A series of online gatherings centered around the pelvis with a diverse roster of practitioners ranging from dance, somatic practice to breathwork. Hosted by The Interior Beauty Salon and Priscilla Marrero. This program will run January-June 2022, on the last Thursday of each month. Join us as we shake, educate, and shine together!   

RSVP HERE

All sessions are free and open to the public upon RSVPing. Any donations collected will go directly to support La Pelvis Project. 

This series is made possible with the support of the Gluck Fellows Program of the Arts, The Interior Beauty Salon, and the University of California Riverside Dance Department.  

FIRST SESSION: Thursday, January 27, 2022, 6:00PM-7:30PM EST / 3:00PM-4:30PM PST 

More sessions: Thursday, February 24th, 2022 / Thursday, March 31, 2022 / Thursday, April 28th, 2022 / Thursday, May 26th, 2022 / Thursday, June 30th, 2022 

With Jessica Garet from Aire Healing : In this session, Jessica will discuss how our body, especially our pelvis, holds the potential for our greatest creativity and connection to our vitality and authentic expression. She will invite and guide us in exploring how breath can help us to uncover energetic blocks stored in our body and use the body’s wisdom to access increased sensations of safety and a return to feeling a deeper sense of belonging. The intention is that if the body and spirit can remember their innate gifts of safety, connection, pleasure, and expansion then the energy of trauma, loss, grief, and pain will have a greater ability to flow and be liberated.  

Jessica Garet (she/her) is a licensed clinical social worker specializing in body/spirit-based experiential practices for healing including breathwork and somatic/sensation-based inquiry.  As an arts enthusiast and vocalist, Jessica has a particular interest in working with creative professionals, helping them to navigate creative energetic blocks and nurture their inner voice.  She has been holding space for healing since 2006 and presently offers individual and group work online only.  

Priscilla Marrero (ella/she) is an experimental performing + teaching artista from sunny Seminole, Taíno and Tequesta land, also known as Miami, Florida. She is a passionate storyteller and loves to discover new ways to collaborate with interdisciplinary artistas through live performance or filmmaking. She has performed and presented her collaborations in the Musée Dapper (Paris, FR), The Empty Circle (Brooklyn, NY), Miami Light Project (Miami, FL), Inkub8 (Miami, FL), Movement Research at Judson Memorial Church (New York, NY) y más. Priscilla has received support from grants such as Artist Access Grant, Miami-Dade Community Grants, Here and Now Grant, and Gluck Fellowship Grant, MFA Graduate Fellowship, and currently the Chancellor's Distinguished Fellowship Award. She graduated from Florida International University with a BA in Performance and Choreography (09) and is currently an MFA Candidate for Experimental Choreography from the University of California Riverside (22) for her research practice on La Pelvis. Priscilla lives and works on/with Munsee Lenape land, known as Harlem, NY, and often travels to Miami Beach for el mar and some familia time. 

Priscilla Marrero related links: website / IG / Vimeo

SING A SONG TO HER, READ HER A LOVE LETTER OR A POEM, SHARE A MEMORY, DANCE, PERFORM LIVE. FOR MORE INFORMATION, CLICK HERE / TO PARTICIPATE COMPLETE THIS FORM

Organized by Franklin Furnace, Grace Exhibition Space, Streamside 7, E.A.R.T.H. Lab (Environmental Art, Research, Theory & Happenings, San Francisco), Three Phase Center, and The Interior Beauty Salon.  

Join us for part or the full length of this 21-hour Zoom endurance broadcast to celebrate Linda Mary Montano’s amazing legacies, teachings, videos and art/life. During this historic event, performance artists, lifeists and organizations around the Earth will connect online to perform, tell stories related to Linda Mary Montano, remember stories from her times teaching, and watch some of her videos made in collaboration with Tobe Carey (video editor) and Jim Barbaro (sound engineer). All are more than welcome to share a 1-3 minutes Laugh/Cry, a performance of your choice, read your LOVE LETTERS TO LINDA, or share a “be Linda” re-enactment!! A fun and easy time will be had by ALL!!

Noodle, Rice, and Bread / The Cultural Dialogue Between Art and Food

January 15 - February 26, 2022

Studio Artego LLC

32-78 48th Street Long Island City NY 11103

Curated by Soojung Hyun / Artists: Seongmin Ahn / Hayoon Jay Lee / Eung Ho Park / Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles

This exhibition will examine some remarkable art works related to images of food. The show’s title, Noodles, Rice, and Bread, presents three foods appropriated from our international diet. Each of them offers a metaphor in relation to the different cultures from which they are taken. Each food originates from a region, which holds its own cultural climate. These variations are fused in a manner that reinforces our ability to recognize our humanity. Our exhibition opens various intersections by giving attention to both Eastern and Western cultures, and in doing so, reveals an important ongoing dialogue between contemporary art and various traditions involving food.

Despite different backgrounds, each food gives us the necessary nutrients to sustain life. Just as food allows people to join together, we believe that art has the potential to do much the same. In either case, art and food become facilitators by which to understand our global environment more deeply. Both have the propensity to give pleasure by sharing what they have in common. The space of art and the aura of food connect people in ways that give them a true sense of pleasure in life. The current exhibition has been curated with this idea in mind, hoping this dialogue between art and food will translate its meaning effectively.

The Salon will also be launching a Q&I with Priscilla and Nicolás in November 2021

Priscilla Marrero (ella/she) is an experimental performing + teaching artista from sunny Seminole, Taíno and Tequesta land, also known as Miami, Florida. She is a passionate storyteller and loves to discover new ways to collaborate with interdisciplinary artistas through live performance or filmmaking. She has performed and presented her collaborations in the Musée Dapper (Paris, FR), The Empty Circle (Brooklyn, NY), Miami Light Project (Miami, FL), Inkub8 (Miami, FL), Movement Research at Judson Memorial Church (New York, NY) y más. Priscilla has received support from grants such as Artist Access Grant, Miami-Dade Community Grants, Here and Now Grant, and Gluck Fellowship Grant, MFA Graduate Fellowship, and currently the Chancellor's Distinguished Fellowship Award. She graduated from Florida International University with a BA in Performance and Choreography (09) and is currently an MFA Candidate for Experimental Choreography from the University of California Riverside (22) for her research practice on La Pelvis. Priscilla lives and works on/with Munsee Lenape land, known as Harlem, NY, and often travels to Miami Beach for el mar and some familia time. 

Priscilla Marrero related links: website / IG / Vimeo

The Interior Beauty Salon announces its February guests

A conversation between Erin Sickler and Hana van der Kolk. To read this piece, click HERE

Erin Sickler is a curator, writer, and lifelong mover. She received her BA in Art and Environmental Studies from Oberlin College and an interdisciplinary MA at NYU. Positions include Gallery Manager of the Esther Massry Gallery at the College of Saint Rose in Albany, NY; Director of Curatorial Programs at 601Artspace, New York, NY; and Assistant Curator at the Queens Museum, Queens, NY. She is currently Studio Director for the artist Randy Polumbo. Independently curated exhibitions include Mutadis Mutandis: Signo, Símbolo, Icono (Uno Caña, Mexico City), exhaust (Contemporary Art Tasmania, Hobart), and Prolonged Engagement (EFA Project Space, New York). Her art writing has appeared in Art in America, Artlink (AUS), The Brooklyn Rail, October, and numerous blogs and catalogs. Her poetry has been published in The Brooklyn Rail and as part of artist Freya Powell’s collection The Mnemosyne Atlas 2012.  Residencies for non-fiction writing include Millay Colony, Austerlitz, NY and the Broken Hill Art Exchange in Broken Hill, Australia. 

I'm Hana van der Kolk (pronouns any and all). I see dance as a conduit for knowing/unknowing what is here and now, for remembering intimacy at any proximity. I'm interested in leaning towards the uncanny, the messy and the boring in that process. Based on Mohican territory (Troy, NY), I am tending land and community. I am also often in Amsterdam (NL), was based in Los Angeles for years, and have taught/performed in many places and kinds of containers. I am nearing the end of a practice-based PhD with a collection of practices, a video piece and written dissertation titled Utopia's Stamina (which I borrow from Bernadette Mayer). I hope they will be nourishing offerings! I love my dog, my friends, the forest and all shades of pink and gold.  

Erin Marie Siclkler’s related links: Instagram

Hana van der Kolk’s related links: Instagram / website

Lisette Morel is a New Jersey based Dominican-American artist, mother and educator, born in New York City. She initiated her career as a painter, and her practice has broadened to include installation/site-specific works, assemblage and performance. She embraces these as organic extensions of her body, which help her navigate, question, blur and challenge set boundaries within systems. Most recently, Lisette has been known to perform with her daughters, friends and neighbors in recurring endurance collaborations. Some of these include Run to Your Friend Until You Can’t Anymore, with performance artist Ayana Evans. In this action for Korean Art Forum they run to one another for 2-3 hours, celebrating and exploiting the strength and vulnerability of their friendship. Lisette has also created her own performances, where she utilizes found objects to mark given spaces. One of these performances includes Raw Forms Forum, curated by artist Dominique Duroseau, Newark Museum, NJ. In the Winter of 2021, she performed And You Do What They Tell Ya; And You Eat What They Tell Ya, inspired by the infamous band Rage Against The Machine. In the Winter of 2020 Morel invited neighbors to draw in the snow-covered street with mops and brooms. Her large-scale installations have been included in exhibitions with the Neo-Latino Collective group exhibit Critical Mass, Monmouth Museum, NJ. She has exhibited as well as part of the I Kan Do Dat exhibit, curated by Daniel Simmons and Oshune Layne, Skylight Gallery Brooklyn, NY. Her first solo exhibition Places You Aren’t Supposed To Go: (Don’t Play Me) Do We Still Call It Abstract Art? premiered at Gallery Aferro, Newark, NJ.  Awards and residencies include the First Sustainable Arts Fellow Residency, Gallery Aferro, Newark, NJ, 2016; and an artist residency at Soho20 Chelsea Gallery, NY, 2012. She participated in Aljira’s Emerge10 Program and at El Museo del Barrio Fifth Biennial: The (S) Files. Lisette is a recipient of the prestigious Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA Grant. She received her Master in Fine Arts at the Tyler School of Art, Temple University and her Bachelor of Arts at Rutgers University.

Lisette Morel / Related links: website / Instagram / review

The Interior Beauty Salon announces its December guest

A Q&I between Dimple B Shah and Nicolás

To read the full Q&I click HERE

Nicolás: I am extremely interested in the concept of The Mother. I have worked with my mother on several occasions. In 2007, she sent me off to Germany where I invited the Holy Infant of Prague to take over me for several days and, so I renounced my personality for that time. My mother made the vestment of the Holy Infant. Linda Mary Montano also worked with her mother way back, and I see that you work with your mother as well. Any insights? 

Dimple B Shah: I am very close to my mother.  My relationship has deepened as I am living with her for the past 12 years due to her illness. The emotional bond has become even stronger. I share my thoughts with her, my creative ideas, and my emotional traumas. My mother has also evolved from a homemaker, to slowly become an artist. For the past five years or more, she has started to draw and paint and I encouraged her to do so to divert her from negative thinking and, since then she has shown tremendous interest and now is slowly becoming an artist. I have shared my first thought and idea of performances with her for the last two years. Mother has collaborated with me in my performances. The bond between mother and daughter is strong, unconditional and, the backbone of our strength. Words are not enough to explain our relationship. 

Dimple B Shah’s ’s related links: Blog / Instagram / YouTube / Facebook

I thank you, Elizabeth Ridley, for introducing me to this powerful poem that speaks so much to me here and now at this very moment

Last week I graduated from The Interdependence Project as a Mindfulness Meditation Teacher. I thank each one of my teachers, my classmates and the anonymous angel-donor who made it possible for me to attend this yearlong program. May you always be blessed.

To learn more about The Interdependence Project (IDP) click HERE

For more information as to how to train as a meditation teacher with IDP click HERE

BY LUCILLE CLIFTON

won't you celebrate with me

what i have shaped into

a kind of life? i had no model.

born in babylon

both nonwhite and woman

what did i see to be except myself?

i made it up

here on this bridge between

starshine and clay,

my one hand holding tight

my other hand; come celebrate

with me that everyday

something has tried to kill me

and has failed.

To read the full article (in Spanish): click HERE

Andrés Senra’s project is currently showing at Swinton And Grant Gallery in Madrid, Spain

Andrés Senra related links: website / IG / Vimeo / Facebook / YouTube

A FREE Online Gathering Over Two Days  “Youth Mental Wellness - Resilience in Uncertainty” / October 7 and 8, 2021 

For more details about the conference click HERE

To register click HERE

About In My Mind Conference 2021 : Our 2021 conference continues as a FREE virtual gathering with a potentially larger participation - many from previous conferences and first timers - WELCOME! As a participant, you are likely to meet others from around the world, the country and your neighborhood/community from the comfort of your home. 

Recognizing the limitations imposed on us by the continuing pandemic and the fatigue many experience from too much online/screen time, this year’s Conference will span two days - truncated each day. It will be primarily led by our young LGBTQ+ people of color community members, who will share with us their view of the present and their thoughts for the future. Subject areas will raise and discuss issues focused on LGBTQ+ people of color mental health - “In My Mind.”  

The conference hones in on issues impacting mental health, such as foster care, homelessness and shelter system, incarceration, physical health, substance abuse and recovery, transgender issues, sexual health, cultural sensitivity and acceptance (sexual orientation and gender identity), HIV, COVID-19, racism, homophobia and transphobia, education, coping with isolation, social media, external environmental factors, and much more.