Creative Change Makers
L’Oreal Lampley
(Actor/Director)
L’Oreal Lampley is a multidisciplinary theater artist, director, and educator who has graced
some of the nation’s most prestigious stages.
Sam Matthews
(Artrepreneur)
Sam Matthews is an “artrepreneur” located in Phillipsburg, NJ. She has traveled all over the world and it was overseas where she discovered her passion for developing creative outlets for others.
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Erin Carlisle Norton
(Choreographer/Dancer)
rin Carlisle Norton is a dancer, choreographer, movement educator, and Artistic Director of the NJ/NYC-based The Moving Architects (TMA). Through TMA, she has performed, taught, and toured both nationally and internationally. Her choreographic work is rooted in feminist narratives and ideologies, developed through collaborative processes that foreground story, history, and place.
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Brett Heitmiller
(Singer/Songwriter)
Brett Heitmiller is a Texas-born, New Jersey-based eldest daughter of five and mother to two boys. She is a lyrically-driven singer-songwriter whose music weaves country roots with folk storytelling.
In the spirit of the old country music she grew up on, Brett carries a raw honesty into songs that balances vulnerability with resilience.
Melida Rodas
(Poet Laureate of Jersey City)
Melida is committed to arts advocacy and community engagement, serving on The Jersey City Arts and Culture Trust Fund Committee, a governing body that emphasizes diversity, equity, and inclusionary practices in art and culture planning. In this role, she champions arts organizations and creatives that enrich our cultural landscape and overall well-being, while also creating more opportunities for youth arts education, waste, and material transformation.
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Christina Massey
(Visual Artist)
Christina Massey is an award-winning artist recognized for her innovative use of repurposed materials, particularly aluminum cans, in creating vibrant botanical abstractions. Her multidisciplinary practice spans sculpture, painting, and installation, exploring themes of environmental sustainability, consumer
waste, and material transformation.
Tiffany Threadgould
(Industrial Designer)
Tiffany spreads do-it-yourself recycling goodness and simple, zero-waste solutions. She works at the mega recycling company, TerraCycle, where she leads a team of designers to eliminate the idea of waste.
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Lisa Bagwell
(Visual Artist)
Lisa B has been building gardens where there was once grass (kill your lawn) or a vacant lot since 2004.
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