Dadara
Dadara first became well known in the music scene, with
his flyers, record and CD sleeves, VeeJaying, and live
painting events for various clubs and festivals in New
York, Tokyo, Paris, Berlin, Amsterdam, and Istanbul.
Special projects over the years have included the production of baby-shaped loudspeakers (B&W), video clips,
tattooing events for the AIDS Fund, an animated soap on
the Internet, and various designs for advertising cam-
paigns: Absolut Vodka, building the Greyman Statue of No
Liberty (8 meters high), merchandise for GreenPeace, the
production of two short animated Greyman movies,
designing a computer interface and console (Jamby), and a
60 meter long canvas for the Leiden University. Last year
Dadara built a 15-meter-long boat, which was shipped to
the desert in Nevada and set on fire during the Burning
Man Festival, after appearing at the Overhetij Festival and
Mysteryland. Like a phoenix, it rose from its ashes--
returning (and burning again) at the Oerol Festival.
See www.dadara.com.
Alex Grey
Alex Grey is a visionary artist best known for his depic-
tions of the human body that "x-ray" the multiple layers of
reality, revealing the complex integration of body, mind,
and spirit. His paintings have been featured on the cover
of albums by the Beastie Boys, Tool, and The String
Cheese Incident, in Newsweek magazine, on the Discovery
Channel, rave flyers and sheets of blotter acid, and have
been exhibited throughout the world. His books include
Sacred Mirrors: The Visionary Art of Alex Grey, his philosophical
text The Mission of Art, and the recent Transfigurations.
Sounds True released The Visionary Artist, an audio-tape of Alex's art,
philosophy, and vision practices. He
lives in Brooklyn, NY with his wife Allyson Grey and
their daughter, actress Zena Lotus Grey.
See www.alexgrey.com.
Naoto Hattori
Naoto Hattori was born in Japan in 1975. He has won
numerous awards and his work has been featured in
countless galleries as well as the pages of Airbrush Art +
Action, The Entheogen Review, Heads, Juxtapoz, and other
magazines. Of his work, Naoto says: "My vision is like a
dream, whether it's a sweet dream, a nightmare, or just a
trippy dream. I try to see what's really going on in my
mind, and that's a practice to increase my awareness in
stream-of-consciousness creativity. I try not to label or
think about what is supposed to be, just take it in as it is
and paint whatever I see in my mind with no compromise.
That way, I create my own vision."
See www.wwwcomcom.com.
Martina Hoffmann
Martina Hoffmann was born in Germany and spent much
of her childhood in West Africa. In the 1970s she studied
art education and sculpting at the Johann Wolfgang
Goethe University in Frankfurt, and later went to Spain
where she met the Fantastic Realist artist Robert Venosa.
Inspired by his work, she took up painting. She has also
developed her own line of jewelry and clothing. In the
1990s she joined with a group of women artists, "Vox
Femina," in Boulder, Colorado, who perform multi-media
stage shows. Her psychedelic-inspired work has been
exhibited internationally, and appeared in books, calendars, and magazines.
See www.martinahoffmann.com.
Rabbi Matthew S. Kent
Matthew Scott Kent was born in Pennsylvania on August
5, 1952. His artistic ability was nurtured by his mother,
and in his youth he received awards as both a vocalist and
an actor. He won a music scholarship to Temple Univer-
sity in 1970, where he majored in English. He has trav-
elled to twenty three countries, with an extended stay in
Southern India living with Shivite Sadhus, and studying
comparative religion at Edinburgh University in Scotland.
After starting a Rock and Roll band in Edinburgh and
working in a steel mill in Norway, he returned to Pennsylvania, where he met his wife, Anne Zapf. Matthew and
Anne were married September 18, 1976. They traveled
throughout the American Southwest and Central
America, and settled in the remote Aravaipa wilderness of
southeastern Arizona, where they met Rev. Immanuel
Trujillo, Apache artist and former Native American
Church Roadman. Together they founded the Peyote Way
Church, an all race peyotist community, on December 21,
1977. Matthew is the father of three children with his
wife Anne, and the President of Mana Ceremonial
Earthenware Pottery. To see some other examples of his
work on canvas and pottery.
See www.peyoteway.org.
Stacy B. Schaefer
Stacy B. Schaefer received her B.A. in Anthropology/Latin
America Studies from UCSC in 1979, her M.A. in Latin
American Studies from Stanford University in 1982, and
her Ph.D. in Anthropology from UCLA in 1990. She is
director of the Museum of Anthropology and assistant
professor of anthropology at California State University at
Chico. Stacy has been studying and photographing the
Huichol Indians since she undertook ethnographic
fieldwork and apprenticed with master weavers in two
Wixárika families. She is the author of the book To Think
with a Good Heart: Wixárika Women, Weavers, and Shamans
and co-editor (with Peter T. Furst) of People of the Peyote:
Huichol Indian History, Religion, & Survival.
See www.csuchico.edu/anth/schaefer.
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