3GT is delighted to feature these wonderful guest artists during our 2012 season.
SUSANNA BAKER (Featured Fine Artist)
New Jersey mixed media artist SUSANNA BAKER works primarily with monoprints and monotypes. She describes her process as follows: “taking drawings and/or monoprints and turning them into plates by applying layers of wax and then carving into them. I print these images and combine the plates and the prints – I am drawn to creating a repeating symmetry in many of my pieces. I embellish them with oils, wax and mixed media. I experiment with different papers and methods of ‘breaking’ the surface of the print. I have used broken plates, multiple plates, torn paper, chine colle, wax and collage as part of my ‘toolbox’.” Baker’s work has been exhibited in many solo and group shows in New Jersey, including at the the Monmouth Museum, the Watchung Arts Center, Gaelen Center for the Arts, the SMI Virginia S. Block Gallery, the George Segal Gallery and the Pierro Gallery. She has a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design.
NED BOYNTON (Featured Musician)
Hailed by Jazz Improv Magazine as “a hidden gem”for his “cool guitar” style, NED BOYNTON is a San Francisco based educator and musician who has been bringing his unique “North Beach Sound” to live jazz performance throughout the Bay Area for more than twenty years. Among his many accomplishments, Boynton has been a featured clinician at the North Wales International Jazz Guitar Summer School in Wrexham, UK, featured artist for the Smithsonian Jazz Cafe, Musical Director of Enrico’s and Talk Show Live in San Francisco, leader of his Django Reinhardt-inspired trio Cafe Americain, and Associate Director of Jazzmasters Workshop. Boynton has performed with Bucky Pizzarelli, Anthony Wilson, Gary Potter, John Pisano, Howard Alden, Mundell Lowe, Bruce Forman, Les Paul, The Hot Club of San Francisco, Dan Barrett, Raul Reynoso, Mal Sharpe and many others.
JOSHUA RAOUL BRODY (Featured Musician)
Irreverent and impossible to categorize, musician JOSHUA RAOUL BRODY has been a fixture on the Bay Area music and improv scene since 1974. In addition to keeping up a calendar of performances around town, Brody is currently BATS Musical Director, accompanying many if not most of their main stage shows. He also is a teacher of song improvisation, often with Barbara Scott, and the two of them are members of the a cappella improv choir Tonal Chaos. He is principal accompanist for True Fiction Magazine (of which he was a founding member) and 3 For All. Brody is also a composer for film, video, corporate events and multimedia; is part of the quartet Tango No. 9; accompanies wacky multi-instrumentalist Ralph Carney and lounge mega-legend Mr. Lucky; Brody and long-time collaborator Merle “Ian Shoales” Kessler received rave reviews for their “one man show,” Slouching Toward Disneyland.
CLAIRE CHAFEE (Guest Playwright)
CLAIRE CHAFEE’s play, Why We Have a Body, had its world premiere at Magic Theatre and went on to be produced Off-Broadway at the Judith Anderson Theatre by Women’s Project. It has been produced in numerous theatres around the country including Los Angeles, Seattle, Boston, Minneapolis, Dallas, Chicago, Florida and South Carolina as well as in Vancouver, Canada and Perth, Australia. In 2011, the play had its tenth anniversary revival at the Magic. Other plays include Even Among These Rocks, also produced at Magic, Darwin’s Finches, produced by Encore Theatre at The Thick House, Five Women on a Hill In Spain at the Minneapolis Fringe Festival and The Greene Theatre, Emerson, Boston and Whisper from the Book of Etiquetteat New Georges, the Bay Area Playwrights Festival and New York Stage and Screen at Vassar. Her awards include a Drama-Logue Award, the Bay Area Critics’ Circle Award, a Princess Grace Special Projects Award, and the Oppenheimer Award from New York Newsday for Best Emerging Playwright. Her work has been published by Penguin Books, Smith & Kraus (Women Playwrights: The Best Plays of 1993), Alexandra Street Press, an online collection for scholarly research, and in the literary journals NuMuse and ZYZZYVA. Chafee is a member of The Dramatists Guild, and holds an MFA from Brown University and an EdM in arts education from Harvard University. She teaches graduate creative writing at California College of the Arts (CCA).
DEBI HARRISON (Featured Graphic Designer)
DEB HARRISON’S eclectic art life began when she started drawing “pretty girls” at the age of three. She insisted on the latest fashion at the age of seven, began sewing her own clothes at 12, and doing freelance advertising for neighborhood businesses in high school. After graduating from Colorado Art Institute, she combined her love of art and fashion as an illustrator, designer and art director for major department stores in Denver and San Francisco. Throughout her career, she moonlighted as a freelancer on projects outside the retail realm, and is now at the helm of her own design shop, PogostickStudio. Her clients include several non-profit organizations whose main focus are the arts and education.
RACHEL LEIBMAN (Featured Fine Artist)
Collage artist RACHEL LEIBMAN recently moved from the east coast to San Francisco, where she works from her studio in Bernal Heights. She uses small pieces of paper as her palette and “paints” colorful, detailed and elaborate pictures. The collages are composed of images of ancient illuminated manuscripts, petroglyphs, totems, tapestries and urban graffiti. Leibman incorporates manuscripts of different religions, languages and styles into each collage. The collages pay homage to those who came before and celebrate the uniqueness of our varied heritages. At the same time, they illuminate the human interconnectedness and cultural melding that defines our global society. This cultural amalgamation characterizes her secular and humanistic worldview. Leibman has exhibited her collages in many solo and group shows in New York City and New Jersey including the Monmouth Museum, the Morris Museum, Arts Guild New Jersey, the George Segal Gallery, and Broome Street Gallery in Soho.
