Rena Leinberger
 Carmen Lizardo
 Itty Neuhaus
 Thomas Sarrantonio
 Suzanne Stokes

Carmen Lizardo, Suzanne Stokes and Itty Neuhaus at Storm King Art Center Foundation field trip

Professor Carmen Lizardo was born in the Dominican Republic and came to New York at the age of nineteen. She graduated with a BFA in Photography and a MFA in Computer Graphics and Interactive Media from Pratt Institute. Her work explores issues of contemporary society from images based on the female body. This is both limiting and liberating, moving the viewer from a very particular awareness to public conciousness. The use of digital technology and mixed media has provided for her a process and place to consider and examine ideas of ethereality and ephemerality. The mood of her artwork is sometimes violent, erotic and often sad, dealing as it does with her associations with family, religion and identity. Professor Lizardo's work has been included on digital art venues in Madrid, Korea, Frankfurt, Philadelphia and New York.

Itty Neuhaus is a sculptural installation artist who has had solo shows at SculptureCenter in New York City and Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center in Buffalo, NY. She has been in numerous outdoor public sculpture exhibits, gallery and museum shows, including The Aldrich Museum, ExitArt Gallery, The Kitchen, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Socrates Sculpture Park, and PS1 Contemporary Art Center. She has attended artists' residencies on a yearly basis including Strammür Art Colony in Iceland, Yaddo in New York, and Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center on Cape Cod. Her awards include funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts for the 2001 Hallwalls project, and a 1994 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. She has taught sculpture, drawing and computer arts at Rhode Island School of Design, New York University, Pratt Institute, and The University of the Arts. Before teaching she worked in the film industry doing special effects, on such thrillers as Toxic Avenger and Alphabet City and for design firms doing computer graphics. She received a BFA in Painting from Pratt Institute, attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and received an MFA in Sculpture from Tyler School of Art.

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Suzanne Stokes, artistic director and performer, created Cave Dogs in 1992, while living in New York's Hudson Valley. The performance work developed over the past nine years as the company members grew and changed. After spending several productive years in Boston, Cave Dogs home base is currently in back in the Hudson Valley, but a healthy, long-distance, collaboration exists with members in Masachusetts, California and various contributing artist throughout the United States. Stokes and Cave Dogs have received grants from the NLT Foundation, Boston, MA, The Jim Henson Foundation, New York, NY, and two grants from Franklin Furnace, New York, NY.