Kevin Renn (he/him) is a playwright from New York, NY.

Kevin is currently working on the book (AKA the script) for the musical Showcase: A Rehearsal Musical that he’s collaborating on with his co-writer and composer, Erin J. Reifler.

He enjoys writing, jazz music, and watching Bewitched.

Mayetta Steier (she/her) is currently living in Philadelphia and originally from San Francisco.

Her various mediums include ceramics, farming, drawing, paper-mâché, and bread baking.

At Sable she is working on collaborating with others and taking time to reflect and process this past year and her life.

Mayetta used to be a unicycle teacher at a summer camp!

Noelani Jones (she/her) was born and raised in O’ahu, Hawai’i and when not at Sable, has been living on her parents’ farm in Western Maryland.

Noelani’s artistic practices are weaving and natural dyeing.

At Sable, she is making natural dyes from various plants on the Sable land, including black-eyed susans, goldenrod, coreopsis, hibiscus, and rust.

Noelani is also learning how to live outside and is working on staying warm at night!

Liz Oakley (she/they) is a puppeteer, designer, performance maker and teaching artist who likes to bring unexpected objects and locations to life. Liz grew up in New York City and is now residing in Philadelphia.

While at Sable, Liz is working on a big paper-mâché mask, some tiny puppets, playing the accordion, juggling, and making a deck of creative prompts. She is also learning how to whistle and shuffle playing cards.

Lizlizliz.com
@lizoako on instagram

Sarah Chien (she/her) creates improvised works with collaborators from dance, music, circus & theatre.

Originally from Illinois, she’s spent the last 15 years in New York City.

At Sable, she’s studying weeds and searching form the integration points between her art and budding farming practices.

She once did Loie Fuller-style backup dancing for Shaggy in a stadium in India.

Sophia McLaughlin (she/her/hers) is a Dance Artist from Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Her work is influenced by her experience doing botanical research. While at Sable she is exploring this combination of Botany and Dance in a site specific solo work.

She loves to walk and play the piano.

Dot Armstrong (they/them) hails from Minnesota and resides in Brooklyn.

Their artistic medium is movement (and singing, writing…)

At Sable Dot is taking risks and making choices and asking for help when they need it!

*Fun fact: Dot won their high school’s sonnet contest two years in a row*

Miriah Shell Auth (she/her) hails from Silver Spring, Maryland (just outside of Washington, DC). Her artistic mediums are dance, song, writing, and crochet.

Here at Sable Miriah wants to sharpen her teaching style and introduce song and poetry into her movement-based practice. Miriah is of the Abenaki bloodline and she is taking time while on this land to embody the culture of her ancestors.

Fun fact: For a year in college, Miriah biked through the mountains of Pittsburgh as her primary way of travel and is yet to bike up a mountain twice.

Aviya Hernstadt (she/her) hails from Brooklyn.

Her primary medium is dance and mix in some writing, collaging, knitting, and general silliness.

At Sable, she’s climbing trees, building ritual, and leaning into the ridiculous/the dramatic.

A fun fact about Aviya: she is an accidental Hebrew School teacher!

Luca Fontanetta (they/them) hails from New Orleans and is a writer.

At Sable, Luca is working on a short story about summer camp.

Fun fact: in adult life they haven’t lived in the same place for more than 6 months!

Moira Neve (they/them) is from the DMV (AKA DC, Maryland, Virginia area) but is currently studying sculpture and extended media studies, environmental science, and gender, sexuality, and women studies at VCU Arts in Richmond, VA.

At Sable, Moira is trying to create a digital archive of work and life at Sable, and maybe also a recipe card book of the delicious meals prepared straight from the garden.

Callous Physical Theatre: Joséphine A. Garibaldi and Paul Zmolek

Sable Artists September 2021

Creative work by Callous Physical Theatre and fellow Sable Fall 2021 cohort members.

Sable September (2021), a stop motion video created with fellow artists in residence at The Sable Project.

Sable Mountain: A Sense of Place (2021), a video performance with collaborators in residence at The Sable Project.

Making work together as Callous Physical Theatre, Joséphine A. Garibaldi and Paul Zmolek are dedicated to fostering collaboration across communities, disciplines and cultures regionally, nationally and internationally through a dialogic practice of art-making, research and pedagogy. Callous Physical Theatre is a collaborative, project-based endeavor guided by our slogan, “We go where the work takes us.” From environmental and performance installations, movement and text based visual poetry, Garibaldi and Zmolek have devised original performance, installation and digital works nationally and internationally together for three decades. Their work has received awards for Excellence in the Arts and Arts Outreach and has been supported by grants from the Fulbright organization and foundations based in Australia, Latvia, Finland, Portugal, Italy, California, Washington, Iowa, Missouri, Florida, Idaho, Vermont and New Mexico.

LJ Parnell

cazimicollective.com
instagram.com/queerretrograde

Aquarius sun, Capricorn moon, Virgo rising

Hey y'all - I'm LJ! I’m an artist, farmer, meditation and embodiment practitioner, podcaster and companion to Millie the cat. With a background in sculpture and dance, I think about ways to infuse creativity and emergence into everything I do. I often find myself imagining worlds where humanity is prioritized over production, or profit. At the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, my collaborator hobbes baya and I started Queer Retrograde, a podcast focusing on love, relationships, and interviews with LGBTQ+ community members about their experiences and projects. In 2023, hobbes and I co-founded Cazimi Collective, an arts and farm retreat center in Virginia that centers the needs of queer folks and POC. When I'm not playing outside, find me working on yet another home reno project, or on my yearly read of 'all about love' by bell hooks.

I spent the fall of 2021 at Sable helping Otto and Sara out on land projects as a farm intern. Most of my time was spent prepping garden beds for winter, weeding, and organizing the tool shed. Although, I was able to make some cameos in the art making processes. Waking up in the dewy mountains of Vermont was quite a nice break from the harsh southern heat I'm used to, and the folks I met along the way were pretty cool too ;)

Photos 1,2,4,5 by SJ Valiquette

Malloy Craig (she/her), Sable 2021 Fall Artist

Mallory is a land and cultural worker, committed to sharing therapeutic horticultural practices that center collective care and connection. She plays with ideas of magic, memory, and eco-grief through investigating phenology, the study of cycles and seasons in a changing climate. She look to myth and language to make meaning from ecological processes, orienting closely towards interconnected ecologies, and that which is regenerative within them. She cultivates connection to land in community, through facilitating dialogue-driven artmaking experiences around local foodways, the garden, and community care.

While at Sable, she worked to deepen into more intimacy with the plants she was tending and to grow as a land-worker through building out the compost bays, slow mixed media artmaking and herbal medicine-making centered around one plant a day, and through cooking and creating tablescapes inspired by agroecological practices. You can find more her work at www.mallorycraig.com

Ray, she/her/hers, from Maryland

I came to Sable in September 2021 after four years of studying painting and not knowing what kind of art I wanted to make anymore. Being bathed in nature, finding new community, and eating clean food felt like the perfect reset for my post-college burnout.

It was just after Sable that I discovered rug making and have since been exploring textile mediums more. My style is lighthearted, childlike and sometimes irreverent. They can be found on Instagram @rayrayrugs.

SJ Valiquette (she/ they, Sable 2021 Fall Artist) is an actor, poet, playwright, and photographer from Vancouver, BC.

She came to Sable to work on a play called This Show is Not a Funeral based on interviews on grief that she had been conducting before she left. While they did continue workshopping the project they ended up spending a lot of time collecting windfall, making paper, cooking purple stew, and learning about herbal medicine. All of this culminated in an installation called What is Left Behind, a chandelier made entirely of found biodegradable materials (based on the imagery of Alison Bechdel's Fun Home.)

SJ has recently become a beekeeper.