Trinity

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Media Music

Bio

Trinity is a band formed by 4 young talented musicians from The Netherlands. Three of the band members, the Smelt brothers, spent their childhood in Peru. Their South American up-tempo musical roots together with their love for Celtic music are the ingredients of Trinity's passionate pop songs. Their first album named 'Inicio' was released in October of 2007 and was received very well by their audience. Trinity continued to develop as a band and in the summer of 2008 they won a band battle for the Netherlands’ biggest Christian broadcasting agency, the EO. This formed the onset for their second album ‘Cada Dia’ which they recorded in January 2009. ‘Cada Dia’ mixes the Peruvian roots and Celtic influences with African beats and up-tempo grooves. They have a strong live performance that makes the crowd swing, sing along and dance. Last summer Trinity played at the mainstage of the biggest Dutch ‘Xnoizz Flevo festival’. They also played as a support act for ‘NewWorldSon’ (Canada), ‘IONA’ (UK) and ‘Sons of Korah’(Australia). Up till now they have recorded 4 albums and sold over 30 000 cd’s.

RIGHTEOUS B | DIRTY VAGABOND MINISTRIES Bob Lesnefsky

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Media Music Rap, Hip-Hop

Bio/Artist Statement

Bob Lesnefsky is a pre-eminent Catholic MC and sought-after performance homilist. Together with his Rap as Righteous B, he serves as president of Dirty Vagabond Ministries–with over 10 years of hands-on experience in youth ministry, and as a (youth) minister in both Urban and Suburban churches. Bob is currently an active Christian Hip Hop artist and speaker traveling to over 100 venues a year, using rap music as part of transforming culture and utilizing its outreach to touch people of all ages and denominations, in all walks of life.

Christian Guémy

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Media Graffiti Artist

Bio/Artist Statement

I am Catholic; I paint faces of religious people from all over the world without making distinctions of culture, ethnicity or education. For a portraitist mysticism is the gathering of all mankind behind painted faces–emotion brought by any human face–being the most direct and most genuine proof of the importance of any life, any identity and any soul. As a Catholic I see beauty in every human visage–particularly society's neglected minorities, homeless, marginalized and trivialized as the most beautiful of God's creations, in whom Christ lives; my street portraiture aims always to show their dignity embodying compassion as a testament to God's equal love for all human beings. www.flickr.com/photos/c215/show/

Ruh al'Alam

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Media Design

Bio

Ruh al-'Alam is the founding artist of Visual Dhikr, and the founding partner of design studio Make Me Believe. Born in London of Bangladeshi origin, Ruh al-'Alam is a young graduate in illustration and graphic design, from Central Saint Martins. He works in a variety of mediums including illustration, film, audio, interactivity and photography, and newly in sculpture and digital interactive work. Ruh's work uses his own Arabic scripts with a contemporary digital graphic design influence; Core areas of his work are Calligraphy–modern but in keeping with traditional script work; Paintings based on his calligraphic works; Interactive work for presentations and online presence; Art installations integrating sound and imagery. The work is often displayed as oil/acrylic paintings, art prints, screen prints or projections. Ruh founded Visual Dhikr in 2003, concentrating on the spiritual element in remembrance of God and contemplation of His Creation, concepts appearing often as threads throughout his work. Ruh al-'Alam has also founded and currently runs his own collaborative design studio, Make Me Believe from London.

Steven Spann

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Media Sculpture, Visual Arts

Bio/Artist Statement

Steven Spann (born 1969) works in collaboration using discarded objects chosen by third parties. His work focuses on social engagement exploring the questions of value and worth. Many of these pieces are layered using acrylic, polymer, spray paint, cardboard, paper, plastic, wood, clothing, etc. Spann is completely ambidextrous so many pieces are done left hand or right hand exclusive; This contributes to his wide range of discipline.

Spann has exhibited work across the United States and he has had solo exhibitions in Dallas, Philadelphia and Las Vegas; he also has been artist-in-residence at the Cosmopolitan Las Vegas. His work appears in several public and private collections including Sir Elton John, Donald Trump (NY), Southern Nevada Museum of Fine Art (NV), Biblical Arts Museum (Dallas, TX), Rick Hilton (LA), and Cosmopolitan Las Vegas (NV). Spann currently lives and works in Las Vegas, NV.

DVEYKUS | Baruch Chertok

Baruch Chertok
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Media (Fashion) Design

Bio

Baruch, currently based in Brooklyn, seamlessly bridges the gap between art, music and fashion as well as culture, spirituality and philosophy into his designs. A graduate of FIDM in San Francisco and a fashion & graphic designer by trade who has worked for industry leaders such as Bisou Bisou and Z.Cavaricci, Baruch's relationship with Judaism sprouted from a seemingly simple question: What does it mean to be Jewish? The question had a profound impact leading Baruch on an exploration that resulted in a major shift in his perspective. Dveykus is a by-product of his journey.

Maece Seirafi

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Media Design, Visual Arts

Bio

Maece Seirafi was born in San Francisco, California but was raised in Damascus, Syria, where most of her love of letterforms, art, poetry and calligraphy was cultivated. In 2005 she graduated from Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles with a BFA in Communication Arts. Arabic calligraphy and Latin letterforms remained a strong, central theme throughout her work at Otis. After an extensive Type Design class with the renown type designer Leah Hoffmitz, bilingual identities in typography led her to pursue and complete an MFA at the Graphic Design program at the California Institute of the Arts in 2010. She studied under several talented design visionaries such as Louise Sandhaus, Lorraine Wild, Ed Fella, Michael Worthington, and Jefferey Keedy. Seirafi continues to explore the nuances of Arabic and Latin typography, and how bilingual identities could be further developed typographically. She is an independent graphic designer heavily involved in several local Arab American projects as well as multicultural organizations. She currently resides in Los Angeles.

Maece Seirafi’s work is recognized by INDEX DESIGN:Designing Water’s Future 2010 book CalArts Magazine Summer 2010 issue Communication Arts July/Aug 2009 issue INDEX DESIGN: AIGA/Aspen Design Challenge 2009 Finalist Certificate of Outstanding Achievement from Department of Water and Power 2009 First Place Logo Competition 2007 for Reach Program Otis Best of Show Exhibition 2005, Communication Arts.

Nushmia Khan

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Media Video

Artist Statement/Bio

Nushmia Khan is an aspiring visual journalist studying at UNC Chapel Hill. She is currently working as a multimedia journalist at RFDN, the UNC School of Journalism's new innovative news project.

Nushmia has been a multimedia editor for The Daily Tar Heel where she helped teach, create and critique online videos and interactive graphics. Nushmia has also interned at Unity Productions Foundation, an interfaith film-making company in Washington D.C., and has worked on a film and marketing project with Nourish International in Turkey. Nushmia’s interests also include Islamic Studies and Arabic which she has studied in Saudi Arabia and Turkey.