Marisol Limon MartinezMarisol Limon Martinez is a visual artist, musician and writer based in New York City. She is the author of AFTER YOU, DEAREST LANGUAGE (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2005) & First Space, Then Structures (Nothing Moments Press) and was co-founder/edtor of the newspaper New York Nights. Marisol has been the recipient of The Pollock Krasner grant, a National Endowment of the Arts (NEA) and New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) grant for an artist's residency at Women's Studio Workshop, and a Ford Foundation grant in performing arts. Her work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art (New York), Brooklyn Museum of Art, the New York Public Library Print Collection, Yale University, the University of Texas at Austin, amongst others. She received her BA in Art History from Barnard College, and studied classical piano at the Manhattan School of Music. After two years of recording and touring internationally as a pianist and back-up vocalist with Scott Matthew, she wrote and recorded her first solo album Autoportrait under the name Marisol Limon. Marisol exhibits and performs in the U.S. and Europe, and has been a guest lecturer at Brown, The New School (Parsons & Eugene Lang), Columbia University and Queens College. She is part-time faculty in the Department of Visual Arts at the Trinity School where she received a Faculty Travel Grant to research folk music and study Hindustani classical vocals in north India. Marisol's non-fiction essay Honorary Men will be released as a chapbook by Guillotine Press and her book VIA DISSIMULATA (Octopus Books) is available Spring 2015. Read More Read Less