"Turn on the projector, turn off the lights, maybe have a beer, and listen and learn from some of NYC’s most innovative creatives… so many of us create things, make art, but it’s become increasingly difficult to showcase work in an atmosphere that is both relaxed and engaging."

                                     - Andy P. Smith, curator of Noches de los Artistas and Creative Director of KnifeFight

      "'Noches' will bring the public face-to-face with a   variety of emerging New York artists to facilitate conversation among artists and their peers in an intimate space." 

                                     - NY Art Beat

Illustrators Cristy Road and Ronald Wimberly present and discuss their comics and drawings. 

Cristy C. Road is a 28-year-old Cuban-American illustrator and writer. Blending social principles, sexual deviance, mental inadequacies, and social justice- she thrives to testify the beauty of the imperfect. Her career began in 1996, when publishing GREEN'ZINE- a fanzine entirely devoted to Green Day. Eventually she began including blurbs on other punk rock bands, gender identity, masturbation, sexuality, aimless travel, and anarchist organizing. GREEN’ZINE ran for ten years. 

Today, Road has published two illustrated novels- INDESTRUCTIBLE and BAD HABITS; and a postcard collection, DISTANCE MAKES THE HEART GROW SICK. Aside from publishing, Road has been contributing art to punk rock, literature, publications, radical organizing, and much more for the last ten years. Road currently is working on paintings, short stories, and her punk rock band The Homewreckers. She lives in Brooklyn with a short attention span and a killer gas problem.

Dπ, or D-PI is an artist who is not uncomfortable writing about himself in the third person. His work can be found in gutter-born, indie comix and  fashion magazines. Dπ most recently performed a 6hr long, 330x90cm marathon art narrative for the relaunch of Benetton's flagship store in Shinjuku. He is currently completing "Prince of Cats", his first full length color graphic novel for Vertigo.

His alter ego, Ronald Wimberly is an illustrator/cartoonist based in Brooklyn. He's worked for Def Jam, Complex, Diesel, DKNY, 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks and Arte TV- his latest large work being the critically acclaimed, Eisner nominated, biographic novel, Sentences: The Life Of MF Grimm. He is currently adapting Ray Bradbury's "Something Wicked This Way Comes" for Hill & Wang.

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Painters Chrissy Angliker and Tom Costa present and discuss their process and theory.

Authors Melissa Broder, Mike Lala, Drew Heron, Eric Nelson and A.P. Smith read from their work.

Melissa Broder is the author of WHEN YOU SAY ONE THING BUT MEAN YOUR MOTHER (Ampersand Books; 2010). She is the chief editor of La Petite Zine and curates the Polestar Poetry Series at CakeShop. Her poems appear in many journals, including: Opium, Shampoo, Swink, Five Dials and PANK. Find her online at www.melissabroder.com.

Mike Lala owes his heritage to punk rock, Bob Dylan, The Velvet Underground, and the American West. He grew up the son of a USAF fighter pilot, born in Lubbock, Texas and moving to Alaska, New Mexico, Arizona, Florida, Colorado, Japan, Oklahoma, Virginia, Michigan, and New York City. He has been published in Offbeat and The Red Cedar Review, and is assembling a forthcoming first collection of poems.

Drew Heron was born on May 18th, 1987 in Golden, Colorado. Some say it was cloudy that day, others, very humid. He had a Midwestern childhood, a cowboy’s adolescence, and, like you, a pseudo-Sid-Vicious stint as a teenager. He’s lived in Oregon, New Mexico, and Nebraska. He’s found past employment as a lifeguard, a line cook, and a circus freak. He received his BFA from Emerson College in Boston in 2009, when his book of short stories “Ablaze, Ablaze” was published by Wilde Press. He currently resides in Brooklyn, where they have the decency to give you a free pan pizza when you order a drink. Why, yes! There is a novel in him somewhere.

Eric Nelson, is an emerging writer originally from New Jersey, the son of a nurse and machinist. He has written for publications such as “Constellation” and “Zine World” and wrote the zine series “The Silk City Series,” which is now a book of short stories from Knickerbocker Circus Publishing. He is currently curating readings and is at work on his debut novel. He’s a combination of Black Flag and Raymond Carver. He can usually be found laughing loudly at something inappropriate. He lives in Queens and he loves it.

Andy P. Smith has an MS in Publishing (NYU) and a BFA in Creative Writing (Pratt). This summer will mark his tenth year in Brooklyn, excluding a few months on Phish tour and a year’s stint in Italy working at Fabrica, the United Colors of Benetton’s creative facility. In 2005, he published a collection of essays and interviews titled Welcome to the Land of Cannibalistic Horses. From 2006 to 2009, he worked as Editor in Chief of ChiefMag.com and operated the Bushwick venue Bodega. Currently he is the Creative Director of KnifeFight. For more information please visit http://www.apsmith.net/

Photographers Rebecca Smeyne, Maxim Ryazansky and Tod Seelie present and discuss their work.

Rebecca Smeyne is a documentary photographer, mostly known for her character-driven, graphic and colorful images of music scenes in the Village Voice’s Sound of the City blog and Spin Magazine. An installation of her DIY music photos is currently on display at Other Music in New York. Outside of photography, she is a creative partner in the Myopenbar enterprise. Rebecca is a graduate of Columbia University.

Hovering somewhere between photojournalism and fine art, Maxim Ryazansky’s photography documents the strange lives of the American people and their pursuit of happiness. Influenced by photographers such as Bill Owens, Jeff Mermelstein, and Garry Winogrand, Maxim Ryazansky’s work is as honest and sensitive as it is often scary or hilarious. Aside from having his photography exhibited and published worldwide, Maxim Ryazansky is the co-owner of Burn Books, a brand new record label / publishing house.

Tod Seelie has photographed in over twenty countries on five different continents. His work has appeared in publications such as Rolling Stone, The NY Times, New York Magazine, Spin, Marie Claire, Jane, Vice, i-D, Paper, XXL, Art In America, Flash Art, Parade Magazine, Time Out NY, Adbusters, Nerve.com, and Hamburger Eyes among others. His work has also appeared in various photography books, such as The Vice Photo Book, Street World, and Backyard Shakedown.

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