Lisa Pixley
Lisa Pixley: graduated from Maine College of Art in 2007. Her work has been featured in various selected and solo exhibitions throughout Maine, most recently at the Whitney Art Works Gallery in Portland, ME. Portland Magazine featured a cover story about her in 2002.
Spencer Selby
Spencer Selby: has performed his work in many North American cities and in Europe. He is the author of eight poetry books and five compilations of visual work. He currently lives in Ames, Iowa.
Douglas Leichter
Douglas Leichter: received his art education at Cosmic University on the campus of the Divine. To supplement a tenuous living as an artist he has worked as the following: A magician who made himself disappear; A ventriloquist who irretrievably threw his voice; A flame in search of a candle; A pomegranate in search of his seeds; An unemployed alchemist; A stilled dervish and hummingbird; A sit down comic; The froth of an egg cream; An unearthed arrowhead; Has taught primitive behavior in the Amazon rain forest and at the Henry Street Settlement House in N.Y.C.; Worked as a ship in search of a crew; A cello string; A window shade; A bottle cap; A hat; A door; A rock; And a short stint as the wind. His work can be seen in major and minor caves around the world whose locations are revealed to a few.
Franz Wright
the son of poet James Wright, was born in Vienna, Austria in 1953. During his youth, his family moved to the Northwest United States, the Midwest, and northern California. His most recent collections of poetry include Walking to Martha’s Vineyard (Alfred A. Knopf, 2003) which received a Pulitzer Prize, The Beforelife (2001), Ill Lit: New and Selected Poems (1998), Rorschach Test (1995), The Night World and the Word Night (1993), and Midnight Postscript (1993). He has also translated poems by René Char, Erica Pedretti, and Rainer Maria Rilke. He received the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry, as well as grants and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Whiting Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. He lives in Waltham, Massachusetts.