Laura Bianco-Martinez
I am a landscape painter living in the Hudson Valley of New York working primarily in pastels and encaustics. After a career as an art educator I know focus on creating while I travel. I have outfitted a small van to accommodate my supplies, my sleeping space and room for my dog. My studio is […]
Elizabeth Caputo
Pictured: Elizabeth in her studio I had a friend a couple of Christmas’s ago take me aside to say “I really like your paintings, but your sculptures are just better”. Taking that to heart, these last couple of years I’ve been doing just that. Using mostly newspaper and cardboard, I am trying to get as […]
Mark Lavatelli
In 1976, after studying and teaching art history, I decided to focus on the creation and study of paintings. In graduate school in New Mexico I encountered an area of deadfall timber in the Sandia Mountains that served as subject matter for drawings, photographs, and paintings and continues to inform many compositions. My starting points […]
Rachael Gootnick
I have loved books, and art, ever since I was a child, but I never could have imagined I’d end up here, living my life as a book artist. Life is a collection of chapters after all, and art is the method of expression. We don’t know how the story goes until we’ve experienced it, […]
Chihiro Makio
I was born and raised in Japan, and decided that I would rather attend an art school in the states than in Japan. Creating something has always been my passion from a young age, and I found myself most at peace when I was working on a project. I wanted an opportunity to explore different […]