Allen Hall/Unit One: A creative community in a small college environment

2011-12

damali ayo	Artist, performer, author, race
Becky Stern	Artist, crafts, electronics, Arduino
Climbing PoeTree	Poetry, bookmaking, street art
Lucky Dragons	Experimental music, interactive performances, collaborative art
Tristan Taormino	Author, sex educator
Ian Cheney	Filmmaker, environmental advocate
Stephen Zunes	Middle East politics, US foreign policy, non-violent social movements
Mitch Altman	Hacker, inventor

2010-11

Combat Paper Project	Paper-making, veterans, war
Jimmie Briggs	Investigative journalist, child soldiers
Gareth Branwyn	DIY media and technology, cyberculture
Davy Rothbart	Found Magazine, author, filmmaker
Favianna Rodriquez	street art, political art
Douglas Ewart	Composer, improvisor, instrument maker
Anna Lappé	Food politics, sustainable agriculture

2009-10

James Loewen	Race and American History
Brian Tokar	Ecological issues and movements
Stefan Brun and Jenny Magnus	Theater directors, writers, performers, producers
Tim Eriksen	"Northern Roots" Americana musician
Climbing PoeTree	Poetry, bookmaking, stenciling
Bryant Terry	Eco chef, food justice
African Women Writers festival	African women writers and performers

2008-09

Jimmie Briggs	Investigative journalist, child soldiers
Mark Frauenfelder and David Pescovitz	Technology, science, culture bloggers
Ninotchka Rosca	Writer, human rights activist, former political prisoner
Idris Goodwin	Hip hop playwright, break beat poet, teacher
Favianna Rodriquez	Street art, political art
Heather Rogers	Journalist, filmmaker, environmental effects of mass consumption
Bill Ayers	School reform, teaching, and democracy

2007-08

James Loewen	Race and American History
Speak Theater Arts	Theater performers, writers
Hadani Ditmars	International journalist, Middle East
Billy Jonas	Singer/songwriter, "industrial re-percussionist"
Climbing PoeTree	Poetry, bookmaking, stenciling
Sonia Shah	Investigative journalist, human rights, medicine
Josh MacPhee	Street art, political graphics

2006-07

Aya de Leon	Writer and spoken word performer
Iris Morales	Activist, media artist, attorney, and director/producer
Prexy Nesbitt	Africa expert, organizer, teacher
Brian Ulrich	Photographer, exploring consumption, media, and advertising
Eboo Patel and Kevin Coval	Interfaith relations, spoken word performance
Frithjof Bergmann	Philosophy, New Work
Allyson Mitchell	Maximalist artist, lg scale sculpture and installations, feminist activism and popular culture
Kristina Sheryl Wong	Solo performer, writer, Asian American issues

2005-06

Sharif Ezzat, Rachel Havrelock, and Yuri Lane	Performance art, hip-hop plays, political issues
Patch Adams	Health, humor, and community
Elaine Brown	Activist, writer, popular lecturer
Mark Frauenfelder and David Pescovitz	Technology, science, culture bloggers and editors
Kathy Kelly	Noble peace prize nominee, nonviolent action in Iraq, Haiti, and Bosnia
Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai	Spoken word artist, cultural pride
Fred Rubin	Television writer and producer, writing instructor

2004-05

Kristina Sheryl Wong	Solo performer, writer, Asian American issues
Eboo Patel and Kevin Coval	Interfaith relations, spoken word performance
Tariq Ali	Political commentator, novelist, playwright
Grace Lee Boggs	Civil Rights, Black Power, Women's Movement, and Asian American issues
Tara Betts	Spoken word performer, poet, teacher
James Loewen	Race and American history
Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn	School reform, political activists, children's human rights and legal issues

2003-04

Aya De Leon	Poet, spoken word performer, teacher
Peter Irons	Supreme Court, civil rights, civil liberties
John Sinclair	Poetry, essays, blues, and jazz
Ben Cox	Civil Rights Movement, non-violent protest
Frederick Marx	Independent filmmaker, "Hoop Dreams"
Lakota Harden	Native American Issues, indigenous women
Timothy "Speed" Levitch	Tour guide, writer, performance artist
Julianne Malveaux	Politics, economics, gender, and race.

2002-03

Ysaye Barnwell	African and African American vocal music
James Loewen	Race and American history
Keith Knight	Comic art and expression
Bernardine Dohrn	Political activist, children's human rights and legal issues
Patch Adams	Free health care movement
Jason Finkelman	Improvisational percussion
Anida Rouquiyah, Yoeu Esguerra, and Dennis Sangmin	Poetry, spoken word, Asian American identity

2001-02

Rick Burkhardt and Andy Gricevich	Experimental music and theater
Rachel Katz and Tony Sirna	Environmentally sustainable community living
Vicky Gray Adams	Civil Rights Movement
Staceyann Chin	Spoken word, race, sexuality
Bill Ayers	School reform, politics
Michael Keck	Theater, prisons, and social change

2000-01

Jane Holtz Kay	Architecture, planning, and the environment
Ray Essick	The Olympics and society
Lyx Ish	Experimental music, language, and writing
James Loewen	Race and American History
Laura Hershey	Disability rights activism
Patch Adams	Free health care movement
Marianne Ferber	Economics and women's studies
Kenneth Atkins	Space exploration
Ysaye Barnwell	African and African American vocal music

1999-00

Jeff Pinzino and David Pinzino	People's empowerment and community building
August Zirner	American/European performing arts
Toby Miller	Sports and cinema in popular culture
Bernardine Dohrn	Political activist, children's human rights and legal issues
Calvin Forbes	Poetry, literature, jazz as art music
Jolie Rickman	Community-based arts and music
David Dellinger and Elizabeth Peterson	Social justice activism, Chicago 8
Pete Anderson	Psychology and human sexuality

1998-99

Barbara Trent	Documentary film making
Mark Weisbrot	Political economy
Kalamu Ya Salaam	International music, poetry, and other writings
Rick Burkhardt and Andy Gricevich	Experimental music and theater
Patch Adams	Free health care movement
Nancy Thies Marshall	Gymnastics, sports media

1997-98

Lisa Fay and Jeff Glassman	Movement theater
David Chynoweth and Gloria Chynoweth	Microbiology, music, and massage
Ray Moseley	Medical ethics
Bill Ehrhart	Poetry, Vietnam War
Melanie Mala Ghosh	South Asian women, political activism
Magdalena Campos-Pons and Neil Leonard	Cuban visual arts, experimental music

1996-97

Spiderwoman Theater	Native American women's theater
Bruce Hinrichs and Greg Mulcahy	Popular culture past and present
Johanne Fisher	Environmental and social biology
Ray Moseley	Medical ethics
Mark Weisbrot	Political economy
Kathy Long	Martial arts, women in films
Lorna Goodison	Caribbean poetry

1995-96

Barbara Trent	Documentary filmmaking, The Panama Deception
Elena Featherston	Anti-racist activism
Ndikho Xaba	South African Music
Patch Adams	Free health care movement
Emily Shihadeh	Theater, Middle East politics
Larry Heineman	Fiction writing, Vietnam War

1994-95

Roberto Mendoza	Environmentalism, Native American/Chicano politics
David Dellinger and Elizabeth Peterson	Social justice activism
Ninotchka Rosca	US-Philippine relations, trafficking of women
(MPAACT) Ma’at Production Association of African Center Theater	African centered arts
Laurie Witzkowski	Puppetry, experimental performance
Sky Schultz	Environmentalism, psychology
Jose Lopez	Social Justice, US penal system

1993-94

Rebecca Rice	Performing arts, anti-racism
Patch Adams	Community building
David Feldman	Popular culture
Renee Diehl	Physics, feminism
Irena Klepfisz	Yiddish culture, writing
Toby Twining and Beth Amsbary	Experimental music, participatory theater

1992-93

Fred Ho	African-Asian Jazz, Asian studies
Lisa Fay	Movement, choreography, community arts
Nancy Thies	Gymnastics, sports media
Marv Davidov	Peace activism
Vernon Bellecourt	Native American activism

1991-92

Ricardo Levins Morales	Printmaking, political organizing
Rebecca Rice	Anti-racism, community theater
The Performers' Workshop Ensemble	Experimental music and theater
Patch Adams	Health, humor, and community
Amel Ben Aba	Tunisian feminism
Sara Diamond	Right wing American politics

1990-91

Jerry Frasia	Political science
Ann Timmons	Theater
Sky Schultz	Psychology, humor, ecology
Alexander Lynn	African-American youth leadership
Ruth Forman	Wellness, human development
Cindy Patton	Politics of AIDS and Feminism
Jose Lopez	Puerto Rican History and politics

1989-90

Sheila Tobias	Math anxiety, defense spending
Catherine Schieve and Bob Paredes	Graphic notation, music composition, Klezmer music
Paula Garb	Soviet lifestyle, anthropology
Vinie Burrows	Theatre, African culture
Larry Goldfarb	Movement education and rehab
Erwin Knoll	Editor of the Progressive
Margarita de Botero	Ecology and the Green Movement

1988-89

Norman Soloman	Cold war journalism
Jean Redpath	Scottish folk singing
David Dellinger	Chicago 8, anti-war activism
Conrad Lynn	Civil Rights lawyer
Patch Adams	Free health care
Encarnita Figueroa	Mime/theater and feminism
Laurie Dunphy	Filmmaking, photography

1987-88

Michael LeRoy	Alternative dispute resolution
Jerri Allyn	Conceptual performance art
Michael Patton	Art and alternative lifestyles
Regina Ryan	Wellness
Martin Lee	Investigative reporting
Sylvia Malagrino	Photography
John B. Anderson	Government politics

1986-87

Patrick Daugherty	Music, performance
Susan McCarn	Women's issues
Fred Marx	Independent film, China, "Hoop Dreams"
Carl Oglesby	Politics on the left
Karl Hess	Politics on the right, libertarianism
David Mamula	Character acting

1985-86

Susan McCarn	Theater, women's issues
Richard A. Salem	Dispute resolution
Stephen Baird	Street performance
George Hallet	South African photographer
United Mime Workers	Theater, political action
Prexy Nesbitt	South Africa, divestment

1984-85

Karl Hess	New management styles
Nell Sinton	Political satire
Paul Hoover	Alternative technologies
David Mamula	Performer, comedy and characters

1983-84

George Hallett	Photography, South Africa
Rita Ollgaart-McNamara	Alternative lifestyles
Michael McNamara	Music
Susan McCarn	Writer, editor, theater
Douglas Kahn	Politics
Elizabeth Goldsmith-Conley	Puppets
Cousin Wash	Storyteller

1982-83

Harry Edwards	Sociology of sport
Bernard Second	Mescalaro Apache life and values
Les Klug	Photography
Charlie Vernon	Dance
Jim Elniski	Visual arts
Henrietta Michelson-Bagley	Performance and visual artist
Steve Rabin	Political action

1981-82

Harry Krulewitch, MD	Medicine
Karamoko Baye	Prison reform, prisoner art
Jadwiga Jasny-Mazurek	Polish television
Lunar Raven	Multimedia
Susan Motycka	Choreography
Hans G. Helms	Economic history

1980-81

Charlie Vernon	Dance, choreography
Jerry Mander	Television critic
Karamoko Baye	The judicial system, prison reform, prisoner art
Douglas Ewart	Music performance and instrument making
Jadwiga Jasny-Mazurek	Children's television, Polish television

1979-80

The Otrabanda Theater Co.	Performance techniques and theater production
Stanley Weir	Writing about work experience, small press publishing
Charlie Vernon	Dance, choreography, writing
Calvin Jones	Painter, muralist
Eva Evers Rosander	Social anthropologist

1978-79

Susan Motycka	Dance composer and performer
William DeFotis	Composer and clarinetist
Sylvia Woods	Labor history and organization
Mark Rogovin	Muralist
Steven Carothers	Environmental biologist
Barbara Doherty	Clown, mime, modern dance

1977-78

Celia Gouvea	Dancer and choreographer
Robert Shrum	Journalist and political speechwriter
Michael Patton	Visual arts
Prexy Nesbitt	Africa expert, organizer, teacher
Nell Sinton	Painter
David Abramson	Architect (retrieval of old buildings)
Michale Udow and Nancy Udow	Composition of music-dance, percussion

1976-77

United Mime Workers	Visual composition, action theater
Chiang Chin	Dancer, Chinese dance techniques
Heinz Von Foerster	Science, cybernetics, epistemology
Freude	Filmmaker and film distributor
Hans B. Helms	Economic and social historian
Roscoe Mitchell	Composer and multi-instrumentalist

1975-76

Henriett Michaleson-Bagley	Performance, painting, poetry
Michael Fajans	Muralist, photographer
Vito Giacolone	Painter
Laura Airner	Stage design and costuming
Karl Hess	Writer, welder, sculptor
Robert Fuller	Physicist, personal alternatives

1974-75

Edwin Schlossberg	Environmental Design
Michael Colgrass	Composer
Peter Kortner	Novelist, television writer, producer
Krysztof Wodicko	Graphic artist
Ellen Willis	Writer, film critic