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Frank Coleman has had a long career collecting hyphens. He's a musician-composer-writer-editor-filmmaker-animator-producer-director-designer and software developer. A former child actor, Frank appeared in two productions picked by TIME Magazine as Top of the Decade in 1969 before retiring at age 10. He studied percussion and electronic music at Berklee College of Music, eventually developing an in...

Welcome to Inwood Art Works' 2022 On Air Seasonal Sampler. It’s where we highlight a musical performance from each Live N’ Local episode throughout our third season of On Air, which spans the entire calendar year. We believe these musicians deserve your attention, and hope that if you like what you hear, it will prompt you to check out more music from these amazing local artists. Or at the very le...

Tony Davis is an internationally renowned guitarist and composer based in New York City. He regularly performs in NYC’s top venues such as The Blue Note, Birdland, Smalls and Mezzrow. He has played the Newport Jazz Festival and currently leads several projects such as his trio, solo guitar and voice, and a co-led duo with Brazilian vocalist, Jamile. He has most recently toured internationally, pla...

Born in Santo Domingo, Hector Marchena is a singer/songwriter, musician, guitarist, producer, and performer living in The Bronx, New York City. He first began singing at 5 years old, and has not stopped since. His music draws influences from Latin, tropical, and bohemian with a mix of rock, ballads, jazz, and pop and identifies his own style as “Alternative/Tropical-Bohemian." Hector intends to sp...

Ran Xia is a Shanghai-born Playwright, Director and Audiogremlin. She is a current member of WP Lab, Soho Rep's Writer/Director Lab; and is the Beatrice Terry Resident at the Drama League. Her recent writing credits include her play Chava the Giant and the Oldest Bird at Rattlestick Global Form Festival.  In addition, she is the Resident Director at the Tank where she directed and composed for the...

Harry Mandel has been performing magic most of his life. Inspired by the Amazing Randi on Wonderama and Mark Wilson on his Magical Land of Alakazam back in the early days of kids television shows. Harry has always been intrigued by Carnival hucksters and pitchman, as well as the escape artistry of Harry Houdini. For more about his magical life, visit www.mandelmagic.com

Franklin Rodriguez, aka Frank Rhodes, was born and raised in Washington Heights, here in NYC. Frank began with writing poetry, which he would later turn into songs while teaching himself how to play guitar. In the Summer of 2020, he released the electronic ballad “un poco.” Then in January of 2022, he began to record his debut album, “The Many Deaths and Life of Frank Rhodes.” Newly signed by the...

Nadema Agard Winyan Luta (Woman Holy Red} is a Cherokee/Lakota/Powhatan artist, illustrator, curator, educator, lecturer, storyteller, writer, poet, published author, museum professional and consultant in Repatriation and Multicultural/Native American arts and cultures. She earned a B.S. Degree from N.Y.U. and M.A. in Art and Education from Teacher's College at Columbia University. Her work spans...

David Friend is an experimental musician living in New York City. A classically-trained pianist, he performs regularly with new music groups and as a soloist at major venues and DIY spaces throughout the city, across the country, and abroad. The New York Times describes him as '[one] of the finest, busiest pianists active in New York's contemporary-classical scene.'   He has recorded for numerous...

James Bosley is the Founding and former Artistic Director of Up Theatre Company; which produced the word premiere of his plays All the Best Ingredients, Broad Channel, and Epic Poetry. His play Fun, was developed at the Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference and premiered at MCC Theater, and has received many subsequent productions in the U.S and abroad. The film version of Fun, for which...

Sarah Seeds has appeared in TV Shows, Web series, Films, Off-Broadway plays, and national Voiceover campaigns. Sarah created and starred in the series, ‘Riding The D with Dr. Seeds,' now distributed worldwide on PlexTV, and can be seen in the feature films, ‘THE MINT,’ and ‘AMERICAN FANGO’ on Amazon Prime. Sarah also filmed a principal role in the TV Pilot "After Life," and played the female lead...

Charlie Kirchen is a music-maker and theorist based in Inwood, NYC. He composes, improvise, plays bass, and lead bands. Roughly situated in the realm of “jazz/experimental music,” his music reflects an aesthetic and technique gained from study of the broad sweep of both jazz and western classical music, as well as immersion in American pop music of the past 50 years. His compositions are made of a...

Rory Lutz is a born and raised New Yorker. He’s a comic, writer, and dad to a smaller and more well behaved version of himself. He is a believer in the human connection and helping each other…and that laughter really is the best medicine. Rory hosts comedy shows from his Uptown apartment is and venturing out to start a production company to bring consistent comedy to the neighborhood.  Keep up wit...

Sanakori Ramos is a cultural keeper and spiritual leader of the Indigenous-Caribbean Tribal Nation, Arayeke Yuyayek. He has served on various Indigenous-Caribbean communities and non-profits for the past 25 years. He founded the NYC Indigenous Day of Remembrance event, NYC Indigenous Mobile Library and traveling cultural center, and Tainoradio.com. Sanakori is a Taino dancer and Powwow Fancy Dance...

Mary Illes has had a storied Broadway, touring and international acting career. Her Broadway performances include The Phantom of the Opera, The Music Man revival (with more than 80 performances as Marian, I might add), The Scarlet Pimpernel, Steel Pier, and She Loves Me.   Internationally, she was in the original Toronto company of Sunset Boulevard with Diahann Carroll, directed by Trevor Nunn, an...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 t...

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...

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....

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 Ensem...

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 Fo...

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 a...