Auntie Mame"

The Micro Museum celebrates the 2nd Millennium honoring Arthur C Clarke for inspiring creativity, artists and dreamers with premiere audio/visual, kinetic, media and performance art by William and Kathleen Laziza.

"We stand on the shoulders of giants"

Evelyn "Tessie" Williams (1946 - 2000)

Alan Glovsky (1951 - 2000)

Dr. Elizabeth "Lyzer" McClelland (1969 - 2000)

In second floor window. Best viewed from across the street.

(In the conference room and office)

NNeng (In the conference room and office)

www.micromuseum.com *

The exhibits are being streamed over the internet with the "Clari.net" courtesy of Chyron Corporation. www.chyron.com or check http://pawi.org.

Chris Chalfant has performed improvisational music for seventeen years in many different contexts. She has worked in classical, jazz and avant-garde music, as well as theater, dance, poetry, live painting and multi-media. She had a duo with Katie Redmond in Boston in 1986, who performed "sound-movement poetry" weekly. From 1986-1992 Chalfant was pianist, composer for the Longy Improvisational Ensemble. She has created over 200 compositions, many of which include improvisation. Her work has been awarded prizes (Louisville National Composers Competition 1990) and has been performing her music in festivals (International Composers Conference- Switzerland in 1989 and 1990), Femme de Piano Festival, New York 1992 and the Vision Festival 2000. Chalfant has studied piano, voice, jazz, improvisation, African and Indian music. Her degrees are from Kent State (BA in music) and New England Conservatory (MM). She has studied with Margaret Baxtresser, George Russell, Anne Farber, Joan LaBarbara, Pauline Oliveros, David Darling, and Malcolm Goldstein. She created the course "Discovering Improvisation" for classical musicians at the Longy School of Music and the New England Conservatory Extension Division, and has taught improvisation, composition, and movement workshops at various camps (Noyes School of Rhythm) and conferences (International Composers Conference in Switzerland, Darmstadt Festival). Chalfant has many of her own recordings, including "All in Good Time" with her trio and special guest Joseph Jarman as well as "Convergence" including Noah Howard, Calyer Duncan, and Wilber Morris. She teaches private piano in Boerum Hill and Brooklyn Heights and teaches "Music, Art and Play" at Greenwich House Music School.

The Dojo Band, founded by Joseph Jarman and directed by Chris Chalfant, works together to write and perform creative music of many styles, which maintains a thread of unity and harmonious breath. Their sound is sometimes more bebop, Indian, classical or even avant-garde. They work under the premise of infinite possibility, so creative ideas are nurtured throughout their rehearsal and performance process. There is sense of commitment, unity and compassion through all of the music that is written by the members. The band members comprise members and associates of the Jikishinkan Dojo and Brooklyn Buddhist Association, also founded by Joseph Jarman, where Aikido, Zen and Jodo Shinshu Buddhism are practiced. They include: Joseph Jarman, founder, reeds, Chris Chalfant, director, piano, vocals, (see bio above), Jessica Jones, tenor sax and flute, Tony Jones, tenor sax, Rob Garcia, drums, and Ken Filiano, bass. They also perform with additional members as a twelve piece ensemble. The Dojo Band has performed for numerous Brooklyn Buddhist Association events, including benefits, the monthly "Music at Dojo" series, as well as the Vision Festival, Williamsburg Art and Historical Center, Brooklyn Conservatory, Knitting Factory, and Tonic.

Jessica Jones ( saxophone) leads her own quartet that played at the Knitting Factory and the Eddie Moore Jazz Festival. The group's CD is on Nine Winds, She has played with Don Cherry , Joseph Jarman, Cecil Taylor, Steve Coleman, Charlie Persip, Cab Calloway and Bo Diddley. She has also performed in many Caribbean and African Bands in the New York area. She arranged music, recorded and toured with the Haitian band OUI, and toured internationally with Skah Skah. Her music is featured on two independent film soundtracks, as well as a promotional film for the New York Foundation for the Arts. In 1984 Jones received an NEA grant, and in 1994 she received a Berkeley Community partnership grant. She works extensively with children in jazz and improvisation.

Ken Filiano (bass) performs classical, jazz, and free improvisation, as well as dance and spoken word, Filiano's diversity takes him on through tours in the US, Canada, Europe and South America, including the DeMaurier, Bergamo and Baumbershoot Festivals. He has performed at Carnegie Hall, with Vinnie Golia, John Carter, Roswell Rudd, and the ROVA Saxophone Quartet. Filiano has been on over two dozen recordings, including many Nine Winds projects, which include some of his own works. He has been guest lecturer, performer and teacher at the University of New Mexico, UCLA, and Rutgers University, where he received his MM in Bass.

Hayes Greenfield (saxophonist) has received rave reviews from critics, who have referred to his playing as "lucid, bright and shining, and at times pure genius, " and calling Greenfield himself a "bold, audacious and incisive saxophonist who loves to take risks." Greenfield has produced and recorded four critically acclaimed and award-winning jazz albums and traveled throughout Europe and Canada performing at jazz festivals, clubs and live radio broadcasts. In 1998, Hayes founded Jazz-A-Ma-Tazz, his live interactive jazz show for children and families. By jazzing up familiar songs, it introduces America's only original art form in a way that everyone can embrace. Hayes' live interactive show encourages young people to express themselves through scat singing, movement and dance, all of which are central in helping a child develop self esteem, motor skills, communication and pitch recognition. Hayes', artistic achievements also include his work in the film industry. Over the past ten years Hayes has scored over 60 films, documentaries, commercials, and TV specials. Many of these films are award-winning and include subjects on luminary figures such as General George Marshal; artist Roy Lichtenstein, Frank Stella and James Rosenquist; architect Philip Johnson; and photographers Elliot Porter and Jan Groover. A filmmaker in his own right, Hayes has produced two films. "For the Children," an award-winning film/music video, and "Friends of the Children." Both films examine the importance of community, after school and mentoring programs, and how they and adults are helping American youth today. Since 1994, Hayes has taught music at The Door, an enrichment center for inner-city youth in New York City. He has developed the music component for an entrepreneurial program funded by the GAP, and designed both the Recording/Rehearsal Studio and Midi Workstation facility. For several years as well, Hayes has mentored young men, ages 16-22, at Friends of Island Academy, an organization which provides services to those making the transition from jail back to the community.

Carol Mezzacappa, a native Brooklynite, is a founding Director of YOUNG DANCERS IN REPERTORY and oversees the organization's On-Site and Off-Site educational programs and year-round performing activities. She fosters the works of American modern dance pioneers Doris Humphrey and Charles Weidman through YOUNG DANCERS IN REPERTORY and its professional wing, Dance Consort. As a performer Carol has danced at John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the Brooklyn Academy of Music in addition to numerous NYC theaters, off-Broadway, across the United States and Europe, as a featured dancer in regional and theatrical productions, in video and on television. Carol has directed dances, choreographed original works, and taught in NYC's finest institutions, among them are: Teachers College Columbia University, NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, Brooklyn College, Purchase College, the Fieldston School for Ethical Culture, and the Poly Prep Country Day School. She has also taught for university, college and independent dance programs across the United States, as well as in England, Canada, and Taiwan. Carol was named the year 2000 University of Nebraska President's Artist Scholar-in Residence and the 2000 Distinguished Lecturer for the School of Health Physical Education and Recreation at the University of Nebraska @ Omaha. In 1998 she was the recipient of the Performing Arts Award bestowed upon her by Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes honoring important Brooklynites of Italian-American Heritage. In 1997, Carol was one of 13 artists/companies, along with Alwin Nikolais and Charles Weidman, honored by the University of Nebraska @ Omaha for her contributions to the modern dance world. Carol holds a B.S. in Dance and an M.F.A. in Performing Arts Management, both from Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, as well as an Intermediate Certificate in Labanotation from the Dance Notation Bureau. She serves as an Advisory Board Member for Beacon IS 220 (Pershing) Community Program, the Charles Weidman Dance Foundation, and the Dance Professional Associates. Carol served as a consultant for the Dance Directory. She has also served as a speaker and panelist for PASE (the Partnership for Afterschool Education), the National Guild of Community Schools of the Arts, Brooklyn Borough President Howard Golden's Civic Conference, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Brooklyn Arts Council. She was the Dance Coordinator for the Brooklyn College Preparatory Center for the Performing Arts from 1983-1992 and also worked in the Development Department of the New York City Ballet and as comptroller for Nappi/Eliran Advertising, a theatrical advertising agency in NYC.

Craig Gabrian serves as Director of Outreach Programs for Young Dancers in Repertory, a Brooklyn-based arts organization he co-founded with his wife, Carol Mezzacappa. Craig is co-director of Dance Consort, a dance company fostering the philosophy of American modern dance pioneer Charles Weidman and Doris Humphrey. With Dance Consort Craig has appears on the documentary, Charles Weidman: On His Own and also performed at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the Sylvia and Danny Kaye Playhouse, among other notable NYC venues. For ten years Craig worked with the Harriette Ann Gray Dance Company as a dancer and soloist (Ms. Gray was a soloist with the Humphrey-Weidman Company). Upon moving to New York City in 1983 he performed with several modern dance companies. In addition, he has also performed in regional and touring musical theater productions, among them Camelot, PIPPIN, and Annie Get Your Gun. A native of St. Louis, Craig holds a B.S. in Elementary Education from the University of Missouri @ Columbia and B.F.A. in Dance from Stephens College. Craig has taught dance throughout New York City public schools, at the Brooklyn College Preparatory Center for the Performing Arts, for the Princeton Ballet Company, at Orange County Community College, Stephens College and Webster University. Craig has choreographed for professional, regional and college theater and dance projects. He also served as the Cultural Arts Director of the Kings Bay YM-YWHA for nine years.

Rick Russo has composed and performed over 300 experimental music, literary and media works since 1973. Recordings of his electronic music appear on NTT/Japan, Meltdown Records and in independent films. Recent electronic scores include Rock Music, utilizing computer-altered sounds of kidney stones, Chamber Music, dedicated to Kenneth Adams, and Flowers and Olga Bloom, dedicated to the Bargemusic founder. He conceived and produced the historic concert and album John Cage Meets Sun Ra, is Associate Producer of the famed Village Halloween Parade and co-Director (with Bronwyn Rucker) of Meltdown, Brooklyn's unique social service/performing arts organization founded in 1983. In addition to his arts activities, Rick Russo is also noted for his extensive neighborhood development work throughout Brooklyn. His North Flatbush BID work was the subject of a feature New York Times cover story in 1999.

Carol Goss has obsessed with the unspoken mystery of moving images and music for three decades. She is a producer, educator, innovator and advocate for abstract, non-linear videoart. Her collaborations with musicians, such as Jaco Pastorius and Sun Ra have produced memorable programs, at once painterly - but also disturbing. She is the Artistic Director of the Not Still Art Festival, scheduled to open as a part of The Boston Cyberarts Festival in collaboration with 911 Gallery in April 2001. Her expansive background includes: video exhibitions, live multi-media performances, lectures, seminars, broadcasts, honors, awards, grants, theater and film credits. www.improvart.com.

Susana Melendez appears in the Laziza Electrique Dance Company's videodance "He Said, She Said" which plays on December 12. "Metamorphosis" is her first live performance with the company. She has studied ballet, tap, jazz and modern dance while attending LaGuardia High School for the Performing Arts in NYC. She also studied dance for three years with Betram Ross and Deborah Zall. She has attended Hunter College for both religious studies and dance. Her choreography toured with the Hunter College Dance Company in Mexico in 1998. She has been exploring butoh dance and has in interest in mixed media.

William and Kathleen Laziza celebrate five years of interdisciplinary art production at The Micro Museum. They invite you to see a new flash project at www.micromuseum.com or visit the html site at http://pawi.org They also produce the Spontaneous Combustion series, a monthly video program on Brooklyn Community Access Television. Currently, they are artists-in-resident at PS 261 Magnet School for Integrating the Arts where they are conducting their movement arts and communication project: Worldwide Simultaneous Dance.

William Laziza is a streaming media expert by day and an enterprising artist by night. He is the master builder for sculptures and media installations on display at The Micro Museum. He has nurtured dozens of collaborations with music and media artists since moving to NYC 20 years ago. The New York Times selected his inter-active installation, The Videograph, for their Millennium Section published on Jan.1, 2000 as an example of "Art of the Future". He is a member of the NE Solar Energy Coalition and (ASCI) Arts & Science Collaboration Inc.

Kathleen Laziza is an interdisciplinary artist who began her artistic career working as a painter but quickly turned her attention to performance art in the late 1970's. She moved to NYC in 1980 where she began the Laziza Electrique Dance Co, an experimental network of artists needed to create her mixed media works. Her videodances were the subject of the leading article in Leonardo Magazine (June 1996) for the International Society of Arts, Science and Technology published by MIT Press. In early 2000, two of her videodances aired at Walter Reade Theater.

Micro Museum is a creative laboratory designed to support emerging and established artists working in different disciplines. It offers continued support for: Laziza Electrique Dance Company, Spontaneous Combustion series, Seed/Root - job readiness, Whole Art Classes at Pierrepont Park and PS 261. The Micro Museum is a member of the National Artist Association Organization and the Community Economic Development Council. Our upcoming public programs include:

For schools beginning December 20 - June 30, 2001

If your class is interested please call our office at (718) 797-3116. Admission required.

Monthly program on Brooklyn Community Access Television Cablevision and Time Warner Cable channels #34, 35, 56, 67, 68, 69

December 6, 2000

Schoolwide Simultaneous Dance at PS 261

January 6 - 21 at the Puffin Room in Manhattan

He Said, She Said with music by Candiria and Ghosts of the Canal

as a part of Dance Films Associations annual showcase

April 29, 2001 as a part of National Dance Week

Worldwide Simultaneous Dance (see websites)

Ongoing after-school art programming at PS 261

Summer art programming with the Brooklyn Heights Playground Committee

Ongoing Sunday afternoon serieswhere the Micro Museum is open to the public

Guided Tours and Performances will be announced on "Odd Sundays"

2000 Staff, Crew and Associates

Kathleen Laziza - Executive Producer

William Laziza - Technical Director

Samantha Twyford - Associate Producer & House Manager

Mike MacIvor - Press Relations & Art Handler

Jane Barber - Graphics

Kevin McCormack - Videographer

Peter Bursuker - Website Designer

Deems - Website Designer

Ruth O'Shea - Distribution & Tech Assistant

Eba Twyford - Distribution

Jennifer Cooper - Piano Technician

Allison Twyford - Box Office

Lidy Chu - The Nonprofit Connection

Larry and Edward - Interns from Chinese American Planning Council

Board of Directors

Nancy Stern Bain - Acting President

Julio Vega - Secretary

William Laziza - Treasurer

Kathleen Laziza - Executive Director

Board of Advisors

Kenneth Fisher - NYC Council Member

Joan Bartelemeo - Brooklyn Eco-Dev Corp.

Bette Stoltz, South Bklyn Local Development Corp.

Donna Panton, The Nonprofit Connection

Elizabeth Rose Daly, Neighborhood Activist

Who made it all possible?

Promote Art Works, Inc. (PAWI) is the sponsoring organization for The Micro Museum and all it's components. We thank Chyron Corp. for becoming a financial contributor as well as an in-kind supporter. We would like to acknowledge that our public programs are made possible, in part, by funds from the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs through Brooklyn Borough President Howard Golden and NYC Council Member Kenneth Fisher. NYS Department of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation through NYS Assemblywoman Joan Millman provided additional funding. Our neighboring Greenpoint Bank contributed, as did the following restaurants, as a part of this year's International Not Still Art Festival: Boerum Hill Food Company, Halcyon, Red Rose, Saul's and Zaytoon's. PAWI receives funding from New York Foundation for the Arts for an artist-in-residence program. PAWI is proud to be a recipient of services provided by Materials for the Arts. We also want to salute the individual artists who graciously gave their talent, friends who advised us or volunteered for us, especially organizational guru, Carolyn Curran. Our deepest gratitude goes to the all the hundreds of parents who continue to hire PAWI for our teaching services. The Micro Museum could not have done our programming without you. We also want acknowledge the energy we receive from neighbors and other people who un-ceremoniously help us to complete our mission. Thanks a million!

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