Josefina Auslender: was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. 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.

Dozier Bell: is a Maine native who studied art at the University of Pennsylvania and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. She has appeared in over thirty solo and two-person exhibits in New York City and across the country. She is the recipient of several awards, including a Fulbright Fellowship as artist-in-residence at the Bauhaus University in Weimar, Germany. She received an Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from the Maine College of Art in 1997.

Robert N. Cohen: was born in Portland and attended Deering High School and graduated from Portland School of Art (MECA) in 1970. He has owned his own art gallery since 1988 and currently owns the Congress Square Gallery. He is best known for his paintings of Portland, coastal Maine, Old Orchard Beach, and Italy. He paints in both oil and watercolor at his studio and in plain air.

Maury Colton: has always been an abstract painter though he prefers the term “pRealism”; paintings which have elements moving towards real yet stay on the shadow side of recognizable. He tries to create images that allow the viewer to complete the intention. His paintings, drawings, and insights are influenced by his year round life on Matinicus Island, Maine.