LiveAction +CG Compositor, Lighting Artist, Animator, Two White Rabbits Entertainment
CHAVÓN The School of Design: 2006
Fine Arts, Digital Design
Parsons School of Design: 2008
Design and Technology
Hung-Ning is originally from Taiwan and now lives there. During her studies she interned at such companies as Psyop and MTV, and after graduation worked freelance as a multidisciplinary artist for Duck Studios, United Front, Big Block, Stimulated-Inc., Serenity Media Group, and Autofuss. At Autofuss she later worked full time, doing matte painting, motion graphics, and general 3D work.
Moving back to Taiwan, Hung-Ning joined Next Animation Studios, doing lighting and compositing (mostly with Maya lighting and Nuke compositing) for outsourced projects from the U.S. and Japan. She currently works as a LiveAction +CG compositor at Two White Rabbits Entertainment; her projects are mainly movies and TV series from Taiwan and China.
Painter, Print Designer
CHAVÓN The School of Design: 1998
Parsons School of Design: 2000
Fine Arts & Illustration
Tania began her artistic career as an illustrator for the fashion and lifestyle sections of Obsidiana Magazine (New York). Later, as part of the Data Motion Arts (DMA) studio’s animation team, she designed characters and backgrounds for such organizations as MTV, PBS, Hyperion/Disney, and Scholastic Books, receiving various awards from the International Animated Film Society (ASIFA) and CINE. In 2005 she joined MadArts Studios, in Brooklyn, New York, and District and Co. Gallery, in Santo Domingo.
Tania has designed textiles for the L’Amour by Nanette Lepore line for JCPenney, and for Nicole Miller Intimates, among others, and has designed an artistic tile collection for Aguayo Tiles, in the Dominican Republic. She is the author of the books I Doodle Therefore I Am and To Doodle or Not to Doodle. She is also a painter, having participated in over 30 international and national exhibitions, including six solo shows.
Visual Artist, Illustrator, Communications Designer
CHAVÓN The School of Design: 1990
Parsons School of Design: 1992
Fine Arts & Illustration
Elias has worked for Listín Diario, Hoy, and El Nacional, as well as for Lourdes Salame & Asoc. His own design studio specializes in annual reports, books, and branding, and has provided editorial design for several major companies in the Dominican Republic. He has illustrated many children’s books and is the founder of the children’s magazine Zum Zum. Among his latest illustration projects are the expo The History of the Bank, for Banco Popular, and the poster for the 21st Book Fair Santo Domingo (2018).
Elías has participated in many group and solo exhibitions and competitions in the Dominican Republic and abroad, including the E. León Jimenes Art Contest, in Santiago, and various shows at Santo Domingo’s Museum of Modern Art and Galería ASR. Among his many prizes and distinctions: participation as special guest at Panamá Gráfico (2009) and the Ibero-American Design Biennial, Madrid (2008 and 2018); representation of the Dominican Republic in Latin American Graphic Design (Taschen, 2008); and presentation of a special address at the Asociación Latinoamericana de Diseño (ALADI) meeting in Buenos Aires (2003). His works are in important national and international private and public collections.
Footwear Designer, GoodYear Footwear
CHAVÓN The School of Design: 1987
Parsons School of Design: 1989
Illustration
Since 2013 Raymundo has been working for GoodYear Footwear in various capacities: trend analysis, fashion illustration, technical work, innovation, textiles, art direction, and sketching. He is the originator of classic urban athletic and casual footwear, as well as commercially successful collections of athletic, casual, work, lifestyle, and fashion footwear for men and women. He has worked for such brands as Reebok International, Fila, and JSSI Inc.
Fine Artist, Educator
CHAVÓN The School of Design: 1986
Parsons School of Design: 1986
Fine Arts & Illustration
Since 1993 Scherezade has had more than 15 individual shows; participated in over 50 group shows, including the Smithsonian Institution’s 2014–2017 traveling exhibit Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art; and received more than 10 awards. She has also been the illustrator for handbag designer Carlos Falchi as well as for other firms in the fashion industry. She teaches at Parsons School of Design.
Scherezade’s work can be found in the private collections of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, New York City’s El Museo del Barrio, and the Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital at New York-Presbyterian Hospital. Her work is included in the permanent collection of Latino art at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C.
Writer of theater texts, librettist and script editor.
Joint writer of the acclaimed telenovela Pura Sangre, for the RCN channel, broadcasted in the United States and all of South America.
Winner of the India Catalina Award for Best Original Telenovela Script for “Pura Sangre”, at the 48th Cartagena Film Festival, Colombia, 2008.
Winner of the Lope de Vega Award at the Villa de Madrid Awards, 1998.
Nominated for the India Catalina Award for Best Telenovela or Series (original or adaptation), 2015.
Degree in Art History from Universidad de La Habana, Cuba.
Visual Arts Advisor for Centro Cultural Eduardo León Jimenes, in Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic.
Member of the International Advisory Council of the Davidoff Art Initiative in Basel, Switzerland.
Director of the Museum of Modern Art of the Dominican Republic in the period 2000-2004.
Conceptualizes and curates exhibitions of Caribbean and Latin American artists, such as, Wifredo García, Quisqueya Henríquez, Polibio Díaz, Jorge Pineda, Nadia Huggins, Leopoldo Mahler, among others.
Professor of Cinema and Cultural Studies at the State University of New York (SUNY).
Her fields of interest include horror cinema and cultural memory, Cuban cinema, experimental films and queer cinema.
Among her recently published texts, she studies the Cuban documentary filmmaker Nicolás Guillén Landrián and the experimental film tradition.
Consultant for film projects and the Underground Film Festival, the African Film Festival of Brown University and the Havana Film Festival in New York.
Board member of the Son Edna Foundation and the Americas Media Initiative.
Recent awards granted include the Arthur Imperatore Community Forum Fellowship and the Scholar Across the College Award, both from the State University of New York.
Graduated with a degree in Fine Arts from Universidad de Salamanca.
Diploma in Documentary Filmmaking from Instituto del Cine de Madrid.
Studied Documentary Direction at Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión (EICTV), San Antonio de Los Baños, Cuba.
Her work has been exhibited individually and as part of collectives in different galleries, such as the Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid; the Festival Foto España and the Instituto Cervantes.
Director of several short films and audiovisual installations.
Has received several awards, including the Young Artists Award from Castilla y León.
Sound producer.
Professor at Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión (EICTV), San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba.
His films include Boca de Ouro, O Homem Perfeito, Uma Pitada de Sorte, Mulheres Alteradas, among others.
