Bernadette deCesare
Bernadette deCesare: I am a visionary traveler by nature, where upon I create images from my observations and interests. My style finds symbolic abstractions successful in expressing my art. This artistic journey has embraced beauty, mystical fantasies, as well as social and political challenges. My choices of mediums are acrylic and pastel. I am a Signature member of the Pastel Society of America, Member of the Pastel Society of Maine, have been recognized by many Pastel Societies over the years and have been published and recognized in The Pastel Journal, Abstract category.
Mike Cockrill
Mike Cockrill: has been making conceptually engaged, socially challenging work since his first exhibitions in Brooklyn and the East Village in the early 1980s. He grew up in the suburbs of Washington, DC in the Cold War era. He has a particular affinity for the pop–culture images of postwar America and their darker subtexts. Classically trained at PAFA, he employs a deep understanding of visual idioms that he deftly twists. His art is ever evolving: often playing the unnerving against the sublime. He lives and works in Brooklyn.
David Wolfe
David Wolfe: bio not available
Bruce Willard
Bruce Willard: Bruce Willard’s poems have appeared in AGNI, Alaska Quarterly Review, Harvard Review, Poet Lore, Prairie Schooner as well as on NPR’s Writer’s Almanac, Poetry Foundation’s American Life In Poetry, curated by Kwame Dawes, and The Slowdown curated by Major Jackson. He has published 3 collections of poems: Holding Ground (2013), Violent Blues (2016) and In Light of Stars (2021)—all 3 published by Four Way Books (NYC). His 4th, As Land Between Water, is forthcoming from Four Way Books in Spring 2027. In addition to his work as a poet, Willard directs the Blue Raven Poetry Series in Rockland, Maine. He lives in Maine. More information can be found on his website, https://www.brucewillard.com/.