Coca Milan: was a member of the Chilean MIR (Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria — Movement of the Revolutionary Left) When Pinochet took over, she and her husband were exiled to Canada. She and Lumi Videla (a leader in the MIR who was captured and tortured to death in the days following the coup) had been childhood friends. She made the weaving, a reproduction of which appears in this issue of The Cafe Review, in tribute to her. This beautiful art piece was gifted to Margaret Randall when they met on a lecture tour in Canada in 1975.

Dora Lopez: graduated from the National School of Fine Arts in 1987 with the third prize in her class. She then won the first prize awarded by the Barranco gallery at the school’s annual exhibition. Her first solo exhibition was held at Gala Sala de Arte where her work was influenced by Orphism. Orphism was a denomination given by Guillaume Apollinaire, to artists who created a universe with elements not taken from visual reality, but created entirely by them, they supposed a rhythmic dynamics of color and consisted in transferring the cubist composition of the painting to the ground of expressionism.

Josefina Auslender: (Argentina) was born in Buenos Aires. She was Educated at the Periugino School and the Escuela Nacional de Belles Artes Prilidiano Puryrredon, she earned the degree of Professor of Visual Arts. From the late sixties through the mid–eighties, she exhibited widely and received awards at the Salon Nacional de Ceramica, the Bienal Santa Maria del Buen Aire at the Museo de Arte Moderno, and Premio Bull V Bienal de Maldonado in Uruguay. She moved to Maine in 1988, and continues to work.

Jorge Arcos: (Mexico), was born in 1969 in Mexico City. As a young boy he received direct artistic influence from his father who was a landscape painter. He decided to pursue a career in “Drawing and Illustration and Fine Arts” at Escuela Superior de Arte y Dibujo Publicitario, in Mexico City. He moved to Atlanta, Georgia where he focuses on Abstract Art, figurative forms, and murals. He has had several art exhibitions in countries, such as Germany, Portugal, Spain, and the United States, with private and corporative collections around the world.