We work for Cocoon

KATE BROWNE, artist

Kate Browne has been working on the international COCOON series, which examines sites of forced and voluntary migrations and the epidemics that follow since 2008. She has created Cocoons—works incorporating installations and performances—in Paris; Mexico City; Greenwood and Jackson Mississippi; the Bronx; Miskolc, Hungary; and, most recently, Steelton, Pennsylvania. Browne grew up in rural Pennsylvania, graduated from Hampshire College, and now lives in New York City. Send an email

ERIC ETHERIDGE, photograph

Eric Etheridge has photographed Kate Browne’s work since 2008. He has worked as an editor for magazines such as Rolling Stone, Seven Days, the New York Observer, and Harper's. He is also author and photographer of Breach of Peace: Portraits of the 1961 Mississippi Freedom Riders.

MARTIAL BUISSON, production

Martial Buisson has worked for Cocoon since 2012, when he produced When Skin Walks with Memory with his nonprofit GFR (now Hypermur). Since then, he has served as a consultant and executive producer for Kate Browne. For 8 years, he produced art projects in public spaces in Paris and now co-runs Image de Ville, a film festival on architecture in Marseille. Send an email

WENDY SILVERSTEIN, press

Wendy Silverstein is director of WS&A public relation agency and does press for Kate Browne’s works. Send an email

ADVISORY BOARD

  • Alison Brummer - Theatrical Lighting Designer and Theater Planner

  • Ted Porter - Architect

  • Bob Zellner - Organizer

They support Cocoon

  • Neil Barsky and Joan Davidson Foundation

  • Dauphin County Tourism Grant

  • The Foundation for Contemporary Performance Art (emergency funding)

  • Cultural Enrichment Fund and the Greater Harrisburg Community Foundation of The Foundation for Enhancing Communities

  • L’Assemblée Nationale

  • La Fondation d’entreprise WFS

  • La Mairie du 18e arrondissement

  • La Région IIe-de-France

  • La SEMAVIP

  • La Ville de Paris

  • National Endowment for the Arts via Mississippi Museum of the Arts

  • National Resources Initiative of North Mississippi Arts Commission

  • SOS Save Our Streets Bronx

  • Yaddo Foundation Fellow

and ALL THE DONORS Friends of Cocoon