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Writer / Curator

Cassandra Neyenesch

Cassandra Neyenesch is a Brooklyn-based writer, curator, and founder of Abortion Stories, an organization that provides safe, supportive spaces for people to tell their abortion stories in the context of art and performance. With Lydia Nobles, she co-curated soft weapons, a 29-artist show about body autonomy that took place in a Greenpoint warehouse, accompanied by performances and talks. She has written for The New Yorker, The Guardian, Art in America, Public Books, HuffPost, Brooklyn Rail, and other publications. Her novel A Little Bit Bad came out in May with Summit Books.

Artist / Curator

Roxanne Wolanczyk

Roxanne Wolanczyk is a New York-based artist working in ceramic and text. She inscribes first-person statements onto inherited forms, bringing contemporary language into contact with historical structure.

She received a BFA in Sculpture from Pratt Institute and an MSW from Hunter College. Her work has been exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum, the Bronx Museum, the New York State Museum, Pierogi, PS122, Art in General, and the Wassaic Project. She curated and participated in Expired at Essex Flowers, presented by apexart.

Artist / Curator

Lydia Nobles

Lydia Nobles is a New York-based conceptual artist who uses sculpture to reorient how bodies are imagined, cared for, and controlled. Her practice brings together architectural fragments, fabrics, kiln-formed glass, synthetic composites, pigment, body casts, and salvaged objects.

Her work has been presented at KAPOW, SPRING/BREAK Art Fair, Field Projects, and Ross-Sutton Gallery, with two sculptures included in the Brooklyn Museum's 50 Years Since Roe: A Convening on Reproductive Justice. She holds an MFA from Parsons School of Art and Design and a BFA from Moore College of Art and Design.

Communications

Annika Wolanczyk

Annika Wolanczyk studies Art History at McGill University. She has worked with the Venice Biennale, supporting the curator and exhibition manager through pavilion operations and press coordination. She has also supported exhibition logistics and on-site operations at Future Fair and has contributed exhibition reviews and art writing to Impulse Magazine. Her interests are in contemporary art.