Linda Francis
I studied painting with Tony Smith at Hunter College but started out studying biochemistry and physics. I really thought of these fields as philosophy: as an illumination of limits and the backdrop for a discussion of humanity’s striving to overcome them. This is not meant to describe an interest in myth, be it social or […]
Rob Neilson
Rob Neilson is the Frederick R. Layton Professor of Art and Associate Professor at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin. Born and raised in Detroit, he received a BFA in Fine Arts from the College for Creative Studies and an MFA in Sculpture from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Rob has exhibited his sculpture and […]
Sophia Shalmiyev
Sophia Shalmiyev emigrated from Leningrad to America in 1990. She is the author of the lyric memoir, Mother Winter (S&S, 2019), and is a feminist writer and painter living in Portland, OR with her two children. She has been published in Electric Lit, Guernica, Entropy, Vela, The Rumpus, Lit Hub and many others. A collaborative, epistolary piece […]
Eileen Murphy
Eileen Murphy has spent her life along the Hudson River and has lived in Brooklyn, NY for the last fifteen years. Her current paintings are based on the landscape of Columbia County, NY, where she spends part of her time. Eileen has shown widely in New York City and the metropolitan area, and was awarded […]
Julia Paull
Julia Paull is an artist living in Los Angeles CA. She is a grant recipient of a USC Advancing Scholarship in the Humanities and Social Sciences Initiative, Documenting the Breeding of Endangered Species (Galapagos Islands, Costa Rica, Panama, and California)as well as a Durfee Foundation grant recipient for Project 21, a Pictorial History of Kagel Canyon, CA. She […]
Stephanie Strickland
Stephanie Strickland’s 10 books of poetry include How the Universe Is Made: Poems New & Selected (2019 Ahsahta) and Ringing the Changes, a code-generated project for print based on the ancient art of tower bell-ringing (Fall 2019 Counterpath). Her other books include Dragon Logic and The Red Virgin: A Poem of Simone Weil. Her print […]
Pam Glick
I am Pam Glick. I was born in Albany Georgia in 1956. I grew up in Buffalo New York, graduated from Rhode Island School of Design in 1980 and moved to New York in 1980. I lived there until 1995 when I moved to Brookline Vermont near Brattelboro. I had two boys and stayed there […]
Ginger Balizer-Hendler
Ginger Balizer-Hendler is a Long Island Based artist, whose vibrant primitive work is based on her love for storytelling. In 2013, Ginger received an artist residency at The Vermont Studio center, where she completed a 17 1/2’ canvas,The Adventures of Gingerella, based on a recent journey to India. In 2014, The Adventures of Gingerella and […]
Shari Mendelson
Shari Mendelson is a sculptor who lives and works in Brooklyn and upstate New York. She looks to art history for inspiration for her work — especially ancient Greek, Roman, and Islamic glass and ceramic objects. With equal parts reverence and play, she reinterprets these ancient works using recycled plastic bottles. Conceptually her interest is […]
Eden Orfanos – Shoro
Eden holds a masters degree in Art Psychotherapy and a certification in Trauma Informed Expressive Arts. She offers innovative arts based approaches to healing that inspire creativity and empowerment. Eden came to the field of art therapy by way of her international humanitarian work (edenorfanos.org). She believes art can be a tool for social change, […]