Artists Among Us with David Delaney Mayer David Delaney Mayer

Kamara Thomas is a singer, songspeller, mythology fanatic, and multidisciplinary storyteller based in Durham, NC. Her storytelling for film and stage is multi-faceted— weaving together musical and theatre performance, community art-making, ritual, and visual elements including masks, archival material, and photography.

To see more of Kamara's work:
www.kamarathomas.com

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Anna Lustberg is an illustrator and graphic designer based in NYC who draws playful, relatable vignettes of everyday life. After a daily drawing challenge on Instagram reignited her passion to create, she created Life is Short: A Coloring Book, illustrated a children’s book, hand-painted murals in Brooklyn and Harlem, and had a solo exhibition in September 2019 titled “What's Mine is Yours: Illustrated Memories by Anna Lustberg”. Anna participates in group exhibitions and continues to work primarily on book projects and custom artwork commissions.

To see more of Anna's work:
www.annalustberg.com
www.instagram.com/annalustberg/

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Steve Goldberg has worked as a US History teacher for over two decades. Much of Steve’s career has been focused on helping students connect to history in ways that go beyond the dates and facts found in a textbook. Over the course of his career, Steve has taught at a variety of public, private, and charter schools. He received his bachelor’s degree from Duke University for Public Policy, and he later returned to earn a Master of Arts in Teaching Social Studies. Steve also has a law degree from Georgetown Law School and is a member of the Maryland bar.

Nearly two years ago, while teaching history at Research Triangle High School, Steve met Holocaust survivor Abe Piasek, and they immediately became friends. Fascinated by Abe's story, Steve interviewed Abe on numerous occasions about his life, and Steve even helped to coordinate a trip to the Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC, for a dozen students from his high school and Abe's family (including his two great-granddaughters). As it turned out, though, that was Abe's first and only visit to the Holocaust Museum. Abe passed away in January 2020.

Since Abe’s passing, Steve has dedicated himself to sharing Abe’s story with a wider audience. Steve has researched Abe’s life extensively. He has put together a series of talks that weaves together Abe’s videotaped testimony with maps and images to help bring Abe’s story to life. His next talk will be a digital event hosted by the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University. He plans to a do a number more in the subsequent months.

To learn more about the event at Duke: https://kenan.ethics.duke.edu/event/my-friend-abe-a-holocaust-survivors-story/

To contact Steve for more information about his talks, send him an email at:
mrgoldberg@gmail.com

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Zach Goldberg is a writer, educator, and arts administrator from Durham, NC. He is the author of XV (Nomadic Press, 2020) and the recipient of a 2020 Project Support Grant from Rimon: the Minnesota Jewish Arts Council. His recent work can be found in PANK, Knight’s Library, Button Poetry, and elsewhere, and he has represented Wesleyan University and Berkeley, CA at various national and regional poetry slam tournaments. Zach’s work deals with issues of religion, gender and masculinity, generational trauma, addiction, and mental health. He lives in Minneapolis, MN.

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Maureen Delaney has spent much of her career as a college counselor working with students to help them prepare for college. Her days are spent strategizing with students, talking about their plans, and guiding them to create compelling personal essays and applications. Over her years as a college counselor, she has listened to countless students speak about their future goals and their vision for themselves as they move from high school to college. Watching teenagers take flight is exciting and inspiring to Maureen because she can listen to each individual share their unique academic or artistic story.

On her nights and weekends, though, Maureen paints. She creates beautiful, large canvases filled with abstract shapes, colors and patterns. Her pieces are simultaneously highly organized and playfully chaotic. Largely self-taught, she describes her work as trying to find a balance in all things: in color, in form, and in textures. When asked why she decides to approach her paintings in the way that she does, she said, “Because I don’t really have any choice. Because [the paintings] follow me around in my mind somehow, and I have to listen and get them down on canvas.”

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Amanda Sarco is a Norwegian-Italian model and actress. She works alongside a variety of photographers and fashion designers in the UK and in Italy. A former gymnast and downhill skier, Amanda has developed a deep passion for performing creatively in front of crowds (or cameras). As she works, she seeks to let go of any emotional guards and to let her emotions, body, and mind simply exist in the moment. Her hope is that the images she helps to create reflect this.

Amanda’s professional career includes being a runway, e-commerce, commercial and editorial model who has been published in a number of magazines including Imirage, Moevir, Mob Journal and The Fox Magazine. She has worked with GQ, Vogue and Tatler published photographers. Amanda also speaks fluent Norwegian, Italian and English.

For more about Amanda’s work, visit her website or follow her social media:

Website: https://www.amandasarco.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/amandasarco

Twitter: https://twitter.com/amasarco

music by Alan Špiljak (@alanspiljak)
audio editing by Sheridan Wilbur

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