Marcus Jade Demery is a Guitarist / Vocalist / Photographer / Pastel Artist / Poet/Writer from Indianapolis, Indiana. While at Sable Marcus is working on personal exploration, alternative tunings on guitar, Protest Blues / Blues Music, and poetry.

I recently reconnected with my roots down in New Orleans, LA. I spoke and connected with a Vodou High Priestess that connected with Papa Legba. He blessed and watches over me. Down there I learned about my family history in the deep South, their part in Civil Rights and protecting Women’s Rights, Education, Great Migration. I learn I am a distant relative to Sam Chatmon (of the Mississippi Sheiks), who was the half brother of Charley Patton, the godfather of Delta Blues. This inspired me to continue the tradition of Blues. And Be Proud to Be Black.

Sarah Gottfried grew up in Traverse City, Michigan and has been living in New York City for the past few years. She is a dancer and draws pictures - primarily of bodily sensations she experiences in her movement practice. She has also been exploring the mediums of writing, photography, and finding pleasure in dire-embedded toes during her time here at Sable. Sarah has a habit of collecting unusually small spoons and carrying them around in case of a necessary or unexpected spoon-able snack.

Spenser Wise is a writer and musician from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. At the Sable Project, Spenser is exploring songwriting and performance possibilities of electronic music in off-grid spaces. They are a rising senior studying Music at Middlebury College. Spenser enjoys learning foreign languages and listening to podcasts.

Rae (Rachel) Govette is from Suisun City, California (it’s halfway between Sacramento and San Francisco). Rae’s artistic mediums are paint, pens, pencil, charcoal, pastels, collage, yarn, ukulele, and whatever else they can find. Rae’s main goal or project while at Sable is to find or create a point to their art. They are looking for meaning. It’s slow going.

Fun Fact: We (the current Sable residents) are writing these bios on paper by candle light, rain tapping on the tin roof, the smell of black raspberry pie slowly wafting over us, while Jess hopes we finally give her these words.

Rose Kim is a performer/director from California. She loves collaborating and is right now challenging herself by working on a solo performance about a skeleton woman. She is excited to further collaborate with Sable artists in the future while continuing the development of her own practice. Rose co-founded Millennial Theater in 2015, an experimental theater vehicle for friends by friends.

Rebecca (Becca) Malin is a composer and musician from providence Rhode Island. At the Sable Project, she is writing an album of guitar, banjo, and vocal-based music to record in the fall. Rebecca’s favorite word is a toastmaster.

Kathryn Klingle, from Louisville, KY, works primarily in ink drawing, video, performance, and yarn. At Sable she is working in new mediums like dance and learning with/from all the artists here.

Fun Fact: The only pet I ever had was an earthworm that lived in a nacho cheese jar.

Everett Anton Renderer, originally from Upper Jay, NY, currently lives in Shelburne and Burlington VT. Everett is a painter, writer, musician, and performer. Here at Sable he has been drawing, writing, making masks, and painting. He is excited to see how he can incorporate all those mediums with everyone else’s artistic abilities and ideas. Everett is also quite an outdoors adventurer, and amongst many previous snowboarding and skateboarding injuries, has a fake front tooth.

Jasmine Huaimin Yeh, born in Taipei, Taiwan and raised in Queens, NY, works primarily in performance, installation, and sculpture.

“I am a cultural nomad interested in claiming sovereignty over the space between self-determination and inherited traditions. I am looking forward to learning new languages to dream in.”

Fun Fact: Jasmine is very in love with the milky way.

Kyla Ohayon was born in Israel and raised in the East Village, NYC. As the Sable Photo/Video Intern for Summer 2018, she is working on taking photos all the artists and projects that are happening on the Sable Land. In addition to capturing many of the digital photos you see online, Kyla is also taking photographs with her film and polaroid cameras, experimenting with variations of print. She is looking forward to compiling a three-demential archive with all the printed photos.

Jarvis A. Green hails from Anderson, SC. He is a director, performing artist, cultural worker, and the Producing Artistic Director of JAG Productions. He is excited to continue the work of JAG by bringing more compassion, empathy, and love into the world through the lens of Black Theatre. Deeply humbled and grateful for Otto and the Sable Project for creating a safe and creative space for all of us.

Fun Fact: I came to VT to work on a farm six years ago and I never left.

Sofie Rose Seymour, originally from Philadelphia, and most recently of NYC works in movement, education, and excessive quantities of birch bark. She is working on cultivating community and collaboration, birch bark books and branch antlers, and long walks in the woods. While here at Sable, Sofie Rose likes to fall asleep around bonfires while wearing a fleece lion onesie.

Shannon Leonardi (Workaway) is a painter and mixed media artist who is work-trading for The Sable Project. Through her stay, Shannon has enjoyed the community of the garden and the solitude of the forest. She is converting her school bus into a tiny home with fellow artist and cosmic sister, Anna. Shannon can turn any word into a parody song and has a dog named Hercules.

Anna Feldman is a multi-media visual artist and work-trader with The Sable Project. Anna has spent her time atop Sable Mountain exploring permaculture, music, construction, deep ecology, and communal living. Currently, she is converting her bus into a mobile tiny home with follow cosmic sister and artist, Shannon. When she grows up she’d like to continue becoming a more radical horse woman, as well as a steward of the earth.

Reed Stone McLean is an interdisciplinary artist born and raised in Norway, Maine. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Alfred University in 2018. Dealing largely in performative sculpture and dance he works with ideas of the human condition, our quest for power, our universal need to be loved, and the cyclical nature of time and human events. The natural environment and our interaction with it continues to be his greatest source of inspiration. At The Sable Project he worked to create the piece "Messenger", a three hour durational performance which seeks to examine the impact of human presence and our actions which leave us and our surroundings irrevocably changed.