Daniel Maidman was born in 1975 in Toronto, Canada. He has attended life drawing workshops 2-3 times a week since 1998. He also spent two years working on an anatomical atlas based on human cadaver dis sections in which


he participated at Santa Monica College, under the guidance of Dr. Margarita Dell. He moved to New Y ork in 2006. His current paintings range from the figure and portraiture to still lives, machines, and cityscapes. His work has been shown in juried shows at galleries in New York, Ohio, Missouri, California, and Or egon. He has been invited to show at Gallery Mess, the restaurant of the Saatchi Gallery in London, England. He has be en a finalist in The Artist’s Magazine ’s figurative painting competition (2009, 2010), and his paintings and writing on art have been publ ished by ARTnews , American Art Collector , International Artist , SUNY-Potsdam, and the blogging section of http://artistdaily.com/ , the online presence of American Artist magazine. His work is included in numerous private collections. Daniel Maidman’s other interests include writing and filmmaking.


Robert Masterson is an award-winning writer, editor and teacher and the author of Artificial Rats & Electric Cats (Camber Press,


2008) and T rial by Water (Dog Running Wild Press, 1982), Masterson’s


creative work has appeared in numerous publications and on numerous websites throughout the world.


Masterson’s teaching has taken him to the People’s Republic of China and penal institutions. He received the 1987 Creative Writing Fellowship from the University of New Mexico and the first Ted Berrigan Scholarship from the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado, in 1993. An English professor at the City University of New York’s Borough of Manhattan Community College campus, Masterson holds both a BA and an MA (with distinction) in English Literature from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque; an MFA from Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics; and a weird little academic certificate from Shaanxi Normal University in the People’s Republic of China.


Eloy Morales was born in Madrid in 1973 and received a Bachelor of


Fine Arts in 1998. He had his first show at the age of 15, and has been professionally dedicated to art since he was 20. He has shown his work throughout America and Europe on different group shows and art fairs such as ARCO, ART PARIS, ARTISSIMA, CIGE, LOOP, ARTE FIERA, ARTEXPO, among others. He received the Pinturerias Award in 1994 and Penagos Award in 1999. He has presented five solo shows in Spain. He is currently working with Espacio Nolde, Ansorena, Santiago Echeberria and Jorge Alcolea. http://eloymorales.jimdo.com/


Sawako Nakayasu was born in Japan and has lived mostly in the US since the age of six. Her books include T


exture Notes (Letter Machine Editions, 2010), Hurry


Home Honey (Burning Deck, 2009), Nothing fictional but the accuracy or arrangement (she, (Quale Press, 2005), and So we have been given time Or , (Verse Press, 2004). Books of translations include Time of Sky//Castles in the Air by Ayane Kawata (Litmus Press, 2010) and For the Fighting Spirit of the Walnut by Takashi Hiraide (New Directions, 2008) which won the 2009 Best Translated Book Award from Three Percent, as well as Four From Japan (Litmus Press / Belladonna Books, 2006) featuring four contemporary poets, and T


Blooming Sky (Seeing Eye Books), a chapbook of poems by the Japanese modernist Chika Sagawa . Her translation of Sagawa’s Collected Poems is forthcoming in 2013 from Canarium Books. She has received fellowships from the NEA and PEN, and her own work has been translated into Japanese, Norwegian, Swedish, Arabic, Chinese, and Vietnamese. More information can be found here: http://sawakonakayasu.net/


Lindsay Oncken is a 17-year-old student, born and bred in


Houston, Texas. Her creative writing has appeared in Pindeldyboz, PANK, The Blue Pencil Online, and Poets & Artists, and she was recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize.


Daniela Petrova is a New York-based writer, born and raised


in communist Bulgaria. Her poems, essays, and short stories have appeared in magazines, newspapers, and anthologies, including Best New Writing 2008 (Hopewell Publications, 2008), The Chaffin Journal, The Yellow Medicine Review, and the Portland Review. She is currently working on a collection of poems and a novel. She was the Wild Card winner at the Peter K. Hixson Annual Competition and was awarded honorable mention in the Annual Writer’s Digest Writing Competition.


David Ohlerking was born in Omaha, Nebraska in 1962. He went to elementary school in Cainta Rizal, Philippines. High school was at


the International School of Brussels in Belgium.


Missouri State University back when they called it that. He started the Austin Figurative Gallery/ Project with Chris Chappell in 2006, and the Doylestown Figurative Project in 2010. He is a student of Alex Kanevsky and follows Richard Diebenkorn’s rules he wrote for himself on starting a painting.


working collaborations with Ellen Bartel of Spankdance and poets, Helen Vitoria and Robert Masterson. His artwork is in a number of galleries in PA, NJ, and NY. And his artwork was used for the album cover for the Canadian band Rural Alberta Advantage. He spent 2010 painting 15 minute portraits on the street. More than 5000 people stood for those portraits. Philadelphia and Doylestown, PA.


He currrently works in


Judith Peck has made it her life’s work to paint about the history and healing of social injustice. More than just a painter, she is an advocate – raising


awareness through each and every brushstroke. Her work has been exhibited in venues nationwide, including the International Arts & Artists’ Hillyer Arts Space in Washington, D.C., the Center for Civil and Human Rights in Atlanta, GA and the Rhonda Schaller Studio in New York City. Her work has also been featured in a numerous publications, such as Ori Soltes’ book, The Ashen Rainbow, the San Francisco City Concert Opera Orchestra’s announcement for “Die Weisse Rose” and the John Rawls’ Theory of Justice conference announcement for the College of New Jersey.


will be featured in an upcoming article in, “Poets and Artists Magazine”. Judith Peck holds a degree in Fine Arts from the George Washington University in Washington, D.C.


He maintains College was at Southwest


o the Vast


In December 2010 she participated in Red Dot Art Fair in Miami, Florida and


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