George Lloyd
George Lloyd: is a widely exhibited painter and draftsman. He is a native Bostonian who studied at both Rhode Island School of Design and Yale University. He began his career in the San Francisco Bay Area back in 1969 when he was invited to teach at UC Berkeley. The two drawings shown in this issue, which were made in Berkeley in 1975, are representative of the figurative nature of his work during that formative phase of his career. In the mid 80s, he left the Bay Area and returned east to New England where he has since remained. His work is represented in public and private collections in the USA and abroad.
Berri Kramer
Berri Kramer: received her BFA in Design and Crafts, with a minor in art history at Kent State University and earned a Master’s degree from Lesley University in Fiber Arts. For eighteen years she was a designer for Better Homes and Gardens and extensively explored color theory through quilt making. Her teaching philosophy is founded on profound respect for student ability and potential. She is President of Heartwood College of Art.
Florence Weinberger
was born in New York City, raised in the Bronx, educated at Hunter College, California State University, Northridge, and UCLA. She is the author of four published collections of poetry, The Invisible Telling Its Shape (Fithian Press, 1997), Breathing Like a Jew (Chicory Blue Press, 1997), Carnal Fragrance, (Red Hen Press, 2004), and Sacred Graffiti, (Tebot Bach, 2010.) Her poetry has appeared in a number of literary magazines, including Antietam Review, Jabberwock, The Literary Review, Solo, Rattle, River Styx, Pacific Review, Nimrod, Calyx, Manhattan Poetry Review, and The Los Angeles Review. Among awards are first prizes in the Poetry / LA Bicentennial, Sculpture Gardens Review, Mississippi Valley, Red Dancefloor, and the dA Center for the Arts poetry contests.
Pamela Twining
was always a poet. Her first efforts were published only in elementary school journals, but her sonnet “Neveah,” written at 16, was honored with a scholarship to a six-week poetry workshop in Washington DC. Yet, she only started reading her work in public in 2010. Most of the past years were spent “inhaling,” as it were. Her first chapbook, i have been a river . . . was published by Heyday Press in 2011, followed by utopians & madmen, DancinFool Press, in 2012 and A Thousand Years of Wanting by Shivastan Press in 2013. She is currently working on a long piece, a memoir in poetic form and is one of the organizers of the Janine Pommy Vega Poetry Festival, held annually in Woodstock at the Woodstock Artists Association and Museum. She and Andy Clausen perform in tandem.