Translation Consultation: Haun Saussy, Chenxin Jiang, Hou Jue, May Huang, Audrey Zhuoer Liu, Ken Chin.
Terence Nicholson
Terence Nicholson is a born Washingtonian and a longtime native of Anacostia. A graduate of the Corcoran School of Art, he was a recipient of the Rosenbaum Memorial Scholarship Award. Terence has exhibited in three East of the River Art Exhibitions, and his solo exhibit, “Intro-Circumspective” at Willow Street Gallery in D.C. received critical acclaim. He served as Curator for Honfleur Gallery and Art Director of Anacostia Arts Center. He currently works as an Exhibit Specialist at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and Katzen Museum of Art in Washington D.C. Terence has recorded and toured worldwide as a composer, producer, and improvisational lyricist with Jazz Saxophonist, Steve Coleman, pianist Omar Sosa and Hip-Hop band, Opus Akoben. He served as a Cultural Envoy for the US State Department in 2005 and 2006 for the American Music Abroad program in Asia, Suriname, Egypt and the Middle East. Presently, Terence fronts a rock band called Thaylobleu, which performs nationally, and most notably opened for the recent resurgence tour of the legendary Detroit, punk band, Death.
Terence is a 19th Generation Disciple of the Wudang Longmen (Dragon’s Gate ) Kung Fu Lineage, and has been a practitioner and teacher of Chinese martial arts for over twenty-five years. He holds several gold medals from national and international tournaments. In 2018, he won the 6th Annual World Kuoshu Tournament in Xingyi Chuan (Mind and Shape Boxing). He has taught self-defense and Tai Chi classes for community and professional organizations and businesses, including the World Bank and the White House staff under the Obama administration.
Mel Chin: A Short Biography 2019
Mel Chin is known to convey complex ideas and themes through a mutative strategy, working alone or employing different disciplines and people, depending on the concept, to derive the materials of its realization, from actions, to films, to objects, as necessary.
His Revival Field (1991), pioneered the field of “green remediation,” the use of plants to remove toxic metals from the soil. From 1995-1998 he formed the collective the GALA Committee that produced In the Name of the Place a public art project conducted on American prime-time television. His actions for the Fundred Project (2008-2019) to end childhood lead-poisoning, activated mass public engagement as a means for policy-maker education. He has produced original films such as 9-11/9-11 (2007), to decenter preoccupations that engender nationalism and L’Arctique est Paris (2015), to deliver the poignant warnings of a Greenlandic subsistence hunter to an international audience. In 2018 he filled New York’s Times Square with, Wake, on the ground, and an AR project, Unmoored, in the air, creating an experiential portal into a past maritime industry and a future of rising waters. All Over the Place, a 40-year survey, was named by Hyperallergic as the best NYC exhibition of 2018. He is the recipient of many awards, grants, and honorary degrees including a MacArthur Fellowship in 2019.
“Audrey” Zhuoer Liu
“Audrey” Zhuoer Liu is an Exhibition & Experience Designer specializing creative facilitation and strategic planning in arts, museums, and tech. Audrey is point of contact for all fulfillment and questions regarding to “A Better T” project and you can reach her at audrey@abettert.com
Sophie Florendo-Stevens
Sophie Florendo-Stevens (she/her) is a food and wine professional in DC. She is always looking for the integrative points in community experiences: how to bring people together through creative inclusive endeavors.
Dallas Moore
Artist and designer Dallas Moore resides in Virginia. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts at the University of Georgia in 1997. Ever since his early childhood in the 70’s, he has explored topics in and around computer-based art and programmatic experience. He likes to spend his free time helping out behind the scenes on many creative projects and endeavors.