Our Team

Sue Guiney

Former Artistic Director

 

Sue Guiney is a poet, novelist and playwright. She was born and raised in New York, although she has lived in London with her husband and two sons for nearly twenty years. Her work has been published in many journals both in the UK and the US, and her first poetry collection, a poetry play entitled Dreams of May, was published and premiered in September 2006 in London’s Pentameters Theatre. Her first novel, Tangled Roots, was published in 2008.  Her second novel, A Clash of Innocents, is to be published in September 2010.  You can read more about her at www.sueguiney.com

 

Sonja Rein

Executive Director Emeritus

 

Sonja Rein founded CurvingRoad along with Sue Guiney, and served as Executive Director for its first five years. She has worked in the arts in many capacities. She holds degrees in Film and Art History and is particularly interested in working with artists who have yet to be discovered.  She has been intimately involved in arts programming in International schools and brings this global view to all her work, as well as an interest in the avant-garde, post-modern and “out there” creations.  Born and raised in Britain, Sonja has lived in Israel and Moscow and now resides in the U.S.

 

Why we do

Our Mission

CurvingRoad is an organization founded on behalf of the artist. Its mission is to find new artists within a variety of disciplines as they make their way along the curving roads of their own, individual artistic lives, nurture them, advise them, and then, when ready, launch them and their work into the public eye. Regardless of audiences' perceptions, the artist is separate from his or her creation. Yes, it is through the mounting of exhibitions, play productions, readings, publications and other such events that artists reach out to their surrounding communities with their art. Therefore, any organization endeavoring to help the artist will inevitably be in the business of producing such exhibitions, performances and publications. But CurvingRoad is an arts organization with a difference in that its focus begins and ends with the artists themselves rather than their work. A piece of art which is ready to leave the hands of its creator and journey into the public eye inevitably becomes a commodity. It becomes a 'thing' to be polished, marketed and sold. When that happens, the piece of art becomes separate from the artist and his or her creative process. Artists need to sell their work, but it is the process of creating that work which is the strength and talent of the artist. Many artists find the transition from 'creator' to 'retailer' difficult, painful, often embarrassing, and sometimes even debilitating. The supporters of CurvingRoad understand this and seek to shepherd the artist, sensitively though realistically, through this crucial segment of their artistic life. To us, the artist always comes first. We believe that it is the truly nurtured artist who goes on to produce art that changes societies and lives.