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Lee Robinson is a multidimensional musician who has been an active participant in the Pittsburgh music scene for over 35 years. Performing since the age of 9 on the clarinet, Lee now concentrates on tenor and soprano saxophones. He has performed with Gentle Persuasion and Band of Angels, and with visiting jazz performers Jimmy McGriff, Charles Earland, Lew Soloff and Jack McDuff, and opened concerts for Stanley Clarke and Bachman–Turner Overdrive. As a composer he has written for independent films, theatre and dance, including the score for the PBS documentary JOBS: A Way Out. In 1979 he formed ISKA, his first professional jazz quartet, which has blended improvisation with funk, fusion, contemporary and classical jazz for more than 35 years.

Ry. is a musician and producer from upstate New York. His style defies genres, bringing together electronica, jazz, rock and hip hop into an eclectic, thought-provoking sound of his own, with lyrics on esoteric themes rarely heard in modern music.

Kasey Yale is a Los Angeles recording artist with an eccentric focus on pop and hip hop. His music is on all streaming platforms, and he’s @theofficialyale on social media.

Nivi Canela is a New York singer, actor and MC, originally from Union City, NJ, best known for off-Broadway appearances in The Sex Myth, Lucky Petra, of a certain age, Margaret: A New Musical and Now Comes the Dust. Her one-woman show debuted at The PIT’s SOLOCOM festival in 2019. She hosts Misbehavin’ Musicals, New York City’s Broadway burlesque revue.

Tye is a musician and filmmaker in Los Angeles, originally from Abita Springs, Louisiana.

Lucas Bakker is an American producer, composer, songwriter and writer. With Tyler Forrest he scored the feature film Search and Destroy (Millennium Films), and has scored other features and shorts including the award-winning Club Rat$. His music has been used in CNN documentaries and on El Rey Network. A graduate of Cornish College of the Arts in music composition, he has worked with Wyclef Jean, Sublime with Rome, Dirty Heads and others.

Trinity Rose is an award-winning singer-songwriter from Los Angeles who combines classical training with indie pop vocals. In 2017 she was the youngest female contestant on NBC’s The Voice, and she took part in GRAMMY Camp Los Angeles. She was named the #1 Teen Songwriter in the world by the International Songwriting Competition for the global unity song Love Is The Only River.

Born in Moscow, Ada came to the US at six and grew up a virtuoso violinist, until tendinitis stopped her playing for two years. She returned to the violin to win a Presidential Scholarship to Berklee College of Music, where she began strumming the violin like a guitar to accompany her own singing. She lives in Los Angeles as a songwriter and recording and performing artist.

Gad Elbaz began singing at four with his father, the Israeli singer Benny Elbaz, and has since recorded ten solo albums, from Walk in a Straight Path (1998) to Lechaim (2017). His Hashem Melech tour played more than 180 shows in 53 cities, and his YouTube channel has more than 61 million views.

Cornflower builds modern, mantra-like songs from vocal loops, layering harmony and groove into anthemic chants, mixing experimental vocal soul, world funk, jam and electronica. He has shared stages with Michael Franti & Spearhead, Bobby McFerrin and Victor Wooten.

Multi-instrumentalist and songwriter from Southern California who travels and performs improvised jazzy blues and country picking on accordion, resonator guitar, piano and voice, in English and Spanish.

Bio to come.

A non-profit for community empowerment and youth mentoring through the arts, co-founded by the artist, educator and curator T. Walker.

Bio to come.

Bio to come.

Gabi Montoya is a dancer, choreographer, dance teacher, Pilates instructor and artist based in Philadelphia, and a former ArtistYear fellow teaching dance and choreography. She graduated from Drexel University with a B.S. in Dance, with minors in Psychology and Somatics. Her work explores self-awareness, safety and loss of control through dance and visual art.

Dancer from Bari, who began studying classical, modern and contemporary dance at the age of nine.

Geometric designer.

Artemio Morales is a software developer and interdisciplinary artist focused on digital books for iOS, Android and other platforms, who loves collaborating on new kinds of multimedia work.

A food photographer who learned to cook from some of the best chefs and stylists in the country, and found he was happier in the kitchen than on set.

Founded in October 2015 by Stephen Poullas and Daniel Rauschenbach in downtown Youngstown.

Lee Robinson is a multidimensional musician who has been an active participant in the Pittsburgh music scene for over 35 years. Performing since the age of 9 on the clarinet, Lee now concentrates on tenor and soprano saxophones. He has performed with Gentle Persuasion and Band of Angels, and with visiting jazz performers Jimmy McGriff, Charles Earland, Lew Soloff and Jack McDuff, and opened concerts for Stanley Clarke and Bachman–Turner Overdrive. As a composer he has written for independent films, theatre and dance, including the score for the PBS documentary JOBS: A Way Out. In 1979 he formed ISKA, his first professional jazz quartet, which has blended improvisation with funk, fusion, contemporary and classical jazz for more than 35 years.

Ry. is a musician and producer from upstate New York. His style defies genres, bringing together electronica, jazz, rock and hip hop into an eclectic, thought-provoking sound of his own, with lyrics on esoteric themes rarely heard in modern music.

Kasey Yale is a Los Angeles recording artist with an eccentric focus on pop and hip hop. His music is on all streaming platforms, and he’s @theofficialyale on social media.

Nivi Canela is a New York singer, actor and MC, originally from Union City, NJ, best known for off-Broadway appearances in The Sex Myth, Lucky Petra, of a certain age, Margaret: A New Musical and Now Comes the Dust. Her one-woman show debuted at The PIT’s SOLOCOM festival in 2019. She hosts Misbehavin’ Musicals, New York City’s Broadway burlesque revue.

Tye is a musician and filmmaker in Los Angeles, originally from Abita Springs, Louisiana.

Lucas Bakker is an American producer, composer, songwriter and writer. With Tyler Forrest he scored the feature film Search and Destroy (Millennium Films), and has scored other features and shorts including the award-winning Club Rat$. His music has been used in CNN documentaries and on El Rey Network. A graduate of Cornish College of the Arts in music composition, he has worked with Wyclef Jean, Sublime with Rome, Dirty Heads and others.

Trinity Rose is an award-winning singer-songwriter from Los Angeles who combines classical training with indie pop vocals. In 2017 she was the youngest female contestant on NBC’s The Voice, and she took part in GRAMMY Camp Los Angeles. She was named the #1 Teen Songwriter in the world by the International Songwriting Competition for the global unity song Love Is The Only River.

Born in Moscow, Ada came to the US at six and grew up a virtuoso violinist, until tendinitis stopped her playing for two years. She returned to the violin to win a Presidential Scholarship to Berklee College of Music, where she began strumming the violin like a guitar to accompany her own singing. She lives in Los Angeles as a songwriter and recording and performing artist.

Gad Elbaz began singing at four with his father, the Israeli singer Benny Elbaz, and has since recorded ten solo albums, from Walk in a Straight Path (1998) to Lechaim (2017). His Hashem Melech tour played more than 180 shows in 53 cities, and his YouTube channel has more than 61 million views.

Cornflower builds modern, mantra-like songs from vocal loops, layering harmony and groove into anthemic chants, mixing experimental vocal soul, world funk, jam and electronica. He has shared stages with Michael Franti & Spearhead, Bobby McFerrin and Victor Wooten.

Multi-instrumentalist and songwriter from Southern California who travels and performs improvised jazzy blues and country picking on accordion, resonator guitar, piano and voice, in English and Spanish.

Bio to come.

A non-profit for community empowerment and youth mentoring through the arts, co-founded by the artist, educator and curator T. Walker.

Bio to come.

Bio to come.

Gabi Montoya is a dancer, choreographer, dance teacher, Pilates instructor and artist based in Philadelphia, and a former ArtistYear fellow teaching dance and choreography. She graduated from Drexel University with a B.S. in Dance, with minors in Psychology and Somatics. Her work explores self-awareness, safety and loss of control through dance and visual art.

Dancer from Bari, who began studying classical, modern and contemporary dance at the age of nine.

Geometric designer.

Artemio Morales is a software developer and interdisciplinary artist focused on digital books for iOS, Android and other platforms, who loves collaborating on new kinds of multimedia work.

A food photographer who learned to cook from some of the best chefs and stylists in the country, and found he was happier in the kitchen than on set.

Founded in October 2015 by Stephen Poullas and Daniel Rauschenbach in downtown Youngstown.

Lee Robinson is a multidimensional musician who has been an active participant in the Pittsburgh music scene for over 35 years. Performing since the age of 9 on the clarinet, Lee now concentrates on tenor and soprano saxophones. He has performed with Gentle Persuasion and Band of Angels, and with visiting jazz performers Jimmy McGriff, Charles Earland, Lew Soloff and Jack McDuff, and opened concerts for Stanley Clarke and Bachman–Turner Overdrive. As a composer he has written for independent films, theatre and dance, including the score for the PBS documentary JOBS: A Way Out. In 1979 he formed ISKA, his first professional jazz quartet, which has blended improvisation with funk, fusion, contemporary and classical jazz for more than 35 years.

Ry. is a musician and producer from upstate New York. His style defies genres, bringing together electronica, jazz, rock and hip hop into an eclectic, thought-provoking sound of his own, with lyrics on esoteric themes rarely heard in modern music.

Kasey Yale is a Los Angeles recording artist with an eccentric focus on pop and hip hop. His music is on all streaming platforms, and he’s @theofficialyale on social media.

Nivi Canela is a New York singer, actor and MC, originally from Union City, NJ, best known for off-Broadway appearances in The Sex Myth, Lucky Petra, of a certain age, Margaret: A New Musical and Now Comes the Dust. Her one-woman show debuted at The PIT’s SOLOCOM festival in 2019. She hosts Misbehavin’ Musicals, New York City’s Broadway burlesque revue.

Tye is a musician and filmmaker in Los Angeles, originally from Abita Springs, Louisiana.

Lucas Bakker is an American producer, composer, songwriter and writer. With Tyler Forrest he scored the feature film Search and Destroy (Millennium Films), and has scored other features and shorts including the award-winning Club Rat$. His music has been used in CNN documentaries and on El Rey Network. A graduate of Cornish College of the Arts in music composition, he has worked with Wyclef Jean, Sublime with Rome, Dirty Heads and others.

Trinity Rose is an award-winning singer-songwriter from Los Angeles who combines classical training with indie pop vocals. In 2017 she was the youngest female contestant on NBC’s The Voice, and she took part in GRAMMY Camp Los Angeles. She was named the #1 Teen Songwriter in the world by the International Songwriting Competition for the global unity song Love Is The Only River.

Born in Moscow, Ada came to the US at six and grew up a virtuoso violinist, until tendinitis stopped her playing for two years. She returned to the violin to win a Presidential Scholarship to Berklee College of Music, where she began strumming the violin like a guitar to accompany her own singing. She lives in Los Angeles as a songwriter and recording and performing artist.

Gad Elbaz began singing at four with his father, the Israeli singer Benny Elbaz, and has since recorded ten solo albums, from Walk in a Straight Path (1998) to Lechaim (2017). His Hashem Melech tour played more than 180 shows in 53 cities, and his YouTube channel has more than 61 million views.

Cornflower builds modern, mantra-like songs from vocal loops, layering harmony and groove into anthemic chants, mixing experimental vocal soul, world funk, jam and electronica. He has shared stages with Michael Franti & Spearhead, Bobby McFerrin and Victor Wooten.

Multi-instrumentalist and songwriter from Southern California who travels and performs improvised jazzy blues and country picking on accordion, resonator guitar, piano and voice, in English and Spanish.

Bio to come.

A non-profit for community empowerment and youth mentoring through the arts, co-founded by the artist, educator and curator T. Walker.

Bio to come.

Bio to come.

Gabi Montoya is a dancer, choreographer, dance teacher, Pilates instructor and artist based in Philadelphia, and a former ArtistYear fellow teaching dance and choreography. She graduated from Drexel University with a B.S. in Dance, with minors in Psychology and Somatics. Her work explores self-awareness, safety and loss of control through dance and visual art.

Dancer from Bari, who began studying classical, modern and contemporary dance at the age of nine.

Geometric designer.

Artemio Morales is a software developer and interdisciplinary artist focused on digital books for iOS, Android and other platforms, who loves collaborating on new kinds of multimedia work.

A food photographer who learned to cook from some of the best chefs and stylists in the country, and found he was happier in the kitchen than on set.

Founded in October 2015 by Stephen Poullas and Daniel Rauschenbach in downtown Youngstown.

Lee Robinson is a multidimensional musician who has been an active participant in the Pittsburgh music scene for over 35 years. Performing since the age of 9 on the clarinet, Lee now concentrates on tenor and soprano saxophones. He has performed with Gentle Persuasion and Band of Angels, and with visiting jazz performers Jimmy McGriff, Charles Earland, Lew Soloff and Jack McDuff, and opened concerts for Stanley Clarke and Bachman–Turner Overdrive. As a composer he has written for independent films, theatre and dance, including the score for the PBS documentary JOBS: A Way Out. In 1979 he formed ISKA, his first professional jazz quartet, which has blended improvisation with funk, fusion, contemporary and classical jazz for more than 35 years.

Ry. is a musician and producer from upstate New York. His style defies genres, bringing together electronica, jazz, rock and hip hop into an eclectic, thought-provoking sound of his own, with lyrics on esoteric themes rarely heard in modern music.

Kasey Yale is a Los Angeles recording artist with an eccentric focus on pop and hip hop. His music is on all streaming platforms, and he’s @theofficialyale on social media.

Nivi Canela is a New York singer, actor and MC, originally from Union City, NJ, best known for off-Broadway appearances in The Sex Myth, Lucky Petra, of a certain age, Margaret: A New Musical and Now Comes the Dust. Her one-woman show debuted at The PIT’s SOLOCOM festival in 2019. She hosts Misbehavin’ Musicals, New York City’s Broadway burlesque revue.

Tye is a musician and filmmaker in Los Angeles, originally from Abita Springs, Louisiana.

Lucas Bakker is an American producer, composer, songwriter and writer. With Tyler Forrest he scored the feature film Search and Destroy (Millennium Films), and has scored other features and shorts including the award-winning Club Rat$. His music has been used in CNN documentaries and on El Rey Network. A graduate of Cornish College of the Arts in music composition, he has worked with Wyclef Jean, Sublime with Rome, Dirty Heads and others.

Trinity Rose is an award-winning singer-songwriter from Los Angeles who combines classical training with indie pop vocals. In 2017 she was the youngest female contestant on NBC’s The Voice, and she took part in GRAMMY Camp Los Angeles. She was named the #1 Teen Songwriter in the world by the International Songwriting Competition for the global unity song Love Is The Only River.

Born in Moscow, Ada came to the US at six and grew up a virtuoso violinist, until tendinitis stopped her playing for two years. She returned to the violin to win a Presidential Scholarship to Berklee College of Music, where she began strumming the violin like a guitar to accompany her own singing. She lives in Los Angeles as a songwriter and recording and performing artist.

Gad Elbaz began singing at four with his father, the Israeli singer Benny Elbaz, and has since recorded ten solo albums, from Walk in a Straight Path (1998) to Lechaim (2017). His Hashem Melech tour played more than 180 shows in 53 cities, and his YouTube channel has more than 61 million views.

Cornflower builds modern, mantra-like songs from vocal loops, layering harmony and groove into anthemic chants, mixing experimental vocal soul, world funk, jam and electronica. He has shared stages with Michael Franti & Spearhead, Bobby McFerrin and Victor Wooten.

Multi-instrumentalist and songwriter from Southern California who travels and performs improvised jazzy blues and country picking on accordion, resonator guitar, piano and voice, in English and Spanish.

Bio to come.

A non-profit for community empowerment and youth mentoring through the arts, co-founded by the artist, educator and curator T. Walker.

Bio to come.

Bio to come.

Gabi Montoya is a dancer, choreographer, dance teacher, Pilates instructor and artist based in Philadelphia, and a former ArtistYear fellow teaching dance and choreography. She graduated from Drexel University with a B.S. in Dance, with minors in Psychology and Somatics. Her work explores self-awareness, safety and loss of control through dance and visual art.

Dancer from Bari, who began studying classical, modern and contemporary dance at the age of nine.

Geometric designer.

Artemio Morales is a software developer and interdisciplinary artist focused on digital books for iOS, Android and other platforms, who loves collaborating on new kinds of multimedia work.

A food photographer who learned to cook from some of the best chefs and stylists in the country, and found he was happier in the kitchen than on set.

Founded in October 2015 by Stephen Poullas and Daniel Rauschenbach in downtown Youngstown.

Lee Robinson is a multidimensional musician who has been an active participant in the Pittsburgh music scene for over 35 years. Performing since the age of 9 on the clarinet, Lee now concentrates on tenor and soprano saxophones. He has performed with Gentle Persuasion and Band of Angels, and with visiting jazz performers Jimmy McGriff, Charles Earland, Lew Soloff and Jack McDuff, and opened concerts for Stanley Clarke and Bachman–Turner Overdrive. As a composer he has written for independent films, theatre and dance, including the score for the PBS documentary JOBS: A Way Out. In 1979 he formed ISKA, his first professional jazz quartet, which has blended improvisation with funk, fusion, contemporary and classical jazz for more than 35 years.

Ry. is a musician and producer from upstate New York. His style defies genres, bringing together electronica, jazz, rock and hip hop into an eclectic, thought-provoking sound of his own, with lyrics on esoteric themes rarely heard in modern music.

Kasey Yale is a Los Angeles recording artist with an eccentric focus on pop and hip hop. His music is on all streaming platforms, and he’s @theofficialyale on social media.

Nivi Canela is a New York singer, actor and MC, originally from Union City, NJ, best known for off-Broadway appearances in The Sex Myth, Lucky Petra, of a certain age, Margaret: A New Musical and Now Comes the Dust. Her one-woman show debuted at The PIT’s SOLOCOM festival in 2019. She hosts Misbehavin’ Musicals, New York City’s Broadway burlesque revue.

Tye is a musician and filmmaker in Los Angeles, originally from Abita Springs, Louisiana.

Lucas Bakker is an American producer, composer, songwriter and writer. With Tyler Forrest he scored the feature film Search and Destroy (Millennium Films), and has scored other features and shorts including the award-winning Club Rat$. His music has been used in CNN documentaries and on El Rey Network. A graduate of Cornish College of the Arts in music composition, he has worked with Wyclef Jean, Sublime with Rome, Dirty Heads and others.

Trinity Rose is an award-winning singer-songwriter from Los Angeles who combines classical training with indie pop vocals. In 2017 she was the youngest female contestant on NBC’s The Voice, and she took part in GRAMMY Camp Los Angeles. She was named the #1 Teen Songwriter in the world by the International Songwriting Competition for the global unity song Love Is The Only River.

Born in Moscow, Ada came to the US at six and grew up a virtuoso violinist, until tendinitis stopped her playing for two years. She returned to the violin to win a Presidential Scholarship to Berklee College of Music, where she began strumming the violin like a guitar to accompany her own singing. She lives in Los Angeles as a songwriter and recording and performing artist.

Gad Elbaz began singing at four with his father, the Israeli singer Benny Elbaz, and has since recorded ten solo albums, from Walk in a Straight Path (1998) to Lechaim (2017). His Hashem Melech tour played more than 180 shows in 53 cities, and his YouTube channel has more than 61 million views.

Cornflower builds modern, mantra-like songs from vocal loops, layering harmony and groove into anthemic chants, mixing experimental vocal soul, world funk, jam and electronica. He has shared stages with Michael Franti & Spearhead, Bobby McFerrin and Victor Wooten.

Multi-instrumentalist and songwriter from Southern California who travels and performs improvised jazzy blues and country picking on accordion, resonator guitar, piano and voice, in English and Spanish.

Bio to come.

A non-profit for community empowerment and youth mentoring through the arts, co-founded by the artist, educator and curator T. Walker.

Bio to come.

Bio to come.

Gabi Montoya is a dancer, choreographer, dance teacher, Pilates instructor and artist based in Philadelphia, and a former ArtistYear fellow teaching dance and choreography. She graduated from Drexel University with a B.S. in Dance, with minors in Psychology and Somatics. Her work explores self-awareness, safety and loss of control through dance and visual art.

Dancer from Bari, who began studying classical, modern and contemporary dance at the age of nine.

Geometric designer.

Artemio Morales is a software developer and interdisciplinary artist focused on digital books for iOS, Android and other platforms, who loves collaborating on new kinds of multimedia work.

A food photographer who learned to cook from some of the best chefs and stylists in the country, and found he was happier in the kitchen than on set.

Founded in October 2015 by Stephen Poullas and Daniel Rauschenbach in downtown Youngstown.

Lee Robinson is a multidimensional musician who has been an active participant in the Pittsburgh music scene for over 35 years. Performing since the age of 9 on the clarinet, Lee now concentrates on tenor and soprano saxophones. He has performed with Gentle Persuasion and Band of Angels, and with visiting jazz performers Jimmy McGriff, Charles Earland, Lew Soloff and Jack McDuff, and opened concerts for Stanley Clarke and Bachman–Turner Overdrive. As a composer he has written for independent films, theatre and dance, including the score for the PBS documentary JOBS: A Way Out. In 1979 he formed ISKA, his first professional jazz quartet, which has blended improvisation with funk, fusion, contemporary and classical jazz for more than 35 years.

Ry. is a musician and producer from upstate New York. His style defies genres, bringing together electronica, jazz, rock and hip hop into an eclectic, thought-provoking sound of his own, with lyrics on esoteric themes rarely heard in modern music.

Kasey Yale is a Los Angeles recording artist with an eccentric focus on pop and hip hop. His music is on all streaming platforms, and he’s @theofficialyale on social media.

Nivi Canela is a New York singer, actor and MC, originally from Union City, NJ, best known for off-Broadway appearances in The Sex Myth, Lucky Petra, of a certain age, Margaret: A New Musical and Now Comes the Dust. Her one-woman show debuted at The PIT’s SOLOCOM festival in 2019. She hosts Misbehavin’ Musicals, New York City’s Broadway burlesque revue.

Tye is a musician and filmmaker in Los Angeles, originally from Abita Springs, Louisiana.

Lucas Bakker is an American producer, composer, songwriter and writer. With Tyler Forrest he scored the feature film Search and Destroy (Millennium Films), and has scored other features and shorts including the award-winning Club Rat$. His music has been used in CNN documentaries and on El Rey Network. A graduate of Cornish College of the Arts in music composition, he has worked with Wyclef Jean, Sublime with Rome, Dirty Heads and others.

Trinity Rose is an award-winning singer-songwriter from Los Angeles who combines classical training with indie pop vocals. In 2017 she was the youngest female contestant on NBC’s The Voice, and she took part in GRAMMY Camp Los Angeles. She was named the #1 Teen Songwriter in the world by the International Songwriting Competition for the global unity song Love Is The Only River.

Born in Moscow, Ada came to the US at six and grew up a virtuoso violinist, until tendinitis stopped her playing for two years. She returned to the violin to win a Presidential Scholarship to Berklee College of Music, where she began strumming the violin like a guitar to accompany her own singing. She lives in Los Angeles as a songwriter and recording and performing artist.

Gad Elbaz began singing at four with his father, the Israeli singer Benny Elbaz, and has since recorded ten solo albums, from Walk in a Straight Path (1998) to Lechaim (2017). His Hashem Melech tour played more than 180 shows in 53 cities, and his YouTube channel has more than 61 million views.

Cornflower builds modern, mantra-like songs from vocal loops, layering harmony and groove into anthemic chants, mixing experimental vocal soul, world funk, jam and electronica. He has shared stages with Michael Franti & Spearhead, Bobby McFerrin and Victor Wooten.

Multi-instrumentalist and songwriter from Southern California who travels and performs improvised jazzy blues and country picking on accordion, resonator guitar, piano and voice, in English and Spanish.

Bio to come.

A non-profit for community empowerment and youth mentoring through the arts, co-founded by the artist, educator and curator T. Walker.

Bio to come.

Bio to come.

Gabi Montoya is a dancer, choreographer, dance teacher, Pilates instructor and artist based in Philadelphia, and a former ArtistYear fellow teaching dance and choreography. She graduated from Drexel University with a B.S. in Dance, with minors in Psychology and Somatics. Her work explores self-awareness, safety and loss of control through dance and visual art.

Dancer from Bari, who began studying classical, modern and contemporary dance at the age of nine.

Geometric designer.

Artemio Morales is a software developer and interdisciplinary artist focused on digital books for iOS, Android and other platforms, who loves collaborating on new kinds of multimedia work.

A food photographer who learned to cook from some of the best chefs and stylists in the country, and found he was happier in the kitchen than on set.

Founded in October 2015 by Stephen Poullas and Daniel Rauschenbach in downtown Youngstown.

Lee Robinson is a multidimensional musician who has been an active participant in the Pittsburgh music scene for over 35 years. Performing since the age of 9 on the clarinet, Lee now concentrates on tenor and soprano saxophones. He has performed with Gentle Persuasion and Band of Angels, and with visiting jazz performers Jimmy McGriff, Charles Earland, Lew Soloff and Jack McDuff, and opened concerts for Stanley Clarke and Bachman–Turner Overdrive. As a composer he has written for independent films, theatre and dance, including the score for the PBS documentary JOBS: A Way Out. In 1979 he formed ISKA, his first professional jazz quartet, which has blended improvisation with funk, fusion, contemporary and classical jazz for more than 35 years.

Ry. is a musician and producer from upstate New York. His style defies genres, bringing together electronica, jazz, rock and hip hop into an eclectic, thought-provoking sound of his own, with lyrics on esoteric themes rarely heard in modern music.

Kasey Yale is a Los Angeles recording artist with an eccentric focus on pop and hip hop. His music is on all streaming platforms, and he’s @theofficialyale on social media.

Nivi Canela is a New York singer, actor and MC, originally from Union City, NJ, best known for off-Broadway appearances in The Sex Myth, Lucky Petra, of a certain age, Margaret: A New Musical and Now Comes the Dust. Her one-woman show debuted at The PIT’s SOLOCOM festival in 2019. She hosts Misbehavin’ Musicals, New York City’s Broadway burlesque revue.

Tye is a musician and filmmaker in Los Angeles, originally from Abita Springs, Louisiana.

Lucas Bakker is an American producer, composer, songwriter and writer. With Tyler Forrest he scored the feature film Search and Destroy (Millennium Films), and has scored other features and shorts including the award-winning Club Rat$. His music has been used in CNN documentaries and on El Rey Network. A graduate of Cornish College of the Arts in music composition, he has worked with Wyclef Jean, Sublime with Rome, Dirty Heads and others.

Trinity Rose is an award-winning singer-songwriter from Los Angeles who combines classical training with indie pop vocals. In 2017 she was the youngest female contestant on NBC’s The Voice, and she took part in GRAMMY Camp Los Angeles. She was named the #1 Teen Songwriter in the world by the International Songwriting Competition for the global unity song Love Is The Only River.

Born in Moscow, Ada came to the US at six and grew up a virtuoso violinist, until tendinitis stopped her playing for two years. She returned to the violin to win a Presidential Scholarship to Berklee College of Music, where she began strumming the violin like a guitar to accompany her own singing. She lives in Los Angeles as a songwriter and recording and performing artist.

Gad Elbaz began singing at four with his father, the Israeli singer Benny Elbaz, and has since recorded ten solo albums, from Walk in a Straight Path (1998) to Lechaim (2017). His Hashem Melech tour played more than 180 shows in 53 cities, and his YouTube channel has more than 61 million views.

Cornflower builds modern, mantra-like songs from vocal loops, layering harmony and groove into anthemic chants, mixing experimental vocal soul, world funk, jam and electronica. He has shared stages with Michael Franti & Spearhead, Bobby McFerrin and Victor Wooten.

Multi-instrumentalist and songwriter from Southern California who travels and performs improvised jazzy blues and country picking on accordion, resonator guitar, piano and voice, in English and Spanish.

Bio to come.

A non-profit for community empowerment and youth mentoring through the arts, co-founded by the artist, educator and curator T. Walker.

Bio to come.

Bio to come.

Gabi Montoya is a dancer, choreographer, dance teacher, Pilates instructor and artist based in Philadelphia, and a former ArtistYear fellow teaching dance and choreography. She graduated from Drexel University with a B.S. in Dance, with minors in Psychology and Somatics. Her work explores self-awareness, safety and loss of control through dance and visual art.

Dancer from Bari, who began studying classical, modern and contemporary dance at the age of nine.

Geometric designer.

Artemio Morales is a software developer and interdisciplinary artist focused on digital books for iOS, Android and other platforms, who loves collaborating on new kinds of multimedia work.

A food photographer who learned to cook from some of the best chefs and stylists in the country, and found he was happier in the kitchen than on set.

Founded in October 2015 by Stephen Poullas and Daniel Rauschenbach in downtown Youngstown.

Lee Robinson is a multidimensional musician who has been an active participant in the Pittsburgh music scene for over 35 years. Performing since the age of 9 on the clarinet, Lee now concentrates on tenor and soprano saxophones. He has performed with Gentle Persuasion and Band of Angels, and with visiting jazz performers Jimmy McGriff, Charles Earland, Lew Soloff and Jack McDuff, and opened concerts for Stanley Clarke and Bachman–Turner Overdrive. As a composer he has written for independent films, theatre and dance, including the score for the PBS documentary JOBS: A Way Out. In 1979 he formed ISKA, his first professional jazz quartet, which has blended improvisation with funk, fusion, contemporary and classical jazz for more than 35 years.

Ry. is a musician and producer from upstate New York. His style defies genres, bringing together electronica, jazz, rock and hip hop into an eclectic, thought-provoking sound of his own, with lyrics on esoteric themes rarely heard in modern music.

Kasey Yale is a Los Angeles recording artist with an eccentric focus on pop and hip hop. His music is on all streaming platforms, and he’s @theofficialyale on social media.

Nivi Canela is a New York singer, actor and MC, originally from Union City, NJ, best known for off-Broadway appearances in The Sex Myth, Lucky Petra, of a certain age, Margaret: A New Musical and Now Comes the Dust. Her one-woman show debuted at The PIT’s SOLOCOM festival in 2019. She hosts Misbehavin’ Musicals, New York City’s Broadway burlesque revue.

Tye is a musician and filmmaker in Los Angeles, originally from Abita Springs, Louisiana.

Lucas Bakker is an American producer, composer, songwriter and writer. With Tyler Forrest he scored the feature film Search and Destroy (Millennium Films), and has scored other features and shorts including the award-winning Club Rat$. His music has been used in CNN documentaries and on El Rey Network. A graduate of Cornish College of the Arts in music composition, he has worked with Wyclef Jean, Sublime with Rome, Dirty Heads and others.

Trinity Rose is an award-winning singer-songwriter from Los Angeles who combines classical training with indie pop vocals. In 2017 she was the youngest female contestant on NBC’s The Voice, and she took part in GRAMMY Camp Los Angeles. She was named the #1 Teen Songwriter in the world by the International Songwriting Competition for the global unity song Love Is The Only River.

Born in Moscow, Ada came to the US at six and grew up a virtuoso violinist, until tendinitis stopped her playing for two years. She returned to the violin to win a Presidential Scholarship to Berklee College of Music, where she began strumming the violin like a guitar to accompany her own singing. She lives in Los Angeles as a songwriter and recording and performing artist.

Gad Elbaz began singing at four with his father, the Israeli singer Benny Elbaz, and has since recorded ten solo albums, from Walk in a Straight Path (1998) to Lechaim (2017). His Hashem Melech tour played more than 180 shows in 53 cities, and his YouTube channel has more than 61 million views.

Cornflower builds modern, mantra-like songs from vocal loops, layering harmony and groove into anthemic chants, mixing experimental vocal soul, world funk, jam and electronica. He has shared stages with Michael Franti & Spearhead, Bobby McFerrin and Victor Wooten.

Multi-instrumentalist and songwriter from Southern California who travels and performs improvised jazzy blues and country picking on accordion, resonator guitar, piano and voice, in English and Spanish.

Bio to come.

A non-profit for community empowerment and youth mentoring through the arts, co-founded by the artist, educator and curator T. Walker.

Bio to come.

Bio to come.

Gabi Montoya is a dancer, choreographer, dance teacher, Pilates instructor and artist based in Philadelphia, and a former ArtistYear fellow teaching dance and choreography. She graduated from Drexel University with a B.S. in Dance, with minors in Psychology and Somatics. Her work explores self-awareness, safety and loss of control through dance and visual art.

Dancer from Bari, who began studying classical, modern and contemporary dance at the age of nine.

Geometric designer.

Artemio Morales is a software developer and interdisciplinary artist focused on digital books for iOS, Android and other platforms, who loves collaborating on new kinds of multimedia work.

A food photographer who learned to cook from some of the best chefs and stylists in the country, and found he was happier in the kitchen than on set.

Founded in October 2015 by Stephen Poullas and Daniel Rauschenbach in downtown Youngstown.

Lee Robinson is a multidimensional musician who has been an active participant in the Pittsburgh music scene for over 35 years. Performing since the age of 9 on the clarinet, Lee now concentrates on tenor and soprano saxophones. He has performed with Gentle Persuasion and Band of Angels, and with visiting jazz performers Jimmy McGriff, Charles Earland, Lew Soloff and Jack McDuff, and opened concerts for Stanley Clarke and Bachman–Turner Overdrive. As a composer he has written for independent films, theatre and dance, including the score for the PBS documentary JOBS: A Way Out. In 1979 he formed ISKA, his first professional jazz quartet, which has blended improvisation with funk, fusion, contemporary and classical jazz for more than 35 years.

Ry. is a musician and producer from upstate New York. His style defies genres, bringing together electronica, jazz, rock and hip hop into an eclectic, thought-provoking sound of his own, with lyrics on esoteric themes rarely heard in modern music.

Kasey Yale is a Los Angeles recording artist with an eccentric focus on pop and hip hop. His music is on all streaming platforms, and he’s @theofficialyale on social media.

Nivi Canela is a New York singer, actor and MC, originally from Union City, NJ, best known for off-Broadway appearances in The Sex Myth, Lucky Petra, of a certain age, Margaret: A New Musical and Now Comes the Dust. Her one-woman show debuted at The PIT’s SOLOCOM festival in 2019. She hosts Misbehavin’ Musicals, New York City’s Broadway burlesque revue.

Tye is a musician and filmmaker in Los Angeles, originally from Abita Springs, Louisiana.

Lucas Bakker is an American producer, composer, songwriter and writer. With Tyler Forrest he scored the feature film Search and Destroy (Millennium Films), and has scored other features and shorts including the award-winning Club Rat$. His music has been used in CNN documentaries and on El Rey Network. A graduate of Cornish College of the Arts in music composition, he has worked with Wyclef Jean, Sublime with Rome, Dirty Heads and others.

Trinity Rose is an award-winning singer-songwriter from Los Angeles who combines classical training with indie pop vocals. In 2017 she was the youngest female contestant on NBC’s The Voice, and she took part in GRAMMY Camp Los Angeles. She was named the #1 Teen Songwriter in the world by the International Songwriting Competition for the global unity song Love Is The Only River.

Born in Moscow, Ada came to the US at six and grew up a virtuoso violinist, until tendinitis stopped her playing for two years. She returned to the violin to win a Presidential Scholarship to Berklee College of Music, where she began strumming the violin like a guitar to accompany her own singing. She lives in Los Angeles as a songwriter and recording and performing artist.

Gad Elbaz began singing at four with his father, the Israeli singer Benny Elbaz, and has since recorded ten solo albums, from Walk in a Straight Path (1998) to Lechaim (2017). His Hashem Melech tour played more than 180 shows in 53 cities, and his YouTube channel has more than 61 million views.

Cornflower builds modern, mantra-like songs from vocal loops, layering harmony and groove into anthemic chants, mixing experimental vocal soul, world funk, jam and electronica. He has shared stages with Michael Franti & Spearhead, Bobby McFerrin and Victor Wooten.

Multi-instrumentalist and songwriter from Southern California who travels and performs improvised jazzy blues and country picking on accordion, resonator guitar, piano and voice, in English and Spanish.

Bio to come.

A non-profit for community empowerment and youth mentoring through the arts, co-founded by the artist, educator and curator T. Walker.

Bio to come.

Bio to come.

Gabi Montoya is a dancer, choreographer, dance teacher, Pilates instructor and artist based in Philadelphia, and a former ArtistYear fellow teaching dance and choreography. She graduated from Drexel University with a B.S. in Dance, with minors in Psychology and Somatics. Her work explores self-awareness, safety and loss of control through dance and visual art.

Dancer from Bari, who began studying classical, modern and contemporary dance at the age of nine.

Geometric designer.

Artemio Morales is a software developer and interdisciplinary artist focused on digital books for iOS, Android and other platforms, who loves collaborating on new kinds of multimedia work.

A food photographer who learned to cook from some of the best chefs and stylists in the country, and found he was happier in the kitchen than on set.

Founded in October 2015 by Stephen Poullas and Daniel Rauschenbach in downtown Youngstown.

Lee Robinson is a multidimensional musician who has been an active participant in the Pittsburgh music scene for over 35 years. Performing since the age of 9 on the clarinet, Lee now concentrates on tenor and soprano saxophones. He has performed with Gentle Persuasion and Band of Angels, and with visiting jazz performers Jimmy McGriff, Charles Earland, Lew Soloff and Jack McDuff, and opened concerts for Stanley Clarke and Bachman–Turner Overdrive. As a composer he has written for independent films, theatre and dance, including the score for the PBS documentary JOBS: A Way Out. In 1979 he formed ISKA, his first professional jazz quartet, which has blended improvisation with funk, fusion, contemporary and classical jazz for more than 35 years.

Ry. is a musician and producer from upstate New York. His style defies genres, bringing together electronica, jazz, rock and hip hop into an eclectic, thought-provoking sound of his own, with lyrics on esoteric themes rarely heard in modern music.

Kasey Yale is a Los Angeles recording artist with an eccentric focus on pop and hip hop. His music is on all streaming platforms, and he’s @theofficialyale on social media.

Nivi Canela is a New York singer, actor and MC, originally from Union City, NJ, best known for off-Broadway appearances in The Sex Myth, Lucky Petra, of a certain age, Margaret: A New Musical and Now Comes the Dust. Her one-woman show debuted at The PIT’s SOLOCOM festival in 2019. She hosts Misbehavin’ Musicals, New York City’s Broadway burlesque revue.

Tye is a musician and filmmaker in Los Angeles, originally from Abita Springs, Louisiana.

Lucas Bakker is an American producer, composer, songwriter and writer. With Tyler Forrest he scored the feature film Search and Destroy (Millennium Films), and has scored other features and shorts including the award-winning Club Rat$. His music has been used in CNN documentaries and on El Rey Network. A graduate of Cornish College of the Arts in music composition, he has worked with Wyclef Jean, Sublime with Rome, Dirty Heads and others.

Trinity Rose is an award-winning singer-songwriter from Los Angeles who combines classical training with indie pop vocals. In 2017 she was the youngest female contestant on NBC’s The Voice, and she took part in GRAMMY Camp Los Angeles. She was named the #1 Teen Songwriter in the world by the International Songwriting Competition for the global unity song Love Is The Only River.

Born in Moscow, Ada came to the US at six and grew up a virtuoso violinist, until tendinitis stopped her playing for two years. She returned to the violin to win a Presidential Scholarship to Berklee College of Music, where she began strumming the violin like a guitar to accompany her own singing. She lives in Los Angeles as a songwriter and recording and performing artist.

Gad Elbaz began singing at four with his father, the Israeli singer Benny Elbaz, and has since recorded ten solo albums, from Walk in a Straight Path (1998) to Lechaim (2017). His Hashem Melech tour played more than 180 shows in 53 cities, and his YouTube channel has more than 61 million views.

Cornflower builds modern, mantra-like songs from vocal loops, layering harmony and groove into anthemic chants, mixing experimental vocal soul, world funk, jam and electronica. He has shared stages with Michael Franti & Spearhead, Bobby McFerrin and Victor Wooten.

Multi-instrumentalist and songwriter from Southern California who travels and performs improvised jazzy blues and country picking on accordion, resonator guitar, piano and voice, in English and Spanish.

Bio to come.

A non-profit for community empowerment and youth mentoring through the arts, co-founded by the artist, educator and curator T. Walker.

Bio to come.

Bio to come.

Gabi Montoya is a dancer, choreographer, dance teacher, Pilates instructor and artist based in Philadelphia, and a former ArtistYear fellow teaching dance and choreography. She graduated from Drexel University with a B.S. in Dance, with minors in Psychology and Somatics. Her work explores self-awareness, safety and loss of control through dance and visual art.

Dancer from Bari, who began studying classical, modern and contemporary dance at the age of nine.

Geometric designer.

Artemio Morales is a software developer and interdisciplinary artist focused on digital books for iOS, Android and other platforms, who loves collaborating on new kinds of multimedia work.

A food photographer who learned to cook from some of the best chefs and stylists in the country, and found he was happier in the kitchen than on set.

Founded in October 2015 by Stephen Poullas and Daniel Rauschenbach in downtown Youngstown.

Lee Robinson is a multidimensional musician who has been an active participant in the Pittsburgh music scene for over 35 years. Performing since the age of 9 on the clarinet, Lee now concentrates on tenor and soprano saxophones. He has performed with Gentle Persuasion and Band of Angels, and with visiting jazz performers Jimmy McGriff, Charles Earland, Lew Soloff and Jack McDuff, and opened concerts for Stanley Clarke and Bachman–Turner Overdrive. As a composer he has written for independent films, theatre and dance, including the score for the PBS documentary JOBS: A Way Out. In 1979 he formed ISKA, his first professional jazz quartet, which has blended improvisation with funk, fusion, contemporary and classical jazz for more than 35 years.

Ry. is a musician and producer from upstate New York. His style defies genres, bringing together electronica, jazz, rock and hip hop into an eclectic, thought-provoking sound of his own, with lyrics on esoteric themes rarely heard in modern music.

Kasey Yale is a Los Angeles recording artist with an eccentric focus on pop and hip hop. His music is on all streaming platforms, and he’s @theofficialyale on social media.

Nivi Canela is a New York singer, actor and MC, originally from Union City, NJ, best known for off-Broadway appearances in The Sex Myth, Lucky Petra, of a certain age, Margaret: A New Musical and Now Comes the Dust. Her one-woman show debuted at The PIT’s SOLOCOM festival in 2019. She hosts Misbehavin’ Musicals, New York City’s Broadway burlesque revue.

Tye is a musician and filmmaker in Los Angeles, originally from Abita Springs, Louisiana.

Lucas Bakker is an American producer, composer, songwriter and writer. With Tyler Forrest he scored the feature film Search and Destroy (Millennium Films), and has scored other features and shorts including the award-winning Club Rat$. His music has been used in CNN documentaries and on El Rey Network. A graduate of Cornish College of the Arts in music composition, he has worked with Wyclef Jean, Sublime with Rome, Dirty Heads and others.

Trinity Rose is an award-winning singer-songwriter from Los Angeles who combines classical training with indie pop vocals. In 2017 she was the youngest female contestant on NBC’s The Voice, and she took part in GRAMMY Camp Los Angeles. She was named the #1 Teen Songwriter in the world by the International Songwriting Competition for the global unity song Love Is The Only River.

Born in Moscow, Ada came to the US at six and grew up a virtuoso violinist, until tendinitis stopped her playing for two years. She returned to the violin to win a Presidential Scholarship to Berklee College of Music, where she began strumming the violin like a guitar to accompany her own singing. She lives in Los Angeles as a songwriter and recording and performing artist.

Gad Elbaz began singing at four with his father, the Israeli singer Benny Elbaz, and has since recorded ten solo albums, from Walk in a Straight Path (1998) to Lechaim (2017). His Hashem Melech tour played more than 180 shows in 53 cities, and his YouTube channel has more than 61 million views.

Cornflower builds modern, mantra-like songs from vocal loops, layering harmony and groove into anthemic chants, mixing experimental vocal soul, world funk, jam and electronica. He has shared stages with Michael Franti & Spearhead, Bobby McFerrin and Victor Wooten.

Multi-instrumentalist and songwriter from Southern California who travels and performs improvised jazzy blues and country picking on accordion, resonator guitar, piano and voice, in English and Spanish.

Bio to come.

A non-profit for community empowerment and youth mentoring through the arts, co-founded by the artist, educator and curator T. Walker.

Bio to come.

Bio to come.

Gabi Montoya is a dancer, choreographer, dance teacher, Pilates instructor and artist based in Philadelphia, and a former ArtistYear fellow teaching dance and choreography. She graduated from Drexel University with a B.S. in Dance, with minors in Psychology and Somatics. Her work explores self-awareness, safety and loss of control through dance and visual art.

Dancer from Bari, who began studying classical, modern and contemporary dance at the age of nine.

Geometric designer.

Artemio Morales is a software developer and interdisciplinary artist focused on digital books for iOS, Android and other platforms, who loves collaborating on new kinds of multimedia work.

A food photographer who learned to cook from some of the best chefs and stylists in the country, and found he was happier in the kitchen than on set.

Founded in October 2015 by Stephen Poullas and Daniel Rauschenbach in downtown Youngstown.

Lee Robinson is a multidimensional musician who has been an active participant in the Pittsburgh music scene for over 35 years. Performing since the age of 9 on the clarinet, Lee now concentrates on tenor and soprano saxophones. He has performed with Gentle Persuasion and Band of Angels, and with visiting jazz performers Jimmy McGriff, Charles Earland, Lew Soloff and Jack McDuff, and opened concerts for Stanley Clarke and Bachman–Turner Overdrive. As a composer he has written for independent films, theatre and dance, including the score for the PBS documentary JOBS: A Way Out. In 1979 he formed ISKA, his first professional jazz quartet, which has blended improvisation with funk, fusion, contemporary and classical jazz for more than 35 years.

Ry. is a musician and producer from upstate New York. His style defies genres, bringing together electronica, jazz, rock and hip hop into an eclectic, thought-provoking sound of his own, with lyrics on esoteric themes rarely heard in modern music.

Kasey Yale is a Los Angeles recording artist with an eccentric focus on pop and hip hop. His music is on all streaming platforms, and he’s @theofficialyale on social media.

Nivi Canela is a New York singer, actor and MC, originally from Union City, NJ, best known for off-Broadway appearances in The Sex Myth, Lucky Petra, of a certain age, Margaret: A New Musical and Now Comes the Dust. Her one-woman show debuted at The PIT’s SOLOCOM festival in 2019. She hosts Misbehavin’ Musicals, New York City’s Broadway burlesque revue.

Tye is a musician and filmmaker in Los Angeles, originally from Abita Springs, Louisiana.

Lucas Bakker is an American producer, composer, songwriter and writer. With Tyler Forrest he scored the feature film Search and Destroy (Millennium Films), and has scored other features and shorts including the award-winning Club Rat$. His music has been used in CNN documentaries and on El Rey Network. A graduate of Cornish College of the Arts in music composition, he has worked with Wyclef Jean, Sublime with Rome, Dirty Heads and others.

Trinity Rose is an award-winning singer-songwriter from Los Angeles who combines classical training with indie pop vocals. In 2017 she was the youngest female contestant on NBC’s The Voice, and she took part in GRAMMY Camp Los Angeles. She was named the #1 Teen Songwriter in the world by the International Songwriting Competition for the global unity song Love Is The Only River.

Born in Moscow, Ada came to the US at six and grew up a virtuoso violinist, until tendinitis stopped her playing for two years. She returned to the violin to win a Presidential Scholarship to Berklee College of Music, where she began strumming the violin like a guitar to accompany her own singing. She lives in Los Angeles as a songwriter and recording and performing artist.

Gad Elbaz began singing at four with his father, the Israeli singer Benny Elbaz, and has since recorded ten solo albums, from Walk in a Straight Path (1998) to Lechaim (2017). His Hashem Melech tour played more than 180 shows in 53 cities, and his YouTube channel has more than 61 million views.

Cornflower builds modern, mantra-like songs from vocal loops, layering harmony and groove into anthemic chants, mixing experimental vocal soul, world funk, jam and electronica. He has shared stages with Michael Franti & Spearhead, Bobby McFerrin and Victor Wooten.

Multi-instrumentalist and songwriter from Southern California who travels and performs improvised jazzy blues and country picking on accordion, resonator guitar, piano and voice, in English and Spanish.

Bio to come.

A non-profit for community empowerment and youth mentoring through the arts, co-founded by the artist, educator and curator T. Walker.

Bio to come.

Bio to come.

Gabi Montoya is a dancer, choreographer, dance teacher, Pilates instructor and artist based in Philadelphia, and a former ArtistYear fellow teaching dance and choreography. She graduated from Drexel University with a B.S. in Dance, with minors in Psychology and Somatics. Her work explores self-awareness, safety and loss of control through dance and visual art.

Dancer from Bari, who began studying classical, modern and contemporary dance at the age of nine.

Geometric designer.

Artemio Morales is a software developer and interdisciplinary artist focused on digital books for iOS, Android and other platforms, who loves collaborating on new kinds of multimedia work.

A food photographer who learned to cook from some of the best chefs and stylists in the country, and found he was happier in the kitchen than on set.

Founded in October 2015 by Stephen Poullas and Daniel Rauschenbach in downtown Youngstown.

Lee Robinson is a multidimensional musician who has been an active participant in the Pittsburgh music scene for over 35 years. Performing since the age of 9 on the clarinet, Lee now concentrates on tenor and soprano saxophones. He has performed with Gentle Persuasion and Band of Angels, and with visiting jazz performers Jimmy McGriff, Charles Earland, Lew Soloff and Jack McDuff, and opened concerts for Stanley Clarke and Bachman–Turner Overdrive. As a composer he has written for independent films, theatre and dance, including the score for the PBS documentary JOBS: A Way Out. In 1979 he formed ISKA, his first professional jazz quartet, which has blended improvisation with funk, fusion, contemporary and classical jazz for more than 35 years.

Ry. is a musician and producer from upstate New York. His style defies genres, bringing together electronica, jazz, rock and hip hop into an eclectic, thought-provoking sound of his own, with lyrics on esoteric themes rarely heard in modern music.

Kasey Yale is a Los Angeles recording artist with an eccentric focus on pop and hip hop. His music is on all streaming platforms, and he’s @theofficialyale on social media.

Nivi Canela is a New York singer, actor and MC, originally from Union City, NJ, best known for off-Broadway appearances in The Sex Myth, Lucky Petra, of a certain age, Margaret: A New Musical and Now Comes the Dust. Her one-woman show debuted at The PIT’s SOLOCOM festival in 2019. She hosts Misbehavin’ Musicals, New York City’s Broadway burlesque revue.

Tye is a musician and filmmaker in Los Angeles, originally from Abita Springs, Louisiana.

Lucas Bakker is an American producer, composer, songwriter and writer. With Tyler Forrest he scored the feature film Search and Destroy (Millennium Films), and has scored other features and shorts including the award-winning Club Rat$. His music has been used in CNN documentaries and on El Rey Network. A graduate of Cornish College of the Arts in music composition, he has worked with Wyclef Jean, Sublime with Rome, Dirty Heads and others.

Trinity Rose is an award-winning singer-songwriter from Los Angeles who combines classical training with indie pop vocals. In 2017 she was the youngest female contestant on NBC’s The Voice, and she took part in GRAMMY Camp Los Angeles. She was named the #1 Teen Songwriter in the world by the International Songwriting Competition for the global unity song Love Is The Only River.

Born in Moscow, Ada came to the US at six and grew up a virtuoso violinist, until tendinitis stopped her playing for two years. She returned to the violin to win a Presidential Scholarship to Berklee College of Music, where she began strumming the violin like a guitar to accompany her own singing. She lives in Los Angeles as a songwriter and recording and performing artist.

Gad Elbaz began singing at four with his father, the Israeli singer Benny Elbaz, and has since recorded ten solo albums, from Walk in a Straight Path (1998) to Lechaim (2017). His Hashem Melech tour played more than 180 shows in 53 cities, and his YouTube channel has more than 61 million views.

Cornflower builds modern, mantra-like songs from vocal loops, layering harmony and groove into anthemic chants, mixing experimental vocal soul, world funk, jam and electronica. He has shared stages with Michael Franti & Spearhead, Bobby McFerrin and Victor Wooten.

Multi-instrumentalist and songwriter from Southern California who travels and performs improvised jazzy blues and country picking on accordion, resonator guitar, piano and voice, in English and Spanish.

Bio to come.

A non-profit for community empowerment and youth mentoring through the arts, co-founded by the artist, educator and curator T. Walker.

Bio to come.

Bio to come.

Gabi Montoya is a dancer, choreographer, dance teacher, Pilates instructor and artist based in Philadelphia, and a former ArtistYear fellow teaching dance and choreography. She graduated from Drexel University with a B.S. in Dance, with minors in Psychology and Somatics. Her work explores self-awareness, safety and loss of control through dance and visual art.

Dancer from Bari, who began studying classical, modern and contemporary dance at the age of nine.

Geometric designer.

Artemio Morales is a software developer and interdisciplinary artist focused on digital books for iOS, Android and other platforms, who loves collaborating on new kinds of multimedia work.

A food photographer who learned to cook from some of the best chefs and stylists in the country, and found he was happier in the kitchen than on set.

Founded in October 2015 by Stephen Poullas and Daniel Rauschenbach in downtown Youngstown.

Lee Robinson is a multidimensional musician who has been an active participant in the Pittsburgh music scene for over 35 years. Performing since the age of 9 on the clarinet, Lee now concentrates on tenor and soprano saxophones. He has performed with Gentle Persuasion and Band of Angels, and with visiting jazz performers Jimmy McGriff, Charles Earland, Lew Soloff and Jack McDuff, and opened concerts for Stanley Clarke and Bachman–Turner Overdrive. As a composer he has written for independent films, theatre and dance, including the score for the PBS documentary JOBS: A Way Out. In 1979 he formed ISKA, his first professional jazz quartet, which has blended improvisation with funk, fusion, contemporary and classical jazz for more than 35 years.

Ry. is a musician and producer from upstate New York. His style defies genres, bringing together electronica, jazz, rock and hip hop into an eclectic, thought-provoking sound of his own, with lyrics on esoteric themes rarely heard in modern music.

Kasey Yale is a Los Angeles recording artist with an eccentric focus on pop and hip hop. His music is on all streaming platforms, and he’s @theofficialyale on social media.

Nivi Canela is a New York singer, actor and MC, originally from Union City, NJ, best known for off-Broadway appearances in The Sex Myth, Lucky Petra, of a certain age, Margaret: A New Musical and Now Comes the Dust. Her one-woman show debuted at The PIT’s SOLOCOM festival in 2019. She hosts Misbehavin’ Musicals, New York City’s Broadway burlesque revue.

Tye is a musician and filmmaker in Los Angeles, originally from Abita Springs, Louisiana.

Lucas Bakker is an American producer, composer, songwriter and writer. With Tyler Forrest he scored the feature film Search and Destroy (Millennium Films), and has scored other features and shorts including the award-winning Club Rat$. His music has been used in CNN documentaries and on El Rey Network. A graduate of Cornish College of the Arts in music composition, he has worked with Wyclef Jean, Sublime with Rome, Dirty Heads and others.

Trinity Rose is an award-winning singer-songwriter from Los Angeles who combines classical training with indie pop vocals. In 2017 she was the youngest female contestant on NBC’s The Voice, and she took part in GRAMMY Camp Los Angeles. She was named the #1 Teen Songwriter in the world by the International Songwriting Competition for the global unity song Love Is The Only River.

Born in Moscow, Ada came to the US at six and grew up a virtuoso violinist, until tendinitis stopped her playing for two years. She returned to the violin to win a Presidential Scholarship to Berklee College of Music, where she began strumming the violin like a guitar to accompany her own singing. She lives in Los Angeles as a songwriter and recording and performing artist.

Gad Elbaz began singing at four with his father, the Israeli singer Benny Elbaz, and has since recorded ten solo albums, from Walk in a Straight Path (1998) to Lechaim (2017). His Hashem Melech tour played more than 180 shows in 53 cities, and his YouTube channel has more than 61 million views.

Cornflower builds modern, mantra-like songs from vocal loops, layering harmony and groove into anthemic chants, mixing experimental vocal soul, world funk, jam and electronica. He has shared stages with Michael Franti & Spearhead, Bobby McFerrin and Victor Wooten.

Multi-instrumentalist and songwriter from Southern California who travels and performs improvised jazzy blues and country picking on accordion, resonator guitar, piano and voice, in English and Spanish.

Bio to come.

A non-profit for community empowerment and youth mentoring through the arts, co-founded by the artist, educator and curator T. Walker.

Bio to come.

Bio to come.

Gabi Montoya is a dancer, choreographer, dance teacher, Pilates instructor and artist based in Philadelphia, and a former ArtistYear fellow teaching dance and choreography. She graduated from Drexel University with a B.S. in Dance, with minors in Psychology and Somatics. Her work explores self-awareness, safety and loss of control through dance and visual art.

Dancer from Bari, who began studying classical, modern and contemporary dance at the age of nine.

Geometric designer.

Artemio Morales is a software developer and interdisciplinary artist focused on digital books for iOS, Android and other platforms, who loves collaborating on new kinds of multimedia work.

A food photographer who learned to cook from some of the best chefs and stylists in the country, and found he was happier in the kitchen than on set.

Founded in October 2015 by Stephen Poullas and Daniel Rauschenbach in downtown Youngstown.

Lee Robinson is a multidimensional musician who has been an active participant in the Pittsburgh music scene for over 35 years. Performing since the age of 9 on the clarinet, Lee now concentrates on tenor and soprano saxophones. He has performed with Gentle Persuasion and Band of Angels, and with visiting jazz performers Jimmy McGriff, Charles Earland, Lew Soloff and Jack McDuff, and opened concerts for Stanley Clarke and Bachman–Turner Overdrive. As a composer he has written for independent films, theatre and dance, including the score for the PBS documentary JOBS: A Way Out. In 1979 he formed ISKA, his first professional jazz quartet, which has blended improvisation with funk, fusion, contemporary and classical jazz for more than 35 years.

Ry. is a musician and producer from upstate New York. His style defies genres, bringing together electronica, jazz, rock and hip hop into an eclectic, thought-provoking sound of his own, with lyrics on esoteric themes rarely heard in modern music.

Kasey Yale is a Los Angeles recording artist with an eccentric focus on pop and hip hop. His music is on all streaming platforms, and he’s @theofficialyale on social media.

Nivi Canela is a New York singer, actor and MC, originally from Union City, NJ, best known for off-Broadway appearances in The Sex Myth, Lucky Petra, of a certain age, Margaret: A New Musical and Now Comes the Dust. Her one-woman show debuted at The PIT’s SOLOCOM festival in 2019. She hosts Misbehavin’ Musicals, New York City’s Broadway burlesque revue.

Tye is a musician and filmmaker in Los Angeles, originally from Abita Springs, Louisiana.

Lucas Bakker is an American producer, composer, songwriter and writer. With Tyler Forrest he scored the feature film Search and Destroy (Millennium Films), and has scored other features and shorts including the award-winning Club Rat$. His music has been used in CNN documentaries and on El Rey Network. A graduate of Cornish College of the Arts in music composition, he has worked with Wyclef Jean, Sublime with Rome, Dirty Heads and others.

Trinity Rose is an award-winning singer-songwriter from Los Angeles who combines classical training with indie pop vocals. In 2017 she was the youngest female contestant on NBC’s The Voice, and she took part in GRAMMY Camp Los Angeles. She was named the #1 Teen Songwriter in the world by the International Songwriting Competition for the global unity song Love Is The Only River.

Born in Moscow, Ada came to the US at six and grew up a virtuoso violinist, until tendinitis stopped her playing for two years. She returned to the violin to win a Presidential Scholarship to Berklee College of Music, where she began strumming the violin like a guitar to accompany her own singing. She lives in Los Angeles as a songwriter and recording and performing artist.

Gad Elbaz began singing at four with his father, the Israeli singer Benny Elbaz, and has since recorded ten solo albums, from Walk in a Straight Path (1998) to Lechaim (2017). His Hashem Melech tour played more than 180 shows in 53 cities, and his YouTube channel has more than 61 million views.

Cornflower builds modern, mantra-like songs from vocal loops, layering harmony and groove into anthemic chants, mixing experimental vocal soul, world funk, jam and electronica. He has shared stages with Michael Franti & Spearhead, Bobby McFerrin and Victor Wooten.

Multi-instrumentalist and songwriter from Southern California who travels and performs improvised jazzy blues and country picking on accordion, resonator guitar, piano and voice, in English and Spanish.

Bio to come.

A non-profit for community empowerment and youth mentoring through the arts, co-founded by the artist, educator and curator T. Walker.

Bio to come.

Bio to come.

Gabi Montoya is a dancer, choreographer, dance teacher, Pilates instructor and artist based in Philadelphia, and a former ArtistYear fellow teaching dance and choreography. She graduated from Drexel University with a B.S. in Dance, with minors in Psychology and Somatics. Her work explores self-awareness, safety and loss of control through dance and visual art.

Dancer from Bari, who began studying classical, modern and contemporary dance at the age of nine.

Geometric designer.

Artemio Morales is a software developer and interdisciplinary artist focused on digital books for iOS, Android and other platforms, who loves collaborating on new kinds of multimedia work.

A food photographer who learned to cook from some of the best chefs and stylists in the country, and found he was happier in the kitchen than on set.

Founded in October 2015 by Stephen Poullas and Daniel Rauschenbach in downtown Youngstown.

Lee Robinson is a multidimensional musician who has been an active participant in the Pittsburgh music scene for over 35 years. Performing since the age of 9 on the clarinet, Lee now concentrates on tenor and soprano saxophones. He has performed with Gentle Persuasion and Band of Angels, and with visiting jazz performers Jimmy McGriff, Charles Earland, Lew Soloff and Jack McDuff, and opened concerts for Stanley Clarke and Bachman–Turner Overdrive. As a composer he has written for independent films, theatre and dance, including the score for the PBS documentary JOBS: A Way Out. In 1979 he formed ISKA, his first professional jazz quartet, which has blended improvisation with funk, fusion, contemporary and classical jazz for more than 35 years.

Ry. is a musician and producer from upstate New York. His style defies genres, bringing together electronica, jazz, rock and hip hop into an eclectic, thought-provoking sound of his own, with lyrics on esoteric themes rarely heard in modern music.

Kasey Yale is a Los Angeles recording artist with an eccentric focus on pop and hip hop. His music is on all streaming platforms, and he’s @theofficialyale on social media.

Nivi Canela is a New York singer, actor and MC, originally from Union City, NJ, best known for off-Broadway appearances in The Sex Myth, Lucky Petra, of a certain age, Margaret: A New Musical and Now Comes the Dust. Her one-woman show debuted at The PIT’s SOLOCOM festival in 2019. She hosts Misbehavin’ Musicals, New York City’s Broadway burlesque revue.

Tye is a musician and filmmaker in Los Angeles, originally from Abita Springs, Louisiana.

Lucas Bakker is an American producer, composer, songwriter and writer. With Tyler Forrest he scored the feature film Search and Destroy (Millennium Films), and has scored other features and shorts including the award-winning Club Rat$. His music has been used in CNN documentaries and on El Rey Network. A graduate of Cornish College of the Arts in music composition, he has worked with Wyclef Jean, Sublime with Rome, Dirty Heads and others.

Trinity Rose is an award-winning singer-songwriter from Los Angeles who combines classical training with indie pop vocals. In 2017 she was the youngest female contestant on NBC’s The Voice, and she took part in GRAMMY Camp Los Angeles. She was named the #1 Teen Songwriter in the world by the International Songwriting Competition for the global unity song Love Is The Only River.

Born in Moscow, Ada came to the US at six and grew up a virtuoso violinist, until tendinitis stopped her playing for two years. She returned to the violin to win a Presidential Scholarship to Berklee College of Music, where she began strumming the violin like a guitar to accompany her own singing. She lives in Los Angeles as a songwriter and recording and performing artist.

Gad Elbaz began singing at four with his father, the Israeli singer Benny Elbaz, and has since recorded ten solo albums, from Walk in a Straight Path (1998) to Lechaim (2017). His Hashem Melech tour played more than 180 shows in 53 cities, and his YouTube channel has more than 61 million views.

Cornflower builds modern, mantra-like songs from vocal loops, layering harmony and groove into anthemic chants, mixing experimental vocal soul, world funk, jam and electronica. He has shared stages with Michael Franti & Spearhead, Bobby McFerrin and Victor Wooten.

Multi-instrumentalist and songwriter from Southern California who travels and performs improvised jazzy blues and country picking on accordion, resonator guitar, piano and voice, in English and Spanish.

Bio to come.

A non-profit for community empowerment and youth mentoring through the arts, co-founded by the artist, educator and curator T. Walker.

Bio to come.

Bio to come.

Gabi Montoya is a dancer, choreographer, dance teacher, Pilates instructor and artist based in Philadelphia, and a former ArtistYear fellow teaching dance and choreography. She graduated from Drexel University with a B.S. in Dance, with minors in Psychology and Somatics. Her work explores self-awareness, safety and loss of control through dance and visual art.

Dancer from Bari, who began studying classical, modern and contemporary dance at the age of nine.

Geometric designer.

Artemio Morales is a software developer and interdisciplinary artist focused on digital books for iOS, Android and other platforms, who loves collaborating on new kinds of multimedia work.

A food photographer who learned to cook from some of the best chefs and stylists in the country, and found he was happier in the kitchen than on set.

Founded in October 2015 by Stephen Poullas and Daniel Rauschenbach in downtown Youngstown.

Lee Robinson is a multidimensional musician who has been an active participant in the Pittsburgh music scene for over 35 years. Performing since the age of 9 on the clarinet, Lee now concentrates on tenor and soprano saxophones. He has performed with Gentle Persuasion and Band of Angels, and with visiting jazz performers Jimmy McGriff, Charles Earland, Lew Soloff and Jack McDuff, and opened concerts for Stanley Clarke and Bachman–Turner Overdrive. As a composer he has written for independent films, theatre and dance, including the score for the PBS documentary JOBS: A Way Out. In 1979 he formed ISKA, his first professional jazz quartet, which has blended improvisation with funk, fusion, contemporary and classical jazz for more than 35 years.

Ry. is a musician and producer from upstate New York. His style defies genres, bringing together electronica, jazz, rock and hip hop into an eclectic, thought-provoking sound of his own, with lyrics on esoteric themes rarely heard in modern music.

Kasey Yale is a Los Angeles recording artist with an eccentric focus on pop and hip hop. His music is on all streaming platforms, and he’s @theofficialyale on social media.

Nivi Canela is a New York singer, actor and MC, originally from Union City, NJ, best known for off-Broadway appearances in The Sex Myth, Lucky Petra, of a certain age, Margaret: A New Musical and Now Comes the Dust. Her one-woman show debuted at The PIT’s SOLOCOM festival in 2019. She hosts Misbehavin’ Musicals, New York City’s Broadway burlesque revue.

Tye is a musician and filmmaker in Los Angeles, originally from Abita Springs, Louisiana.

Lucas Bakker is an American producer, composer, songwriter and writer. With Tyler Forrest he scored the feature film Search and Destroy (Millennium Films), and has scored other features and shorts including the award-winning Club Rat$. His music has been used in CNN documentaries and on El Rey Network. A graduate of Cornish College of the Arts in music composition, he has worked with Wyclef Jean, Sublime with Rome, Dirty Heads and others.

Trinity Rose is an award-winning singer-songwriter from Los Angeles who combines classical training with indie pop vocals. In 2017 she was the youngest female contestant on NBC’s The Voice, and she took part in GRAMMY Camp Los Angeles. She was named the #1 Teen Songwriter in the world by the International Songwriting Competition for the global unity song Love Is The Only River.

Born in Moscow, Ada came to the US at six and grew up a virtuoso violinist, until tendinitis stopped her playing for two years. She returned to the violin to win a Presidential Scholarship to Berklee College of Music, where she began strumming the violin like a guitar to accompany her own singing. She lives in Los Angeles as a songwriter and recording and performing artist.

Gad Elbaz began singing at four with his father, the Israeli singer Benny Elbaz, and has since recorded ten solo albums, from Walk in a Straight Path (1998) to Lechaim (2017). His Hashem Melech tour played more than 180 shows in 53 cities, and his YouTube channel has more than 61 million views.

Cornflower builds modern, mantra-like songs from vocal loops, layering harmony and groove into anthemic chants, mixing experimental vocal soul, world funk, jam and electronica. He has shared stages with Michael Franti & Spearhead, Bobby McFerrin and Victor Wooten.

Multi-instrumentalist and songwriter from Southern California who travels and performs improvised jazzy blues and country picking on accordion, resonator guitar, piano and voice, in English and Spanish.

Bio to come.

A non-profit for community empowerment and youth mentoring through the arts, co-founded by the artist, educator and curator T. Walker.

Bio to come.

Bio to come.

Gabi Montoya is a dancer, choreographer, dance teacher, Pilates instructor and artist based in Philadelphia, and a former ArtistYear fellow teaching dance and choreography. She graduated from Drexel University with a B.S. in Dance, with minors in Psychology and Somatics. Her work explores self-awareness, safety and loss of control through dance and visual art.

Dancer from Bari, who began studying classical, modern and contemporary dance at the age of nine.

Geometric designer.

Artemio Morales is a software developer and interdisciplinary artist focused on digital books for iOS, Android and other platforms, who loves collaborating on new kinds of multimedia work.

A food photographer who learned to cook from some of the best chefs and stylists in the country, and found he was happier in the kitchen than on set.

Founded in October 2015 by Stephen Poullas and Daniel Rauschenbach in downtown Youngstown.

Lee Robinson is a multidimensional musician who has been an active participant in the Pittsburgh music scene for over 35 years. Performing since the age of 9 on the clarinet, Lee now concentrates on tenor and soprano saxophones. He has performed with Gentle Persuasion and Band of Angels, and with visiting jazz performers Jimmy McGriff, Charles Earland, Lew Soloff and Jack McDuff, and opened concerts for Stanley Clarke and Bachman–Turner Overdrive. As a composer he has written for independent films, theatre and dance, including the score for the PBS documentary JOBS: A Way Out. In 1979 he formed ISKA, his first professional jazz quartet, which has blended improvisation with funk, fusion, contemporary and classical jazz for more than 35 years.

Ry. is a musician and producer from upstate New York. His style defies genres, bringing together electronica, jazz, rock and hip hop into an eclectic, thought-provoking sound of his own, with lyrics on esoteric themes rarely heard in modern music.

Kasey Yale is a Los Angeles recording artist with an eccentric focus on pop and hip hop. His music is on all streaming platforms, and he’s @theofficialyale on social media.

Nivi Canela is a New York singer, actor and MC, originally from Union City, NJ, best known for off-Broadway appearances in The Sex Myth, Lucky Petra, of a certain age, Margaret: A New Musical and Now Comes the Dust. Her one-woman show debuted at The PIT’s SOLOCOM festival in 2019. She hosts Misbehavin’ Musicals, New York City’s Broadway burlesque revue.

Tye is a musician and filmmaker in Los Angeles, originally from Abita Springs, Louisiana.

Lucas Bakker is an American producer, composer, songwriter and writer. With Tyler Forrest he scored the feature film Search and Destroy (Millennium Films), and has scored other features and shorts including the award-winning Club Rat$. His music has been used in CNN documentaries and on El Rey Network. A graduate of Cornish College of the Arts in music composition, he has worked with Wyclef Jean, Sublime with Rome, Dirty Heads and others.

Trinity Rose is an award-winning singer-songwriter from Los Angeles who combines classical training with indie pop vocals. In 2017 she was the youngest female contestant on NBC’s The Voice, and she took part in GRAMMY Camp Los Angeles. She was named the #1 Teen Songwriter in the world by the International Songwriting Competition for the global unity song Love Is The Only River.

Born in Moscow, Ada came to the US at six and grew up a virtuoso violinist, until tendinitis stopped her playing for two years. She returned to the violin to win a Presidential Scholarship to Berklee College of Music, where she began strumming the violin like a guitar to accompany her own singing. She lives in Los Angeles as a songwriter and recording and performing artist.

Gad Elbaz began singing at four with his father, the Israeli singer Benny Elbaz, and has since recorded ten solo albums, from Walk in a Straight Path (1998) to Lechaim (2017). His Hashem Melech tour played more than 180 shows in 53 cities, and his YouTube channel has more than 61 million views.

Cornflower builds modern, mantra-like songs from vocal loops, layering harmony and groove into anthemic chants, mixing experimental vocal soul, world funk, jam and electronica. He has shared stages with Michael Franti & Spearhead, Bobby McFerrin and Victor Wooten.

Multi-instrumentalist and songwriter from Southern California who travels and performs improvised jazzy blues and country picking on accordion, resonator guitar, piano and voice, in English and Spanish.

Bio to come.

A non-profit for community empowerment and youth mentoring through the arts, co-founded by the artist, educator and curator T. Walker.

Bio to come.

Bio to come.

Gabi Montoya is a dancer, choreographer, dance teacher, Pilates instructor and artist based in Philadelphia, and a former ArtistYear fellow teaching dance and choreography. She graduated from Drexel University with a B.S. in Dance, with minors in Psychology and Somatics. Her work explores self-awareness, safety and loss of control through dance and visual art.

Dancer from Bari, who began studying classical, modern and contemporary dance at the age of nine.

Geometric designer.

Artemio Morales is a software developer and interdisciplinary artist focused on digital books for iOS, Android and other platforms, who loves collaborating on new kinds of multimedia work.

A food photographer who learned to cook from some of the best chefs and stylists in the country, and found he was happier in the kitchen than on set.

Founded in October 2015 by Stephen Poullas and Daniel Rauschenbach in downtown Youngstown.

Lee Robinson is a multidimensional musician who has been an active participant in the Pittsburgh music scene for over 35 years. Performing since the age of 9 on the clarinet, Lee now concentrates on tenor and soprano saxophones. He has performed with Gentle Persuasion and Band of Angels, and with visiting jazz performers Jimmy McGriff, Charles Earland, Lew Soloff and Jack McDuff, and opened concerts for Stanley Clarke and Bachman–Turner Overdrive. As a composer he has written for independent films, theatre and dance, including the score for the PBS documentary JOBS: A Way Out. In 1979 he formed ISKA, his first professional jazz quartet, which has blended improvisation with funk, fusion, contemporary and classical jazz for more than 35 years.

Ry. is a musician and producer from upstate New York. His style defies genres, bringing together electronica, jazz, rock and hip hop into an eclectic, thought-provoking sound of his own, with lyrics on esoteric themes rarely heard in modern music.

Kasey Yale is a Los Angeles recording artist with an eccentric focus on pop and hip hop. His music is on all streaming platforms, and he’s @theofficialyale on social media.

Nivi Canela is a New York singer, actor and MC, originally from Union City, NJ, best known for off-Broadway appearances in The Sex Myth, Lucky Petra, of a certain age, Margaret: A New Musical and Now Comes the Dust. Her one-woman show debuted at The PIT’s SOLOCOM festival in 2019. She hosts Misbehavin’ Musicals, New York City’s Broadway burlesque revue.

Tye is a musician and filmmaker in Los Angeles, originally from Abita Springs, Louisiana.

Lucas Bakker is an American producer, composer, songwriter and writer. With Tyler Forrest he scored the feature film Search and Destroy (Millennium Films), and has scored other features and shorts including the award-winning Club Rat$. His music has been used in CNN documentaries and on El Rey Network. A graduate of Cornish College of the Arts in music composition, he has worked with Wyclef Jean, Sublime with Rome, Dirty Heads and others.

Trinity Rose is an award-winning singer-songwriter from Los Angeles who combines classical training with indie pop vocals. In 2017 she was the youngest female contestant on NBC’s The Voice, and she took part in GRAMMY Camp Los Angeles. She was named the #1 Teen Songwriter in the world by the International Songwriting Competition for the global unity song Love Is The Only River.

Born in Moscow, Ada came to the US at six and grew up a virtuoso violinist, until tendinitis stopped her playing for two years. She returned to the violin to win a Presidential Scholarship to Berklee College of Music, where she began strumming the violin like a guitar to accompany her own singing. She lives in Los Angeles as a songwriter and recording and performing artist.

Gad Elbaz began singing at four with his father, the Israeli singer Benny Elbaz, and has since recorded ten solo albums, from Walk in a Straight Path (1998) to Lechaim (2017). His Hashem Melech tour played more than 180 shows in 53 cities, and his YouTube channel has more than 61 million views.

Cornflower builds modern, mantra-like songs from vocal loops, layering harmony and groove into anthemic chants, mixing experimental vocal soul, world funk, jam and electronica. He has shared stages with Michael Franti & Spearhead, Bobby McFerrin and Victor Wooten.

Multi-instrumentalist and songwriter from Southern California who travels and performs improvised jazzy blues and country picking on accordion, resonator guitar, piano and voice, in English and Spanish.

Bio to come.

A non-profit for community empowerment and youth mentoring through the arts, co-founded by the artist, educator and curator T. Walker.

Bio to come.

Bio to come.

Gabi Montoya is a dancer, choreographer, dance teacher, Pilates instructor and artist based in Philadelphia, and a former ArtistYear fellow teaching dance and choreography. She graduated from Drexel University with a B.S. in Dance, with minors in Psychology and Somatics. Her work explores self-awareness, safety and loss of control through dance and visual art.

Dancer from Bari, who began studying classical, modern and contemporary dance at the age of nine.

Geometric designer.

Artemio Morales is a software developer and interdisciplinary artist focused on digital books for iOS, Android and other platforms, who loves collaborating on new kinds of multimedia work.

A food photographer who learned to cook from some of the best chefs and stylists in the country, and found he was happier in the kitchen than on set.

Founded in October 2015 by Stephen Poullas and Daniel Rauschenbach in downtown Youngstown.

Lee Robinson is a multidimensional musician who has been an active participant in the Pittsburgh music scene for over 35 years. Performing since the age of 9 on the clarinet, Lee now concentrates on tenor and soprano saxophones. He has performed with Gentle Persuasion and Band of Angels, and with visiting jazz performers Jimmy McGriff, Charles Earland, Lew Soloff and Jack McDuff, and opened concerts for Stanley Clarke and Bachman–Turner Overdrive. As a composer he has written for independent films, theatre and dance, including the score for the PBS documentary JOBS: A Way Out. In 1979 he formed ISKA, his first professional jazz quartet, which has blended improvisation with funk, fusion, contemporary and classical jazz for more than 35 years.

Ry. is a musician and producer from upstate New York. His style defies genres, bringing together electronica, jazz, rock and hip hop into an eclectic, thought-provoking sound of his own, with lyrics on esoteric themes rarely heard in modern music.

Kasey Yale is a Los Angeles recording artist with an eccentric focus on pop and hip hop. His music is on all streaming platforms, and he’s @theofficialyale on social media.

Nivi Canela is a New York singer, actor and MC, originally from Union City, NJ, best known for off-Broadway appearances in The Sex Myth, Lucky Petra, of a certain age, Margaret: A New Musical and Now Comes the Dust. Her one-woman show debuted at The PIT’s SOLOCOM festival in 2019. She hosts Misbehavin’ Musicals, New York City’s Broadway burlesque revue.

Tye is a musician and filmmaker in Los Angeles, originally from Abita Springs, Louisiana.

Lucas Bakker is an American producer, composer, songwriter and writer. With Tyler Forrest he scored the feature film Search and Destroy (Millennium Films), and has scored other features and shorts including the award-winning Club Rat$. His music has been used in CNN documentaries and on El Rey Network. A graduate of Cornish College of the Arts in music composition, he has worked with Wyclef Jean, Sublime with Rome, Dirty Heads and others.

Trinity Rose is an award-winning singer-songwriter from Los Angeles who combines classical training with indie pop vocals. In 2017 she was the youngest female contestant on NBC’s The Voice, and she took part in GRAMMY Camp Los Angeles. She was named the #1 Teen Songwriter in the world by the International Songwriting Competition for the global unity song Love Is The Only River.

Born in Moscow, Ada came to the US at six and grew up a virtuoso violinist, until tendinitis stopped her playing for two years. She returned to the violin to win a Presidential Scholarship to Berklee College of Music, where she began strumming the violin like a guitar to accompany her own singing. She lives in Los Angeles as a songwriter and recording and performing artist.

Gad Elbaz began singing at four with his father, the Israeli singer Benny Elbaz, and has since recorded ten solo albums, from Walk in a Straight Path (1998) to Lechaim (2017). His Hashem Melech tour played more than 180 shows in 53 cities, and his YouTube channel has more than 61 million views.

Cornflower builds modern, mantra-like songs from vocal loops, layering harmony and groove into anthemic chants, mixing experimental vocal soul, world funk, jam and electronica. He has shared stages with Michael Franti & Spearhead, Bobby McFerrin and Victor Wooten.

Multi-instrumentalist and songwriter from Southern California who travels and performs improvised jazzy blues and country picking on accordion, resonator guitar, piano and voice, in English and Spanish.

Bio to come.

A non-profit for community empowerment and youth mentoring through the arts, co-founded by the artist, educator and curator T. Walker.

Bio to come.

Bio to come.

Gabi Montoya is a dancer, choreographer, dance teacher, Pilates instructor and artist based in Philadelphia, and a former ArtistYear fellow teaching dance and choreography. She graduated from Drexel University with a B.S. in Dance, with minors in Psychology and Somatics. Her work explores self-awareness, safety and loss of control through dance and visual art.

Dancer from Bari, who began studying classical, modern and contemporary dance at the age of nine.

Geometric designer.

Artemio Morales is a software developer and interdisciplinary artist focused on digital books for iOS, Android and other platforms, who loves collaborating on new kinds of multimedia work.

A food photographer who learned to cook from some of the best chefs and stylists in the country, and found he was happier in the kitchen than on set.

Founded in October 2015 by Stephen Poullas and Daniel Rauschenbach in downtown Youngstown.

Lee Robinson is a multidimensional musician who has been an active participant in the Pittsburgh music scene for over 35 years. Performing since the age of 9 on the clarinet, Lee now concentrates on tenor and soprano saxophones. He has performed with Gentle Persuasion and Band of Angels, and with visiting jazz performers Jimmy McGriff, Charles Earland, Lew Soloff and Jack McDuff, and opened concerts for Stanley Clarke and Bachman–Turner Overdrive. As a composer he has written for independent films, theatre and dance, including the score for the PBS documentary JOBS: A Way Out. In 1979 he formed ISKA, his first professional jazz quartet, which has blended improvisation with funk, fusion, contemporary and classical jazz for more than 35 years.

Ry. is a musician and producer from upstate New York. His style defies genres, bringing together electronica, jazz, rock and hip hop into an eclectic, thought-provoking sound of his own, with lyrics on esoteric themes rarely heard in modern music.

Kasey Yale is a Los Angeles recording artist with an eccentric focus on pop and hip hop. His music is on all streaming platforms, and he’s @theofficialyale on social media.

Nivi Canela is a New York singer, actor and MC, originally from Union City, NJ, best known for off-Broadway appearances in The Sex Myth, Lucky Petra, of a certain age, Margaret: A New Musical and Now Comes the Dust. Her one-woman show debuted at The PIT’s SOLOCOM festival in 2019. She hosts Misbehavin’ Musicals, New York City’s Broadway burlesque revue.

Tye is a musician and filmmaker in Los Angeles, originally from Abita Springs, Louisiana.

Lucas Bakker is an American producer, composer, songwriter and writer. With Tyler Forrest he scored the feature film Search and Destroy (Millennium Films), and has scored other features and shorts including the award-winning Club Rat$. His music has been used in CNN documentaries and on El Rey Network. A graduate of Cornish College of the Arts in music composition, he has worked with Wyclef Jean, Sublime with Rome, Dirty Heads and others.

Trinity Rose is an award-winning singer-songwriter from Los Angeles who combines classical training with indie pop vocals. In 2017 she was the youngest female contestant on NBC’s The Voice, and she took part in GRAMMY Camp Los Angeles. She was named the #1 Teen Songwriter in the world by the International Songwriting Competition for the global unity song Love Is The Only River.

Born in Moscow, Ada came to the US at six and grew up a virtuoso violinist, until tendinitis stopped her playing for two years. She returned to the violin to win a Presidential Scholarship to Berklee College of Music, where she began strumming the violin like a guitar to accompany her own singing. She lives in Los Angeles as a songwriter and recording and performing artist.

Gad Elbaz began singing at four with his father, the Israeli singer Benny Elbaz, and has since recorded ten solo albums, from Walk in a Straight Path (1998) to Lechaim (2017). His Hashem Melech tour played more than 180 shows in 53 cities, and his YouTube channel has more than 61 million views.

Cornflower builds modern, mantra-like songs from vocal loops, layering harmony and groove into anthemic chants, mixing experimental vocal soul, world funk, jam and electronica. He has shared stages with Michael Franti & Spearhead, Bobby McFerrin and Victor Wooten.

Multi-instrumentalist and songwriter from Southern California who travels and performs improvised jazzy blues and country picking on accordion, resonator guitar, piano and voice, in English and Spanish.

Bio to come.

A non-profit for community empowerment and youth mentoring through the arts, co-founded by the artist, educator and curator T. Walker.

Bio to come.

Bio to come.

Gabi Montoya is a dancer, choreographer, dance teacher, Pilates instructor and artist based in Philadelphia, and a former ArtistYear fellow teaching dance and choreography. She graduated from Drexel University with a B.S. in Dance, with minors in Psychology and Somatics. Her work explores self-awareness, safety and loss of control through dance and visual art.

Dancer from Bari, who began studying classical, modern and contemporary dance at the age of nine.

Geometric designer.

Artemio Morales is a software developer and interdisciplinary artist focused on digital books for iOS, Android and other platforms, who loves collaborating on new kinds of multimedia work.

A food photographer who learned to cook from some of the best chefs and stylists in the country, and found he was happier in the kitchen than on set.

Founded in October 2015 by Stephen Poullas and Daniel Rauschenbach in downtown Youngstown.

Lee Robinson is a multidimensional musician who has been an active participant in the Pittsburgh music scene for over 35 years. Performing since the age of 9 on the clarinet, Lee now concentrates on tenor and soprano saxophones. He has performed with Gentle Persuasion and Band of Angels, and with visiting jazz performers Jimmy McGriff, Charles Earland, Lew Soloff and Jack McDuff, and opened concerts for Stanley Clarke and Bachman–Turner Overdrive. As a composer he has written for independent films, theatre and dance, including the score for the PBS documentary JOBS: A Way Out. In 1979 he formed ISKA, his first professional jazz quartet, which has blended improvisation with funk, fusion, contemporary and classical jazz for more than 35 years.

Ry. is a musician and producer from upstate New York. His style defies genres, bringing together electronica, jazz, rock and hip hop into an eclectic, thought-provoking sound of his own, with lyrics on esoteric themes rarely heard in modern music.

Kasey Yale is a Los Angeles recording artist with an eccentric focus on pop and hip hop. His music is on all streaming platforms, and he’s @theofficialyale on social media.

Nivi Canela is a New York singer, actor and MC, originally from Union City, NJ, best known for off-Broadway appearances in The Sex Myth, Lucky Petra, of a certain age, Margaret: A New Musical and Now Comes the Dust. Her one-woman show debuted at The PIT’s SOLOCOM festival in 2019. She hosts Misbehavin’ Musicals, New York City’s Broadway burlesque revue.

Tye is a musician and filmmaker in Los Angeles, originally from Abita Springs, Louisiana.

Lucas Bakker is an American producer, composer, songwriter and writer. With Tyler Forrest he scored the feature film Search and Destroy (Millennium Films), and has scored other features and shorts including the award-winning Club Rat$. His music has been used in CNN documentaries and on El Rey Network. A graduate of Cornish College of the Arts in music composition, he has worked with Wyclef Jean, Sublime with Rome, Dirty Heads and others.

Trinity Rose is an award-winning singer-songwriter from Los Angeles who combines classical training with indie pop vocals. In 2017 she was the youngest female contestant on NBC’s The Voice, and she took part in GRAMMY Camp Los Angeles. She was named the #1 Teen Songwriter in the world by the International Songwriting Competition for the global unity song Love Is The Only River.

Born in Moscow, Ada came to the US at six and grew up a virtuoso violinist, until tendinitis stopped her playing for two years. She returned to the violin to win a Presidential Scholarship to Berklee College of Music, where she began strumming the violin like a guitar to accompany her own singing. She lives in Los Angeles as a songwriter and recording and performing artist.

Gad Elbaz began singing at four with his father, the Israeli singer Benny Elbaz, and has since recorded ten solo albums, from Walk in a Straight Path (1998) to Lechaim (2017). His Hashem Melech tour played more than 180 shows in 53 cities, and his YouTube channel has more than 61 million views.

Cornflower builds modern, mantra-like songs from vocal loops, layering harmony and groove into anthemic chants, mixing experimental vocal soul, world funk, jam and electronica. He has shared stages with Michael Franti & Spearhead, Bobby McFerrin and Victor Wooten.

Multi-instrumentalist and songwriter from Southern California who travels and performs improvised jazzy blues and country picking on accordion, resonator guitar, piano and voice, in English and Spanish.

Bio to come.

A non-profit for community empowerment and youth mentoring through the arts, co-founded by the artist, educator and curator T. Walker.

Bio to come.

Bio to come.

Gabi Montoya is a dancer, choreographer, dance teacher, Pilates instructor and artist based in Philadelphia, and a former ArtistYear fellow teaching dance and choreography. She graduated from Drexel University with a B.S. in Dance, with minors in Psychology and Somatics. Her work explores self-awareness, safety and loss of control through dance and visual art.

Dancer from Bari, who began studying classical, modern and contemporary dance at the age of nine.

Geometric designer.

Artemio Morales is a software developer and interdisciplinary artist focused on digital books for iOS, Android and other platforms, who loves collaborating on new kinds of multimedia work.

A food photographer who learned to cook from some of the best chefs and stylists in the country, and found he was happier in the kitchen than on set.

Founded in October 2015 by Stephen Poullas and Daniel Rauschenbach in downtown Youngstown.

Lee Robinson is a multidimensional musician who has been an active participant in the Pittsburgh music scene for over 35 years. Performing since the age of 9 on the clarinet, Lee now concentrates on tenor and soprano saxophones. He has performed with Gentle Persuasion and Band of Angels, and with visiting jazz performers Jimmy McGriff, Charles Earland, Lew Soloff and Jack McDuff, and opened concerts for Stanley Clarke and Bachman–Turner Overdrive. As a composer he has written for independent films, theatre and dance, including the score for the PBS documentary JOBS: A Way Out. In 1979 he formed ISKA, his first professional jazz quartet, which has blended improvisation with funk, fusion, contemporary and classical jazz for more than 35 years.

Ry. is a musician and producer from upstate New York. His style defies genres, bringing together electronica, jazz, rock and hip hop into an eclectic, thought-provoking sound of his own, with lyrics on esoteric themes rarely heard in modern music.

Kasey Yale is a Los Angeles recording artist with an eccentric focus on pop and hip hop. His music is on all streaming platforms, and he’s @theofficialyale on social media.

Nivi Canela is a New York singer, actor and MC, originally from Union City, NJ, best known for off-Broadway appearances in The Sex Myth, Lucky Petra, of a certain age, Margaret: A New Musical and Now Comes the Dust. Her one-woman show debuted at The PIT’s SOLOCOM festival in 2019. She hosts Misbehavin’ Musicals, New York City’s Broadway burlesque revue.

Tye is a musician and filmmaker in Los Angeles, originally from Abita Springs, Louisiana.

Lucas Bakker is an American producer, composer, songwriter and writer. With Tyler Forrest he scored the feature film Search and Destroy (Millennium Films), and has scored other features and shorts including the award-winning Club Rat$. His music has been used in CNN documentaries and on El Rey Network. A graduate of Cornish College of the Arts in music composition, he has worked with Wyclef Jean, Sublime with Rome, Dirty Heads and others.

Trinity Rose is an award-winning singer-songwriter from Los Angeles who combines classical training with indie pop vocals. In 2017 she was the youngest female contestant on NBC’s The Voice, and she took part in GRAMMY Camp Los Angeles. She was named the #1 Teen Songwriter in the world by the International Songwriting Competition for the global unity song Love Is The Only River.

Born in Moscow, Ada came to the US at six and grew up a virtuoso violinist, until tendinitis stopped her playing for two years. She returned to the violin to win a Presidential Scholarship to Berklee College of Music, where she began strumming the violin like a guitar to accompany her own singing. She lives in Los Angeles as a songwriter and recording and performing artist.

Gad Elbaz began singing at four with his father, the Israeli singer Benny Elbaz, and has since recorded ten solo albums, from Walk in a Straight Path (1998) to Lechaim (2017). His Hashem Melech tour played more than 180 shows in 53 cities, and his YouTube channel has more than 61 million views.

Cornflower builds modern, mantra-like songs from vocal loops, layering harmony and groove into anthemic chants, mixing experimental vocal soul, world funk, jam and electronica. He has shared stages with Michael Franti & Spearhead, Bobby McFerrin and Victor Wooten.

Multi-instrumentalist and songwriter from Southern California who travels and performs improvised jazzy blues and country picking on accordion, resonator guitar, piano and voice, in English and Spanish.

Bio to come.

A non-profit for community empowerment and youth mentoring through the arts, co-founded by the artist, educator and curator T. Walker.

Bio to come.

Bio to come.

Gabi Montoya is a dancer, choreographer, dance teacher, Pilates instructor and artist based in Philadelphia, and a former ArtistYear fellow teaching dance and choreography. She graduated from Drexel University with a B.S. in Dance, with minors in Psychology and Somatics. Her work explores self-awareness, safety and loss of control through dance and visual art.

Dancer from Bari, who began studying classical, modern and contemporary dance at the age of nine.

Geometric designer.

Artemio Morales is a software developer and interdisciplinary artist focused on digital books for iOS, Android and other platforms, who loves collaborating on new kinds of multimedia work.

A food photographer who learned to cook from some of the best chefs and stylists in the country, and found he was happier in the kitchen than on set.

Founded in October 2015 by Stephen Poullas and Daniel Rauschenbach in downtown Youngstown.