Project:
Flor-Essence

Bios

 

Keely Mackey-Gonzales

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Keely Mackey-Gonzales — Lead Artist, Concept Artist & Composer

Keely Mackey-Gonzales is an interdisciplinary artist, educator, composer, cellist, and creative director whose work brings together visual art, music, movement, storytelling, and the natural world. With decades of experience as both an artist and educator, she creates immersive experiences that invite audiences to see, hear, and experience ideas in new ways.

As Lead Artist and Concept Artist, Keely develops the visual and conceptual language of the work, drawing from her background in visual arts, photography, composition, performance, and interdisciplinary collaboration. Her creative practice is deeply informed by her work as a professional educator, teaching visual arts from Montessori through graduate-level education and developing interdisciplinary curriculum and assessments, including her work with Desert Willow Family School.

Keely is also an award-winning composer and performing cellist, known artistically as Celloquacious. She performs her original compositions live on electric and electroacoustic cello, using live looping, effects, and a BOSS RC-600 to build layered soundscapes in real time. Rather than playing a pre-recorded score, she creates the musical environment live—layering cello, resonance, effects, and electronic textures into what she describes as a “virtual cello orchestra.” Her compositions have received recognition from the New Mexico Music Awards and International Songwriting Competition.

In this project, Keely's roles converge: she creates the conceptual and visual framework, composes and performs the live music, and draws on her experience as an educator and community artist to shape an experience that is accessible, meaningful, and multidimensional. Her collaboration with dancers, musicians, and visual artists reflects her belief that art can become a shared language—connecting people across disciplines, generations, and ways of seeing.

As Lead Artist, Keely brings together image, sound, movement, and story to create an experience that is not simply observed, but lived.

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Eden Radfarr

Eden Radfarr -- Collaborating Artist, Interactive Projection Design & Development Collaborating artist, inte

Eden Radfarr is a multimedia artist and arts educator whose practice spans video art, sculpture, soundscape, design, fiber arts, ceramics, physical computing, installation, and performance. With a background in youth leadership development and community organizing, she is drawn to collaborative processes that bring disparate materials and media together to create dynamic, immersive, and potentially transformative experiences.

Radfarr holds an MFA in Studio Art from the University of New Mexico and a BA in Film Production from Portland State University. Her work has been presented at the Portland Underground Film Festival, Experiments in Cinema, 516 Arts, 5G Gallery, and the UCM Gallery of Art & Design. She currently serves as a Term Teacher in Film & Digital Media at the University of New Mexico.

For Flor-essence: Rosa, Radfarr contributes her interdisciplinary approach to the project’s visual and immersive language, helping bring together multiple media and artistic perspectives to deepen the audience’s experience of the work.

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Gabriel Carrion-Gonzales

Gabriel Carrion-Gonzales — Lead Choreographer

Gabriel Carrion-Gonzales is a New Mexico-based dancer, choreographer, teaching artist, and arts administrator whose work explores movement as a language of connection, identity, culture, and community.

Gabriel began his dance training through the National Dance Institute of New Mexico and continued his studies in classical ballet and contemporary dance. His artistic practice has since expanded beyond performance to include choreography, arts education, cultural organizing, and community engagement throughout New Mexico.

Gabriel serves as Co-Director of Community Engagement with the International Museum of Dance, where he develops programming designed to respond thoughtfully and responsibly to the communities with which IMOD collaborates. His work with the organization has included large-scale interdisciplinary productions bringing together dance, music, visual art, cultural traditions, and artists from across New Mexico.

As Lead Choreographer, Gabriel brings a strong foundation in dance together with a deeply collaborative approach. His choreography seeks to create movement that is expressive, meaningful, and connected to the people and stories at the heart of each project.

For Gabriel, dance is more than physical movement—it is a way of communicating, remembering, connecting, and imagining. His work invites audiences and collaborators into a shared experience where movement becomes part of a larger conversation between art, community, place, and identity.

 

Maureen “mo” Gorman

Maureen "mo" Gorman: Choreographer, Dancer

Maureen “mo” Gorman is a professional dancer and choreographer based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She specializes in modern and contemporary dance, with an ever-growing love for pole dance. She holds an MFA in Choreography and Performance from SUNY Brockport and has taught as an adjunct professor at several colleges in Western New York. She currently teaches adult contemporary dance at Keshet Center for the Arts and creates her own work periodically in response to the ideas and experiences that call her to movement.

Gorman’s recent choreographic work, Grief Ritual, explores the process of accepting death and allowing space for grief. The work was performed at the Hiland Theater in June 2026.

Gorman joined Flor-essence: Rosa as a dancer and collaborator, bringing a deep interest in improvisation and an intuitive responsiveness to the project’s creative process. Through movement, she explores the rose in its many stages of life, from beauty and emergence to decay. Of all the stages, decay became her favorite embodiment, requiring her to slowly release her metaphorical petals to the floor.

For Gorman, the project’s interdisciplinary nature is central to its impact. She believes that bringing multiple mediums together can create a profoundly visceral experience—one that resonates with audiences long after a single medium might fade.

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