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Natasha Beste (USA) is a video & installation artist, animator, performer, and educator born in Royal Oak, Michigan in 1982. Her work is unified through personal narratives surrounding the mind, body, and trauma. She received a BA in Media Arts and Communication from Wayne State University, in Detroit, MI (2005). Her work has been showcased at the Ann Arbor Film Festival, Media City, DAMNED, Museum of Contemporary Arts Detroit (MOCAD), Northend Studios, and University of Michigan / Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design: work • detroit. She has been in collaboration with Kresge Arts in Detroit and Cranbrook Museum. Since 2010, she's been co-director of Gold House Media, a boutique video production company focusing on music videos, documentary, and television/podcast production whose work has helped socially progressive Detroit nonprofit organizations raise funds and win special award grants for vital programs. Since 2006, she has taught media arts in Michigan at Wayne State University and Marygrove University – also serving Detroit neighborhood programs including Boll Family Y-Arts and Ladybug Studios. She is currently teaching at the College for Creative Studies and Living Arts in Detroit, Michigan and lives in Oxford, Michigan.