Alice Shepard & Kinetic Light announce Fellows

Image Description: A light-skinned Asian-American engineer with short black hair leans to the side and grins at the camera from behind a pair of purple-rimmed glasses. She is wearing two sleeveless tops: a bright pink one layered atop a black one patterned with splashes and dots of color. She “doesn’t look deaf,” whatever that means. The background is an orange-painted brick wall. A white woman with shoulder-length brown hair smiles at the camera. She wears a green v-neck shirt. Background is a white wall. The photos appear in white circles, with a purple background and white diagonal lines.

We are so pleased to introduce our new Kinetic Light Fellows: Shoshana Freund, an emerging lighting designer, and Mel Chua, a hacker, engineer, scholar, and multimodal polyglot. Shoshana and Mel will be mentored by Kinetic Light artists Michael Maag and Laurel Lawson, respectively. 

This pilot fellowship program is focused on advancing the disability arts and culture movement. It enables disabled artists, designers, technologists, and/or arts administrators to practice their craft alongside Kinetic Light artists, to develop their work in the context of disability art, and to support our groundbreaking work.

For the pilot program, Fellows were accepted through a nomination process. Future programs will be open, for application, to a broad range of artistic and technical disciplines. This fellowship is not designed for dancers or actors in an onstage capacity. Stay tuned for future program opportunities and please join us in enthusiastically welcoming Shoshana and Mel!

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