Joel Werring

Joel Werring is an American artist whose paintings and mixed media pieces explore the ways in which the past and its attendant memories can have a physical presence in our lives. Working from family photographs, old movie stills, song lyrics, dreams, his own children’s drawings, and satellite images of neighborhoods he lived in as a child, Werring creates narrative works that blend personal memory, cultural history, and collective mythology.
Werring received his BA in Art from the University of California at Berkeley and his MFA from the Yale School of Art. In 2003, he received the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in Painting. He has taught extensively, and is currently an Assistant Professor of Fine Arts at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. Werring’s paintings and works on paper have been exhibited in solo and group shows in California, Arizona, Connecticut, Massachusetts and New York. He lives and paints in Redding, Connecticut.

http://www.joelwerring.com

Jonathan Bonfiglio

Jonathan Bonfiglio is an independent explorer, writer and producer. He is the author of multiple critically-acclaimed plays, as well as ad hoc poetry and prose pieces.

He has been described in Mexico’s La Jornada as being “one of the most groundbreaking producers of his generation”, on Talk Radio in the UK as being “awesome“, and in The News as being “a Renaissance Man, tirelessly working to forge cultural bonds,” with the Richmond Times in the UK stating that he is “the thinking man’s playwright.”

In October 2016, he received widespread international attention after going missing in the Mexican jungle for 6 days, surviving in just his underwear on a diet of raw fish captured in a mosquito net.

Bonfiglio gives talks around the world on multiple subjects, including memory, the oceans, movement, literature and a variety of topics related to the environment, progressive endeavors and territories over the horizon.

http://www.jonbonfiglio.com

Judith A. Rubin

Judith A. Rubin, A PhD, ATR-BC, HLM, licensed psychologist, child and adult psychoanalyst, and board-certified art therapist. A past President and Honorary Life Member of the American Art Therapy Association, she has written six books and created twelve films, all still in print.  Judy is on the faculties of the Psychiatry Department at the University of Pittsburgh and the Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center. She has presented at many universities and conferences in the U.S. and abroad, and is now completing a film about the teachings of Fred Rogers as well as working on the creation and dissemination of a Teaching Film Library.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_A._Rubin

Karen Henderson

Originally from Bucks County, Pennsylvania, Karen Henderson now resides Vermont. She studied Textile Design at Moore College of Art & Design in Philadelphia, PA. Her work has been exhibited nationally in galleries and in juried shows such as The Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show among others. Karen’s pieces are included in the permanent art collections of The University of Vermont Medical Center (VT), Central Vermont Medical Center (VT), The Banner Ironwood Medical Center (AZ), and in over eighty private collections. Her work has been published in several books and periodicals, including 1000 Artisan Textiles, The Guild Sourcebook of Residential Art #6, Fiberarts, Surface Design Journal, and Selvedge magazines. Henderson’s artwork has also appeared on the set of the academy award-winning movie Black Swan, as well as NBC’s TV-series Do No Harm, and the upcoming 2015 feature film Louder Than Bombs.

http://www.karenhendersonfiber.com

Karen Jahn

Karen Jahn taught as a tenured English professor for twenty-seven years specializing in writing, 19th c British, and then African American literature.  During this time she presented talks on these specialties at many conferences  from in Mississippi to Greece and published essays on Dickens and Wideman.  Participating in an NEH Seminar on the Blues at the University of MS grounded her love of this music as a way of seeing.  She has used this perspective in reading, teaching, and writing for the past decade.  After retiring she began writing personal essays and teaching creative writing enhanced by an MFA degree from Vermont College of Fine Arts.   An essay will be appearing in Intima:  A Journal of  Narrative Medicine  and she has several essays in circulation.  She is working on memoir called Surrender Blues and teaching a course on The Harlem Renaissance.

Kathy Bruce

Kathy Bruce is a NYC based environmental artist. She received her M.F.A from Yale University School of Art and certificate from The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

Bruce was one of 6 international artists selected to develop projects for the 2014 Cheng-Long Wetlands International Environmental Art in Taiwan. She was the recipient of a Fulbright Hayes Senior Scholar Lecturing and Research grant in Puno Peru (2012) where she taught environmental art at the University of the Altiplano and researched totora reed boats on Lake Titicaca. In 2013-2015 she received Creative Curricula Grants from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council NYC. Other awards include; Pollock-Krasner Foundation Fellowship 2010-11, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Individual Artist Grant, Fulbright-Hayes Junior scholar grant to Peru, and Ford Foundation Grant for sculpture. She has attended numerous residencies including La Napoule Foundation, France, I-Park Foundation, The Saltonstall Foundation, Stone Quarry Hill Art Park,The McColl Center for the Arts and Millay Artists’ Colony.

Bruce’s work is in the collections of The Peruvian Bi-National Cultural Center, I-Park Foundation, The Fulbright Commission, Lima Peru, New Jersey Transit Port Authority Headquarters, The Land/ an artsite archives in The Nevada Museum Center for Art & Environment, The Franklin Olin College of Engineering and Baylor University.

http://www.kathybruceartist.com

Leah Raintree

Leah Raintree is a multidisciplinary artist who addresses our relationship to the environment through permeable, process-based interactions with sites and materials. She works across drawing, photography and installation to consider human impact within broader expanses of time and networks of life.

Raintree was recently an Artist-in-Residence through Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Process Space at Building 110: LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island, and included in Pier 54, an exhibition with High Line Art in NYC. In the spring of 2014, Raintree was an Artist-in-Residence at Frans Masereel Centrum in Belgium. She participated in LMCC’s Workspace during 2012-13, while a concurrent Visiting Scholar at NYU with the Department of Art and Art Professions. She completed a site-specific installation for No One is an Island at Building 110: LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island and has exhibited at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum (NYC), The Walter Phillips Gallery (Banff), The Museum of the City of New York (NYC), Peninsula Art Space (Brooklyn), Parallel Art Space (Queens) NURTUREart (Brooklyn), The Invisible Dog Art Center (Brooklyn) and FiveMiles (Brooklyn). She has had solo exhibitions at Foley Gallery (NYC) and Reynolds Gallery (VA).

Raintree has been an Artist-in-Residence through Frans Masereel Centrum (2014), LMCC’s Workspace (2012-13), the Banff Centre (2012) Mildred’s Lane (2011), Atlantic Center for the Arts (2010), Vermont Studio Center (2009), Big Cypress National Preserve (2006) and Rocky Mountain National Park (2005). Her work has been published nationally and internationally, including FUKT a magazine for contemporary drawing (Berlin), California College of the Arts’ Eleven Eleven (San Francisco), Niche (Los Angeles) and Planet Magazine (New York).

Raintree was raised in rural Virginia and lives and works in New York City. She holds a BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University and an MFA from Parsons, the New School for Design.

http://leahraintree.com