Artist Directory
Meet our growing collective of artists working together to empower our community and create unique art, music, and experiences as Spiderweb Salon. Consider supporting us on Patreon so we can keep up the magic, and if you’d like to join us, read up on becoming a co-creator here!
Abigail Clement
{she/her/hers}
poetry, painting
Abigail Clement is a disabled artist living in Denton, Texas who uses art to express on her experiences and explore themes surrounding disability, oppression, and humanism. That doesn't sound very fun, but she's actually hilarious. You'll love her.
Adam S. Mahout
music, poetry
Adam S. Mahout writes poetry and music in Denton, Texas. He currently performs with J. Allert, Ditch Prince, and Danielle Grubb. Other works have been featured on the Dentonite, North Texas Review, and here (Spiderweb Salon!)
Adeline Ballard
{she/her}
music, poetry, painting, performance art, puppetry
Adeline graduated UNT with a communication Studies degree with a focus in performance studies. Her work centers on the beauty and calamity of introspection.
Alejandra Ramos Gomez / Nadxielii Alejandra
{she/her/hers}
poetry, spoken word, performance art, theatre, dancing (ballet, contemporary, and Latin rhythms)
Alejandra is a bilingual educator and performing artist born and raised in Juarez, Mexico. She earned her BA in Political Science and Linguistics from UTEP and her Masters in Bilingual Education from SMU. Her work can be found in three anthologies with the Writers’ Association in Juarez, Mexico, and Pasos en el Norte by Rotary International. She recently delivered a TEDx talk and contributed in a chapter book with Voces Writers in Dallas, TX.
Alex Stock
{they/them}
painting, drawing, sculpture, electronics
Alex Stock has been a part of Spiderweb Salon since 2012. They are a self-taught, multi-media artist with a biology Master’s from the University of North Texas. Their work focuses on the often stifling dynamics inherent in social conflicts from the macabre lens of the natural world and its parallels in animalistic predator and prey relations. Alex works in many different mediums from illustration to interactive artwork and large scale sculpture.
Amy Zapien
{she/they}
performance art, 2/D & 3/D art, installation work, lighting, soundscaping, spoken work, collage, illustration, theater
Under the alias of Cocoatlicue (co-kwat-lee-kwei), Amy Zapien explores the relationships of time travel, catharsis, magic, and personal narrative to healing. She experiments with visual and performing arts, rituals, soundscapes, installations, lighting, and illustration to excavate the ways in which stories are shared. You can find her on Instagram, in both the spirit and physical world, or in Pleasant Grove with her dog June.
Angel Weaver
{she/her}
singing, watercolor, photography, writing, cooking
Angel Weaver is a local artist and mother who is forever in pursuit of keeping her artistic identity vibrant and fresh. She currently leads the Denton band, Bereah, where she showcases her songwriting. Starting in 2017, she began compiling her work with watercolor and photography under Dear, Deer Paint & Photo using it as a platform to delve into her whimsical side. When Angel is not chasing her three-year-old around the playgrounds of Denton, you might find her in the kitchen perfecting her original gluten-free and sugar-free recipes to share with friends and family.
Ashley Enfield
painting, drawing, sculpting
I am a mixed media artist based in Dallas. My art is primarily shown on my Instagram under the name “awkward_ley_artsy”, just exploring who I am.
Axel Severs / Rosie
{he/him}
music
Axel Severs is Managing Editor at Nat. Brut, and art and literary magazine. He lives in Dallas.
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Bess Whitby
{she/her/hers}
music, poetry, performance art
Bess is a writer, cellist, and long-time Spiderwebber living in Denton. She holds an MA in creative writing from the University of North Texas and currently works as the marketing manager for UNT Press. Bess has helped organize Spiderweb shows for many years. Her work has appeared in dozens of the Salon's zines.
Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam
{she/her}
poetry, fiction
Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam curates the annual Art & Words Show in Fort Worth. She also writes fiction and poetry both speculative and literary that has appeared in over 40 magazines such as Masters Review, Clarkesworld, Lightspeed, and Everyman's Library's Monster Verse. She has been a finalist for the Nebula Award and Selected Shorts' Stella Kupferberg Memorial Prize. She released an audio fiction-jazz collaborative album Strange Monsters with her partner Peter Brewer's Easy Brew Studio in April 2016.
Brad Holt
{he/him}
video production, motion design, photography
Brad is a freelance video producer, motion designer, and photographer, producing national TV ads and social media content for various businesses. 2019 is the tenth year of his Project 365, for which he makes a photo and journal entry every day, producing a book at the end of each year.
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Caitlin Childs
{she/her}
butter
A lover of learning, Caitlin has attended culinary school, an ice cream class in Pennsylvania, and courses in everything from cheese-making to chocolate-baking. Her culinary expertise has found her in many a kitchen, as short order egg cook, a fine dining chef, kitchen manager, and even running a baked goods shop at the Denton Community Market. Born and raised in Denton, Caitlin is a longtime travel and food fanatic and spends most of her time browsing cheap flights and day dreaming of devouring pastries in Europe.
Carolyn Taylor
{she}
music, painting
I was 15 when I started teaching myself to play guitar. I worship cats in my spare time as well as parent my human offspring. I admire the strange and unusual.
Chelsea Fiddyment
{they/she}
performance and time-based work, language/text (primarily fictional prose), music, book art, linocuts/block printing
Language artist and event producer working across media to investigate the relationship between form and content in narrative fiction. Creator and host of the monthly show UNREAL, an experimental fiction-focused open mic at Schubas Tavern in Chicago.
Cher Musico
{she/her}
spoken word/performance poetry, painting, photography, graphic design
As a queer Filipina-American visual storyteller in DFW, my mediums are photography, painting, spoken word poetry, and video art. Most of my creative work blend emotive portraits, my Filipinx-American upbringing, adapting thru my navigation of autism, &/or aspects based on childhood nostalgia.
Chris Flesher
{he/him}
cooking, beer making, homesteading
Christopher David Taylor / Denton Performance Lab
{he/him}
performance art, theatre, short fiction, technical support
Chris has been a part of the DFW theatre and arts communities for the last decade as an arts journalist (Stage Directions Blog), a freelance director (Denton Performance Lab), educator and cheerleader for artists stuck on an idea. He lives in Denton and you can often see him running in large groups as a founding member of the Denton Area Running Club.
Claire Sorensen
{she/her}
writing, poetry, music, painting, sculpting
This traumatized trans girl is socially terrified, hopelessly bisexual, awkward unto the extreme, and full of surprises. Ask about hedgehogs or tiny books, but gently please. Claire is thrilled to be helping facilitate the peer-led support groups for You Are Here.
Clent Roye Wyatt
{he/him/his}
writing, poetry, performance art, theatre, short film
As all things are increasingly commodified and branded, Clent seeks to re-create the sacred in our lives.
Corbin Childs
{he/him}
music, recording
I am a player of many instruments across a spectrum of skill levels and the owner/operator of Shiny Sound Recording Studio.
courtney marie
{they/them}
writing, drawing, zine making, performance, text & fiber art, directing, community gathering
courtney marie is a writer and artist based in Denton, Texas. she enjoys working with text as an art medium and performance object and sometimes she plays music with her friends. courtney marie lives with two cats, loves to travel, and writes a lot of letters.
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Dahlia Knowles / Lorelei K
{she/her}
music (voice, synth, guitar, production), poetry, painting (acrylics, watercolors, ink)
Lorelei K is an alternative pop project created by Dahlia Knowles. Her third studio release, a sixteen track album recorded at Civil Audio by Michael Briggs, is currently in progress and projected for release in 2019. Dahlia Knowles participates in improv and experimental collaborations particularly with voice, guitar and synths.
Danielle Poage / Endora's Bakehouse
{she/her}
baking
After graduating culinary school, I worked primarily in restaurants baking bread for about ten years but have recently thrown all my focus into Endora's Bakehouse which I run and operate that focuses on custom cookies.
Danielle Wilson
music, choir, theater design, ceramics
Danielle lives for coffee and dogs. She graduated from TWU with a BS in Nutrition, but loves sweets. She likes to create messes and then organize them. You can find her at her kitchen table turning heaps of clay into pretty things.
Darryl Ratcliff
{he/him}
social practice art, poetry
Ash Studios Creating Our Future Michelada Think Tank
Dayna Epley
{she/her}
poetry, prose, comedy, collage
Dayna Epley is a writer and writing instructor and loves to create unique pieces melding visual arts with the written word. She has fallen in love with the denton creative scene and loves to engage and support other artists.
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Edgar Derby
{he/him}
music, photography
Edgar Derby is a Hobo Folk musician based in Denton, TX. His music fuses acoustic, lyric-based folk with a unique songwriting style and energetic, multi-instrumental performances. Edgar Derby's debut LP, "Who we Are," was released on 03 November, 2017. Goes well with: Shakey Graves, Lou Barlow, Slobberbone, Bob Dylan
edgarderbymusic.com | Instagram | Facebook | YouTube | Twitter | Spotify | Bandcamp
Elia Tamplin
{they/them/he/him}
singing, songwriting
Elia enjoys silence, food, dismantling systems of oppression, and creating lists and songs. Their strength is listening to and about other's experiences of life as they know it. 97% of their songs result from the collision of idealism, romantic comedies, Black folk ways of being, listening to other people's experiences, tensions with religion, and a perpetual state of melancholy and existential crisis.
Elise Matthews
{she/her}
writing (prose, poetry)
Elise is a writer, cat whisperer, and adjunct professor. She's been with Spiderweb since 2012. She has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of North Texas and currently teaches all over DFW. She lives in Dallas with her two cats--who are absolutely her children. Her happy place is volunteering at the Youth First program at Resource Center in Dallas. The program serves LGBTQ youth ages 12-18 in the DFW area. Her fiction can be found at Necessary Fiction, Hobart, and Jersey Devil Press, and she is the editor-in-chief at American Microreviews and Interviews.
Emily Ramser
{she/her}
poetry, painting, performance art
Emily Ramser is a queer activist-poet-scholar-educator living in Denton, Texas.
Emma Carnes
{she/her}
drawing, painting, poetry
Emma is an events coordinator and marketing assistant at the University of North Texas. She is also working on her MS in Applied Anthropology. Her thesis will explore polyamory and public policy and she wants to work for a dating site when she grows up. For fun, Emma likes to get creative or travel.
Erica Cole
{she/her}
theatre, puppetry, vocal performance, prose, performance art
Erica Cole is an artist and a teacher who is dedicated in creating and sharing art in and for her community. Ms. Cole believes it is imperative to make our stories heard and to take the time to listen to those who share their stories in turn.
Erica Stephens
{she/her}
painting, sculpture, poetry
Erica Stephens is an interdisciplinary artist working in painting, sculpture, and installation. Her works often combine art historical themes with elements from the Southern craft traditions that her matriarchs excelled in.
Erin Kelly
{she/her}
poetry, performance art, theatre, prose, baking
Erin Kelly is a Dallas based artist who teaches Theatre by day and writes by night. She is inspired by color, nature, history, and human relationships.
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Frank Darko
videography, producer
Frank is a freelance artist, videographer, and the co-founder of Dallas art space, PARIAH, an eclectic hub for performance art, experimental noise, media installation, painting, and other 2d media. Together with Joshua van Ammon, Frank created CONVERSATIONS IN THE VOID, an video-based artist interview series, and is the executive producer for Spiderweb Salon’s podcast series focusing on the stories behind the work of living poets and writers, THE LITERARY PODCAST.
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George Ferrie
{he/him/his}
performance art, dance, acting, singing, improv movement
George Ferrie is the small business owner of Wine Squared, and has lived in Denton for 13 years. He is on the Steering Committee for OUTreach Denton, a member of Friends with Benefits, a Board Member with Denton Mainstreet Association, and a passionate artist. He is thrilled to be working with Spiderweb Salon, and looks forward to what we create together.
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Isabel Crespo / Both of Us (Duo) / For Now (Quintet) / Imposter (Trio)
{she/her}
music, poetry, collage art
Isabel Crespo is a United States-born Costa Rican-Ecuadorian vocalist, composer, and collage artist currently living in Denton, TX. She spends her time performing, leading ensembles of varying sizes and genres, and collaborating with artists and musicians both nationally and internationally.
Isabel Deniz
{she/her}
music, poetry, photo, video
Born in East Los Angeles, rooted in Jalisco, MX, and raised in Houston, TX Isabel is a creative multifaceted being that likes to shed light on the adversities and successes of her community. Isabel received a B.A. in Radio, Television, and Film from the University of North Texas and currently works as a marketing associate at Medieval Times. She volunteers for Thin Line Fest as an Associate Music Director and proudly skates with the North Texas Roller Derby League. She has been involved with Spiderweb Salon since 2018 and is stoked to continue to collaborate with many talented individuals. Isabel's work has appeared in the Salon's zines.
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Jacob Greenan
{he/him}
music, producer
Jacob Greenan is a multi-instrumental musician and studio & production assistant at Shiny Sound Recording Studio. Jacob has been known to play everything from piano to an upright bass over the years across the great state of Texas in such projects as The Hazardous Dukes, Forever & Everest, and Here In Arms.
James Jackson
{he/him/his}
writing, spoken word, poetry, performance art, theatre, burlesque, DJing, radio
A self-proclaimed reincarnation of James Dean, James has read his non-fiction work at open mics and Spiderweb Salon showcases. His poetry has been featured as a part of the Spiderweb Salon DMA exhibit collective | connection and will be published in an upcoming Spiderweb Salon anthology. He's also a proud member of the OUTreach Denton steering committee and communications strategist for the Division of Institutional Equity & Diversity at UNT. He’s currently toiling away on a novel about transgender werewolves, horror short stories and more non-fiction pieces focused around his experiences as a Latinx transman.
Website / Instagram / Twitter / Tumblr / Facebook
Jeanette Laredo
{she/her}
theater, prose
Dr. Jeanette Laredo is a scholar of all things awful including 18th-century British Gothic literature and Victorian horror. She writes about the dark desires and unrestrained violence that lurk beneath the veneer of polite society. Most nights she can be found listening to podcasts about murder while sipping a hot cup of tea.
Joanna Lugo
{she/her}
performance art, writing (narrative, poetry, performative, scripts), directing, theater art, dance, music
Joanna Lugo is a Puerto Rican-American director, writer, performance artist, and activist, currently serving as Associate Producer for Ensemble, an experience design firm based in Dallas. Prior to joining Ensemble, Joanna assisted in curating a season of plays and musicals at the 2017 Tony Award-Winning Dallas Theater Center as Interim Artistic Producer, performed in Kate Gilmore's exhibition, Only in Your Way, and taught as an Adjunct Professor at UNT, where she designed Performance Studies courses. Her work spans across educational and artistic institutions, where Joanna has worked as Visiting Director, Teaching Artist, Grant Writer, Literary Assistant, and more.
Joel Larner / J. Allert / Skagg Philips
{he/him/his}
music, writing (prose, poetry)
I grew up as a missionary kid in South America, but landed in Denton in the mid 90's to go to UNT...and I've never left. Over the years, my community has become ever more defined by the fellow Denton musicians and songwriters with whom I've had to pleasure to collaborate and share many a drink. While the debauchery may be a demon, the music is a therapist.
J. Allert: Bandcamp | Facebook
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Kari Presswood-Perlman / Gold Coyote
{she/her}
drawing, illustration, painting, poetry
Kari (Gold Coyote) is an emerging artist and illustrator whose work explores identity and emotion under darker wildlife and nature themes. She is a 2015 graduate of the University of North Texas with a degree in Art and Design Studies, and has since been doing illustration work for bands and businesses in the Denton area. Kari has a fascination with teeth and things that drool, and spends her free time backpacking, rock climbing and polishing her oddities collection.
Katey Margolis / DJ Dogear
{she/her}
poetry, music
Katey Margolis was born in New York in the last year of the sixties. She writes a lot of sestinas, and some other poems, has been known to write record and show reviews and occasionally strum a guitar. She is obsessed with music and records and she DJs on KUZU LP 92.9 FM Denton, Texas.
Kayla DePretto
{they/them}
music, poetry
Kayla is a Denton based singer/songwriter, currently studying jazz at UNT. Their passions include animals, cooking for literally anyone who comes over, and going to queer events whenever possible.
Kim Nall
{she/her}
music, poetry, photography, short fiction, drama (acting and writing), performance art
Kim Nall is a musician, poet, and high school teacher based in Dallas, TX. She loves language, unfamiliar places, and negative space. Lay Your Vision Down, the debut album from her band, Kim Nall & The Fringe, was released in 2017.
Kristin Wyly
{she/her/hers}
special effects, painting, sewing, woodworking, costume construction and design
Kristin Wyly is a creature creator and artist in Denton, TX. She mainly works on SFX makeups, monsters, costumes and recycled art. She can be reached at k.d.wyly@gmail.com.
Kristina Smith
{she/they}
photography, poetry, performance art, zines, installation art, baking
Kristina Smith is an image and object based visual artist and educator based in Dallas, TX, where she lives with her chinchilla Roxie and plant friends. She received an MFA with distinction in Studio Art from Texas Women’s University in Denton, TX, where she focused on photography, book arts, ceramics, and sculpture. She currently works at the University of North Texas. Her creative research explores memory, familial identity and cultural erasure, with her most recent work examining late stage capitalism, mental illness, and the exploitation of the working class.
Website | Instagram
Kurt Danger
{he/him/they/them}
podcast production and editing, writing, editing, performance art, stand-up and other comedy forms, acting/theater
Kurt is a jolly little fellow and troubled young dilettante based in Denton, TX.
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Laura H. Drapac
{she/her}
printmaking, drawing, painting, papercutting, embroidery
Laura Drapac’s printing career began in Athens, Ohio, where she studied both graphic design and printmaking at Ohio University. Upon graduating with her BFA in 2008, she worked for Apple Inc. full-time as a Creative Genius while applying for graduate school. After one year away from academia, Laura returned to school as a graduate student in printmaking at the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas, where she was able to explore the graphic and tactile qualities of letterpress in her own work. She received her MFA in May of 2012 and now works as the primary letterpress printer at Triple Threat Press and owner of Threefold Gifts in the Cleveland, Ohio area.
Leah Jones
{she/her}
photography, videography
Leah Jones is an editorial photographer and menswear stylist based in Dallas. Her work has been featured in publications such as Men’s Health, GQ, Vogue Online, Los Angeles Times, Martha Stewart Wedding, Marvel Digital Content, and she has shot print work for Disney brands and Neiman Marcus. Leah moonlights as an event photographer focusing on local musicians and artistic collectives. She has been lovingly photographing Spiderweb Salon showcases for many years and deeply appreciates the opportunity to celebrate all people and document their artistic expressions. To preserve sanity, she dances frequently, and enjoys writing short scripts and essays dealing in terribly twisted horror or bounding comedic gaiety. She resides in Downtown Dallas with her partner, Jacob, and their beloved cat, Waffles.
Lee Green
photography
I've been shooting for 14 years including portraiture, scenic, sports, and street photography on film, slide and digital. I like experimenting with exposure, focus, light, and depth, but I often have creative blocks. I once rescued a bird with a golf club and a baseball cap.
Lei Lei Lashawn
performance art, live percussion, music, spoken word, storytelling, fine art
Practicing being myself. Maintaining my health. Increasing my awareness around what is important, adapting to what can not be replaced what I must embrace. I want to make a non-violent difference in my community as I attempt to generate conscious unity. Making a positive imprint on our environmental economy.
Leoncarlo Canlas
{he/him}
music
Armed with his violin, North Texas based musician Leoncarlo creates sonic landscapes with a palette of harmonious textures that stretches perception of tonal aesthetics. He's been a guest collaborator and session musician on recordings and live performances for a number of diverse national and international acts, including Seryn, Botany, Polyphonic Spree, Alejandro Escovedo, Melanie Safka, and more.
Lesly Gutierrez
{she/her/hers}
poetry, theatre, fiber arts
Lesly is originally from a small town you’ve probably never heard of. A native Spanish speaker, she writes about her lived experiences as a proud queer woman of color. When she’s not writing, baking or event planning, she’s organizing her community and working in electoral spaces. Basically a 25-year-old grandma.
Lierre Rue / Lierre Toxique
{she/her/hers}
digital and analog collages, burlesque
Lierre is a visual and occasional performance artist from Denton TX who enjoys experimenting and creating thought-provoking and subversive art. Her preferred medium is digital collage, but she dabbles in analog collage and burlesque.
Lindsey Hall
{she/her}
theatrical performance and makeup of the bloody/injury variety
Lindsey Hall is the Marketing Director for Sundown Collaborative Theatre, a nonprofit community theatre in Denton focused on producing collaborative and visceral shows. She graduated from UNT in 2011, with a concentration in theatre performance and theatrical makeup design. A sign language interpreter, she is motivated by the constant desire to learn and explore, and has found Spiderweb to be a beautiful "place" to do both. Want to know more about Sundown? Head to sundowntheatre.org to learn more!
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Machele Johnson
poetry, music
Machele Johnson is a Dallas based poet and musician who has been sharing her words and sounds for a little over a year and a half. A melomaniac since birth, Machele's inspirations for writing are sound and music with its complexities and structure. She has a need to study, experiment, and report back on the numerous, wordless joys and sorrows one can experience while lost in sound as well as rejoice in the similarities of the human experience and harmony.
Marco Zavala
{he/him}
visual art, poetry
I'm an ill wad of energy in a dream. If it wasn't for time & base survival, I'd create in all mediums every ridiculous & serious idea I have, as well as consume everyone else's ideas with the attention it deserves. I like snowcones.
Matt Solomon
{he/him}
writing, oratory, performance art/stand-up
I'm a writer, among other things. I'm still trying to figure out how to describe myself without coming off as dismissive, rude, or snarky, but I can say for sure sans the dismissive snarky rudeness that I am a writer. I write words.
Matthew Lee Schipper / Skip / Skip & The Bad Hombres
{he/him/his}
music, poetry, performance art, theater, film, long form literature, blues
Matthew Sallack
{he/him}
illustration, graphic design
Born in Tupelo, Mississippi. Raised in Denton, Texas. Graduated with BFA in Graphic Design from Texas State University — San Marcos. Lived in Austin, Texas for a while. Graduated with MFA in Illustration from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. Currently lives in Denton, Texas.
Maureen Leak / Remnant Baby
{any pronouns with respect}
spoken word, visual painting, zines
I am passionate about creating personal art that speaks to the masses, telling my story, and giving everyone around me a chance to tell their story.
Megan Storie
music, poetry, theatre
I am a singer-songwriter based in Denton, Tx. I've had the opportunity to travel around the US playing music and hope to do more. If you are interested in collaborating or have booking inquiries you can email me at meganstorie@gmail.com.
Miguel Espinel
{he/him}
music, sound art, intermedia
Miguel Espinel is a Venezuelan composer and improviser based in Denton, TX, who is highly motivated by collective musicking and intermedia collaboration. He is currently working on graduate studies in ethnomusicology at UNT and performs with the duo Monte Espina and the band Cacodemon.
Monica Ortiz / Moe
painting, poetry, drawing, digital art
Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.
Morgan Ashton Griffin / Morgue Ann
{she/her}
screenwriting, poetry, performance art, theatre
By day I'm a teen services librarian. By night I'm an aspiring writing and creator. If you'd like to work with me in a professional or creative (or both!) context, email me at morgueann666@gmail.com.
Morgan Lionheart
{they/them}
music, poetry, painting, performance art, theatre
Morgan is a nerd, weirdo, and elementary ecology teacher. They daydream of thriving native ecosystems and the fall of capitalism. You can find them reading Baldwin or eating Indian food.
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Naomi Kliewer / Tulla Moore
{she/her}
music, illustration, printmaking, ceramics, painting, metals, burlesque, theatre
A local Jill of all trades and master of none, Naomi Kliewer is a sometimes singer, sometimes illustrator, sometimes actor, and always down to make magic. She can be seen performing as Tulla Moore on burlesque stages across Texas, but makes her home at Glitterbomb Denton, a weekly queer variety show where she hosts. She is a member of the Glitterbomb Denton, Salty Lady Burlesque, and Texas Queerlesque Festival production teams.
Nate Logan
{he/him}
poetry, creative non-fiction
Nate Logan is the author of Inside the Golden Days of Missing You (Magic Helicopter Press, forthcoming 2019). He's editor and publisher of Spooky Girlfriend Press.
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Rachel Renea
{she/her/hers}
poetry, fiction, screenplays, modeling
Rachel Renea received her B.A. in Economics and International Relations and completed her M.A. in Humanities-Aesthetic Studies. She is a former Poetry Editor and Fiction Editor for Reunion: The Dallas Review, and she has participated in local poetry and fiction readings at UNT, UTD, and Spiderweb Salon. She currently lives and writes in the Dallas area.
Rachel Weaver
{she/her/they/them}
writing, zines, music & performance art, gardening & environmental work
Rachel Weaver is an agrarian, community organizer, and creative. She advocates for environmental health and local resilience. She seeks to build strong community relationships and foster opportunities for growth through transdisciplinary environmental education and creative learning.
Instagram | Facebook | Tumblr
blendways bandcamp | blendways tumblr
In Formed Radio - KUZU 92.9 FM
Rae Inmon, MT-BC
{they/them/he/him}
music, poetry, art (painting, collages), theater
Trans* non-binary singer/songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and social justice advocate.
Randall Minick / Python Potions / Demandite / Bad Bad Baby / JR Minick & Associates / Wave Swinger / FELT&FUR / Sound Creature
{he/him}
performance, electronics, live sound, graphic design
Randall performs and explores with a variety of synthesizers and electronics in several projects that including FELT&FUR, Python Potions, Demandite & much more.
Rebecca Elliott
{she/her}
writing, performance art, printmaking, sculpture, publishing/community-building
I'm an artist/publisher/writer living in Chicago with 50 cats. Publishing projects are mainly through Meekling Press, which I co-founded in 2012. meeklingpress.com Also: rebaelliott.com
Ren Thygesen / E. R. Thygesen
{they/them}
music, visual art, performance art, theatre, writing
Ren is a Denton based classically-trained musician, artist, and teacher who is looking to loosen things up. They strive to increase vulnerability in their lives when safe to do so, and hopes to create a safe space for others to be vulnerable in through their art and work in their community.
Robert Torres
{they/them}
poetry, theater, fiction
Robert Torres is a writer and performer based in Portland, Oregon who has most recently worked with Monkey with a Hat On and Twilight Theater Company, and has been published by 1001 Journal, Spider Web Salon, and others. They ran the Punk Poet Society in Denton, Texas from 2011 to 2014, and co-curated the Pegasus Reading Series in Dallas, Texas from 2014 to 2015. Their work explores anxiety, delusion, revolution, and the conundrum of having a body whether you like it or not.
Ryan Creery
{he/him}
poetry
Ryan is a Freelance Writer and owner of a writing services business, The Word Barber. He has written hundreds of poems, short form, and advertising pieces that have been featured in Huffington Post, DHome Magazine, Love Inc Magazine and Eber & Wein.
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Sam Cook
{he/him}
illustration
Sarah Friday / Friday Designs
{she/her}
performance art, poetry, narrative, directing, puppeteering, music, vocals
Sarah is a performance artist and designer whose work centers around intersectional feminist issues utilizing the body as the primary means of expression and critique. Sarah received her M.A. from the University of North Texas in 2016 with an emphasis in Performance Studies. Her work often explores the body as both a site and sight of activity, expression, pain, and pleasure.
Sarah Ruth
{she/her/they/them}
music, performance art, theater
Sarah Ruth is a diverse musician and artist – a multi-instrumentalist, she employs hammered dulcimer, harmonium, electroacoustic sound art, and extended vocal techniques. She performs frequently both solo and with multiple bands and improvisational ensembles in the North Texas area and tours nationally.
sarahruthalexander.com | Instagram | Bandcamp | Tiger D | Follow the Reader
Sean Enfield
{he/him}
writing
Sean Enfield is a writer and educator based out of the Denton. He graduated from the University of North Texas with a B.A. in English-Literature. He has had work featured on NPR's All Things Considered as a part of their Three Minute Fiction Contest and published in Vine Leaves, F(r)iction Online, and Poetry Quarterly. His piece, "Paper Shackles," is forthcoming through Lunch Ticket.
Seth Malloy / Sethnicity
poetry, music
I am a traveler of both Time and Space, Observing and Reflecting, so if you share with me your soul I will share with you my own and always evolving myself to expand the consciousness of humanity one mind at a time.
Shelby Orr
{she/her}
photography, video, installation, sound
Shelby Orr is an artist and educator based in Fort Worth, Texas. Her work concentrates on the perception of self using photography, drawing, sound, and installation. Along with her visual works, she writes and performs sound compositions and is one half of the creative collaboration KITBASHES.
Storie (Teague) Cunningham
{she/her}
baking, cooking, singing, dancing
Storie is a self taught baker and writer for the Wake & Bake blog with a passion for creative confections and alliteration. Having spent most of her life surrounded by musical theater, she's no stranger to the artistic community, but it was baking that helped Storie find her preferred medium. Whether she's piping out decorative meringues or frosting a layered cake, she finds joy in her craft by watching others delight in her homemade goodies.
Suzanne Terry
{she/her/hers}
writing (fiction), public speaking, theater
Suzanne studied communication studies at UNT and has spent most of her adult life teaching public speaking and working with college students. She loves dinner parties, book clubs, and piano bars. Lover of coffee; writer of fiction; goat cheese aficionado.
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Tori Falcon
{she/her/hers}
poetry
Tori Falcon is Denton based journalist, poet and advocate. Her poetry often explores themes surrounding Latinx identity, mental illness, and sexual trauma. After graduating in May 2019 with a degree in journalism, she has been freelancing at several publications (see: Dallas Observer, Denton County Magazine, Progress Texas, Texas Monthly.) Her writings are culture and social justice-oriented, and she hopes to expand her career so she can continue to amplify marginalized groups who would gain the most from progressive and representative journalism.
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Walker Smart
{he/him}
fiction, poetry, performance, theater, sketching, musical collaborations
Walker Smart is a writer and performer living in Denton, Texas