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Dylan Tuccillo is an award-winning writer, video producer, and filmmaker. While attending NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, a feature screenplay that he wrote won a $10,000 award from the Sloan Foundation. A recent short documentary of his was picked up by Upworthy and viewed over 270,000 times. After 15 years of working with advertising agencies and companies, he’s learned how to market content in a media-saturated landscape. His short films have won “Best Short” at the Inwood Film Festival, “Best Director” at the Austin Revolution Film Festival, and awards at the Las Vegas Film Festival and the First Run Film Festival. As a freelance producer and video editor, Dylan has been hired to create content for Ann Taylor, Johnson and Johnson, IBM, Bayer, Berlitz, Columbia University and Vogue, to name a few.

In 2013, his non-fiction book about dreams “A Field Guide to Lucid Dreaming” was published by Workman, co-authored with two friends. The book was translated into eleven languages and is on its seventh printing, selling over 75,000 copies. Learn more about his projects at www.dylantuccillo.com

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Cristobal Vivar was born in Mexico to an artistic family. His father is a painter, sculptor and jewelry designer, his mother a textile artist. His uncle created model buildings for architects and his grandfather was passionate about photography when not working as a miner. After studying Graphic Design, Cris became interested in animation and photography, and graduating he worked doing interactive websites and motion graphics for television.  In 2001 he immigrated to New York and photographed the social movements born out of the post 9-11 turmoil. 

After becoming a father, he became pursued photography as a career and worked for the Inwood Newspaper Manhattan Times.  His film projects were included in the first and most recent Inwood film festivals, and his photography was featured in Inwood Art Works “Focus on Photography” gallery exhibition. Check out more of his work at www.vivarphoto.com

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Michael Pizzano is an independent filmmaker and a proud New Yorker. He recently created a 9 episode web series, Lockdown Living, that takes a dark, comedic look into lessons learned from the 2020 quarantine. His short films The Replacement and Say No to Drift Walking, were festival favorites – including the Inwood Film Festival!

Michael’s first feature project, Exposure 36, where he acted as lead producer was released in the Spring of 2022 and he is currently in pre-production for a post-apocalyptic thriller to be shot toward the end of the Summer. In his first foray into directing horror, Michael is incredibly excited to announce Drifter, a slasher film hitting the film festival circuit this year. In addition to his narrative projects, Michael works as a producer of branded content for Vox Media. Check out more of his work at www.michaelpizzano.com

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Elizabeth Starcevic learned to weave in Mexico on a sabbatical from City College while doing research on a Mexican writer and found her way into weaving. She produces large scale weavings on a standing loom that is both nonrepresentational and very political. Elizabeth is inspired by the world around her and tries and portray both the beauty and the difficult reality that we are living in. She has been weaving in Mexico for over twenty-five years and has had solo shows and been in group shows in Mexico and in New York City. Her work is on permanent display at the City College and at York College of the City University, as well as on long term loan to the NYC Career Center and the New York Public Library. See her work at: www.estarweaver.com

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Tom Okada is a third-generation Japanese American born in New York City. Tom holds a BFA from NY Tech and an MFA in Photography from Pratt Institute. He is also a NY State Certified Art teacher and is now a Professor at St. Thomas Aquinas College where he teaches digital and documentary photography. Throughout his career, Tom has exhibited his photographs in galleries on Cape Cod, Boston, and at the Hammond Museum in Salem, New York. Currently, Tom is working on portraits of Cape Cod artists at work. View more of his work at www.tomokada.com

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For our 101st episode of On Air, we concluded that nothing could be more significant than to celebrate the podcast, itself, in reaching this milestone. We invite you to listen as we reflect on what has happened in the local cultural arts scene since we started this podcast, where we are now, and what might come next. 

 

Inwood Art Works‘ On Air podcast has a duality to it. It is unique in that it is the only podcast that specifically profiles and features the artists that reside in Northern Manhattan and its surrounding community, and it also functions as a document of historical record; preserving the stories and personalities that are vital elements to creating the fabric that makes up our cultural canvas of our artistic landscape.

 

With that in mind, and true to the mission of the program, we present an exclusive recording of “The New World” – a jazz composition written and performed specifically for the On Air podcast by local composer, Rich Shemaria. 

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Cutting his teeth on Beatles, show tunes and ‘60s AM radio, Bob Windbiel first formed a blues duo with childhood pal Ralph Robbins when he was twelve years old. His high school band EDGE played rock n’ roll, blues and jazz-rock fusion in the early-mid ‘70s. With the electric-avant-jazz group OUTLET he recorded three albums one of which was released on the legendary alternative jazz label ESP-Disk. He led and composed most of the material for two indie-rock bands from the mid-‘80s through the early ‘90s: Mod Lang and Marcel Monroe. 

Bob’s hybrid, concert instrumental and vocal music has been performed by Jed Distler and Jenny Lin, just to name a few. And locally, Bob played guitar in the pit band for Inwood’s Pied Piper Children’s Theater for several productions while his children Bix and Genevieve were on stage.  

After graduating from Lehman College, he became the electric guitar teacher at the school and formed the Lehman Guitar Ensemble, for which he arranges music ranging from classical to jazz to blues to pop to rock ’n roll.  In addition, he continues to record and occasionally perform professionally with both EDGE and OUTLET.

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Based in Washington Heights, Leadlights Ensemble connects people through music and brings joy and vitality to communities through high quality musical programming in all kinds of spaces, from the concert hall to the sidewalk. Founded in 2018, Leadlights is dedicated to amplifying the music of living composers, particularly the music of women composers and composers of color. In addition, the Ensemble has commissioned or premiered new works for string quartet by J. Mark Stambaugh, Kyle Werner, Nick Marsella, Simon Brown, and Washington Heights students Raschkes Evensen and Julian Jackson. Find out more at www.leadlightsensemble.weebly.com

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Osaliki Sepúlveda is on a mission to tell stories that instill and uplifts Latino pride. In 2018, he founded the Collectives for Arts Music & Dance, a non-profit cultural organization that provides authentic artistic performances and cultural programs that celebrates the humanity of Afro-Dominican and Latino traditions in the United States. Also, he serves as artistic director for Dominican Folkloric Squad, a performing arts ensemble that produces folkloric presentations for the stage and community spaces across New York City. Learn more at www.c4amd.org

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Robert Bailey currently serves as the Head of Photography for Tarisio Fine Instruments and Bows (New York, London, Berlin). He earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography from Ohio University and has gone on to work as a commercial photographer for clients including United Airlines, Nike and the United Nations. Robert was also an adjunct professor at Ohio Northern University and has lectured at the School of Visual Arts, Rochester Institute of Technology and The International Center of Photography.

 

Robbie Bailey is a freelance photographer and digital consultant in New York City. She studied radio and television broadcasting at North Carolina State University, followed by documentary photography studies at the International Center of Photography. Her commercial clients include: Toys ‘R Us, Betsey Johnson, Ralph Lauren, and the New York Yankees. 

 

The Baileys collaborate on their personal documentary projects and environmental portraits. Their photographs have been published in the New York Times as well as being featured on The Today Show, The Discovery Channel, and NBC’s Nightly News. Keep up with their work at www.baileyphoto.com

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