Charter Weeks
is a documentary photographer whose various projects can be seen at, www.charterweeks.com.
Eero Ruuttila
Eero Ruuttila: is an activist farmer, educator, and photographer-poet. For twenty-two years he has been the director of Litchfield, New Hampshire’s nonprofit 65 acre Nesenkeag Farm. Currently, he is a Sustainable Agriculture Specialist for the University of Connecticut’s Extension’s Scaling Up program for beginning farmers in Connecticut as well as the Incubator Farm coordinator for the New Entry Sustainable Farmer Project in Lowell, Massachusetts. Longhouse published in 2012 for its Bus Ticket pamphlet series and Today Poems, a collection of poems and photographs, are two of his publications. He is currently working on a video project featuring eight Connecticut farms with the working title “How to Grow a Farm.”
Steven J. Priestley
practices art in Portland, Maine.
Sebastian Matthews
Sebastian Matthews: has been creating handmade collages for over two decades. In 2010, he curated the exhibition “From BMC to NYC: The Tutelary Years of Ray Johnson” in conjunction with the Black Mountain College Museum + Art Center. In 2011, his own work was featured at the William King Art Museum in Abingdon, Virginia. He is the author of two books of poems and a memoir. Though they have been sharing and responding to each other’s work for years, Bruised Hearts is the first official collaboration between mother and son. He is currently working on a novel and a series of poster-sized collages.
