David Connor
David Connor: is a Maine native who grew up in Cape Elizabeth. When he’s not creating art, he teaches it at a charter high school in Portland. He is a husband, father, and veteran of the Coast Guard. Most of his work is 6×6 inch blocks matted in a 10×10 inch mat. He makes all his frames out of reclaimed hardwood that he scavenges from the local dump. He has done original prints for business logos, rock bands, craft brewers, surf shops, and film festivals. His work has been shown in a variety of Greater Portland restaurants and stores and can be found at Maine Craft and Casco Bay Artisans.
Thomas Connolly
Thomas Connolly: has been exhibiting at Greenhut Galleries in Portland, Maine since 1990, and also showed with George Billis in New York for a few years. He graduated from Maine College of Art and Design in 1987 and has received a couple of awards/ grants. One from The Pollack–Krasner Foundation and another, The Sheldon Bergh Award sponsored by Basil Alkali.
Carl Little
Carl Little: is the author of more than 30 art books, including monographs on Dahlov Ipcar, Eric Hopkins, William Irvine, and Irene Olivieri. He and his brother David’s fourth collaboration, The Art of Penobscot Bay, is due out from Islandport Press in the fall. His poetry has been published most recently in the Republican Journal, The Lowell Review, and Maine Arts Journal and was featured in the Poets Corner’s “Love Letters” reading. He lives and writes on Mount Desert Island.
Jefferson Navicky
Jefferson Navicky: is the author of four books, most recently the novel–in–prose–poems, Head of Island Beautification for the Rural Outlands (2023), as well as Antique Densities: Modern Parables & Other Experiments in Short Prose (2021), which won the 2022 Maine Literary Book Award for Poetry. He is the archivist for the Maine Women Writers Collection.