Etymology of a Dream:
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The book is 8.5 x 11 inches, full-color, library quality with 132 pages printed on 60# white paper and a cover printed on 10pt stock in full-color with glossy laminated finish.
COFFEE-TABLE BOOK BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / DREAMS ISBN: 978-1522968597 |
Contributors
Simone Arthur (USA, Maryland)
By 2014, I completed my BA, JD, LL.M. and spent the last few years in an office with a partial view of the Art Institute of Chicago wondering if I was going to die of a heart attack at my desk. I hated everything. It was time to hit the reset button. I put in my notice at work, sold everything that didn’t fit in my two suitcases and hopped a plane to South Korea. I was going to teach English for a while and figure things out. www.simonearthur.com
Dwight Lee Barnes III (USA, Ohio)
Dwight Lee Barnes III (Sentmode) is an artist specializing in imaginology and creationism. By hyper fusing unconscious binary digital ghost DNA from the cyber oxygen beacon of the spirit and clone melting its contents into representations of emotional hacking sense exploitations. www.sentmode.wixsite.com/sent-mode
Jeremy Baum (USA, Pennsylvania)
I live in Pittsburgh and my current graphic novel, Dörfler, is published by Fantagraphics.
www.madbaumer37.deviantart.com
www.madbaumer37.tumblr.com
Ohad Cadji (USA, Pennsylvania)
Ohad Cadji is a photographer living in Pittsburgh, PA. He creates abstract images through long exposure and intentional camera movement. Ohad’s work has appeared in several publications and art spaces throughout Western Pennsylvania.
www.cadjitation.com
Cindy Carpenter (USA, North Carolina)
Cindy Carpenter has been recognized for her writing throughout her educational journey, resulting in publications in local writing collections. She is inspired by Russian literature and philosophy, especially existentialism. She lives on the east coast in North Carolina with her husband, caring for two Chihuahuas and many plants.
Anna Columbia (USA, New York)
Born, raised, and living in NYC
www.annacolombianyc.wix.com/work
Jennifer Cox (USA, Oregon)
I once wrote a short story called “God is in the Dreaming” and since then I’ve found dreams to be a great source of creativity. I use dream imagery or am often inspired by those inner visions to become a god in my own small way. My greatest creation may be my son, a 13-year-old shaman, who shares his wisdom with me on a daily basis.
www.illustratedworlds.com
Kyle Eugene (USA, New York)
Kyle Eugene is a photographer and elementary school teacher, here and there. Kyle’s photography attempts to examine everyday simplicity to reveal truths both hidden and buried. His work has been featured in The Erotic Tales of Bucephalus, A Pictorial History of the Schools of Lawler, Iowa, and in this very book! He is currently based in New York, dividing his time between his girlfriend, educating America’s youth, and L-I-V-I-N.
www.jpgmag.com/people/kuehnerk1
Brittany Fanning (South Korea, Daejeon)
Brittany studied studio art at the University of North Georgia. The university was located in a quaint mountain, Dahlonega, Ga. Here, she kept very liberal friends, mostly queer men that spoke like Scarlett O’Hara… or Frank Underwood. They would get fucked up as a pile of coat hangers much too often. Until her cat died. Then, she had to leave the country. Brittany landed in South Korea and for several months remained uninspired. To her, South Korea was a dirty country full of tall, gray Lego buildings and a smell. She would say most westerners find it that way. Therefore, most of the work she has produced lacks in excitement… or some other word. It’s dry. To this day, she remains in South Korea because it’s easy and has not replaced her cat.
Jeremy Fisher (USA, California)
Jeremy Fisher is an artist and stop motion animator based in LA. His work is influenced by his upbringing in rural Pennsylvania and subsequent move to Los Angeles. His “Temporary Happiness” series explores the longevity and complexities of relationships and adaptation to new surroundings. His work has been on display nationally and published in Skullture: Skulls In Contemporary Visual Culture (Gingko Press).
www.jeremydfisher.com
Josh Gaines (USA, Oregon)
Josh Gaines ditched a promising military career to write books, run a profitless press, and build blanket forts with his daughter. He earned a writing MFA at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His fiction has been published in Two Cities Review, Nebula Rift, and in London’s Dark Mountain. His poetry appears in numerous anthologies and journals, and in his own books of poetry and flash fiction: Cigarette Sonatas, and little bones. He is the 2016 Fiction Writer in Residence at Art Farm Nebraska, and the founder and Captain of Thoughtcrime Press.
www.thoughtcrimepress.com
Charles Gardner (USA, Unknown)
Charles Gardner lives his dream within another dream. His location is unknown.
Jillian Hamilton (USA, Michigan)
Graduate of Oakland University and Michigan based writer.
Amanda Jordan (USA, California)
As a lover of materials and process, my work as an artist is based on a foundation of mixed styles and media. Glass, ceramics, painting, drawing, collage, and an endless assortment of experimental craft are used to create my body of work. I often use the human figure as a subject and testing ground for these experiments. I use these principals and methods in efforts to create a new aesthetic with each piece I create.
www.amandajocreations.weebly.com
Terence Kavanaugh (South Korea, Daejeon)
Terence Kavanaugh was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY. He’s a lifelong reader and an aspiring novelist who lives with his wife in Daejeon, South Korea.
Christopher Kramer (USA, Michigan)
Christopher Kramer is a painter, author, and book artist. Inside his fantasy worlds, he examines philosophical dualities, transitions of the psyche, alternate realities, and spiritual revelations. His published works include two novels and two poetry books published by Sublimation Pressworks. His limited edition artist books, paintings, and collages have appeared in nineteen group exhibits and two solo shows. A constant traveler, Christopher considers himself an international resident with no permanent home.
www.amazon.com/Christopher-of-Detroit/e/B00H1KAMFA
Kim Legler (USA, Pennsylvania)
I have no idea what I am doing, and that’s what helps me the most.
Jesca Leigh (USA, Pennsylvania)
Jesca Leigh studied English, Fine Arts, and Creative Writing at Carlow University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. There, she founded the creative writing club (The ‘Low Writers), co-edited the student newspaper (The Carlow Chronicle), and organized and hosted open mic nights at the Hungry Sphinx Café. Her works can be found in Khubz Zine, the Madwomen in the Attic series, and Jeremy Baum’s MEMORY anthology. Recipient of the William Patrick McShea Endowed Scholarship for the humanities in 2011 and the Rose Marie Beard Women of Spirit Honors Scholarship in 2012.
www.instagram.com/jescaleigho
Erik Marshall (USA, Michigan)
Erik Marshall is a writer and educator in Southeast Michigan. He writes weird film noir-style detective stories set in academia as well as memoir, essays and other odds and ends. He teaches Screen Studies at the university level and loves talking about film and literature.
www.erikmarshall.net
Jay Aaron McDonald (Mr. Meow)
(Canada, Prince Edward Island)
Born from a human and raised among them Jay McDonald grew to be, or perhaps, he may not have. Always wondering how he has managed to balance on the cusp of reality he continually awaits for the meniscus of life to exceed the viscosity of his imagination subsequently bursting and overflowing, dark and thick like the primordial ooze that he tends to trace his real existence back to. For the time being however he sits and waits. For what he is unsure, although he swears that at times it comes over him like a memory of something new.
Lacy McKinnney (USA, Oregon)
Lacy McKinney is a photographer and mixed media artist. She graduated from the Oregon College of Art and Craft with a BFA in Photography in 2009. Lacy has a love for 19th-century photographic processes and anything in an actual darkroom, which greatly influences her work. She spent a few years photographing women, babies, the moments surrounding birth and their families, which you can find at belovedpdx.com. She lives in Portland, OR with her husband and two young sons.
www.belovedpdx.com
Jessica Montgomery (USA, Michigan)
Born in 1988 in Detroit, Michigan, Jessica Montgomery is a visual artist who centers her work around ideas of evolution, man and nature, and scientific approaches to the arts. Her current body of work examines and attempts to employ the connections between curiosity, experimentation, and creativity and their implications on the artistic working process. Her investigation of these innate traits which foster the cross-cultural creation of artwork meddles with the idea that in fact all art is a form of generative art. Montgomery graduated from Kendall College of Art and Design in Grand Rapids, Michigan in 2011 with her BFA in Drawing. She is currently pursuing an MA in Fine Art from the University of Pretoria in Pretoria, South Africa. Montgomery has exhibited regionally in the United States as well as internationally. Notable shows include: Artprize (2011), the world’s largest open art competition of its kind; Art+Exploration (2011), a solo show in Beaufort, South Carolina’s The Gallery; and numerous group shows as a member of the Daejeon Arts Collective (2012-2014) in Daejeon, South Korea.
www.jmontgomeryart.carbonmade.com
Erik Mortenson (USA, Michigan)
Erik Mortenson specializes in American literary and visual texts and their intersection with the cultural concerns of the twentieth-century. He is the author of Capturing the Beat Moment: Cultural Politics and the Poetics of Presence (Southern Illinois, 2011) and Ambiguous Borderlands: Shadow Imagery in Cold War American Culture (Southern Illinois, 2016). Erik is currently finishing a third book project that explores the reception of the Beats in Turkey as “underground literature,” and is also an avid translator. In his spare time, he enjoys playing racquet sports, swimming, and cooking for his family.
www.erikmortenson.wixsite.com
Steph Neary (USA, Pennsylvania)
Steph Neary is an artist, sign painter, crafter, and doll maker living in Pittsburgh, PA. Folklore forever more!
www.stephneary.tumblr.com
Amanda Pentzak (USA, Oregon)
Amanda Pentzak is a graduate of Oregon College of Art and Craft. Inspired by found objects, and the joining of both drawing and textile techniques; work often explores color, texture and pattern.
www.instagram.com/amandapentzak
Helena Protopapas (USA, California)
Born in the Himalayas, to Swiss/Cypriot parents, Helena Lalita Protopapas is a multi-disciplinary visual and performance artist, musician, and teacher of art, music, and yoga. At 20, while working on an album and living in San Francisco and later Los Angeles, Helena was signed to Warner Bros as a recording and performing artist. After completing the album, she felt pulled to continue her education in the arts and fell in love with teaching and returned to rural Pennsylvania where she has developed a community of both yoga and violin students.
In the last few years, she has travelled throughout Portugal, Spain, Morocco, Denmark, Amsterdam, Belgium, France, Italy, and most recently studied in Switzerland. While traveling, Helena collects and draws inspiration for musical compositions that she weaves into both lectures and performances. As a meditation and yoga teacher, and natural synesthete (sonic and visual senses cross-over), Helena explores transcendence in her work. Fascinated with layering, mystery, memory, and the divine, Helena invites viewers, and listeners alike, to travel with her on an ethereal journey that connects both East and West, and reaches beyond into realms of the imagination.
www.helenaprotopapas.com
Denise M. Roguz (USA, Michigan)
In her paintings, Denise uses watercolor and mixed media to achieve textured surfaces and other visual effects, while her digital collage incorporates manipulated images to achieve surreal, dream-like worlds. Her work is mainly abstract and symbolic, and her compositions explore organic worlds, the spiritual, visions, dreams, and remnants of the past. Denise currently lives in the Detroit-area and holds a BFA in painting from Western Michigan University. She is the recipient of the Robert and Eleanor DeVries Art Award (1998, 1999, 2000), the Angie Gaymen Carmer Art Scholarship (1999), the Student Enrichment Grant Fund for Art (1998), and the WMU Permanent Art Collection Purchase Award (2000).
www.denisemroguz.com
Rachel Rothwell (Ireland, Wexford)
An Irish artist living in Switzerland, Rachel Rothwell graduated from Limerick School of Art and Design in 2012. She spent 2014 in South Korea, where she was an active member of the Daejeon Arts Collective, exhibiting regularly across the country. Her work examines the process of self-definition, exploring the external factors that influence us as we try to make sense of who we are, from the material factors to less tangible influences that shape the version of ourselves we present to the world. She exhibits regularly, and held her debut solo show in April 2016 at Inspire Galerie, Dublin.
www.rachelrothwell.net
Lauren Saleh (USA, Michigan)
I am open.
Lauralee Sikorski (USA, Indiana)
Lauralee Sikorski is a Connecticut-born award winning artist currently living in the Midwest. After art showings in Chicago, Northwest Indiana, and Michigan, she traveled to London where she was juried into a Raw Arts Exhibition at the Candid Arts Center. Here, her artwork was purchased into a private collection. She continued to show abroad in another juried exhibition in Berlin and continued showing throughout the U.S. Along with being published in national arts and literary journals, late last year her artwork was featured for the third time as a cover for Branches magazine celebrating over 25 years in print. Influences: In 2004 she received her teaching certification for hatha yoga and has continued her training with multiple certifications including meditation and integrates these Eastern disciplines with the creation of artwork.
www.artprize.org/lauralee-sikorski
Jessica Sowell (USA, Oregon)
Jessica Sowell strives to create illustrative art through the elements of storytelling, nature, love and loss. She earned her BFA in Drawing and Painting from Oregon College of Art and Craft, and is currently illustrating two children’s storybooks. In her free time, she can be usually found painting, crafting, or knitting. She plans to return to school to pursue Art Therapy.
Billy Summers (Christy Chavez) (USA, Unknown)
Billy Summers was an American writer and illustrator best known for authoring popular children’s books under the pen name Christy Chavez. His work includes several of the most popular children’s books of all time, selling over 600 million copies and being translated into more than 20 languages by the time of his death.
Stephen Takacs (USA, Ohio)
Stephen Takacs is an artist and educator based in Columbus, Ohio. He holds a BFA from the Oregon College of Art and Craft and an MFA from The Ohio State University. He is interested in exploring both timeless and contemporary issues using historical photographic techniques. www.brownieinmotion.org
www.stakacs.com
Martyn Thompson (United Kingdom, Buckingham)
I am an artist and photographer from the U.K. who decided to pursue my personal studies of Korean video artist Baik Nam June with a move to South Korea. While still actively producing art, and after partaking in a few group exhibitions with the International Art Community, I held my first solo exhibition in 2011 at Gallery I in Insadong, Seoul. To date, I have held nine solo exhibitions and partaken in over 30 group exhibitions in several countries across the world, including the U.K, where I now work as a wedding photographer.
www.m-art-yn.com
Lulie Vorster (South Africa, Pretoria)
Lulie Vorster is a nice young dame based in Pretoria, South Africa. Her grandmother loves the pictures she makes and often puts them on her fridge for safe keeping. She often rants about all the really bad shit happening on this beautiful planet, but is easily distracted by butterflies.
Michael White (USA, California)
Born 1986 in Sacramento, CA, White received his BFA in Craft from the Oregon College of Art & Craft in 2011. He currently lives and works in Sacramento, CA.
www.michaeljameswhite.wordpress.com
Isaac Yoder (USA, Oregon)
Isaac Yoder is an inter-disciplinary artist, whose work addresses memory and fantasy and their effects on our present understanding of the world around us. “Bed-time Paintings” is a series of gouache illustrations on vintage bed sheets. Just as an entomologist pins the wings of a butterfly down, the artist captures illusive moments of nostalgia manifest as fantastic creatures from childhood imagination and American kitsch. Armed with stately antlers, and delicate butterfly wings, our childhood pets and backyard critters become the guardians of our most precious and fragile memories, hopes, and fears.
www.isaacyoder.weebly.com
By 2014, I completed my BA, JD, LL.M. and spent the last few years in an office with a partial view of the Art Institute of Chicago wondering if I was going to die of a heart attack at my desk. I hated everything. It was time to hit the reset button. I put in my notice at work, sold everything that didn’t fit in my two suitcases and hopped a plane to South Korea. I was going to teach English for a while and figure things out. www.simonearthur.com
Dwight Lee Barnes III (USA, Ohio)
Dwight Lee Barnes III (Sentmode) is an artist specializing in imaginology and creationism. By hyper fusing unconscious binary digital ghost DNA from the cyber oxygen beacon of the spirit and clone melting its contents into representations of emotional hacking sense exploitations. www.sentmode.wixsite.com/sent-mode
Jeremy Baum (USA, Pennsylvania)
I live in Pittsburgh and my current graphic novel, Dörfler, is published by Fantagraphics.
www.madbaumer37.deviantart.com
www.madbaumer37.tumblr.com
Ohad Cadji (USA, Pennsylvania)
Ohad Cadji is a photographer living in Pittsburgh, PA. He creates abstract images through long exposure and intentional camera movement. Ohad’s work has appeared in several publications and art spaces throughout Western Pennsylvania.
www.cadjitation.com
Cindy Carpenter (USA, North Carolina)
Cindy Carpenter has been recognized for her writing throughout her educational journey, resulting in publications in local writing collections. She is inspired by Russian literature and philosophy, especially existentialism. She lives on the east coast in North Carolina with her husband, caring for two Chihuahuas and many plants.
Anna Columbia (USA, New York)
Born, raised, and living in NYC
www.annacolombianyc.wix.com/work
Jennifer Cox (USA, Oregon)
I once wrote a short story called “God is in the Dreaming” and since then I’ve found dreams to be a great source of creativity. I use dream imagery or am often inspired by those inner visions to become a god in my own small way. My greatest creation may be my son, a 13-year-old shaman, who shares his wisdom with me on a daily basis.
www.illustratedworlds.com
Kyle Eugene (USA, New York)
Kyle Eugene is a photographer and elementary school teacher, here and there. Kyle’s photography attempts to examine everyday simplicity to reveal truths both hidden and buried. His work has been featured in The Erotic Tales of Bucephalus, A Pictorial History of the Schools of Lawler, Iowa, and in this very book! He is currently based in New York, dividing his time between his girlfriend, educating America’s youth, and L-I-V-I-N.
www.jpgmag.com/people/kuehnerk1
Brittany Fanning (South Korea, Daejeon)
Brittany studied studio art at the University of North Georgia. The university was located in a quaint mountain, Dahlonega, Ga. Here, she kept very liberal friends, mostly queer men that spoke like Scarlett O’Hara… or Frank Underwood. They would get fucked up as a pile of coat hangers much too often. Until her cat died. Then, she had to leave the country. Brittany landed in South Korea and for several months remained uninspired. To her, South Korea was a dirty country full of tall, gray Lego buildings and a smell. She would say most westerners find it that way. Therefore, most of the work she has produced lacks in excitement… or some other word. It’s dry. To this day, she remains in South Korea because it’s easy and has not replaced her cat.
Jeremy Fisher (USA, California)
Jeremy Fisher is an artist and stop motion animator based in LA. His work is influenced by his upbringing in rural Pennsylvania and subsequent move to Los Angeles. His “Temporary Happiness” series explores the longevity and complexities of relationships and adaptation to new surroundings. His work has been on display nationally and published in Skullture: Skulls In Contemporary Visual Culture (Gingko Press).
www.jeremydfisher.com
Josh Gaines (USA, Oregon)
Josh Gaines ditched a promising military career to write books, run a profitless press, and build blanket forts with his daughter. He earned a writing MFA at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His fiction has been published in Two Cities Review, Nebula Rift, and in London’s Dark Mountain. His poetry appears in numerous anthologies and journals, and in his own books of poetry and flash fiction: Cigarette Sonatas, and little bones. He is the 2016 Fiction Writer in Residence at Art Farm Nebraska, and the founder and Captain of Thoughtcrime Press.
www.thoughtcrimepress.com
Charles Gardner (USA, Unknown)
Charles Gardner lives his dream within another dream. His location is unknown.
Jillian Hamilton (USA, Michigan)
Graduate of Oakland University and Michigan based writer.
Amanda Jordan (USA, California)
As a lover of materials and process, my work as an artist is based on a foundation of mixed styles and media. Glass, ceramics, painting, drawing, collage, and an endless assortment of experimental craft are used to create my body of work. I often use the human figure as a subject and testing ground for these experiments. I use these principals and methods in efforts to create a new aesthetic with each piece I create.
www.amandajocreations.weebly.com
Terence Kavanaugh (South Korea, Daejeon)
Terence Kavanaugh was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY. He’s a lifelong reader and an aspiring novelist who lives with his wife in Daejeon, South Korea.
Christopher Kramer (USA, Michigan)
Christopher Kramer is a painter, author, and book artist. Inside his fantasy worlds, he examines philosophical dualities, transitions of the psyche, alternate realities, and spiritual revelations. His published works include two novels and two poetry books published by Sublimation Pressworks. His limited edition artist books, paintings, and collages have appeared in nineteen group exhibits and two solo shows. A constant traveler, Christopher considers himself an international resident with no permanent home.
www.amazon.com/Christopher-of-Detroit/e/B00H1KAMFA
Kim Legler (USA, Pennsylvania)
I have no idea what I am doing, and that’s what helps me the most.
Jesca Leigh (USA, Pennsylvania)
Jesca Leigh studied English, Fine Arts, and Creative Writing at Carlow University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. There, she founded the creative writing club (The ‘Low Writers), co-edited the student newspaper (The Carlow Chronicle), and organized and hosted open mic nights at the Hungry Sphinx Café. Her works can be found in Khubz Zine, the Madwomen in the Attic series, and Jeremy Baum’s MEMORY anthology. Recipient of the William Patrick McShea Endowed Scholarship for the humanities in 2011 and the Rose Marie Beard Women of Spirit Honors Scholarship in 2012.
www.instagram.com/jescaleigho
Erik Marshall (USA, Michigan)
Erik Marshall is a writer and educator in Southeast Michigan. He writes weird film noir-style detective stories set in academia as well as memoir, essays and other odds and ends. He teaches Screen Studies at the university level and loves talking about film and literature.
www.erikmarshall.net
Jay Aaron McDonald (Mr. Meow)
(Canada, Prince Edward Island)
Born from a human and raised among them Jay McDonald grew to be, or perhaps, he may not have. Always wondering how he has managed to balance on the cusp of reality he continually awaits for the meniscus of life to exceed the viscosity of his imagination subsequently bursting and overflowing, dark and thick like the primordial ooze that he tends to trace his real existence back to. For the time being however he sits and waits. For what he is unsure, although he swears that at times it comes over him like a memory of something new.
Lacy McKinnney (USA, Oregon)
Lacy McKinney is a photographer and mixed media artist. She graduated from the Oregon College of Art and Craft with a BFA in Photography in 2009. Lacy has a love for 19th-century photographic processes and anything in an actual darkroom, which greatly influences her work. She spent a few years photographing women, babies, the moments surrounding birth and their families, which you can find at belovedpdx.com. She lives in Portland, OR with her husband and two young sons.
www.belovedpdx.com
Jessica Montgomery (USA, Michigan)
Born in 1988 in Detroit, Michigan, Jessica Montgomery is a visual artist who centers her work around ideas of evolution, man and nature, and scientific approaches to the arts. Her current body of work examines and attempts to employ the connections between curiosity, experimentation, and creativity and their implications on the artistic working process. Her investigation of these innate traits which foster the cross-cultural creation of artwork meddles with the idea that in fact all art is a form of generative art. Montgomery graduated from Kendall College of Art and Design in Grand Rapids, Michigan in 2011 with her BFA in Drawing. She is currently pursuing an MA in Fine Art from the University of Pretoria in Pretoria, South Africa. Montgomery has exhibited regionally in the United States as well as internationally. Notable shows include: Artprize (2011), the world’s largest open art competition of its kind; Art+Exploration (2011), a solo show in Beaufort, South Carolina’s The Gallery; and numerous group shows as a member of the Daejeon Arts Collective (2012-2014) in Daejeon, South Korea.
www.jmontgomeryart.carbonmade.com
Erik Mortenson (USA, Michigan)
Erik Mortenson specializes in American literary and visual texts and their intersection with the cultural concerns of the twentieth-century. He is the author of Capturing the Beat Moment: Cultural Politics and the Poetics of Presence (Southern Illinois, 2011) and Ambiguous Borderlands: Shadow Imagery in Cold War American Culture (Southern Illinois, 2016). Erik is currently finishing a third book project that explores the reception of the Beats in Turkey as “underground literature,” and is also an avid translator. In his spare time, he enjoys playing racquet sports, swimming, and cooking for his family.
www.erikmortenson.wixsite.com
Steph Neary (USA, Pennsylvania)
Steph Neary is an artist, sign painter, crafter, and doll maker living in Pittsburgh, PA. Folklore forever more!
www.stephneary.tumblr.com
Amanda Pentzak (USA, Oregon)
Amanda Pentzak is a graduate of Oregon College of Art and Craft. Inspired by found objects, and the joining of both drawing and textile techniques; work often explores color, texture and pattern.
www.instagram.com/amandapentzak
Helena Protopapas (USA, California)
Born in the Himalayas, to Swiss/Cypriot parents, Helena Lalita Protopapas is a multi-disciplinary visual and performance artist, musician, and teacher of art, music, and yoga. At 20, while working on an album and living in San Francisco and later Los Angeles, Helena was signed to Warner Bros as a recording and performing artist. After completing the album, she felt pulled to continue her education in the arts and fell in love with teaching and returned to rural Pennsylvania where she has developed a community of both yoga and violin students.
In the last few years, she has travelled throughout Portugal, Spain, Morocco, Denmark, Amsterdam, Belgium, France, Italy, and most recently studied in Switzerland. While traveling, Helena collects and draws inspiration for musical compositions that she weaves into both lectures and performances. As a meditation and yoga teacher, and natural synesthete (sonic and visual senses cross-over), Helena explores transcendence in her work. Fascinated with layering, mystery, memory, and the divine, Helena invites viewers, and listeners alike, to travel with her on an ethereal journey that connects both East and West, and reaches beyond into realms of the imagination.
www.helenaprotopapas.com
Denise M. Roguz (USA, Michigan)
In her paintings, Denise uses watercolor and mixed media to achieve textured surfaces and other visual effects, while her digital collage incorporates manipulated images to achieve surreal, dream-like worlds. Her work is mainly abstract and symbolic, and her compositions explore organic worlds, the spiritual, visions, dreams, and remnants of the past. Denise currently lives in the Detroit-area and holds a BFA in painting from Western Michigan University. She is the recipient of the Robert and Eleanor DeVries Art Award (1998, 1999, 2000), the Angie Gaymen Carmer Art Scholarship (1999), the Student Enrichment Grant Fund for Art (1998), and the WMU Permanent Art Collection Purchase Award (2000).
www.denisemroguz.com
Rachel Rothwell (Ireland, Wexford)
An Irish artist living in Switzerland, Rachel Rothwell graduated from Limerick School of Art and Design in 2012. She spent 2014 in South Korea, where she was an active member of the Daejeon Arts Collective, exhibiting regularly across the country. Her work examines the process of self-definition, exploring the external factors that influence us as we try to make sense of who we are, from the material factors to less tangible influences that shape the version of ourselves we present to the world. She exhibits regularly, and held her debut solo show in April 2016 at Inspire Galerie, Dublin.
www.rachelrothwell.net
Lauren Saleh (USA, Michigan)
I am open.
Lauralee Sikorski (USA, Indiana)
Lauralee Sikorski is a Connecticut-born award winning artist currently living in the Midwest. After art showings in Chicago, Northwest Indiana, and Michigan, she traveled to London where she was juried into a Raw Arts Exhibition at the Candid Arts Center. Here, her artwork was purchased into a private collection. She continued to show abroad in another juried exhibition in Berlin and continued showing throughout the U.S. Along with being published in national arts and literary journals, late last year her artwork was featured for the third time as a cover for Branches magazine celebrating over 25 years in print. Influences: In 2004 she received her teaching certification for hatha yoga and has continued her training with multiple certifications including meditation and integrates these Eastern disciplines with the creation of artwork.
www.artprize.org/lauralee-sikorski
Jessica Sowell (USA, Oregon)
Jessica Sowell strives to create illustrative art through the elements of storytelling, nature, love and loss. She earned her BFA in Drawing and Painting from Oregon College of Art and Craft, and is currently illustrating two children’s storybooks. In her free time, she can be usually found painting, crafting, or knitting. She plans to return to school to pursue Art Therapy.
Billy Summers (Christy Chavez) (USA, Unknown)
Billy Summers was an American writer and illustrator best known for authoring popular children’s books under the pen name Christy Chavez. His work includes several of the most popular children’s books of all time, selling over 600 million copies and being translated into more than 20 languages by the time of his death.
Stephen Takacs (USA, Ohio)
Stephen Takacs is an artist and educator based in Columbus, Ohio. He holds a BFA from the Oregon College of Art and Craft and an MFA from The Ohio State University. He is interested in exploring both timeless and contemporary issues using historical photographic techniques. www.brownieinmotion.org
www.stakacs.com
Martyn Thompson (United Kingdom, Buckingham)
I am an artist and photographer from the U.K. who decided to pursue my personal studies of Korean video artist Baik Nam June with a move to South Korea. While still actively producing art, and after partaking in a few group exhibitions with the International Art Community, I held my first solo exhibition in 2011 at Gallery I in Insadong, Seoul. To date, I have held nine solo exhibitions and partaken in over 30 group exhibitions in several countries across the world, including the U.K, where I now work as a wedding photographer.
www.m-art-yn.com
Lulie Vorster (South Africa, Pretoria)
Lulie Vorster is a nice young dame based in Pretoria, South Africa. Her grandmother loves the pictures she makes and often puts them on her fridge for safe keeping. She often rants about all the really bad shit happening on this beautiful planet, but is easily distracted by butterflies.
Michael White (USA, California)
Born 1986 in Sacramento, CA, White received his BFA in Craft from the Oregon College of Art & Craft in 2011. He currently lives and works in Sacramento, CA.
www.michaeljameswhite.wordpress.com
Isaac Yoder (USA, Oregon)
Isaac Yoder is an inter-disciplinary artist, whose work addresses memory and fantasy and their effects on our present understanding of the world around us. “Bed-time Paintings” is a series of gouache illustrations on vintage bed sheets. Just as an entomologist pins the wings of a butterfly down, the artist captures illusive moments of nostalgia manifest as fantastic creatures from childhood imagination and American kitsch. Armed with stately antlers, and delicate butterfly wings, our childhood pets and backyard critters become the guardians of our most precious and fragile memories, hopes, and fears.
www.isaacyoder.weebly.com