Meet the Collective
Corrie Slawson
Artist Corrie Slawson’s work explores landscapes related to social and environmental equity, made through layers of printmaking, painting and other mixed media. Visual references to the history of Cleveland’s regional lifecycle are repeated throughout America’s Gilded age of unchecked wealth and growth imperiled by decision-making stuck in cycles of sprawl, divestment and racism. Corrie’s work can be seen in permanent public collections including The Cleveland Clinic Collection, University Hospitals Cleveland, Metro Health and Progressive Insurance. Nationally, her work has exhibited The Toledo Museum of Art, The Peoria Art Guild, Rockford Art Museum, and at her BFA Alma Mater, Parsons School of Design. Internationally her work has been exhibited at in Centro Cultural de Tijuana, Premio Marcchioni in Sardinia and through the Grafikwerkstatt, Dresden. She has won two Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Awards Artist awards and, in 2021, was awarded a Mid-Career Cleveland Arts Prize. Corrie’s work has been featured at many Northeast Ohio venues including Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, The Massillon Museum, SPACES, Zygote Press and many others. Corrie teaches as part-time faculty for the Painting and Drawing Department at the Kent State University School of Art and is represented commercially by Shaheen Modern and Contemporary.
Christina Lindhout
Christina Lindhout is a professional dancer and choreographer based in Cleveland, Ohio, and has over 20 years of training in classical ballet, modern, jazz, and tap. She has danced professionally since she was 18 years old, and has performed many principal roles both locally and internationally. Christina performed as a Company Member with Verb Ballets from 2014 to 2020, performing with the company on several tours including to Taipei, Taiwan and Havana, Cuba. In addition to performing and choreographing, Christina directs the school at Verb Ballets Center for Dance, as well as teaches the amazing dance and theatre students at Baldwin Wallace University as an Adjunct Dance Faculty member. Christina has been a recipient of an Akron Soul Train Fellowship award for the choreography of FEAST, along with Kelly Korfhage. Most recently, she was also awarded a 2022 Individual Excellence Award for choreography from the Ohio Arts Council. IG: @christina_lindhout
Kelly Korfhage
Kelly Korfhage, a native of Cleveland, began her training at age 10 under Joanne H. Morscher and Ana Lobe. She attended summer intensives at ABT Detroit, Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet, BalletMet, Cincinnati Ballet, and North Carolina Dance Theatre. She furthered her dance education at the University of Cincinnati-College Conservatory of Music as a Corbett Award scholarship recipient and graduated cum laude with a BFA in ballet performance. Following graduation, Kelly became a member of Kansas City Ballet’s second company, KCB2, for two seasons where she had the opportunity to perform with the company in repertoire such as Septime Webre’s Alice (In Wonderland) and Adam Hougland’s Rite of Spring. Kelly joined Verb Ballets in 2016 and has been featured in works such as Andante Sostenuto and Schubert Waltzes. Kelly appears in FEAST courtesy of Verb Ballets.
Dalindyebo Shabalala
Dalindyebo Shabalala is an Associate Professor at the University of Dayton School of Law, a fellow of the UD Human Rights Center and the Hanley Sustainability Institute. He is also a fellow at the Institute for Globalization and International Regulation (IGIR) and Faculty of Law at Maastricht University, The Netherlands. His research focuses on climate change and intellectual property (IP) issues on one hand and on Traditional Knowledge and Folklore issues on the other. He has been an adviser to developing countries and civil society in negotiations at the UNFCCC, WIPO, the WTO, the Convention on Biological Diversity and in several regional and bilateral free trade agreement negotiations.
Previously, Mr. Shabalala was Managing Attorney of CIEL’s Geneva office, and Director of CIEL’s Intellectual Property and Sustainable Development Project. He focused on issues at the intersection of intellectual property and climate change, human health, biodiversity and food security, as well as addressing systemic reform of the international intellectual property system. Mr. Shabalala was a research fellow in the Innovation, Access to Knowledge, and Intellectual Property Programme at the South Centre (2005-2006), an intergovernmental organization of developing countries in Geneva, Switzerland.
Marc Lefkowitz
Marc Lefkowitz is a sustainability consultant with over 15 years of experience as a researcher, project manager, and thought leader who has been driving community conversations in environmental policy, education, and community engagement. Lefkowitz led the GreenCityBlueLake Institute (GCBL) at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, where he helped the public explore sustainability, natural history, and how to change human systems to address the existential climate crisis. Before that, Lefkowitz produced content for the GCBL web site (gcbl.org) for a decade, providing a comprehensive view of the sustainability sector in Northeast Ohio. Lefkowitz advised the City of Cleveland and Cuyahoga County on their Climate Action Plans and has served on numerous boards and advisory councils studying climate and sustainability solutions. Lefkowitz has a creative partnership with his wife, visual artist Corrie Slawson, producing the arts and culture online ‘zine Hotel Bruce from 2003 – 2004, as artists-in-residence at the TJ in China Project Space in Tijuana, Mexico, produced the novella, Borderlands, for the exhibit, The Transition and is managing content for Feast: A Ballet.