REEL Art
2026-2027
Core Dance presents... REEL Art: Video Technology + Installation Art
REEL Art is a platform for original film installations - a contemporary art form that combines video technology with installation art - making use of the storefront windows of Core Dance’s studio building. Coupled with all aspects of the surrounding environment of the Decatur Square, passersby/the audience are affected by this ingenious visual experience. As an installation, this work is unique in its use and design for the Core Dance Studio windows.
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Films screen nightly, 7 nights each week, dusk until midnight.
Core Dance storefront windows – Square in Downtown Decatur.​​
This program is supported in part by Georgia Council for the Arts through the appropriations of the Georgia General Assembly. Georgia Council for the Arts also receives support from its partner agency – the National Endowment for the Arts.
REEL Art: Installation
September 1-30, 2026
Adam Larsen's Access Point
Access Point is a one-hour immersive documentary that follows individuals with disabilities as they navigate vast and varied natural landscapes. Through intimate interviews and vivid on-the-ground footage, the film explores often-overlooked barriers to outdoor accessibility—alongside powerful stories of resilience, community, and empowerment that emerge along the way.
The development of the documentary began with a diverse group of participants connected to Bay Area disability organizations, including Ala Costa Centers, BORP Adaptive Sports and Recreation, The Center for Independent Living, The Disability Cultural Center at UC Berkeley, Friends of L’Arche San Francisco Bay Area, Creative Growth, and NIAD Art Center. These partnerships have provided invaluable insight, ensuring the film authentically reflects the lived experiences of people across a range of disabilities. By featuring participants who are Deaf, hard of hearing, blind, or who have mobility or cognitive disabilities, Access Point highlights the many ways disability intersects with the natural world. It becomes not just a story of overcoming obstacles, but also one of the universal human desire to engage with the outdoors—underscoring the transformative power of nature for all. Partnerships and participation in Access Pointare currently expanding, broadening its reach beyond the Bay Area to communities across the United States.
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As participants explore outdoor spaces—from hiking trails and national parks to beaches, forests, and rivers—Access Point reveals the barriers people face, including limited accessibility, lack of resources, and social or cultural exclusion. Each participant brings a unique relationship to nature: some are seasoned explorers whose access has been constrained, while others are encountering these landscapes for the first time. Through their experiences, the film captures the joy, reflection, and sense of empowerment that nature can inspire when inequities in access are addressed.
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At its core, Access Point is a story about inclusion, equity, and the right to experience the outdoors. It asserts that access to nature is a fundamental right—not a privilege—and examines how inaccessible outdoor spaces intersect with broader societal inequities. By connecting the disability community with the environmental movement, the film emphasizes that inclusive outdoor spaces are essential to a just and equitable society. It encourages a rethinking of how public spaces are designed and used, fostering collaboration between environmental and disability advocates and sparking a broader conversation about access, equity, and belonging.
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Ultimately, Access Point invites viewers to reflect on their own relationships to the natural world and to envision a future where outdoor spaces are welcoming to everyone. Through compelling storytelling and the beauty of natural landscapes, the documentary advocates for a world in which nature is a shared space—accessible, engaging, and inspiring for all.
The Artistic Vision
The artistic vision for Access Point is rooted in a deep connection to nature and the authenticity of the participants ’experiences. The film will be marked by a minimalist yet evocative style, focusing on the raw, unfiltered interactions between people and the natural world. The goal is to immerse the audience in the environment, conveying both the beauty and the challenges of navigating nature from the perspective of disability.
Visually, the film will feature wide, sweeping shots of diverse landscapes—towering redwoods, rugged coastlines, and expansive vistas—highlighting the vastness and beauty of nature. These grand views will often be contrasted with intimate close-ups of the participants, focusing on their physical engagement with the environment. The camera will linger on tactile details—such as a hand brushing against leaves or a wheelchair navigating a rocky path—intentionally emphasizing the sensory quality of these moments. Each shot will be framed to evoke a sense of connection between the participants and their surroundings, showing that nature is not merely an obstacle to overcome, but a place of profound encounter.
Adam Larsen
(Director, Cinematographer, Editor)
is a filmmaker and installation artist working at the intersection of disability, nature, and immersive video. He directed, shot, and edited the feature documentaries Neurotypical—exploring autism from the perspective of autistics and airing on PBS’s P.O.V.—and Undersung, with MacArthur Award–winning poet Heather McHugh, examining the lives of caregivers for the severely disabled. His large-scale installations include A Worm’s Eye View, Nebraska Flatwater, and The Dharma at Big Sur. Larsen is dedicated to amplifying underrepresented voices and fostering connections between people and the natural world.
Sue Schroeder
(Producer, Community Liaison)
Over 45 years, Sue Schroeder has created 120+ original dance works for theaters, museums, green spaces, architectural spaces, and water environments. Her work has appeared throughout the US, Mexico, Israel, France, Germany, Poland, Georgia, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Iceland, UK, Sweden, Canada, Guatemala, and Hungary. Schroeder is recognized as a leading Arts Activist, Community Practitioner, Mentor and the Founding Artistic Director of Core Dance. As a contemporary artist, Schroeder focuses on the creative process, movement research exploration, and dance-making as a catalyst for social change. Schroeder holds a BA from the University of Houston and MFA from the University of Arizona.
REEL Art Series #1
October 1-November 15, 2026
Lonnie Holley, Matt Arnett & Ethan Payne's In the Grip of Power
"In the Grip of Power" introduces us to Lonnie as he retreats to a silent sanctuary to assemble his sculpture and speak on the importance of voting when so many were and still are denied that right. 
Ethan Payne
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is an award-winning documentary filmmaker based in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. He got a BA from the Grady College of Journalism at the University of Georgia, which he put to good use by playing in bands for eleven years. At the same time, he developed his music video and documentary work, which has been featured in Pitchfork, Stereogum, Oxford American, Southern Foodways Alliance, Appalshop, and The Bitter Southerner. His short documentaries have racked up laurels from festivals worldwide, including Tribeca Film Festival, Tallgrass, Newport Beach, Berlin Independent Film Fest, and many more. “Lou,” his short doc about the Gee's Bend Quilters,
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was shown at the National Gallery in DC, after winning Best Editing at the Ouray International Film Fest. His short film “Bright Morning Stars,” won the Judge’s Award at Boone Docs. “We Travel” took home the Short Stories Award at the Washington DC Intl Film Festival, Best Short Documentary at the Berlin Independent Film Fest, and the Director's Spotlight Award at the Ouray International Film Fest. His first feature-length documentary "The Green Flash" has won festival awards including Best Feature Doc, Best Doc Cinematography, and Audience Choice Award.
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Lonnie Holley
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(b. Birmingham, AL, 1950) is a multidisciplinary visual artist and improvisational musician, whose work explores themes of personal and collective history, racial inequality, environmental catastrophe, and American identity. Born into the harsh reality of Jim-Crow era Alabama, Holley’s early life was defined by transience, cruelty, and economic hardship. Separated from his family as a young boy, Holley spent three years at The Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children, a brutal state institution that has been called a modern-day slave plantation. Growing up impoverished, Holley made do with what he could find, often the broken and discarded
objects of human consumption–materials he refers to as, “trash, garbage, and debris. ”His ability to combine these objects into beautiful and socially resonant works of art made Holley a leading figure in the long-over looked movementof Black Southern visual artists. Holley’s work has been exhibited internationally and can be found in major museum collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, National Gallery of Art, and many others.
Matt Arnett
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is an art historian, filmmaker, music producer, podcast creator, and curator. With his brothers and father, Arnett founded the Souls Grown Deep Foundation and Tinwood Foundation to publish books, collect art, and organize museum exhibitions that advance the study, visibility and inclusion of the art and culture of the African American South in museums and institutions worldwide.
For more than two and a half decades, Arnett has worked closely with the artist and musician Lonnie Holley. He co-produced Lonnie’s first three albums, co-wrote and produced a short narrative film, I Snuck Off the Slave Ship, which premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. 
His 2024 podcast "Unreformed: The Storyvof the Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children" won numerous awards and was a finalist for a Peabody Award. 
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In 2010, Matt founded Grocery on Home, a non-traditional music space in
Atlanta, Georgia, uniting his love of music with his passion for building community support for the arts. Since 2012 he has hosted the Eddie’s Attic Open Mic.  Arnett is a graduate of Emory University, where he majored in Art History and African/African American studies and was an All-American soccer player. He lives in Atlanta with his wife, Virginia Prescott, a former public radio host.  
REEL Art: Installation
November 16 - December 29, 2026
Polly Motley, Molly Davies &, Philip Roy Dreams and Surprises
Dreams and Surprises:  Dances, Projections and Sound
Dreams and Surprises is a collaboration between Molly Davies (video), Polly Motley (choreography) and Philip Roy (video technical director). In conjunction with video, music, dance and theatre students from De Montfort University, UK the work was performed in April 2026 as part of the exhibition, residue…what remains, curated by Sue Schroeder.
Within Davies’s video environment, The GRID Map Of Space, originated by Barbara Dilley in Boulder Colorado at the Naropa Institute, was taught as part of contemplative dance and improvisation training and forms the basis of the physical work. Under Motley’s direction, The GRID Map Of Space expands beyond the three basic movements of standing, walking, changing direction to include, when desired by the performers, sitting, lying down, jumping, virtuosic dancing. The score may expand to include storytelling, singing, and idiosyncratic gestures. In contrast, everything except standing and moving to another spot, may be eliminated. This is called Standing in Proximity and is a contemplative performance practice in itself scored by Motley. THE VILLAGE, devised by Arawana Hayashi, is also incorporated into the work. This includes bowing and various group arrangements. All participants respond to the work of the others, attentive to time, timing, appetite and delight
Polly Motley 
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dances, choreographs, sings and collaborates. Since 1985 she has worked with the interactive relationships of video and performance. She collaborates with video-artist Molly Davies to create large scale environments of multiple projections, light and performance. With Motley's performance, Davies mixes live-feed and pre-recorded images to change our perceptions of scale and time. Motley has made performances with dancers, including Barbara Dilley, Diane Madden, Steve Paxton, John Jasperse, Dana Reitz, and Simone Forti; with poets Anne Carson and Jack Collom, with composers Charles
Amirkhanian, Takehisa Kosugi, Fred Frith, Sean Clute, John King and DJ M. Singe, and with visual artists Siobhan Liddell and Anna Craycroft. 
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​Motley’s work has been presented in New York by the Asia Society, the Baryshnikov Art Center, Danspace Project, The Kitchen, Dance Theatre Workshop, Movement Research, The New York Improvisation Festival, The
Jack Tilton Gallery and Zone Chelsea.  It has been presented at  the Hammer Museum, ICA Boston, Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, DIVA/Paris, the Contemporary Arts Museum/ Houston, Colorado Dance Festival, The Indonesian Dance Festival, Morishita Studios/ Tokyo, Ballet Freiburg/ Pretty Ugly, Mouson Turm Frankfurt, the Flynn Theatre and the Fleming Museum/Burlington,  Bates College Museum of Art, and The Edge Festival/ San Francisco. 
Motley's keen interest and expertise is in encouraging other people's singing, dancing and making.  She teaches What do you want to do? Where do you want to do it? For how long do you want to do it?,  Dance Party!!,  Performance and Media (with Molly Davies), and Singing: Body and Voice. Her extensive experience gives her multiple reference points for promoting others’ creativity.  She was trained in post-modern and modern dance, traditional and experimental vocal techniques, classical ballet, improvisation, contemplative dance practice and composition. Her teaching also draws from her studies in dance ethnology, body-mind centering, dance therapy, Feldencrais and the Alexander Technique.
She has taught at Middlebury College, Bennington College, University of Vermont, the Vermont Studio Center, and Johnson State College.  She was a faculty member at the University of Houston, Naropa Institute, and Loretto Heights College/ Regis University in Denver. She was Associate Director of James Clouser's Space/ Dance/ Theater in Houston, and was Clouser's choreographic assistant for the Houston Ballet Company, the Pittsburgh Ballet, and the Dallas Ballet. Her duties at the university level included teaching, advising graduate and undergraduate students, choreographing and directing student and faculty concerts, directing graduate and undergraduate creative projects, initiating and evaluating new courses, inter-departmental committee work, recruitment and fund-raising. She lives and works in Vermont and Eleuthera with video-artist, Molly Davies.
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She lives and works in Vermont and Eleuthera with video-artist, Molly Davies.
Molly Davies
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a film/video artist first
became well known in the 1970's for her innovative
work with film and performance, collaborating with
musicians and artists including John Cage, David Tudor,
Takehisa Kosugi, Lou Harrison, Michael Nyman, Alvin
Curran, Fred Frith, Suzushi Hanayagi, Sage Cowles,
Polly Motley, Jackie Matisse and Anne Carson. Her
work in film, multimedia performance, and video installation has been presented at such sites as the Venice Film Festival, The Centre Pompidou, Musée de l’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Musée d’Art Contemporain de Lyon, The Getty Research Institute, Theatre Am Turm,
The Whitney Museum, The Walker Art Center, Asia Society, The Kitchen, La Mama Etc., Dance Theatre Workshop, The Indonesian Dance Festival, and Baryshnikov Art Center. Her work can be found in the collections of Walker Art Center, Getty Research Institute, Musee D’Art Contemporie Lyon, and the Anne & Wolfgang Titze Collection. She has taught for Hans-Thies Lehmann at Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität–Frankfurt, and Andzej Wirth at the Institute for Applied Theatre Studies, Justus Liebig University–Giessen, The New School College of the Performing Arts, San Francisco Art Institute, Theatre Am Turm, Frankfurt, Northern Vermont University–Johnson, Bennington College, and Williams College. Her board affiliations have been Chairman of; Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Trisha Brown Dance Company, The Kitchen, Film in the Cities, St. Paul MN. Her video installation work is in the collections of The Getty Research Institute, The Musée d’Art Contemporain Lyon, The Walker Art Center, and the Ann & Wolfgang Titze collection. Recent shows in the U.S. include Black Mountain College Museum + Art Gallery, The Current, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, River Arts, Downstreet Art, and Alliance for the Visual Arts (AVA). Recent shows in Europe include Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Foundation Venet in Le Muy, France, and Arter Museum of Modern Art, Istanbul, Turkey.
Philip Roy
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Philip Roy is a Vermont-based musician and videographer. He studied electronic media at Northern Arizona University and is the sole proprietor of video production company Treeline Media, specializing in promotional materials and documentation of live events. In 2007 he began working with video artist Molly Davies to assist in the creation of
video installations and performance art pieces that are shown and performed worldwide. He continues to work closely
with Davies and her collaborator, choreographer Polly Motley, as well as art foundations, institutions, and venues in the not-for-profit sector to produce new works that incorporate live visuals, audio, and dance.
Roy is also a multi-instrumentalist who writes and performs under the moniker and penguin. His debut album, Paper Route, was released on Umbrellabomb
records in 2024, and a follow-up is scheduled for the Summer of 2026.
REEL Art Series # 2
December 30, 2026- January 31, 2027
Kate Weare's Landfall
Kate Weare
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is a preeminent American choreographer and Artistic Director of Kate Weare Company, a contemporary dance company founded in New York City in 2005. Raised by a painter and a printmaker in Oakland, CA, Weare draws on visual art, language, poetry, contemporary music, psychology and nature in creating dance for stage and film. Weare’s awards include The Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, The Princess Grace Choreography Fellowship, Inaugural BAM Fisher Artist-in-Residency & Commission, The Joyce Theater Mellon Foundation Creative Residency Award (2016, 2014, 2011), The Aninstantia Foundation Fellowship, White Bird’s Barney Choreographic Prize, CalArts Inaugural Evelyn Sharp Summer Residency Award, The MANCC Fellowship Award, The Jacob’s Pillow Residency Award, NC Arts Council Fellowship and The Djerassi Fellowship. Weare has created works for companies around the world such as Scottish Dance Theatre (UK), Catapult Dance Theatre (AU); Union
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Tanguera (FR); The Jose Limon Dance Company (NY), The Cincinnati Ballet (OH), and ODC/Dance (SF), among many others. Weare has been a visiting artist  at Princeton University, The Juilliard School, NYU/Tisch School of the Arts, CalArts, Marymount Manhattan and VCU, among many others. Weare earned a BFA from CalArts, dancing in Los Angeles, San Francisco, London, Belgrade and Montreal before settling in New York City in 1998. Based now between NYC and Asheville, NC, Weare is exploring dance on film with collaborators Jack Flame Sorokin and Brit Worgan. Weare and Sorokin have produced 4 films, “Landfall,” “Moth,” “RISA,” and “KIA,” garnering 16 awards and 72 premieres in festivals around the world. Weare and Worgan are in production with their first film, “New Home,” supported by The Princess Grace Foundation.
Lonnie Holley, Matt Arnett & Ethan Payne's In the Grip of Power
"In the Grip of Power" introduces us to Lonnie as he retreats to a silent sanctuary to assemble his sculpture and speak on the importance of voting when so many were and still are denied that right. 
Ethan Payne
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is an award-winning documentary filmmaker based in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. He got a BA from the Grady College of Journalism at the University of Georgia, which he put to good use by playing in bands for eleven years. At the same time, he developed his music video and documentary work, which has been featured in Pitchfork, Stereogum, Oxford American, Southern Foodways Alliance, Appalshop, and The Bitter Southerner. His short documentaries have racked up laurels from festivals worldwide, including Tribeca Film Festival, Tallgrass, Newport Beach, Berlin Independent Film Fest, and many more. “Lou,” his short doc about the Gee's Bend Quilters,
REEL Art Series # 3
February 1-28, 2027
George King's WATER
George King
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George King is a writer, producer, and director of nonfiction film, television and radio projects. His work has consistently won national and international awards (Peabody, Cine Golden Eagles, Golden Reels, etc.) and garnered revues in the national and regional press in the U.S. Projects range in approach from journalistic: (Aging, the Myths), parody and satire: (Ten Thousand Points of Light, Bananaland), historical: (Goin’ to Chicago, Will the Circle be Unbroken?), biography: (Who’s That Stranger?, Thumbs Up for Mother Universe) to the experimental (Word of Mouth, Thinking About Water).
As a documentary media artist King has served as an advisor and panelist for: National Endowment for the Humanities, National Endowment for the Arts, NEA Southeast Media Fellowships; NEA Inter-Arts/ Rockefeller Inter-disciplinary Fellowships; Fulton County Arts Council: Film & Video Artists; Georgia Council for the Arts:
Individual Artists; City of Atlanta Bureau of Cultural Affairs: Individual Artists; and Cable Television Producers; Kentucky Arts Council, Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, and the Metropolitan
was shown at the National Gallery in DC, after winning Best Editing at the Ouray International Film Fest. His short film “Bright Morning Stars,” won the Judge’s Award at Boone Docs. “We Travel” took home the Short Stories Award at the Washington DC Intl Film Festival, Best Short Documentary at the Berlin Independent Film Fest, and the Director's Spotlight Award at the Ouray International Film Fest. His first feature-length documentary "The Green Flash" has won festival awards including Best Feature Doc, Best Doc Cinematography, and Audience Choice Award.
Atlanta Community Foundation. In addition King has taught writing and documentary film and radio production in industry workshops, community forums, art schools, and universities in the U.S. and Europe. Three years ago, King was diagnosed with early stage Alzheimer's and is documenting his journey with this disease via blogs on Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube under the title Dancing.With.Delirium--which may one day morph into a series or a feature documentary.
REEL Art Series # 4
March 1-31, 2027
Cherie Carson & David Creech's Sequoia Spirits
"Sequoia Spirits" is a playful film which peers deep into the heart and soul of a Redwood Grove. Under the great canopy of California's majestic coastal giants, we get a glimpse into the elements that bring life to the woods - fire, water and earth. On one special day, we witness Fire as she summons her sister's, Earth and Water and a hide and seek adventure begins. Their dance culminates high in the treetops where Nature's grace and beauty are personified before they vanish back into thin air. Release date 7/28/24
Credits
Directors: David Creech and Cherie Carson
Music: Okorie Johnson Aerial
Dancers: Kiran Satellite Haithcox, Chris Spiteri and Helium Valentine
Editor/Cinematographer: David Creech
Assistant Camera: Skye Nickell
Colorist: Lenny Levy
Lighting: Cody Flowers
Production Angel: Eli Adler
Rigging and Safety: Kara Starkweather
Still Photography: Deena Smith 
Cherie Carson
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Cherie Carson is the Artistic Director and Choreographer of UpSwing Aerial Dance Company in Berkeley, CA since its inception 16 years ago. She has created innovative choreography that incorporates dance and athleticism both in the air and on the floor.
With her dual talents in dance and film, Cherie is an award-winning artist whose body of work has been featured in festivals and screenings around the world and in a six floor, 360-degree installation at the top of the SalesForce Tower (the tallest building in San Franscisco).
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David Creech
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has been a filmmaker since 1982 when he created his first film, “The Adventures of Swirlieman” in an Indiana art school. For 40 years now, David’s film bug has compelled him to write, produce, direct, edit, and shoot documentaries, music videos, dramas, corporate films, and more. The COVID-19 pandemic and fate brought David and Cherie Carson together in their first award-winning, collaborative dance film, “Alone Together.” Since then, David and Cherie have created 6 more films, all winning awards and recognition in dozens of film festivals across the globe.
REEL Art Series # 5
February 1-28, 2027
Erika Senft Miller
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is a European interdisciplinary artist based in Vermont whose practice creates collaborative, multisensory experiences that explore vulnerability, resilience, and human connection. Working across performance, painting, sculpture, and film, she develops site-responsive works that transform everyday gestures and overlooked moments into immersive encounters rooted in presence. Drawing from her background in movement and somatic practice, her work invites audiences to engage deeply with place, time, and one another through acts of observation, participation, and reflection. Senft Miller has presented performances throughout the United States and Europe, and her paintings and sculptural works have been exhibited across Vermont including the Bennington Museum and in Gloucester, Massachusetts. In 2025, her debut film, Kintsugi Angels, was screened at film festivals in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and across Europe. Senft Miller has also
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participated in artist residencies at the School of Visual Arts in NYC, Manship Residency, Gloucester, MA and La Fura dels Baus Epica Foundation in Barcelona, Spain. She holds a Doctorate in Dance Education from Temple University in Philadelphia, PA, where she served as a teaching fellow, as well as a degree in Economics Engineering with a concentration in Communications and Advertising from Hochschule der Medien in Stuttgart, Germany. A licensed physical therapist and certified Alexander Technique teacher, Senft Miller has taught dance improvisation and composition, teacher training, and somatic practices in universities, theaters, businesses, and community organizations for more than thirty years. Her interdisciplinary background continues to inform an artistic practice that bridges the physical, emotional, and sensory dimensions of lived experience.
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Kelly Holt
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is a multimedia artist, inspired by the urban landscape. Born in Boston, she has been a Vermont resident for 21 years. She began seriously practicing art as a high school student, beginning with painting and color theory and continuing with drawing and sculpture. Holt holds a Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art and English Literature from Boston College and a Master of Arts from Johnson State College. She works as an Independent Curator and has been Gallery Manager for several non-profit art centers and commercial galleries. Holt has written many articles and art reviews for Art New England magazine. Holt exhibits widely in the New England area, in both solo and group exhibitions. In 2026 she exhibited in a group exhibition residue… what remains in Leicester, UK under the curatorial direction of Sue Schroeder and Hugo Worthy (of De Montfort University). Upcoming exhibitions include galleries in Wiesbaden, Germany. Photographic and film work is often experimental, using older
cameras with the intention to work in abstraction. Film and video installations are often collaborative and Fluxus in nature. Exploring European cities is a muse. A majority of Holt's work is created in Berlin, Germany. Mixed media pieces often include layering archival photographic images printed on Japanese Kozo paper, spray paint, graphite and acrylic onto canvas or panel. Capturing the energy of people passing on the street, in a city, on a train... perhaps never meeting is a common theme in Holt’s work. Her street photography aims to tell a story by juxtaposing figures, architectural details shapes and color leading to a tension, chaos or a feeling that something is about to happen.