BUB and Showroom duties they: initiated a knitting circle for local residents who were interested in learning the craft; initiated and taught figure drawing classes for local artists; moved into empty storefront windows for an art/literary performance piece that lasted 5 days and 4 nights and drew attention to Spartanburg's downtown; co-ordinated a HUB-BUB College Street Team by working with Spartanburg's College Town and three area colleges; made visits and presentations to art and creative writing classes at Spartanburg public schools; curated an exhibition in The Showroom of works done by more than 20 students from five local colleges; coordinated the NEA's Poetry Out Loud program in nine South Carolina counties, including hosting and MCing the regional finals in the Hub-Bub venue; exhibited artwork in various schools and local businesses; and compiled and edited an anthology of poetry representing over 20 local poets (Still Home , Hub City, 2008)
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Derya Hanife Altan is probably shorter than you. That said, her ability to take you down should not be underestimated. Most of the time, she manages to keep her inner Lone Wolf McQuade at bay, finding it more fruitful to channel her energy into her video, sculpture, and design work.
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Arielle grew up in Miami, Florida and moved to New York City in 2002. She
graduated from NYU in May of 2006 with a double major in Studio Art and
Creative Writing. She is particularly interested in the apocalypse
(an environmental one and not a biblical one), ghosts, and ancient
Jewish cemetaries.
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Nicholas Dowgwillo (B. 1981 Madison, WI) graduated with a BFA from the
University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. In his time at the university he
was totally immersed in both the making and exhibiting of art. His
nontraditional mixed media prints and paintings are the productof
intense, cloistered studio practice. These works have been shown in
both regional and international group exhibits including a 2005 show at
Beijing Normal University and a recent nationalprint invitational at
the Commonwealth Gallery in Madison, WI.
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Rachel Harkai received bachelors degrees in Creative writing and
Comparative Literature from the University of Michigan in 2007. A
former DJ and talk-radio host, she is an avid music-lover and a
percussionist herself. She is a four-time recipient of the Hopwood
Award, a prestigious college writing prize, for both poetry and
nonfiction. Rachel's poetry has appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review,
Portland Review, Hotel Amerika, and elsewhere. She is a native of Grand
Rapids, Michigan.
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