Erica Hansen is an artist specializing in socially and environmentally engaged practice. Her most recent work considers the artworks and artifacts that illuminate ancient systems of knowledge and understanding that predate our current systems of recording and defining science and history such as sacred geometry, alchemy, myth and traditional knowledge systems. Erica holds a BFA from Maine College of Art as well as a MFA from Maryland Institute College of Art and a Postgraduate Certificate from the Transart Institute NY. She has been a long time collaborator with other artists and musicians in Europe and the US, and her exhibition history since 1997 includes public and private institutions and galleries as well as public installations, performances and interventions. Through her work she hopes to investigate and share, in equal measure, ideas and perspectives that lie in the borderlands between science and myth, physical and transcendental, creator and creation.

With 36 years of personal, professional and community-based experience, Dominic “Shodekeh” Talifero continues to make musical strides as a groundbreaking and highly adept Beatboxer, Vocal Percussionist and Breath Artist who pushes the boundaries of the human voice within and outside the context of Hip Hop music and culture. As the first vocal percussionist to do so, he formally served as a dance technique musician and composer-in-residence for Towson University’s Department of Dance for 12 years and is the founding director of Embody, A Festival Series of the Vocal Arts, which strives for artistic and cultural convergence through a variety of vocal art traditions from a multitude of worlds such as opera and Tuvan throat singing, to the many forms of vocal percussion, which has featured such vocal luminaries as Madison McFerrin, Alash Ensemble, Dan Deacon, Raul Midon, and Joyce J. Scott.