Petrea Noyes: from 1950 to 1964 she studied with Connecticut artist Harold Wolcott. In 1967 she received her AFA degree from Silvermine College of Art in New Canaan, Connecticut. In 1971 she received her BA in English /Art / Journalism at the University of Miami, Florida. She has exhibited in several hundred juried shows throughout the Northeast since 1962. Her work is in a number of private and corporate collections including the Marriott Corporation, the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, and Colorado State University.

Stephen Petroff: Is from Sagadahoc County where he paints pictures and writes poetry. Publications include, Spirit of the Stone Throw to the Bottom of a Lake and Artifacts of Ice Age Maine.

Steve Priestley: a painter from Portland, Maine whose art has appeared in The Café Review on many occasions.

Noriko Sakanishi: when I was growing up in Japan, I was thinking that I would become a writer or poet since I loved words and writing. When I came to the United States, I discovered and fell in love with making visual art and realized that it is the thing I should do with the rest of life. Life is a funny and strange thing.