FRIDAY, August 21, 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Monica Wendel is Professor of Composition and Creative Writing at St. Thomas Aquinas College, where she has taught since 2010. A frequent collaborator with visual and performing artists, her writing focuses on the intersection of environmental writing and the medical humanities. Her stories are forthcoming from Broad Ripple Review, Fiction, and Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, and her poetry has been published in the Bellevue Literary Review, Ploughshares, Rattle, and other journals. Her books and chapbooks are available online at www.monicawendel.com

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Pichchenda Bao (she/her) is a Cambodian American poet and writer, infant survivor of the Khmer Rouge regime, daughter of refugees and feminist stay-at-home mother. She is co-editor of the poetry anthology, Braving the Body (Harbor Editions) and serves on the editorial board of Queensbound, an audio poetry project for Queens, NY, and as a story coach for No, You Tell It, a switched-up storytelling show and podcast. Her most recent work has been published by Lily Poetry Review, SWWIM, Cultural Daily and elsewhere. She has received fellowships and awards from Aspen Words, Kundiman, Bethany Arts Community, and Queens Council on the Arts. She lives, writes and raises her three kids in New York City. More at www.pichchendabao.com.

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Gabriella Rita Pafumi is a New York based writer and interdisciplinary theatre artist originally from the DC area. Pafumi is a recent graduate with her BA in theatre studies from the University of Northern Colorado, and has since been working in production and early childhood education since relocating to NY. They specialize in poetry, essays, and playwriting, and are constantly in search of stories that explore femininity, love, humanity, growth and change. You can find their short form writing on Substack.

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R.M. Fradkin has had short fiction published by Terrain, Fiddlehead, Florida Review, J Journal, and Cleaver Magazine, among others. Her stories have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Best Small Fictions. She has been awarded residencies at Art Farm in Nebraska, Hypatia-in-the-Woods in Washington, and the International Writers and Translators' Center of Rhodes, and was Writer-in-Residence at the Anchorage Museum. Outside of writing, she has worked at farms, forests, restaurants, and dinner circus theatres; been both an elementary and a high school teacher; run concert series and arts education programs, and is currently at new music collective Bang on a Can. R.M. Fradkin completed an MFA at Oregon State University and is completing a novel set in an experimental forest.

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SATURDAY, August 22, 5:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Daniel Kent is a Canadian Multimedia Artist & Designer located in Brooklyn, New York. He is the founder of FingerMade and Great Product Solutions, as well as the Design Director at Pioneer Works. He lives by the maxim "I do my wacky everyday to just keep myself alive." He has an advanced degree.

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Ben Godward is an Artist living and making things in Brooklyn, NY.  He has shown extensively in New York and beyond including such galleries as The Hole, Transmitter, McKenzie, Elijah Wheat Showroom, The Scully-Tomasko foundation, Marc Straus, Slag, Famous Accountants and NorteMaar. Godward has also completed large public art projects at Pacific Design Center, Albany International Airport, Franconia Sculpture Park, MN and Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens, NY. His work has been featured in Two Coats of Paint, The L Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, Sculpture magazine and on WNYC Radio.

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Rob Racine is a multidisciplinary artist. His latest series is an ongoing solo music-video album project exploring surreal, otherworldly environments through sound, rhythm, and visual synthesis. The work emerges as both a process and a space for healing and meditation, reimagining familiar places through altered perception.

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Faith La Rocque is a visual artist living in Toronto, Canada. Working mainly in sculpture and installation, her work examines human experience through the lens of alternative health therapies, as both material and subject matter, to explore the desire for transformation. Bringing together therapeutic, natural and fabricated elements, she creates encounters that negotiate belief, vulnerability and the uncertain promise of healing. La Rocque received a BFA in Art History and Studio Art from Concordia University, Montreal (2003) and MFA in Tapestry, School of Drawing and Painting, from Edinburgh College of Art (2006). Since 2008, La Rocque and Denver-based artist Jaimie Henthorn have collaborated at a distance, creating and communicating with each other through performances, drawings, photographs and videos. For Flowers Festival, they will be exhibiting performance and drawings based on a Victorian therapeutic device called a “rocking bath.”

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Jaimie Henthorn‘s individual performance artworks disrupt established understanding of architectural spaces through intervention with the human body. Her collaborative works encompass additional topics. Multi-media projects with Toronto-based artist Faith LaRocque are based on the female body relating to its potential transformations, anxieties, and mythologies. And performances with the Crip Collective in Colorado emphasize the importance of the bodymind in the context of crip futurism.Jaimie received her PhD in Creative Practice as Research from University College London and an MFA from the University of Edinburgh. She has set site-specific performances at the U.S. Air Force Academy Cadet Chapel, the Salk Institute, and the Bauhaus Haus am Horn.

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SUNDAY, August 23, 5:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Jorge Morillo lives and works in Harlem, New York. He is a video artist primarily working with found internet videos and footage from compact action cameras. He holds a BFA in Film from NYU Tisch.

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Kevin Kelly is a video artist and writer who lives and works between CT and NYC. He was a participant of the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program 19-20. He has an MFA from Hunter College. Kevin has screened and exhibited at 80WSE Gallery, Rockaway Film Festival, Aegean Film Festival, Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Kassel Dokfest, Cecilia Jaime Gallery, Ghent, Belgium, KANSAS Gallery, NY, NY and Anthology Film Archives NY, NY.

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Steven Mykietyn is an artist based in Brooklyn NY and has most recently shown work at; Sweet Lorraine Gallery, (Brooklyn, 2025) Mothership, (Woodstock, 2024) O’Flaherty’s (NY, 2022) Underdonk, (NY, 2020) LUMP, (NC, 2019) Curated a major show of contemporary New York artists at Schelfhaudt Gallery, Bridgeport in 2023. Has attended residencies in Japan (AIAV), Bahrain (Bahrain National Museum), Finland (Titanik) and the UK (Cove Park). Mykietyn received a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art and an MFA from Edinburgh College of Art. He was founder of Orgy Park, an apartment gallery in Bushwick which held shows for emerging artists and now is a member of Essex Flowers.

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Siebren Versteeg is an American artist known for his painting and video works created through digital processes. His multivalent practice responds to the technology of our time and the way we consume and deploy those technologies.

Heralded by Vulture as "chaotic but illuminating", the magazine declared Versteeg the idol of "every Harry Potter-loving/Hackers-watching/anti-capitalist computer geek". Versteeg's work often relies on ready-made, online data sources for part of its media, with websites like Google, Flickr, and Wikipedia frequently collaborating with Versteeg's code. Throughout his career, Versteeg has playfully interacted with constructed identities and painterly abstraction through the use of code. Versteeg prefers to code in Lingo.

The artist is known to re-articulate familiar presentation formats and information systems popularized online, "ultimately jamming their promise of stability and ubiquity". Drawing attention to the variety of opinions, sources, conversations, and enterprises that contribute to the internet's sprawling information landscape, Versteeg's work often intervenes between mass media and its end consumer For example, the artist has been known to use recognizable brand identifiers from major companies, such as Napster and Coca-Cola, to deliver a pithy comment, or the day's headlines from the AP Newswire. In one series of the artist's algorithmically generated artworks, Versteeg instructs his code to paint over the day's front page of a credible newspaper using brushstrokes programmed to mimic an Abstract Expressionist style.

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FRIDAY, August 28, 5:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Christine Kelly is a poet, artist, and performer living between North Adams, Massachusetts, and New York City. She is the author of the poetry collection Allow Me to Slip on Something a Little More Hypocycloid (PRROBLEM, 2025) and numerous chapbooks. Her performances have been presented at the Clark Art Institute, Cooper Union, the Poetic Research Bureau, and other venues. She is also the Senior Visual Arts Editor of Tupelo Quarterly.

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Ingrid Jacobsen's poetry has appeared in Rattle, The Offing, and is forthcoming in Image. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and her debut chapbook, Sonnets on the Attempted Murder of Me, Bugs B, was recently published by Can Press. She works at the Institute for Sustained Attention.

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Samuel Breslin is a writer, performer, carpenter, and professor living in Queens. Their work has been published by Tagvverk, Abobo, Ethics Magazine, and others, and they have exhibited their text-based performance work with 2220 Arts + Archives (Los Angeles), the Brooklyn Rail, the Poetry Project, and the Metropolitan Salon Series, among others. They are a founding member of the film programming collective Light Field, which organizes an experimental film festival held annually in San Francisco, and hold an MFA from Bard. Beyond reading, writing, and performance, their favorite thing to do is play tennis with their partner in the bright sunshine.

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Marc Grubstein born 1969 is a multimedia artist living in Brooklyn that works with paint, photography, sculpture and performance art. Marc’s artwork often contains dark humor. He attended Alfred and Pratt institute for undergrad and received his Masters from Cranbrook. Marc’s reason to make art is to become a better person.

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SATURDAY, August 29, 5:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Hannah Spector is an interdisciplinary artist, composer, and poet based in Austin, Texas. Spector thinks of language as a solid object—a concrete and spatial expression that can overturn limiting perceptions of the everyday. They are an Assistant Professor of Time & Technology at UT Austin and a member of MASS Gallery. They curate the deep listening project, MASS Ambient.

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Ailyn Lee is a New York–based interdisciplinary artist working across sculpture, painting, video, and performance. Her work draws from personal mythology, the subconscious, and childhood memories of her grandmother’s antique shop in Busan. Through a blend of found and handmade elements, she creates dreamlike characters and hybrid forms, weaving in recurring motifs such as butterflies, the moon, and fragmented bodies. Lee received her MFA in Fine Arts in 2022 and BFA in Illustration in 2017 from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. She has been an artist in residence at the International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP), NARS Foundation, Wassaic Project, and Vermont Studio Center. Her work has been exhibited at A.I.R. Gallery, HERE Arts Center, SVA Chelsea Gallery, Wassaic Project, and Latitude Gallery, among others.

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Artist and musician Zuriel Waters was born in 1984 in Philadelphia, PA, and lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Received an MFA in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2010 and a BA in Interdisciplinary Studies from San Diego State University in 2007. Has shown work in group exhibitions throughout New York City at galleries such as Underdonk, CANADA, Tappeto Volante among others and has recently had solo and two person shows at Kathryn Markel Fine Arts and Deanna Evans Projects.

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Play With Friends https://playwithfriends.org

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Zachary Koeber is a Brooklyn-based musician whose work blends ambient jazz, electronic, and experimental soundscapes. His recent solo projects under the alias Kroba focus on creating immersive, meditative environments, with performances at Ragas Live Festival, Basilica Hudson, and Chillits. In addition to his solo work, Zachary composes for film and dance, collaborates across various disciplines, and performs with projects such as Ace Bandage and Max in the World.

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SUNDAY, August 30, 5:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Yoko Nips makes takoyaki at various bars, venues and breweries. Takoyaki is a ball-shaped Japanese snack made of a wheat flour–based batter and cooked in a special molded pan. Yoko Nips is also playing in 5 bands, making earring and crochet stuff.

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DJ Spanky started spinning in 1986 at Rochester Institute of technology for WITR modern music and host of a 5:30am morning show. Spanky also was also spinning records at parties and eventually moved to Chicago where he would DJ at Dreamers and other clubs in Chicago. This led to DJ Spanky continuing that in his move to Brooklyn where he spun at Enid‘s, Union Pool and Lala lounge. He is currently producing a music interview series on youtube.  https://www.youtube.com/@spacewehear

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Bunnyman is a two person Voltron conjuring corrosive acid, cascading loops, and serpentine sequences out of a rabbit hole in Ridgewood, Queens. Built on repetition, ritual, and revelry.

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Zane Morris (b. 1986) is an artist, musician and educator who generates sparse, non-representational portraiture and landscape realized in musical composition, performance, photography, video, print and design. Primarily embellishing hum with harmonized voice or guitar, Zane's recent vocal work is tethered to a sound sculpture that functions as an aural clock whose cyclical pitches follow the ascent and descent of the sun.

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An intergalactic hurricane of emotion.
The Invisible College takes you on a journey from the eye of the storm.
A reflection from another dimension.
Michelle Procida - Voice/Guitar/Theremin
Arii Ken - The Pipe
The Invisible College: Curiosity Unleashed

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Hortense Lite is the guitar violence project of David Hallinger and Lindsay Tuttle.

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NAGA-Ecstasy started his music career in Japan where his music was played on a Japanese radio program hosted by Ryuichi Sakamoto. In 2016, Aki traveled around Europe busking and performing live eccentric shows and gathering much public attention. He also plays as lead guitar for the Brooklyn based band, First President of Japan. NAGA-Ecstasy can be described as a Rock'n'Roll Electronica / Beat Performer and is based in New York City.

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Paul McMahon is a multifaceted fixture of the cultural landscape of Woodstock and beyond. His wide-ranging and often low profile activities have been mentioned in the New York Times, which, on different occasions has noticed his bumperstickers, performance art, curating, visual art and music. He has produced ten albums, around 100 songs, most of which can be found on Youtube and Bandcamp.

Flowers Fest 2026 is organized by Steven Mykietyn.