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A Gathering of the Tribes (AGOTT/Tribes) is a nonprofit arts organization, founded by Steve Cannon in 1991. AGOTT supports diverse, traditionally under-represented artists and writers, amplifying the emerging and established revolutionary voices of our time. AGOTT is also deeply committed to honoring and memorializing our founder, Steve Cannon’s life and legacy. Artist David Hammons has been a member of Tribes since its inception. A Tribes artist himself, Mr. Hammons has served on the board for more than 20 years, and is an active major donor of the organization. Mr. Hammons featured numerous exhibitions at Tribes Gallery (previously located at 285 E. 3RD Street in Manhattan) including House of Blue Light, and a segment of the Global Fax Festival. He provided cover art for the first and eighth issue of Tribes Magazine, AGOTT’s biennial print journal. Mr. Hammons enjoyed a close friendship with Tribes’ founder, Steve Cannon, who converted his east village home into an artist salon, that grew into a small press, gallery, online magazine, and now a robust nonprofit providing supportive programming for diverse artists and writers. Get more info. Donate to AGOTT’s 2023 campaign.

Judd Tully was born in Chicago and educated at American University, Washington, DC. His career in journalism began as a cub reporter with the ’70s underground paper The Berkeley Barb where he covered the politically charged trials of the Soledad Brothers, George Jackson and Angela Davis in San Francisco and Marin County. For over two decades, he was Editor-at-Large of Art & Auction magazine. His journalism and art criticism has appeared in Flash Art, ARTnews, the Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, and The Art Newspaper, as well as his blog juddtully.net. Judd has been frequently interviewed on BBC Radio, CNN, MSNBC, as well as made cameo appearances in a number of documentary films that chronicle the rise and fall of the art market and scandals associated with it including the CNBC's American Greed: The Art of the Steal and Driven to Abstraction, the expose of the $80 million art forgery at the once-venerated Knoedler Gallery.

Harold Crooks is the director/writer of THE PRICE WE PAY, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and had its European premier at CPH:DOX. Named “Best Canadian Documentary” of 2014 by the Vancouver Film Critics Circle, it was a New York Times Critic’s Pick. He co-directed SURVIVING PROGRESS with Mathieu Roy which premiered at 2011 TIFF, CPH:DOX and IDFA. His film writing credits include THE GIG IS UP, a Hot Docs, CPH:DOX and IDFA selection in 2021; and the Sundance and TIFF audience winner THE CORPORATION (a Film Forum premiere in 2003), the narration for which he co-wrote with director Mark Achbar. Crooks is a recipient of a Prix Gémeaux and a Genie Award from the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television Genie Award, a Chicago International Film Festival Gold Hugo, a Leo Award for Best Screenwriter [Documentary] of the Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Foundation of B.C., a National Documentary Film Award (Best Writing) at Hot Docs 1996, and a Writers Guild of Canada Top Ten Awards finalist.

Chavisa Woods currently serves as the Executive Director of A Gathering of the Tribes, a position she accepted in 2020. She has been working with AGOTT for twenty years, has a background in Nonprofit Management, and is also a literacy author. Her first book, Love Does Not Make Me Gentle or Kind (fiction) was published by Fly by Night Press, a subsidiary of AGOTT, under the direction of Steve Cannon in 2009. She has gone on to publish three more books, The Albino Album (novel), Things To Do When You’re Goth in the Country (fiction), 100 Times: A Memoir of Sexism (memoir) through Seven Stories Press, and is the recipient of numerous awards in literature, including, the Shirley Jackson Award, the Kathy Acker Award, Cobalt ‘s Zora Neale Hurston Prize, and others. Her writing, which often tackles issues surrounding rural poverty, sexism, racism, homophobia, and religious America, has received praise from The New York Times, The LA Times, Publisher’s Weekly, The Stranger, The Seattle Review of Books, Booklist, Lambda Literary Review, Lit Hub, Electric Lit, and many other outlets. A MacDowell Fellow, her writing has appeared in Tin House, LitHub, Electric Lit, Full Stop, The Brooklyn Rail, The Evergreen Review, New York Quarterly, Cleaver Magazine, Jadaliyya, Tribes Magazine, and others. She has appeared as a featured author and speaker on NPR’s 1A, The Young Turks, at The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Mid- Manhattan Public Library at 42nd Street, City Lights Bookstore, Town Hall Seattle, The Brecht Forum, The Cervantes Institute, Eliot Bay, and others.

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