Margaret Angelo is an artist from Geneva, NY.  She earned her BFA in 2008 from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University.  She is currrently living and working in Cambridge, MA.

website: www.margaretangelosculpture.com

Mikki Ansin has worked as a set photographer on film sets since receiving an MFA in film in the early 70′s. Her work is collected by The Bibliotheque Nationale (Paris), the Kennedy Library, the USIA, and numerous private collectors. She has been published world wide in Time, Life, People, The New York Times, Paris Match, London Sunday Times, and India Today. Awards include a CINE Golden Eagle, first place stills Deauville Film Festival, and honors in the PS3 Prix de le Photographie Paris 2007. She has held a White House appointment to the Board of Governors of the USO.

website: www.mikkiansin.com

Through exploration of simple questions; Paul’s current works have taken divergent paths.

One path is an exploration of the curiosities, barriers, and masks one constructs (or is perceived to wear) while existing in a structured society. The other path is an investigation into the beauty, simplicity, and expressiveness of line. The former has taken hold using paint in two dimensions, the latter in steel and 3 dimensions.

Both are a result of trying to create a form of expression around an idea by asking simple questions.

Neither, thankfully, have any end in sight.

website: http://www.paularsenault.com

Cara Bean is a cartoonist, painter, and art teacher who was born and raised in the Weymouth, Massachusetts. She now lives and makes art at Lincoln Studios in Waltham, Massachusetts. During the school year, Cara attempts to tame rambunctious teenagers while still finding time to create comics and various art works.

website: beandoodling.blogspot.com

Bebe Beard earned her BFA in 1976, her MFA from Mass College of Art’s Studio for Interrelated Media in 1996. She has received grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, St Botolph’s Club Art Foundation and the Gottlieb Foundation Emergency Assistance; held residencies at Djerassi Resident Artists Program, MacDowell Colony and the Experimental Television Center in Owego, NY.  She has exhibited in a wide variety of venues – alternative spaces, galleries, theaters and festivals from Boston to Seoul.

Beard is a one-person think-tank. Her artwork blends media and combines equal parts creativity and ingenuity. While all artists experiment creatively, not all invent new things. Her creative experiments surprise us. Not only is the end creation unexpected, but so is her investigation. Styrofoam, ball bearings, rope, and rock. Video projected, video on cellphones. Always trying new things, she puts ordinary objects to new uses.

A teaching-artist since 2003, Bebe Beard shares her creativity and knowledge with art and design students at Wentworth Institute of Technology and Suffolk University in Boston, Massachusetts, where she lives and works.

website: bebebeard.com

I got my BA in Performing Arts (piano) in Vienna, Austria, at the University of Music and Performing Arts.

I later became interested in composition (music) and also more and more in the visual arts—particularly in photography, painting and clay work, beginning in Vienna, but after I came to Boston, I eventually got involved in almost every aspect of the visual arts.

I have had various solo shows of my work and also participated in group shows.  This is my third year in Brattle Theatre’s auction.

website: http://web.me.com/laleart

Amanda Bonaiuto is currently pursuing her Bachelor of Fine Arts at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Her paintings primarily investigate the translation between story telling and identity through other worldly figures. Her work was recently exhibited in the Courtyard Gallery of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in a group show titled “IMAGINARYACTIVE”.  Recent exhibitions include the “Student Annual Exhibition” at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, “Parallel Archive” at the Museum of Fine Arts Library, Boston, “Museum School Art Sale” at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, and “Annual Art’s for the Art’s Auction” in Ipswich, Massachusetts. She currently lives in Boston, Massachusetts, and outside of her painting practice enjoys making puppets and animated films.

website: www.amandabonaiuto.com

Charles Bradley lives in Ayer. His studio is there.  Currently, he works in Cambridge and Belmont, as a custom picture framer for Big Picture Framing.  He is self-taught.  Charles pays particular attention to abstract astronomical and / or spiritual themes.  His work evolved from early printmaking (serigraphs).  He tries to connect the human spirit and psyche with universal / astronomical themes. From 2000 to 2003 he actively showed in high end outdoor art shows in NY, NJ, CT and MA. He has also shown a number of times at the Concord Art Association’s members shows, attaining a “distinguished artist” status there.

website: http://charles-bradley.blogspot.com/

Brod is a 2004 Graduate of The New England School of Photography where she studied color darkroom photography and architectural photography.  She has exhibited throughout the Boston area including at Panopticon Gallery, The Photographic Resource Center, and The Khaki Gallery.  Her work is included in “The Boston Drawing Project” housed at Boston’s Carroll and Sons Gallery.

website: www.marabrod.com

Alan Bull is a painter, illustrator and art instructor based in Newburyport, MA.  He is a regular contributor to ArtHouse and volunteers at the Screening Room in Newburyport.  His work will be featured in an upcoming issue of The Believer.

website: www.alanbull.com

Kelly Burgess was born in eastern Connecticut in 1986. She is a wanderer, having moved thirteen times in her very short life. In the fall of 2006, she moved to Boston, Massachusetts to attend the Art Institute of Boston. Kelly graduated in May 2009 with a BFA in photography. She has exhibited internationally.  Currently, she continues to live and work in Boston, but am starting to get restless.

website: http://kelly-burgess.com

Jane Chakravarthy, Visual artist, Contemporary poet. Born in York, England. Jane Chakravarthy finished her formal studies in her birth-town, and moved to Boston, USA. There she focused more on her artistic direction, finding and creating a more lucid expression with creative writing, painting and more importantly on discovering her own sense of being an artist.

Jane primarily uses abstract imagery, metaphorical tones and irony to create a  deeper meaning to her work, offering different levels on the way her work can be perceived. “I rarely have a preconceived notion of what I will write or paint, my creativity comes from my life or vicariously from other people. I focus my energy to create images or scenes which guide me to purge and create a tangible expression; something I feel. I strive for my work to have a personal message, even if my point is not closed and or easily defined. I am happy if my work connects to others, offers them guidance, hope, peace or just a sense of acknowledgment on some level. My expression, creating my art is spiritual catharsis for me, I strive to let free my woes, to celebrate my oneness and embrace our collective consciousness.

website: www.janechakravarthy.com

I was raised by a television in suburban America — tuned in to all the big, bold, shiny things being sold in big, bold, shiny commercials. One of my first memories is the colors of the cereal aisle flashing by as I rode in my mom’s grocery cart. I still see things this way. I’m more likely to notice an ad on the side of the highway than the forest behind it.

We all try to isolate ourselves from the unfamiliar,  I’m exploring it with these works.

website: jasonchase.com

I use art as an opportunity to find, share, and explore the beauty in the world around me. I find that the patterns, forms, lines, and shadows of everyday objects are often overlooked, and that their beauty is often ignored. The goal of my photography is to capture and share those details, or moments that may be otherwise unnoticed or lost.

Chelsea Coon is interested in the structures essential for creation of life and the elements fundamental for their sustainment. She explores the indefatigable interconnectedness existing in every breath of the elegant universe. The matter and the non matter, the absence versus the presence are the fundamental ideas fueling the work she creates. She is asking the age old questions of herself and the viewer of what are we and what will we become? Chelsea is from New Milford, Connecticut and currently live in Boston, Massachusetts. She is currently attending the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in partnership with Tufts University and will graduate with a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in May 2012. Her most recent exhibitions include Arts for Action at the Student Union Gallery of University of Connecticut, The Prostitution of Art at Mobius, A Private Glimpse Juried Drawing show at the Rubin Frankel Gallery at the Hillel House of Boston University, and Whistling Past the Freedom Trail in the William Hunt Morris Library of The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She co-curated a show entitled ‘Imaginary Active’ which will be on view in the Courtyard Gallery in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston from February 19 to August 21, 2011.

website: www.chelseacoonart.com

mary dineen lives in arlington and has been selling her prints since 2006. she sells at many juried art fairs in the area, and on the web. mary has been published in digital photo u.k., redivider literary journal and grace ormond wedding style.

website: www.mdineenphoto.com

Soft Cities: These photographs on aluminum treat urban scenes as if they’re fleeting, ghostly impressions. Rather than showing the “”hard city”" of buildings and concrete, the images represent the dreamlike consciousness of the viewer.

In 2007 Gary Duehr was chosen as a Best Emerging Artist in New England by the International Association of Art Critics. In 2003 Duehr received an Artist Grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and his work has been featured in spaces including the ICA, Boston, MA; Exit Art, Umbrella Arts, and New York Arts, New York; and Gallery Tsubaki, Tokyo.

website: www.garyduehr.com

A graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, Grace’s work is inspired by everything from ornate classical textiles to abandoned buildings. A near obsession with repetition, pattern and line forms the backbone of her artistic process and results in a body of work which manages to remain cohesive even as it spans a diverse range of media. Constantly drawn to the beauty of the mundane, overlooked and unexpected; she strives in all her work to create pieces whose clean edged simplicity bellies their complex construction.

website: http://www.gracedurnford.com/