Artists PERFORMING ARTISTS Papa Henry Butler and the VISUAL ARTISTS Derrick, Louisiana Steamin’ Syncopators, Louisiana Colby, Maine Comedy Azariah Tan Peng Chay, Arte Postale Exhibition * Anthony, Maryland Josh Blue, Colorado Singapore at the U.S. Department Marcellus, Massachusetts Kathy Buckley, California Guywood Dela Cruz, Hawaii of Education Kelsey, Michigan Brett Leake, Virginia Martin Deschamps, Canada Angel, Argentina Phoenix, Minnesota Briana Duensing, Florida Jose, California Vallye, Mississippi Dance Forró no Escuro, Brazil Sydney, Connecticut Victoria, Missouri Artes Muy Especiales Youth Quamon Fowler Quartet, Texas Jonathan, Andrea, Yadira, and Christopher, Montana Dance Company, Guatemala Melody Gardot, Pennsylvania Carlos, Ecuador** Nefertiti, Nebraska AXIS Dance, California Dame Evelyn Glennie, Heba Sayed, Egypt Yuri, Nevada Blue Eyed Soul Dance Company, United Kingdom Shaymaa, Egypt Donaman, New Hampshire United Kingdom Ju Hyeon Han, New Zealand Julie, France Alex, New Jersey China Disabled People’s Narimichi Kawabata, Japan Matthieu, France Yonathan, New Mexico Performing Art Troupe, Salif Keita, Mali Ansley, Georgia Maurice, New York People’s Republic of China Patti LaBelle Larry, Illinois Alexis, North Carolina CIM–Integrated Multidisciplinary Lake Rise Place, Tennessee Kyle, Indiana Michael, North Dakota Company, Portugal Prudence Mabhena, Zimbabwe Mohammad, Jordan Adrian, Ohio Dagipoli Dance Company, Greece Raul Midón, Maryland Nzula, Kenya Amanda, Oklahoma The Dancing Wheels Company, Dotan Nitzberg, Israel Peter, Kenya Billie, Oregon Ohio Blessing Offor, Connecticut Munira, Kuwait Joseph, Pennsylvania Kosala Uditha Kumara Dullewa, The Ransom Notes, Colorado Austin, Maryland Ryan, Rhode Island Sri Lanka Rudely Interrupted, Australia Lucas, New York Keona, South Carolina The Moving Company, Matt Savage Trio, Massachusetts Emmanuel, New York Shawna, South Dakota Massachusetts Diane Schuur Samantha, Nicaragua Jalyn, Tennessee Karen Peterson and Dancers, Camilo, Philippines 88 Aria Stiles, Minnesota Joseph, Texas Florida Frank Strong, Iowa Stephanie, Puerto Rico Raquelle, Utah Tamar Rogoff Performance Chris, Rhode Island Taylor, Vermont Projects, Diagnosis of a Faun Theater Yousef, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Tyler, Virginia cast: Lucie Baker (New York), Fred Beam, Maryland L.A. Prasad, Sri Lanka Anna, Washington Dr. Donald Kollisch (New Amy Lynn Budd, Rhode Island Sarah, Tennessee Cody, West Virginia Hampshire), Gregg Mozgala Gretty Good Time cast: Jaden and Elizabeth, Virginia** Dakota, Wisconsin (New York), Emily Pope- Field Blauvelt (District of **Denotes collaborative work Mary, Wyoming Blackman (New York) Columbia), Jeanette Buck * For privacy reasons, student Bill Shannon, Pennsylvania (Ohio), Daniel Eichner (District State of the Art Exhibition * artists listed by first name only The Wild Zappers, Maryland of Columbia), Caitlin Gold (New at Union Station York), Rosemary Regan (District Margaret, Alabama Kennedy Center Exhibitions Literary Arts of Columbia), Ann Colby Lukas, Alaska Dale Chihuly, Washington Riua Akinshegun, California Stocking (California) Victor, Arizona Liz Crow, United Kingdom Steven Brown, Hawaii Anita Hollander, New York Chad, Arkansas Mark di Suvero, New York James Ferris, Michigan Marlee Matlin Sebastian, California Hirokazu Fukawa, Connecticut Anne Finger, California MO2 Productions, District of Amino, Colorado Will Pergl, Wisconsin Fishamble: The New Play Columbia Shardia, Connecticut Judith Scott, California Company/Arts Disability Ireland, Nobody’s Perfect cast: Florrie Ryan, Delaware Yinka Shonibare, MBE, Ireland: John Austin Connolly, Bagel (Maryland), Rachel Khadijah, District of Columbia United Kingdom Steve Daunt, Stephen Kennedy, Brennan (Pennsylvania), Kip Jack, Florida Rosaleen McDonagh Pierson (District of Columbia), Alexis, Georgia Revealing Culture Lynn Manning, California Tami Lee Santimyer (District Kiana, Hawaii at the Smithsonian Institution’s Kathi Wolfe, Virginia of Columbia), Zurin Villanueva Justin, Idaho International Gallery (New York) Danny, Illinois Jamshid Agayev, Azerbaijan Music Perlan Theater Group, Iceland Austin, Indiana Leni D. Anderson, Ohio Adrian Anantawan, Canada Quest, Maryland Thomas, Iowa Stephanie Bachiero, California artsJam! Detroit Percussion Theater Alliance, District of Josh, Kansas Loretta Bebeau, Minnesota Ensemble, Michigan Columbia Elizabeth, Kentucky Jon Berge, Ohio Marleena Coulston Barber, Uganda Deaf Silent Theatre, R. Jane Bouchard, New York California Uganda Allen Bryan, New York Catherine Branch, Wisconsin VSA Virginia, Loudoun County Alexandria Wailes, New York Christina Casebeer, California Revealing Culture II FILM FESTIVAL FESTIVAL VENUES Martin Charlot, California at the Kennedy Center Amy Charmatz, New Jersey Gabe Anderson, Canada Director (producer), title AFI Silver Theatre and Kenn Coplan, Arizona Ines Andouche, Belgium Cultural Center Laura Bari (Mila Aung-Thwin and Henry Coupe, New York Sarah Mohamed Atef, Egypt Atlas Performing Arts Center Daniel Cross), Antoine, Canada Liz Crow, United Kingdom Christophe Baudouin, France Busboys and Poets Nic Balthazar (Peter Bouckaert Liz Doles, Massachusetts Serge Delaunay, Belgium DC Improv and Erwin Provoost), Ben X, Emily Eifler, California Erling Fredriksson, Sweden The George Washington Belgium Jeffrey Erken, Washington Kelvin Free, Canada University Lisner Auditorium Santiago Zannou (Aitana de Val Emmet Estrada, Rhode Island Sergio Giraldo Giraldo, Colombia H Street Playhouse and Luis de Val), El Truco Del Joan Fabian, Texas Walter Herzberg, Mexico The John F. Kennedy Center Manco, Spain Justin Michael Finnegan, Joseph Jobst, Austria for the Performing Arts Mark Moorman (Cathy Bigham, Louisiana Rokhaya Kamara, Senegal Shakespeare Theatre Company, James Bigham, Lourdes Little, David S. Forbes, Australia Ko Nam, China Sidney Harman Hall Christina Vidal), For Once in My Barbara Freeman, California Luis Passalacqua, Puerto Rico Shakespeare Theatre Company, Life, Florida Ju Gosling, aka ju90, Mohammed Qarshoum, Lansburgh Theatre Félix Fernández de Castro (Jordi United Kingdom Saudi Arabia Smithsonian American Art Ambrose, Veronica Pensosi, Lesley Haas, Pennsylvania Muthukrishnan Ramalingam, Museum Loris Omedes), Maria y Yo, Michelle Lisa Herman, India Smithsonian Institution’s Spain District of Columbia George Widener, North Carolina Discovery Theater Niko von Glasow (Ewa Borowski, Jesse Higman, Washington Smithsonian Institution’s Frank Henschke, Anne-Sophie Busser Howell, New York Sight Unseen: International Gallery Quancard), Nobody’s Perfect, Sophie Kahn, New York Photography by Blind Artists Union Station Germany Catherine Larson, Illinois at the Kennedy Center U.S. Department of Education Hilari Scarl (Wordplay, Inc.), See Riva Lehrer, Illinois Ralph Baker, New York What I’m Saying: The Deaf Beth Livingston, Montana Evgen Bavcar, France Entertainers Documentary, 89 Mary Lucier, New York Henry Butler, Louisiana California Julie Lusson, Florida Pete Eckert, California Mat Whitecross (Damian Jones), Sheri C. Marshall, Mississippi Bruce Hall, California Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll, Simon Mckeown, United Annie Hesse, France United Kingdom Kingdom Rosita McKenzie, Scotland Lou Birks (Emily Kyriakides), Pedro Luis Mejía Granja, Gerardo Nigenda, Mexico Stubborn and Spite, United Guatemala Michael Richard, California Kingdom Coralina Meyer, New York Seeing with Photography Majid Majidi (Seyyed Saeed Amy Miller, Florida Collective, New York Seyedzadeh), The Willow Tree, Janet Morrow, Texas Kurt Weston, California Iran Jeff Nelson, New York Alice Wingwall, California Catherine van Campden, William A. Newman, District of Drona & Ik, Netherlands Columbia Sight Unseen was curated by Roger Ross Williams (Elinor Lynnda Pardoe, Illinois Douglas McCulloh and originated Burkett), Music by Prudence, Juan Pierri, California at the UCR/California Museum Zimbabwe Isaac Powell, Louisiana of Photography, an affiliate Justin Edgar (Alex Usborne), Jose Rivera, New York institution of ARTSblock, the Special People, United Judith Scott, California University of California, Riverside, Kingdom Janet Yagoda Shagam, and toured through Curatorial New Mexico Assistance, Pasadena, California. Bill Shannon, Pennsylvania Our many thanks to the artists Katherine Sherwood, California Start with the Arts Family Day participating in the festival— Sunaura Taylor, California at the Smithsonian their creativity inspires all who Anne Teahan, United Kingdom American Art Museum see their work. 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