The Cloud Club is a Collective of Artists (a.k.a. a Travesty of Artists) whose geographical center is a few buildings in the South End of Boston and whose territory is the world. The Artists work in a wide range of media from filmmaking to painting to dance to animation to outsider architecture to web design to writing to rock and roll.
The edifice and the heart behind it, Lee Barron, have been in place for over twenty five years and have fostered the flourishing of the creative lives of many artists. Amanda Palmer, the artist with the current longest stretch in residence, is touring internationally with her band the Dresden Dolls. Experimental Filmmaker Michael Pope is celebrating the third showing of his film Neovoxer in the Czech Republic and the completion of The Dresden Dolls' first DVD which he directed along with their two music videos. Both videos were filmed in and around the Cloud Club buildings. Zea Barker also had a hand in the creation of the music videos as Production Designer. She works in film and live performances with the silent comedic Bony Lil. She had also taken over the helm of The Living Statuary, started years ago by Amanda Palmer. It is a group of performers who provide living statues for festivals and events around New England. Liza Reese is a member of the group as well as being an accomplished Painter and Writer. Noah Blumenson-Cook works on sound for Neovoxer and Dresden Dolls media as well as being a resident computer wizard; a task shared by Stephen Martin . Together they work to enable the other residents to create digitally in their respective mediums; working as midwives to the Cloud Club's emergence into the digital realm. A new member to the Cloud Club family is BriAnna Olson who has assumed the awesome task of building management while similtaneously pursuing her education in filmmaking.
There are also a number of satellite family members whose contributions have immeasurably enriched the Cloud Club: Brian Viglione, Drummer of the Dresden Dolls and David Franklin, Shintaido teacher, performance artist and co-producer of Neovoxer are both dearly beloved. There are also tight affiliations between the Cloud Club and other arts groups around town such as the Oni Gallery and Pan 9. One of the Goals of this group is creating the vast web of interconnections between artists to strengthen and sustain the devotees of the creative process.
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