About the Founder

• SCIENTIFIC NAME: Madame Eve N Dawn

• COMMON NAME: eve, OR dawn, OR THE END

• AGE: 25, GIVE OR TAKE A COUPLE HUNDRED YEARS

• GENDER: TRANSFEMME AGENDER, OR, MORE CONVENIENTLY, FEMALE 

• PRONOUNS: SHE/HER, OR ANY PRONOUN SAID WITH RESPECT

• HEIGHT: AS TALL AS APPROXIMATELY 2.74 RAVENS

• WEIGHT: TOO HEAVY TO FLY OF HER OWN VOLITION, THOUGH THAT NEVER STOPPED HER FROM TRYING

• EYE COLOR: BEST NOT TO LOOK HER IN THE EYES, I’VE HEARD TELL TALE THAT SHE DOESN’T BLINK AND TURNS MEN TO STONE

ALL TANGIBLE EVIDENCE POINTS TO THE UNDERSTANDING THAT Madame Eve N Dawn IS, IN FACT, A HUMAN, WE RAVENS, HOWEVER, ARE YET TO BE CONVINCED OF THAT “FACT”

INSTEAD, HERE ARE SOME INDISPUTABLE FACTS THAT WE HAVE GATHERED CONCERNING THE MURDER OF Madame Eve N Dawn

Madame Eve N Dawn, MORE COMMONLY REFERRED TO AS eve, IS THE FOUNDER AND MANAGING PARTNER OF RAVEN’S INK PRINTING & GALLERY AND THE CRAFTY CROWS’ COVEN. SHE BUILT R.I.P. GALLERY AND THE 3 C’S FROM A PLACE OF LOVE; HER LOVE OF ART, PEOPLE, EVENT COORDINATION, AND PLAYING WITH PRINTERS AND SILLY PIECES OF PAPER. 

Madame Eve N Dawn WAS BORN IN BERNALILLO COUNTY, NEW MEXICO AT THE RIPE AGE OF ZERO. 

SHE HAS ALWAYS BEEN A CHILD OF TRANSITION AND LIVED BETWEEN WORLDS. WHEN eve WAS FIVE, SHE AND HER MOTHER MOVED FROM NEW MEXICO TO ARIZONA, WHERE SHE WENT TO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AND GREW UP WITH A LOVE OF DESERT LANDSCAPES, HABOOBS (DUST STORMS), THUNDER STORMS, BREAKFAST BURRITOS, AND HOT CHEETOS. HER MOTHER, THE ILLUSTRIOUS LINDEN F NEWMAN, RAISED eve TO APPRECIATE ALL FORMS OF ART, ENCOURAGING eve TO EXPLORE THE WORLD THROUGH ACTS OF CREATION AND PLAY. LINDEN ENCOURAGED eve TO ADVENTURE INTO MANY HOBBIES INCLUDING, BASEBALL, MARTIAL ARTS, CHOIR, BAND, ACTING, DRAWING, PAINTING, TENNIS, SCOUTING, CHEERLEADING, AND LEADING IN GENERAL. eve WOULD CERTAINLY BE A LOT MORE ROCK AND A LOT LESS ROLL HAD LINDEN NOT SHOWN HER HOW TO BE A WELL ROUNDED INDIVIDUAL.

WHILE LIVING IN ARIZONA, eve WOULD FREQUENTLY FLY BACK TO NEW MEXICO TO VISIT HER GRANDMAMA, LOIS JEAN FILLEMAN. eve LOVED HER VISITS TO THE MOUNTAINS OF NEW MEXICO WHERE SHE COULD LOOK OUT INTO THE SKY AND WONDER ABOUT ALL THE BEAUTIFUL THINGS SHE SAW. eve REMEMBERS FONDLY THE TRIPS WITH HER GRANDMOTHER TO THE NEIGHBORING RANCHES TO FEED THE HORSES. 

AT AGE NINE, eve’S CLOSE FAMILY HAD TWO VERY IMPORTANT ADDITIONS: ONE, HER SIBLING, AND TWO, HER AUNT. HER LITTLE SIBLING, JAEDEN MICAH NEWMAN, IS A PEACEFUL, INTELLIGENT SOUL WHO INSPIRED, AND CONTINUES TO INSPIRE, eve TO MOVE WITH COMPASSION, DEDICATION, AND CURIOSITY. HER AUNT, VAUGHN LIGHT, THE MUSICIAN, MODEL, AND PHILANTHROPIST, MOVED IN WITH LINDEN AND eve SHORTLY BEFORE JAEDEN ARRIVED. AUNTIE VAUGHNIE, TRUE TO HER NAME, WAS ALWAYS A BRIGHT LIGHT FOR eve, MODELING WHAT IT MEANT TO LEAD WITH LOVE AND JOY. THE FOUR OF THEM: LINDEN, VAUGHN, JAEDEN, AND eve MOVED TO BAILEYVILLE, MAINE, A PAPER MILL TOWN RIGHT ON THE CANADIAN BORDER, TO BE CLOSER TO eve’s GRAM AND GRANDPA, BETTY NEWMAN AND DR. LARRY NEWMAN. BETTY NEWMAN HAD ALWAYS BEEN A MAJOR FACET OF THE BAILEYVILLE COMMUNITY. BORN AND RAISED, SHE NEVER CEASED IN HER EFFORT TO SUPPORT HER COMMUNITY, CHURCH, AND CHARITIES WHERE SHE VOLUNTEERED. DR. LARRY NEWMAN, WHO MOVED TO MAINE TO PROVIDE MEDICAL SERVICES IN SUPPORT OF THE PASSAMAQUODY RESERVATION ADJOINING BAILEYVILLE, OWNED AND OPERATED HIS OWN MEDICAL SERVICES CENTER, FAITH FAMILY HEALTHCARE. BETTY TAUGHT eve THE IMPORTANCE OF GIVING BACK TO HER COMMUNITY. LARRY BUILT UPON eve’s INTEREST IN STEM AND LATER, WHEN eve DECIDED TO BE AN ARTIST INSTEAD OF A DOCTOR, NEVER FAULTERED IN HIS SUPPORT OF HER. 

ATTENDING WOODLAND MIDDLE/HIGH SCHOOL (WMHS) ALLOWED eve TO EXPLORE WHATEVER TOPICS SHE FANCIED. EVERY TIME THAT SHE PUSHED FOR MORE ADVANCED COURSES OR NEW LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES, THE TEACHERS AND ADMIN WERE HAPPY TO SUPPORT HER; ALLOWING HER TO TAKE HIGH SCHOOL MATH COURSES IN MIDDLE SCHOOL AND COLLEGE COURSES (LATIN AND ECONOMICS) IN HIGH SCHOOL. SHE TOOK COURSES AT THOMAS COLLEGE AND THE UNIVERSITY OF MAINE IN HER THIRD AND FOURTH YEAR OF HIGH SCHOOL. DURING HER TIME AT WMHS, eve WAS ON THE MATH TEAM, ACADEMIC DECATHLON, BOY SCOUTS, HAD A BRIEF STINT IN ROBOTICS CLUB, COULD FREQUENTLY BE FOUND IN THE ART ROOM, WAS A NATIONAL HONOR SOCIETY MEMBER, ATTENDED UPWARD BOUND AT BOWDOIN COLLEGE AND MATH CAMP AT THE MAINE SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS IN THE SUMMER, PLAYED TENNIS ALL FOUR YEARS, WRESTLED FOR ONE, AND LED CHEER HER JUNIOR AND SENIOR YEAR,  AS WELL AS BEING ON STUDENT COUNCIL, ACTING AS SECRETARY, TREASURER, AND PRESIDENT THROUGHOUT THE YEARS. SHE WAS A QUESTBRIDGE NATIONAL COLLEGE MATCH RECIPIENT, A GATES SCHOLAR, AND A RUNNER UP FOR MAINE’S PRESIDENTIAL SCHOLAR AWARD. eve IS THE FIRST ALUM OF WOODLAND HIGH SCHOOL TO GO TO AN IVY LEAGUE SCHOOL: PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, WHICH, FUNNILY ENOUGH, SHE DIDN’T ACTUALLY KNOW WAS AN IVY WHEN SHE DECIDED TO APPLY THROUGH QUESTBRIDGE. SHE MISSED HER APPLICATION INTERVIEW AND IS FULLY CONVINCED (S) THAT HER ART PORTFOLIO IS WHAT SAVED HER.

eve ENTERED HER UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION AS AN ECONOMICS MAJOR ON A PRE-MEDICAL TRACK. SHE WAS (UN)CONVINCED THAT SHE WAS GOING TO BE A PEDIATRIC ANESTHESIOLOGIST. HER FIRST YEAR SHE FOCUSED ON CLASSES, JOINED THE BLACK PREMEDICAL SOCIETY, THE CHEER SQUAD, PRINCETON’S CHAPTER OF CAMP KESEM, AND MANY OF HER FRIENDS WERE HEAVILY INVESTED IN THEATER. AS YOU CAN IMAGINE, MAKING ART FELL BY THE WAYSIDE. DURING COVID, SHE PICKED UP HER ART PRACTICE ONCE MORE; FIRST DRAWING TO FILL TIME, THEN DRAWING FOR JOY, THEN TAKING COMMISSIONS FOR DIGITAL DRAWINGS, GRAPHIC DESIGN SERVICES, AND MEMORIAL DRAWINGS AND PAINTINGS. AFTER MAKING ROUGHLY ONE DOLLAR AND THIRTEEN CENTS IN HER ART PRACTICE, SHE, MUCH TO THE CHAGRIN OF LINDEN, DROPPED ECONOMICS AND HER PREMEDICAL STUDIES. SHE STUDIED SOCIOLOGY, PSYCHOLOGY, AND STARTED TAKING ART COURSES. SHE APPLIED TO THE PRACTICE OF ART PROGRAM, GOT ACCEPTED INTO THE PROGRAM, AND NEVER LOOKED BACK (READ: CONSISTENTLY THOUGHT SHE MADE A SILLY LITTLE DECISION IN THE NAME OF LOVE, PASSION, AND JOY). eve WORKED AT THE OFFICE OF CAMPUS ENGAGEMENT, HELPING TO PLAN, COORDINATE, AND IMPLEMENT WINTERSESSION UNDER THE GUIDANCE OF DR. JUDY JARVIS, WHOM eve MET WHEN DR. JUDY WAS THE DIRECTOR OF THE LGBT CENTER THE SUMMER BEFORE eve’S FIRST FALL SEMESTER. eve WOULD GO ON TO WORK WITH THE OFFICE OF CAMPUS ENGAGEMENT ALL FOUR YEARS AND, AFTER GRADUATING AND GOING ON A PROFESSIONAL ROUNDABOUT, AN ADDITIONAL SIX MONTHS FULFILLING THE ROLE OF PROGRAM COORDINATOR. DURING HER UNDERGRAD CAREER, eve PERFORMED IN MULTIPLE THEATER PRODUCTIONS WITH THEATRE INTIME — INCLUDING A PLAY WHERE SHE WAS CAST ONLY THREE WEEKS BEFORE OPENING NIGHT BECAUSE A COUPLE OF THE ACTORS HAD TO WALK AWAY FROM THE PRODUCTION — WAS A BRIEF MEMBER OF TERRACE F CLUB AND 2D COOP, AN ACTIVE FOUNDING MEMBER OF THE BLACK ARTS COLLECTIVE, AND A MEMBER OF PICASSO — ANOTHER ARTS GROUP ON CAMPUS. SHE LOVED TO WORK WITH THE BRILLIANT ARTISTS AROUND HER, MANY OF WHOM SHE IS STILL IN CONTACT WITH. SHE CONTINUED TO WORK ALL FOUR YEARS AS A COUNSELLOR WITH CAMP KESEM PRINCETON, A PROGRAM WHICH SHE HOLDS NEAR AND DEAR TO HER HEART DUE TO HER RESONANCE WITH THE PROGRAM’S MISSION.

HER SENIOR THESIS ENCOMPASSED TWO SOLO EXHIBITIONS. eve SHOWCASED 988 IN THE LUCAS GALLERY AT THE BEGINNING OF HER SENIOR FALL SEMESTER. 988 IS A COLLECTION OF WORKS AND COMMUNITY HEALTH RESOURCES SURROUNDING MENTAL HEALTH ADVOCACY AND SUICIDE AWARENESS. SHE WAS HEAVILY INSPIRED DURING THIS SHOW BY THE SEMICOLON PROJECT, WHICH IS WHY SHE, AS A PERMANENT PERFORMANCE ART PIECE, TATTOOED THE SEMICOLON SHE WEARS ON HER FACE. NEVER WANTING TO END ON A NEGATIVE NOTE, eve ALSO PRODUCED AND DISPLAYED LIVING IN THE GAP: A COLLECTION OF MULTIMEDIA WORKS ENGAGING WITH HER ATTEMPT TO LIVE IN A STATE OF GROWTH ASPIRATIONAL PRESENCE. LIVING IN THE GAP WAS SHOWN IN THE HAGAN GALLERY AND, AMONG eve’s DRAWINGS, PAINTINGS, PHOTOS, SCULPTURES, AND SPACE ACTIVATION eve SHOWCASED A COLLECTION OF DRAWINGS AND PAINTINGS MADE BY HER CAMPERS AT CAMP KESEM. eve GRADUATED WITH HER BACHELORS DEGREE IN ART & ARCHAEOLOGY ON A PRACTICE OF ART TRACK AND UNNOFICIAL MINORS IN AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES AND NON-WESTERN RELIGIONS.

AFTER GRADUATING, eve FOUND HERSELF ON A WINDING PATH THAT TOOK HER TO NEWARK, NJ, FAYETTEVILLE, NC, BACK TO BAILEYVILLE AND CALAIS, ME, AND THEN TO MAHWAH, NJ. SHE TAUGHT MIDDLE SCHOOL SPECIAL EDUCATION FOR A BRIEF STINT, BUT LOST HER ART PRACTICE, AND THEREFORE, HERSELF. SHE STEPPED AWAY FROM THE CLASSROOM AND TOWARDS THE MICROPHONE, PERFORMING REGULARLY AT THERAPY SESSION OPEN MIC AND CONNECTING WITH ARTISTS IN NEWARK AND BROOKLYN. SHE BRIEFLY MOVED TO MAINE TO RECONNECT WITH HER GRANDPARENTS, AUNTS, AND COUSINS BEFORE RETURNING TO NEW JERSEY AS A YEARBOOK PHOTOGRAPHER BASED IN MAHWAH, NJ. SHE REJOINED THE OFFICE OF CAMPUS ENGAGEMENT IN PRINCETON, SUPPORTING COMMUNITY BUILDING AND PASSION EXPLORATION. WHILE SHE WAS WORKING AT PRINCETON, eve WAS NOT PRODUCING ART, SO IT WAS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME BEFORE THE UNIVERSE WOULD REDIRECT HER YET AGAIN. THE OFFICE OF CAMPUS ENGAGEMENT WAS SUMMARILY CLOSED DUE TO CAMPUS WIDE DOWNSIZING. SHE RETURNED TO YEARBOOK PHOTOGRAPHY AND QUICKLY FOUND HERSELF WORKING AS A BEAUTY AND WELLNESS CONSULTANT AND GETTING HER CERTIFICATION AS A PHARMACY TECHNICIAN AND COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKER. SOMEHOW, BY DIVINE INTERVENTION, A STROKE OF LUCK AND BOREDOM, OR COMPLETE LOSS OF SANITY, eve FINALLY HATCHED A LITTLE RAVEN FLEDGLING. I KNOW, WE THOUGHT IT WAS STRANGE TOO; WE DIDN’T EVEN KNOW SHE COULD LAY EGGS UNTIL SHE HAD HERSELF A BABY BIRD TO TAKE CARE OF. SHE SWEARS THAT SHE LAID AN EGG ONCE BEFORE, BACK IN 2024, BUT IT FELL IN A FOREST AND NOBODY WAS AROUND, SO DID IT EVER REALLY FALL? I DID SEE eve FIND A DINOSAUR EGG IN HIGH MOUNTAIN ONCE, BUT THAT ONE SHE KEEPS ON HER ALTAR IN A CAVE IN THE WOODS. REGARDLESS, THE FLEDGLING QUICKLY GREW INTO A WALKING, TALKING, PRINTING RAVEN. WHEN WE ASKED eve WHAT TO CALL THE BIRD SHE FIRST THOUGHT IT WAS A NIGHTINGALE CALLED NAOIMH. ONCE SHE GOT TO KNOW THE BIRD A BIT BETTER, SHE REALIZED IT WAS UNDOUBTEDLY A RAVEN. WE STILL DON’T KNOW WHAT TO CALL THE BIRD, BUT SOMEHOW IT’S BEGUN TO FLY ACROSS THE LANDS, BECKONING ARTISTS TO SHARE THEIR WORK AND FINDING NOVEL WAYS TO MAKE PEOPLE’S DREAMS COME TRUE. WE, THE RAVENS, DON’T KNOW IF Madame Eve N Dawn IS REALLY HUMAN, BUT HER LITTLE BIRD HAS REAL EFFECTS. IF YOU LISTEN CLOSELY ENOUGH, YOU MIGHT STILL HEAR WHISPERS OF HER LAUGH IN THE WIND AND THE WAVES AND THE WOODS. 

REST IN PEACE,

eve