Stacey Fox

Stacey Fox (born June 21 1965, Ithaca, New York) is an American interdisciplinary artist and master percussionist.

Career

Fox studied percussion with James Peterscak at the Crane School of Music, State University of New York - Potsdam. There she received her Bachelor of Music in music education and Master of Music in solo performance - percussion. She later went on for post graduate studies in solo performance with J.B. Smith and Mark Sunkett at Arizona State University. While at Arizona State University she began working with the Dept. of Dance as a composer and accompanist for movement works. Later, while collaborating with Mary Disanto-Rose and Debra Fernandez at Skidmore College, Fox brought her photographic and film making skills into the studio along with her sound compositions.

Her sound and visual works are kinetic based with a heavy emphasis on indigenous and Taoist themes. Fox has collaborated on numerous sound and visual compositions with modern dance choreographers such as Jean Denny Grotewhol, Debra Fernandez, Ione Beauchamp and Sue Lauther as well as interdisciplinary artists Maria Anthony and Angela Ellsworth. She has received grants and awards for her work in arts education and with indigenous peoples using technology to preserve cultural traditions. Currently she is at the cutting edge of creativity, performance and education in the use of cyber performance production in synthetic worlds such as Second Life and telematic performances. Her works have been experienced in numerous venues including Tang Museum, National Museum of Dance, American Dance Festival, the synthetic world of Second Life, Skopje Summer Festival Macedonia, Belarus Philharmonic, Olympolis Art Project Greece and Judson Church. The Stacey Fox ensemble consists of three core musicians, Maria Anthony, Megan Hurt and Stacey Fox and has included for special premieres Clark Jamison, Barry Barnes, Cynthia Lee and Danny Whelchel.

elected works

"This list is incomplete"
*Maria’s Pond - solo CD
*Blue in a Red State - CD with Barry Barnes
*Chuang Tzu’s Pow wow Drum - Soundtrack
*Drumming - CD with Cynthia Lee and Danny Whelchel
*Alternative Scores - CD
*DRUMS - CD with Pegge and Vito Vissicaro and Eric Zang
*Echoes of Flight - solo piano CD
*Unmetered - solo piano CD
*Chuang Tzu’s Pow wow Drum - film
*Children of the Wakarusa - film
*Balls - film component
*New Dawn Native Dancers - film
*Hidden Pools - multi media work
*Cultivating Stillness - film

Awards and grants

IMLS Grant - Artist Technologist with Spencer Museum of Art July 2008-2010 Design virtual interactive Spencer Museum and teach faculty how to utilize the virtual space
U.S. Department of State Federal Assistance Grant - June 2008 with US Embassy in Belarus in promoting the work of visiting artist
U.S. Department of State Federal Assistance Grant - June 2008 with US Embassy in Macedonia in promoting the work of visiting artist
U.S. Department of State Federal Assistance Grant - June 2008 with US Embassy in Greece in promoting the work of visiting artist
Candidate - Fulbright Senior Specialists Program for International Teaching 2004-09
Teach 2 week residencies in digital film and sound in various countries
Artist Exploration Grant, Arts International and Doris Duke Foundation - Sept. 2004
Study Andean Folk music, dance and visual art in Peru
NEA Educational Grant and Lied Center for the Arts - UNL - Guest Artist Oct. 2003
filmmaking and sound composition
NEA Challenge America Grant, Kennedy Center Partners in Education and Lied Center
UNL Arts UNL Guest Artist June 2003 film making and composition
Kansas Commission on the Arts Project Grant- collaborating with Artist Maria Anthony,
Dec. 2002 Film and interactive DVD Life of Kentigern
American Composers Forum, NEA, Rockefeller Foundation, Lied Center UNL 2001
Artist in Residence with Omaha Tribal Nation August 2004 premier
NYFA Project Grant - Guest Artist music composition, Saratoga Springs City Schools
Oct-Dec. 2000
Phi Kappa Phi -Honor Society 1993 - outstanding academic performance
Phi Kappa Lambda - Music Honor Society 1988 - outstanding scholarship and music
performance
Helen Cheel Scholarship - 1988 - outstanding graduate scholarship
Catherine English Award - 1987 - outstanding student teacher

External links

* http://www.staceyfox.com

* http://www.myspace.com/staceyfoxmusic

* http://www.myspace.com/staceyfoxfilm

* http://www.sageduncan.com (Fox’s Second Life avatar)

Press

" [Film students to get chance to shoot virtual reaity" Lawrence Journal World] http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2007/jun/18/film_students_get_chance_shoot_virtual_reality/

"Interview with Native Filmmaker Stacey Fox" Indian Country Today http://www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1070554767

"Composer visits tribe looking for details" Sioux City Journal http://www.siouxcityjournal.com/articles/2003/01/30/news/regional/15e737b1b3faef2586256cbf001b2afc.txt

"Movin' to the Beat of a Different Drummer" The Saratogian
* http://www.saratogian.com/site/index.cfm?newsid=10482636&BRD=1169&PAG=461&dept_id=602469&rfi=8

"Clever as a Fox" The Saratogian
* http://www.saratogian.com/site/index.cfm?newsid=5995915&BRD=1169&PAG=461&dept_id=602469&rfi=8 "Filmmaker Stacey Fox selects Haskell as the subject of a new documentary" LJ World: The Mag
* http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2001/oct/18/the_mag_indigenous/