IceBox Collective - a community of creative alchemists dedicated to creating platforms for conscious conversations, sacred space for creative exchange, inspiration for civic engagement, and healing connections. 

IceBox Collective is a group composed by
a large number of collaborators and by:

Courtney Applequist

 is an interdisciplinary artist working in the greater Washington DC area.  Pulling from her education & experience in architectural design, her work explores the intersection between art, architecture & the human psyche.  She holds a BFA from Baylor University and has exhibited at various juried shows throughout the area as well as being included in private collections throughout the US. 

Gina Biver

is a composer of music for large chamber and electroacoustic ensembles, choir, dance, and film. Much of her work involves electronics, intermedia, and the crossing of boundaries between art forms that coalesces into a unified conceptual model. Gramophone has called her a “musical force of nature,” and in one of her favorite reviews, Midwest Review stated “She doesn't look like an art chick that would show up in a dress made of meat but I guess looks can be deceiving... Prepare for a sonic walk on the wild side.” Gina collaborates with filmmakers, multimedia and visual artists, DIY instrument makers, poets and painters. She is a champion of new music and founder/director of DC- based Fuse Ensemble. Her newest release Fuse Ensemble: NIMBUS — a collaboration between poet Colette Inez and Ms. Biver — is available on Neuma Records. She lives in Richmond, Virginia with her husband, artist Steven Biver.

Edgar Endress

is a George Mason University associate professor teaching new media and public art. Born in Chile, he has exhibited extensively throughout the Americas, most recently at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MACBA), Barcelona, at the Land Art Biennial in Mongolia, and in the Pacific Time exhibit at the Getty Museum. In 2015, in association with Provisions, he initiated the Floating Lab Collective, a team of interdisciplinary artists who deploy innovative art projects in collaboration with urban communities. His work focuses on syncretism in the Andes, displacement in the Caribbean, and mobile art-making practices. Endress received his MFA in Video Art from Syracuse University and has received numerous grants and fellowships, including from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Creative Capital Fund.

Jeremy Thomas Kunkel

As a broad based artist, I work in a fluidly dynamic process of craft, concept, and material to inform and orchestrate sculptures and performative acts. Compelled by contemporary conditions, my work addresses human centric perception and other means of influence that sway or corrupt an individual's act of agency from within oneself.  

Reed Griffith

A new media artist who  combines the development  of emerging technologies  with an investigative studio  arts practice. His work is reflective of our aesthetic interpretations and existential experiences that occur within the context of modern society and systems we have built for ourselves. Media, Government, Legal and many others, are systems which pervade our daily lives and often affect us in ways which are unseen. His body of work uses the aesthetics of DIY technologies, digital product development, nostalgia, and projection mapped video, to create installations and new media work. These pieces draw the viewer into seeing  the world through a lens that exposes the viewer to these  unseen experiences.

Chongha Peter Lee

is currently based out of New York and Washington, D.C. He is a polymath, visual facilitator and performance artist connecting institutions, businesses, communities and artists. Most recently, he co-founded the Amasian Biennale Co-op, an open source assemblage of multiple projects which had begun with participation in the Wrong Biennale, and “BodyCam” – a VR work that was shown in Video Vortex as part of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale. In 2016, he received his MFA in Transmedia at Syracuse University, creating uKnow, an art automation software that took part in the world's first VR biennale. He was an integral member of the Planetary Research Assemblage, co-producing “The Impossible Dialogues Interface” for the Chile Architectural Biennale in 2017.

Animator in Residence

Mack Werner is an animator, artist, filmmaker, and capoeirista, born in 1999, and based out of Southwest Virginia. Much of his subject matter focuses on philosophy, mortality, religion, politics, and the cosmos. Werner’s work is heavily grounded in metaphor and allegory, drawing comparisons between his imaginary worlds and reality. Bringing a classical approach to animating and artmaking, his work retains a handmade look, reminiscent of traditional animation. Current advances in technology are always at the forefront of his artwork, and as a New Media artist, he engages with digital and electronic media in an imaginative and experimental way. Werner strives to further the medium of 2D animation, separating it from the current industry. He received his BFA in new media from George Mason University.

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