Paul Takeuchi has received many awards and grants for his photography, including from The Robert M. MacNamara Foundation, The Atlantic Center for the Arts, the Ucross Foundation, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, an international Lucie Award, and was recently longlisted for the Aestheica Art Prize 2024. His images have appeared in dozens of publications, including The Sciences, Kyoto Journal, and The New York Times. Over the years, he has exhibited various bodies of work in solo and group shows in NYC and throughout the U.S., most recently at Gowanus Open Studios in October 2023.
LuLu LoLo, a lifelong New Yorker, has been an internationally acclaimed performance artist, playwright/actor, and activist for over 30 years. Her public actions in Where Are the Women? (2015) highlighted the lack of public monuments to women in NYC; Blessings from Mother Cabrini, Saint of the Immigrants, 2017 focused on immigrants of the world; and in 2018, stressing the fragility of the aging body, she performed A Seat for the Elderly: The Invisible Generation. In 2019, LuLu curated Art in Odd Places: INVISIBLE, a public art festival celebrating the indomitable spirit of 82 older artists.
