12 JAN 12: Rabbit Tales - Ephemeral

January 12 Rabbit Tales:
Theme: Ephemeral
Doors @7:30, Show at 8
BYOB

Reader:
Rebecca Schultz is a senior at Yale double majoring in Art and English. Next year, she expects to be very impoverished and living in New York.

Storyteller/photographer
Jenna Salvagin Jenna Salvagin just graduated from the School of Visual Arts with a BFA in Photography. She takes photos of haunted places and likes to make jewelry out of bones. Jenna can be found at the dog park with her pit bull Daisy and is experienced in event photography but won’t edit your photos to have selective color. Email her at jennarotunda@gmail.com for more info.

Presenter:
Ben Pederson was born in 1979 in Grand Rapids Michigan and received his B.A. in Studio art from Aquinas College in 2003. He went on to obtain his M.F.A. in Sculpture from the University of Massachusetts, which he received in 2007. After graduate school, Ben moved to Brooklyn, New York, where he worked as an art handler and continued to make and show work. After two years back in the midwest, Ben’s back in Brooklyn, confused about the nature of existence and how to navigate reality, making work that both asks and answers his desperate questions.

Musician:

Elisa Flynn is a guitarist and songwriter who played in indie rock, punk, and Americana bands for the better part of the last two decades. After taking voice lessons from Shara Worden (My Brightest Diamond), she took her stronger voice and headed out with an acoustic guitar and a suitcase full of effects pedals. Her broodingly nuanced vocals shape haunting yet wry ballads into grand guignol. Her most recent EP, 19th Century Songs, was released in 2011 and features tales of shipwrecks, the Civil War, and the Donner Party. Website: www.elisaflynn.com.