Planning

Last Supper Planning Contributors 2010

Creator, Director Coralina Meyer Lambastic@gmail.com

A Brooklyn based artist and architect, Coralina Meyer integrates multi-media and social practice into her work as a method of piquing the senses, and stimulating memory. Although media varies in her art, the conceptual rigor, and critical analysis of expression is constant. A foundation of sailing, athletecism, and cultural exploration infused by her mother, a chef, and father, a landscaper and tree farmer, has embedded a deep sensitivity to social, emotional, natural, sensory, and cognitive environments. Creating the Last Supper is a form of artistic expression that delves into experimentation, sculpture, social experimentation, and collaboration.

Producer: Demir Gjokaj

Demir Gjokaj is an equity research analyst working in New York City. As a Homebuilders & Real Estate analyst, most of his professional work is focused on research surrounding the residential real estate market. Prior to this position, Demir worked as a policy adviser to the Governor of Hawaii on affordable housing and land use strategy. Personally, Demir carries a ongoing passion for issues around affordable housing, urban growth, and the health of urban real estate markets.

Producer: Alicia Rae-Blegen

Alicia Rae Blegen, producer and partnership/education coordinator, comes from a long line of crafty, resourceful, and rural Norwegian women. Having moved NYC to study visual culture and disability studies at NYU, Alicia now makes folks feels at home at the best juke joints in Bed-Stuy. With ButterSuite, her project that works with disabled and abused women and their children, she bakes for change. Her interests include: embodiment and its (re)presentation, disability, performance, domesticity, manual labor/work, food as history and culture, and the curation of experiences. She likes joy.

Development Director Anh-Thu Nguyen

Anh-Thu Nguyen is an international lawyer by training and practice, as well as a sometime entrepreneur. She is co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of Ahkun (www.ahkun .org), an online platform for handicrafts made by Cambodian microfinance entrepreneurs, and is an Executive Producer for Squirrel Vision Productions, a British-based film production company. She has an unhealthy fixation with carbohydrate and cheese combinations, and her dancing is often compared to that of a dinosaur.

New Media Art Curator Karen Bookatz Media@Lambastic.com

Karen Bookatz is the Co-Founder/Director of Blue Box Gallery, a mobile gallery dedicated to New Media artwork. On behalf of Blue Box, Karen will be curating this timely new addition of “art-meets-technology” at this year’s fest. She also curates Arab, Israeli, Islamic, Jewish, Persian and Turkish-themed contemporary artwork in the context of MARHAMI BOOKATZ + KURDI Gallery, an artistic platform for progressive ideas about identity, culture and politics. She is also a freelance arts/architectural journalist and a contributing editor to a range of publications. Day-to-Day, Karen serves as Marketing Director at WASA/Studio A, an architectural design firm in New York.

Food Art Curator Nadia Siddiqui Food@Lambastic.com

Nadia Siddiqui has a keen interest in a wide-range of fields and has worked in laboratory neuroscience, community-based substance abuse treatment, and currently, human rights and accountability at the International Center for Transitional Justice with focus on international policy and Afghanistan, respectively. She is also a co-director of and writer/concept developer for the Gowanus Studio Space Jell-O Mold Competition and in addition has helped put on art, design, and food events around New York. She is tougher than she seems and has on occasion been compared to a Muppet.

Food Art Curator Michelle Zatta Food@Lambastic.com

Michelle Zatta is an industrial designer living in Brooklyn, specializing in furniture, toy, and product design. She believes that design is a means of weaving her creativity into the existing social fabric. She holds a BFA in Industrial Design from the Pratt Institute, has worked with the artist Jane Hammond, and designed products for the Brooklyn Children’s Museum and Planet Product Toys, among others. Her work has also appeared in the book Bright Minds, Beautiful Ideas: Parallel Thoughts in Different Times. She is a co-director of and design/concept developer for the Gowanus Studio Space Jell-O Mold Competition and has served as one of the production directors for Tasteologie’s CMYK Cocktail. Michelle has an unnatural love of Hello Kitty and has been known to carry pot-roasts in her purse—to hardcore shows.

Art Curator Alison Levy Art@Lambastic.com

Alison Levy has been an independent curator of site-specific art exhibitions and events in unusual sites with incredible history and communities since 2002. From 2004-2006, she was the Director of the Peekskill Project in Peekskill, NY. I am a published art critic, love working with children and assisting entrepreneurs. I study and practice civic activism, chakra healing, astrology, hula-hooping, swimming, and progressive education.

Writing Curator Douglas Turner writing@Lambastic.com

A graduate of The New School’s Bachelor of Art program, fledgling Cultural Theorist residing in Brooklyn, Douglas Turner view’s humanity as the furthest reaches of an evolving process. That process takes place in and is culture. Douglas is currently working on a book project comprised of a collection of essays about the conditioning affect of culture, and attempts to contextualize the coming Cultural Revolution. A newcomer to TLS–curator of both Art and Writing, his intention is to bring a deeper perspective on the notion of individual versus collectivity. In the arts, an individual perspective creates an expression, however, as the collective, a vision manifests.

Music Curator Tom Newman Music@Lambastic.com

After 3 years of programming short films for the Last Supper, Thomas Newman returns to curate the festival’s musical line up. Tom, along with a team of audio/visual dissidents, created BLANKS NYC, a creative events collective that hosts participatory art events and dance parties throughout New York City. His DJ career began the day he sold his beloved Pearl Jam tickets to buy a pair of used turntables from a pawn shop in Baltimore City. Since then, he spins/clicks/loops/bleeps underground house around NYC under the name Clickbeatle. Currently, Tom lives in Brooklyn, working by day as an architect/ contributor to Impose Magazine/ graphic designer/ events organizer… and by night as a BLANK.

Film Curator- Laura A. Rugarber

Film@Lambastic.com

Laura A. Rugarber is an artist working in the Film Department at The Museum of Modern Art where she also initiated, curates, and directs Staff Screening series and founded the MoMA Film Club. Beyond this, she serves as a film co-curator for Plutonian Pictures and has recently been selected by the Wall Street Journal’s Speakeasy to report on art events.

Farm Curator, Partnerships

Derek Denckla

Derek Denckla initiates social impact enterprises to achieve watershed results, focusing on projects that promote cultural capital and environmental sensitivity. His curatorial work is centered upon cross-disciplinary exhibitions that integrate art, design, performance and public policy. His latest project, FarmCity .US, is a multi-modal series of events and exhibitions exploring the expansion of urban agriculture and launching, Farm City Fund, a new enterprise providing financial tools and products for urban agriculture business. Currently, Denckla manages Special Projects for Added Value, the non-profit that cultivates Red Hook Community Farm and the Farm on Governor’s Island. He blogs about sustainable food @ thegreenest .net. Through his consulting practice, propellergroup .net, Denckla initiates real estate development projects in partnership with arts organizations, such as greenbeltbrooklyn.com, the first LEED Gold building in Brooklyn, that houses Center for Performance Research, cprnyc .org.

Performance Curator

Erik Fabian

Performance@Lambastic.com

Erik Fabian is an artist, live experience designer, and creative entrepreneur living in Brooklyn. He graduated from the Masters of Fine Arts degree program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His work in performance, installation, and conceptual art can be found at www.ErikAndTheAnimals.com. Information about Erik’s live experience design consulting and his company Double Happiness

Set Designer Lili Trenkova

A first-time TLS participant, Lili Trenkova has moved across continents as well as art media. Starting with 8 years of classical piano in her native Bulgaria, she moved on to jazz guitar and punk bass, followed by dance, mime, and ceramics, to get to her current occupation as a scenographer and a product designer and installer for a tension fabric company. Recent credits in set design include The Crucible and Mrs. Bob’s Wild Christmas Binge for The Gallery Players, and Cell for First Irish Festival, all of which Lili also constructed and painted herself (with a few nice handy helpers.) Some of her interests include civil liberties, high-quality vegan cooking, mixology, and bicycling. You may have tasted Lili’s vegan baked goods in Reese’s Erotic Bakery at the last two Lost Horizon Night Market events and her drinks at Pangea in the East Village.

Architecture Installation: Ryan Lewandowski

Ryan Lewandowski is an architectural designer hailing originally from the middle of no where Virginia. Having moved up to New York City shortly after graduating from the University of Virginia, he has worked at Ennead Architects for the past two years. His interests in architecture focus on the individual as a foundation for understanding the complex built systems of today by studying how one relates spatially, culturally, and personally to ones surroundings.

Architecture Installation: Daria Supp

Daria Supp is originally from Washington State, but now calls Brooklyn home. As an Architect she spends her days in Manhattan designing cultural, medical, and academic buildings. Since graduating from the University of Pennsylvania with a Master of Architecture degree in 2005 she has spent time in Seattle, London and New York working as an architect and video-animation artist. She is interested in exploring how architecture can transcend its static qualities and more actively engage in the experience it creates.

Film Assistant Curator Jane Wagner

Jane Wagner is currently working on Unraveled, an upcoming feature documentary by Marc H. Simon. She is also producing a short documentary about Creationism, a project that took her to Petersburg, Kentucky to film at the controversial Creation Museum. A recent graduate of Davidson College, Jane is looking forward to discovering ways to combine her interest in art history with her passion for filmmaking.

Guest Chef Matthew David Lundquist

Matthew Lundquist was born and raised in Mankato MN. After receiving a BFA in Ceramic Arts from MSU, he moved to NYC where he currently resides in Bushwick BK. For two years he has been the Sous Chef at The Waterfront Alehouse, Manhattan.

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Last Supper Planning Contributors 2009

Creator, Director, Curator Coralina Meyer

Art Curator Mary Steel-Hayes

Mary Steel-Hayes is an artist and photography producer. Though originally from Washington DC, she has been based in Brooklyn for the past 11 years, she lives in Bushwick with her husband. After graduating from Parsons Photography, she was disillusioned with the ongoing state of art discussion and presentation. She does not believe in over-intellectualizing artwork, it really should stand on its own without too much explanation. Through curating the art for TLS, she hopes to bring together a group of artists whose work clearly and definitively address issues of consumption and means.

Film Curator Tom Newman

Tom is returning to the Last Supper Festival for the third year as film curator. He earned his Bachelors Degree in Architecture at the University of Maryland at College Park, and a Masters of Architecture from University of Utah, where his studies were primarily focused on the relationship between filmmaking and the architectural design process. He has taught undergraduate and graduate design studios based on narrative media including film and literature. Currently, he lives in Brooklyn working as an architect in New York City.

Budget, Production Demir Gjokaj

Demir Gjokaj is an equity research analyst at Majestic Research, a financial research firm that builds unique data sets for clients trading equities. As a a Homebuilders / Real Estate analyst, most of his professional work is focused on research surrounding the residential real estate market. Prior to this position, Demir worked as a policy adviser to the Governor of Hawaii on affordable housing and land use strategy. Personally, Demir carries a ongoing passion for issues around affordable housing, urban growth, and the health of urban real estate markets.

Guest Chef, Food & Beverage Consultant Simon Lange

Born and raised in Key West FL, Simon moved to Brooklyn in 2004 to work on his resume as a chef. In the past five years he become the Head Chef and co-owner of Apartment 138 located on Smith St. in Cobble Hill. By doing so he joined a power house group of native Brooklyn restauranteurs and bar/club owners that run Camp (Carrol Gardens), Bar 4 (Park Slope), Public Assembly (Williamsburg), Cebu Bistro (Bayridge), and Matchless (Greenpoint). His most recent project has been the conception and development of the new kitchen in Matchless. As a group they are always looking for new projects and may even have some in the works. So keep your ears posted and taste buds sharp because they aren’t done yet!

Writing Curator Jim Cronin

Jim Cronin is a poet and journalist living in Boston, MA, and holds a B.A. from Suffolk University. He is poetry editor and a founder of the White Whale Review, a quarterly online journal of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. He has been a regular contributor to various sections of The Boston Globe, The Brockton Enterprise, and other area publications, and is currently a staff writer at a weekly newspaper. Jim has been studying poetry with Boston-area poet and workshop leader Tom Daley since the summer of 2007, and is a member of the New England Poetry Club.

Farms, Partnership Liaison Naomi Sorkin

Naomi Sorkin finds herself returning for a second year with The Last Supper Festival in the role of farm/food liaison. A Miami native with a Brooklyn zip code and a severe case of wanderlust, Naomi spends her days straddling the local and global spheres of public health. This summer her balancing act has taken her across the country to investigate the impact of farmers’ markets on alieviating urban hunger. She’s invested in using creative means to address food access issues through community moblization and building partnerships between artists, organizers, academics and policymakers. At present she’s a Masters in Public Health student at Columbia University.

Production, Food Liaison Alicia Rae Blegen

A displaced Midwesterner who moved here for graduate school, Alicia imbues her projects with earnest folksiness, joy, and memories of her grandmother. Her interests include gendered labor and domesticity, embodiment and performance, and disability studies. Happily, she explores these while working as The Last Supper’s Community Development Liaison.

Education MA, New York University, Visual Culture—Theory and Disability Studies BS, University of Wisconsin, English and Art History

Development Coordinator Claire Bergeal

Claire Bergeal is volunteering for the first time as community development liaison and all around getting-stuff-done helper for the Last Supper Festival. She and Coralina Meyer share a wonderful and caring step-mother, Susan, and are now rejoicing in their new pseudo-step-sisterhood. Pretty fresh out of college out on the West Coast, where she studied art history at UC Santa Cruz, Claire has worked in several arts organizations and is now Assistant to the Director at the National Academy Museum on Museum Mile, here in New York.

Publicity, Advertising Director Haanwa Chau

Born in Larchmont, NY, Haanwa Chau grew up equally influenced by urban New York City and the woods behind her best friend’s house. By the time she was eighteen Haanwa decided to be a designer. Graphic design was her starting off point. As art director at New Orleans Citybusiness Newspaper she explored the graphical mainstream. Haanwa returned to New York in 2001 to begin an obsessive love affair with New York City. At Parsons School of Design and in Kopenhagen she studied architecture focusing on sustainability, urban studies and multi-family housing. She is always looking at the world around her and thinking up new ways to make it better.

AV Engineer, DJ Selector Honeyknuckles

Selector Honey Knuckles (Nic Richards) migrated to Brooklyn from his Southern homeland in 2006. This will be his third year participating in the Last Supper Festival, having been introduced to the event by mastermind, super coordinator, and fellow Floridan friend Coralina Meyer. When not DJing, Richards works as a freelance audio engineer and hip hop producer. He is currently producing an EP with Brooklyn MC Mr. Metro as well as running his home recording studio Skilloughby Productions and scoring independent films. His sets are an eclectic homage to the art of party rocking. Expect a well selected blend of head noddin’ body rockin’ jams mixed as they should be.

Grants, PR Susan Whang

Susan, an organizing volunteer of The Last Supper, is a Park Slope resident and locavore advocate who has adopted Brooklyn as her home away from home. Born and raised in Los Angeles, California, Susan is an urban child of mom-and-pop businesses, public schools and keeping it real. After graduating from UC Berkeley, Susan spent time in the San Francisco Bay Area of Northern California and worked in the non-profit sector ranging from children’s educational advocacy to fundraising and development at the San Francisco Symphony. While Susan is off-hours as an Interior Designer she likes to dedicate time as a volunteer tutor at Brooklyn’s 826NYC and the Park Slope Food Coop.

Consultant Jeff Rosenfeld

Jeff Rosenfeld, Ph.D is a Gerontologist, who researches and writes about older people.

He is interested in making Last Supper more of an inter-generational event which brings the hopes, dreams, and political aspirations of older people and younger people together. Jeff teaches at Parsons, The New School for Design and Hofstra University.

Production Charlie Chiang

Charlie graduated the University of Texas at Austin with a BS is sociology

and history. Just before graduation, he somehow got lost and ended up in

the Marine Corps Officer Selection Office. It must have been that hot Texas

sun, because he signed up and was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant. While in

the Marines, he specialized in military intelligence and served two combat

tours in Iraq. When he realized that the Iraqi sun was just a bit too hot

to be running around under – with 70 lbs of body armor and equipment

strapped to his body – he returned to the states and attended Parsons School for Design. There he graduated with a BFA in fashion design. This is his first year participating in the Last Supper Festival and during an administrative computer error was given the title of fashion curator. He is interested in the blending of culture, technology, and design in a way that is still aesthetically pleasing, relevant, and fashionable.

Press Liaison Sarah Ryley

Sarah Ryley is a freelance journalist living with her sometimes-Dalmatian in Prospect-Lefferts Gardens. She currently writes for the New York Post and The Real Deal. Her biggest passion, urban development, was incubated during her time spent living in 14 different cities, including most recently Detroit, the nation’s most perplexing urban conundrum. But she is an artist and writer at heart, having been taught to draw and paint by her uncle, a Louisville painter and gallery owner, since toddlerhood. When not reporting, she can most likely be found exploring the city on bicycle, photographing street art, and walking her dog in Prospect Park.

Photographer – Nate Dorr

Nate Dorr splits his time between documenting out-of-the-way corners of New York and its boroughs, and documenting emerging rock bands, sometimes while they’re playing in out of the way corners of the boroughs. His photography has appeared in varied publications, on- and off-line, including Balladry, Chief Magazine, Flavorpill, Gothamist, and, incessantly, Impose Magazine.

Web Design – Doug Koh

Born in Dallas TX and growing up in Taejon, Korea and New York City, Doug Koh is a growing video artist, photographer, painter, and designer. This is Doug’s first Last Supper Festival as graphic/web designer. He is based in New York City. He graduated from Parsons the New School for Design in May 2009 with a BFA in Communications Design. He is unusually philosophical about his work and its historical context, and is capable of working in many styles/levels of individual expression. He is heavily interested in embedding human-interaction, culture, and experimentation in his work.

Graphic Design Erika Schnieder

Production Sarah Walko

Travel Consultant Bright Meyer

PR Whitney Len

Legal Consultant Carleton Goss

Consultant Brian Basti

Past Contributors:

Erin Stella