Small Paintings of the Grandest Canyon (3/4)
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Small Paintings of the Grandest Canyon (3/4) by Lily Selthofner, watercolor on paper, 5″x7″, 2025 -
Small Paintings of the Grandest Canyon (4/4)
Small Paintings of the Grandest Canyon (4/4) by Lily Selthofner, watercolor on paper, 6″x8″, 2025 -
Meditation is a Window into the Soul
Meditation is a Window into the Soul by Lily Selthofner, acrylic on canvas, 24″ x 12″, 2025 -
Into the Abyss, Peace, Solitude
Into the Abyss, Peace, Solitude by Lily Selthofner, acrylic on paper, 10″x12″, 2025 -
Magical World Where Spiritual Cats and Humans Frolick in Waterfalls
Magical World Where Spiritual Cats and Humans Frolick in Waterfalls by Lily Selthofner, acrylic on canvas, 12″ x 24″, 2025 -
Venus in Waves – Ocean Goddess
Venus in Waves – Ocean Goddess by Lily Selthofner, acrylic gouache on canvas, 8″x 10″, 2025. -
Headshot
Lily Selthofner Headshot 2025 -
Academic Writings:
Publications:
Poetics of Displacement: Maya Deren Through a Ukrainian Lens (2026)
Dancing with Water: Environmental Healing with Somatic Political Ecology (2025)
A Feminist Approach to Education (2021)
Environmentalism and Accessibility in Education (2021)
Academic:
Anthropological Research Proposals Vision Research Board
Water and Human Bodies: Historical Analysis of Virtues and Forces through Visual Arts Analysis (2023)
Technological Innovation and Multidisciplinary Approaches in Venetian Archaeology (2023)
Art on Dimensions: Selections and Essay (2023)
Venezia Scalzo – Essay Analysis of Short Film (2023)
About Postmodern Dancer Trisha Brown (2023)
Is ‘Civilization’ the problem – or our civilization? Remedying Species Loneliness by De-canonizing Natural History (2022)
Who was right about morality – Kant or Smith? The Impartial Spectator and Imperfect Duties (2022)
Deconstructing Contra Natura to Reinterpret ‘Queerness’ and ‘the Archive’ (2021)
Conquest: Justified Under the Facade of Theological Discourse by Augustine, Aquinus, and Aristotle (2021)
Aristotle: Liberating the Animal within the Political (2021)
Shakespeare Mirrors Misogyny: Hyper-Masculine Projection of Emotions and Female Deprivation of Agency in Othello (2021)
How Manichaeism Influenced Augustine’s Philosophy (2021)
‘Gonzo’ are the Days of the Male Gaze and the Orgasm Gap (30 pages, 2021)
Institutionalized & Independent Subjectivities in the Pharmacopornographic Era (2021)
Intersemiotic Translations of Tarot Cards in Greek Mythology (2021)
Analysis of Sappho Translations (2020)
Examining the Role of Tarot Cards in Helping to Establish Identity, Focusing on the New Age Spirituality Culture in Sedona, Arizona (25 pages, 2020)
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Poetry and Short Story Collections:
Stem Cell Diaries: Embodied Disruptive Healing Zine – (18 pages, 2025)
Revenant as Erosion // Windswept– (14 poems, 2025)
Poems from the Afterlife – (20 poems, 2024)
Venezia Scalzo – 8 Poems in Italian with English Translations (2023)
Acqua Alta (Performance) excerpts of Lido and Venezia Scalzo (30 pages, 2023)
Lido – A collection of short stories (40 pages, 2023)
All Life Breathes Together – Artist Book (2023)
Heartbeat After Silence – Poetry Collection (17 poems, 2022)
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Deconstructing Contra Natura to Reinterpret ‘Queerness’ and ‘the Archive’
December 2021 – Introduction to Sexuality Studies
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Solo Improvisational Dance
Improvised petite allegro ballet dance. Piano music improvised by Jon Reim. Barnard College NYC 2024 Pointe improvisation in NYC 2024, dancing to Debussy – Deux Arabesques (Harpe), performed by Héloïse de Jenlis Improvised adagio ballet dance. Piano music improvised by Jon Reim. Barnard College NYC 2024 Improvised modern dance, featured in Afterlives Improvised ballet dance. Piano music improvised by Jon Reim. Barnard College NYC 2024 -
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Poems from the Afterlife: Remembering, Decay, Cosmogenesis
By Lily Selthofner and Jessa (Faye) Moverman
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All Are Subject to the Pharmacopornographic Era?
Institutionalized vs. Independent Subjectivities
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Writing
A Whisper from Somewhere You’ll be Someday, acrylic on Paper, 1′ x 2,’ 2024. -
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Confluence
Confluence is an ongoing dance and opera series that aims to choreograph a dance embodying each endangered animal and plant species in Wisconsin, which are also federally endangered or threatened.
Over 150 species go extinct each day. This project seeks to vitally connect with the essences and experiences of, and befriend, the creatures of each endangered species. Alongside performances and films staged around Wisconsin and the US, this project will bring arts and environmental education to communities to help each of the featured species.
This dance is the Eastern Prairie Fringed Orchid, which blooms for 7-10 days in late June and early July, currently occurring in eight Midwestern states. The flower spike has five to 40 creamy white flowers, and each flower has a three-part fringed lip.
Dancer: Nadia Benes
Choreography: Lily Selthofner
Music: Gladstone Butler
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Direction Highlights
Hello, thank you for watching! This is an overview of my major collaborative art direction projects 2022-2024.
To learn more about the projects shown here, visit these links:
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Dancing with Water: Environmental Healing through Somatic Political Ecology
Full work published with SCOPE, the interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed social sciences journal publication of the Urban Equity Institute
Abstract
This research explores water’s relational intelligence through both somatic and scientific frameworks, drawing on anthropological inquiry and contemporary dance practice to illuminate how water’s movement patterns reflect forms of agency deeply entangled with human experience. By examining water’s explained and unexplained properties alongside embodied ecological knowledge, this work proposes new ways of understanding environmental consciousness and interconnection. Ultimately, it suggests that reciprocal, movement-based relationships with water offer powerful tools for addressing climate change, fostering ecological healing, and reimagining environmental justice through somatic and interdisciplinary approaches.
(25,000 words, 92 min read, 170 sources)
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