Matthew Dennison: was born and raised in Portland, Oregon and has lived within the same five mile radius his entire life. He has been exhibiting paintings throughout the country for over 45 years. His work employs a refined method in which his gloved hands, rags, and masking tape upstage brushes as his primary tools, giving us sharply defined regions of bright color and surfaces. He has a self–imposed discipline of drawing and writing poems every day. He showed in Chicago from 2002 to 2008 at the Jim Tigerman Gallery, and the Melanee Cooper Gallery. His work resides in a vast number of public and private collections, including the Portland Art Museum, the Tacoma Art Museum, Flint Institute of Arts, etc. His drawings are featured in the German publication,Atelierhefte.

Kelly Rae Daugherty: has been a photographer and oil painter for over twenty years. She graduated from the San Francisco Art Institute under the direction of Henry Wessel, Jr. and Bruce McGaw. She started as a street photographer in San Francisco, and once she was able to get an art studio, began doing fine art portraiture with experimental lighting set–ups with stages and costumes. Now that she lives in the Arts District of Portland, Maine, you will find her about town with her camera expanding on her street photography. Her work may be found around the web under her name along with her website: https://kellyrae daugherty.smugmug.com

Stephanie Crossman: living on an island with a large fishing community precipitated her learning the technique of traditional knotted netting. Her husband’s great–grandmother taught her over 40 years ago. Her background in art eventually found its way into this utilitarian skill. All designs are original as well as the 3D method to shape and stiffen. As always, her love of nature plays a role as subjects.

Stephen Burt: is a painter and printmaker. Born in Deland, Florida in 1962, educated at Rhode Island School of Design (BFA 1987) and SUNY Purchase (MFA 1991). He has exhibited in both international and national venues including most recently at the Bristol Art Museum, Bristol, RI, Zero Station, Portland, ME, the LC Bates Museum, Hinckley, ME, and the Aomori Municipal Art Pavilion, Aomori, Japan. His work has been acquired for inclusion in many public collections including those of the New Britain Museum of American Art, the Portland Museum of Art, the Fogg Museum at Harvard, the New York Public Library, and the Library of Congress. A member of Peregrine Press in Portland, Maine, he is Associate Professor of Art at the University of New England.