Artist in Residence

Over the past 10 years, Angela has had the pleasure of participating with the National Young Arts Foundation, the U.S. Presidential Scholars, the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts, and the Music Center’s Spotlight Awards Program. Angela holds a B.A. in Studio Arts with concentrations in Photography, Printmaking, and African American Studies from Loyola Marymount University.

2019—2020

Aaron’s work highlights the beauty and struggle of families in all their forms, whether they’re on space stations and magical lands, or the shuttered shacks and cracked sidewalks of rural North Carolina. When he’s not penning power punch stories and screenplays, Aaron is constructing killer beats for his funk band and scores for his short films. To view more of his work or just chat about life, connect with Aaron at epiphanypictures.co​.

Rachel has been invited to play with ensembles who share her mission such as Callithumpian Consort, International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), Noise, Southland Ensemble, Third Coast Percussion, and has been featured on the Jacaranda and Monday Evening Concerts series. Rachel has appeared at festivals all over the globe such as the Festival Internacional Cervantino in Guanajuato, Mexico, Vértice in Mexico City, the Dog Star Orchestra in Los Angeles, Prisms New Music Festival in Tempe, American Music Festival at the National Gallery of Art, the New Music Gathering, soundON Festival of Contemporary Music, XI Festival Internacional de Música Nueva in Monterrey, Mexico, Internationales Institut Darmstadt Ferienkurse, Atlantic Music Festival, WithOut Walls Festival at the La Jolla Playhouse, unSUNG Music Festival in Los Angeles, and the Ojai Music Festival.

As a composer, Rachel makes sound pieces involving acute realizations of graphic materials. In collaboration with visual artist, Nichole Speciale, they created the project, Script-Rescript, a translation project between Nichole’s mixed media drawings and Rachel’s sonic realizations. In the winter of 2015-16, Rachel received the Listhus Skammdegi Air Award, a three-month artist residency in Ólafsfjörður, Iceland. There she created the 30-hour work, The Winter Stars, based on sonic realizations of long exposure photographs of the night sky. Her work has been exhibited at Watt Space Gallery in Newcastle, Australia, the Natural History Museum in Ólafsfjörður, Island, Salur Myndlistarfélagsins in Akureyri, Iceland, Rabindranath Tagore Centre in Kolkata, India, and at Emergent Artspace’s ongoing online exhibition “Translations.”

As an educator, Dr. Beetz lectures on contemporary flute playing, collaboration, and the creative process of creating and realizing graphic scores. She has given guest lectures at Arizona State University, California Institute of the Arts, Iceland Academy of the Arts, and Santa Clara University. She holds degrees from Indiana University Jacobs School of Music (Bachelor of Music) and UC San Diego (Doctor of Musical Arts and Master of Arts). Currently, Rachel instructs contemporary chamber music at the Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance Practice (SICPP) at New England Conservatory and is Adjunct Instructor at Moorpark College.

Hahamongna is proudly the first California native plant nursery in Southern California that bears an indigenous name and is run with indigenous management, fostering stewardship of the land. He has extensive experience propagating plants, collecting seeds, documenting plant populations, and assessing the health and vitality of restoration projects. His educational background has focused on restoration ecology, biology, botany and architecture from Mt. San Antonio College  and USC. Since 2012, Hummingbird has been a cultural educator centering the wisdom, stories, and histories of Native Peoples, and creating and implementing curriculum in K-12 school and universities. He has worked with the National Park Service, the Wishtoyo Foundation and others to provide much needed outreach and environmental restoration support. 

Nick will be in residency with California Creative Learning Academy for the entire year, working with different grade levels and with the parent community on environmental sustainability and educational projects with an emphasis on California native plants and ecosystems and environmental restoration projects. 

Over the past 10 years, Angela has had the pleasure of participating with the National Young Arts Foundation, the U.S. Presidential Scholars, the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts, and the Music Center’s Spotlight Awards Program. Angela holds a B.A. in Studio Arts with concentrations in Photography, Printmaking, and African American Studies from Loyola Marymount University.

2019—2020

Aaron’s work highlights the beauty and struggle of families in all their forms, whether they’re on space stations and magical lands, or the shuttered shacks and cracked sidewalks of rural North Carolina. When he’s not penning power punch stories and screenplays, Aaron is constructing killer beats for his funk band and scores for his short films. To view more of his work or just chat about life, connect with Aaron at epiphanypictures.co​.

Rachel has been invited to play with ensembles who share her mission such as Callithumpian Consort, International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), Noise, Southland Ensemble, Third Coast Percussion, and has been featured on the Jacaranda and Monday Evening Concerts series. Rachel has appeared at festivals all over the globe such as the Festival Internacional Cervantino in Guanajuato, Mexico, Vértice in Mexico City, the Dog Star Orchestra in Los Angeles, Prisms New Music Festival in Tempe, American Music Festival at the National Gallery of Art, the New Music Gathering, soundON Festival of Contemporary Music, XI Festival Internacional de Música Nueva in Monterrey, Mexico, Internationales Institut Darmstadt Ferienkurse, Atlantic Music Festival, WithOut Walls Festival at the La Jolla Playhouse, unSUNG Music Festival in Los Angeles, and the Ojai Music Festival.

As a composer, Rachel makes sound pieces involving acute realizations of graphic materials. In collaboration with visual artist, Nichole Speciale, they created the project, Script-Rescript, a translation project between Nichole’s mixed media drawings and Rachel’s sonic realizations. In the winter of 2015-16, Rachel received the Listhus Skammdegi Air Award, a three-month artist residency in Ólafsfjörður, Iceland. There she created the 30-hour work, The Winter Stars, based on sonic realizations of long exposure photographs of the night sky. Her work has been exhibited at Watt Space Gallery in Newcastle, Australia, the Natural History Museum in Ólafsfjörður, Island, Salur Myndlistarfélagsins in Akureyri, Iceland, Rabindranath Tagore Centre in Kolkata, India, and at Emergent Artspace’s ongoing online exhibition “Translations.”

As an educator, Dr. Beetz lectures on contemporary flute playing, collaboration, and the creative process of creating and realizing graphic scores. She has given guest lectures at Arizona State University, California Institute of the Arts, Iceland Academy of the Arts, and Santa Clara University. She holds degrees from Indiana University Jacobs School of Music (Bachelor of Music) and UC San Diego (Doctor of Musical Arts and Master of Arts). Currently, Rachel instructs contemporary chamber music at the Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance Practice (SICPP) at New England Conservatory and is Adjunct Instructor at Moorpark College.