Born in Nurnburg, Germany to American parents,


grew up in several small towns in the midwest and on the east coast. Stephen was introduced to oils as a child by his aunt Marilyn, an accomplished realist painter. Fascinated by historical paintings in his schoolbooks, his mother bought him art supplies books on figure drawing.


Stephen Cefalo During his undergraduate studies at the former Savannah Campus of the


School of Visual Arts he found mentors in Jeff Markowsky and Anthony Palliser. When SVA Savannah closed its doors in 1997, he was already married with his first child, and moved to the main campus in New York. There he studied with one of his heroes, Steven Assael, and Max Ginsburg. After graduation he continued to study privately with Assael while working in Soho as an assistant painter for Jeff Koons and later in Time Square as an in-house illustrator at Nickelodeon. In 2001 he decided to move back to Indiana and completed his graduate studies in Painting in 2004 at Indiana University in Bloomington. There he worked closely Bonnie Sklarski, who also became a mentor figure to him.


After teaching for two years at the Art academy of Cincinnati, he accepted an


offer for a three-year position as Artist in Residence for University of Arkansas at Little Rock’s Painting department. He lives and works in Little Rock, Arkansas with his wife Amy, who is a home birth midwife and six children.


Alison Cherry is an artist who specializes in figurative painting and portraiture. Born and raised in London, Ontario, she studied fine art at H.B Beal’s


BealArt vocational school before going on to graduate from the Ontario College of Art and Design, where she earned her BDes Bachelors Degree in Illustration. Currently focused on further exploring her craft and developing her body of work, Cherry continues to pursue both her design and fine art practice. Her work has been shown in galleries and group exhibits both locally and internationally, and she has also produced commissioned work for private collections. Her most recent work focuses on personal themes of passion, desire and strength. These paintings are dynamic studies of the beauty and the frivolity of physical ornamentation, which serve as a contrast to her more intimate and powerful depictions of the nude figure. Alison Cherry currently lives and works in Toronto, Canada.


Dirk Dzimirsky is a self-taught artist, born 1969 in Rhede, Germany. Since his first solo show in 2009 in Germany his work has been internationally


exhibited and appeared in many publications worldwide. www.dzimirsky.com Jill Alexander


Grady Harp is a champion of Representational Art in


the roles of curator, lecturer, panelist, writer of art essays, poetry, critical reviews of literature, art and music, and as a gallerist. He has presented premiere artists from throughout the world for such exhibitions as WADE REYNOLDS: Full Circle Retrospective, BODY LANGUAGE : Current Figurative Painters, INDOMIT


ABLE SPIRITS : The


Figure at the End of the Century and MEMENTO MORI : Contemporary Still Life. He has produced exhibitions for the Arnot Art Museum in New York, Fresno Museum of Art, Nevada Museum of Art, National Vietnam Veterans Art Museum in Chicago, and Cleveland State University Art Gallery and has served as a contributing artistic advisor for universities and colleges throughout California, in Berlin, the Centro Cultural de Conde Duque in Madrid, and in Oslo.


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Essbaum’s most recent publication is the single poem chapbook, The Devastation (Cooper Dillon, 2009).


She teaches in the UCR Palm Desert low residency MFA program.


1996 - 1998 his collaborative exhibition, WAR SONGS: Metaphors in Clay and Poetry from the Vietnam Experience toured the United States. He has provided chapters and Introductions to numerous books such as the recent POWERFULL


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Richard J Frost’s self-described style is “tweaked realism” or “Norman Rockwell


meets the Twilight Zone,” which is a fairly deft description of how Frost reimagines his subjects. Frost is fascinated by faces which tell a story and lists a dysfunctional family as well as hitch hiking as a part of his educational experience and influence.


A graduate of Otis Parsons Art Institute, Frost lives and works in Los Angeles.


BEAUTIFUL and 100 ARTISTS OF THE MALE FIGURE . He is the art reviewer for Poets & Artists magazine and is the art historian for The Art of Man quarterly journal. His poetry appears in VIETNAM: REFLEXES AND REFLECTIONS, The National Vietnam Veterans Art Museum, in Poets and Artists Journal in collaborative projects such as Self Portrait Issue 2009 of Poets and Artists (O&S) , 50/50: Words and Images for Didi Menéndez, Interview with Didi Menéndez 2008 MiPOesias, and as well as Poetry: The First 10 Years of the New Millenium in Goss183::CASA Menéndez.


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