Franklin has been painting since he was seven years old. His first attempt at painting a blue jay was met with the review of, "nice duck" from his mother. Undaunted, Franklin persevered. He attended Ringling School of Art and Design in Sarasota, Florida and is now a professional freelance illustrator. You can see more of Franklin's artwork on his homepage, or check out his blog.

For more information or to see Svetlana's work, check out her portfolio.

For more information or to see Chris' work, check out his MySpace.

Lia Cornella grew up in Blairstown, NJ where she was raised on a 16-acre plot of woods and farmland. She later attended SUNY New Paltz, where she earned a BA in Visual Arts. Through sculpture, painting, and printmaking, the 22-year-old artist has been working on a collection of work pertaining to the psychedelic mindset, through which she attempts to embody and manifest imagery that emanates the beauty and wonder that accompanies psychedelic spirituality.

Jordana Eisen is an artist who graduated in May 2009 with her Masters in Fine Arts at the State University of New York in New Paltz. In May 2007 she received her Bachelor's of Fine Arts with a concentration in Printmaking, from the Corcoran College of Art and Design, in Washington DC.

Her work is about relationships, memories, dreams, and self-identity. She is interested in capturing everyday moments and domesticity. She touches upon many personal themes such as solitude, loneliness, comfort, frustrations, obsessions, thoughts, changes, and everyday annoyances.

Vladimir Ginzburg was born in St. Petersburg, Russia. He has enjoyed paintings since visiting Hermitage, Russian Museums and many other places in St. Petersburg. During his teenage years he was an avid photographer, and he used his bathroom as a makeshift darkroom to print his photographs. He immigrated to Israel in 1979, and was astonished by the strong colors and the blinding light of the sun. He could no longer afford the materials used for photography, but Vladimir soon found drawing just as irresistible. He started taking drawing and painting courses. In 1989, he moved to New York, where he studied painting at the Art Students League. His first group show was in 1993; his first solo show was in 1996. He continues to live in New York City. You can find more of Vladimir's work on his homepage.

Fine artist Jamie Greene graduated in 2005 from Montserrat College of Art in Beverly, MA. She received a Masters of Fine Art degree from SUNY New Paltz in 2008 and recently completed her teaching certification. She has exhibited her work in various galleries located in GA, CT, NY, New York City, and Boston.

Jamie works with a combination of print media such as silkscreen, lithography, etching, monotype and digitally printed images. Her work deals with themes of memory, family, home and the ephemeral. By making the work appear aged her art reflects the concept of a memory evoking the many layers of personal history embedded within. She often blends images of herself with family and strangers within her work. She also includes text delved from her own memories, creating situations that people throughout time have experienced and can always relate to such as love, death and friendship.

The themes of Jamie Greene's artwork is not only personal to her, but is also rendered in a way that allows the viewer to have their own intimate relation to it. Her work focuses on the diverse characteristics which make us all human and the idea of the home as an overarching symbol of humanity.

You can find more of her work on her homepage.

Sean Lucas Willett is a Beacon, NY based artist. He is primarily interested in a highly emotive, painterly aesthetic. And building objective forms through fortuitous, subconscious creation.

He is interested in typically centralized, traditional subject matter such as nudes, portraits and landscapes. Often with theatrical, grandiose overtones.

You can find more of his work on seanlucasart.com.

Madison Mastri is a Rhinebeck, New York resident. She graduated in December 2008 with a BA in Photography from Chester College of New England. Madison focuses her photographic attentions on abandoned houses and buildings. She feels an intense connection with the decayed or decaying places she photographs and has chosen her subject as such because of her interest in the idea of neglect.

Héctor Garcia Pineda was born in México City in 1968. He is a pharmaceutical engineer and a self-educated artist, in the last five years he has dedicated part of his time to his artistic production in traditional and digital media, he has supported artists in other countries and achieved a small collection of art.

Some of his works have been published in e-zines and fine art books in Europe. A comprehensive portfolio of his artworks may be viewed at hector-pineda.com as well as elyphas.deviantart.com.

Elizabeth Rabinovici was born in Brooklyn in 1984. She grew up in Oceanside, Long Island and she still lives there today. She went to Nassau Community College and The School of Visual Arts, where she received her B.F.A. She has a studio in Bushwick. You can find more of Elizabeth's work on her facebook.

Rochelle Riservato is a freelance photographer in the Hudson Valley who not only loves to capture the amazing landscapes and vintage structures abundant in this picturesque Valley, but is also a highly acclaimed portrait and wedding photographer. She has been published in national and local publications and exhibited in many galleries from NYC to the Hudson Valley. To see her work go to photosbyrochelle.com.

Ken Vallario was born in Miami, Florida in 1975 and he received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from Florida State University. His paintings are deeply focused on the figure and how that relates to the coming bio-genetic age and how we as humans are changing due to a growing hyper-connectivity. If the 20th century was a dissection of our artistic practices Vallario's work is an attempt to recombine the parts. He lives and works in New Paltz, NY and has shown in New York City, Philadelphia and the Hudson Valley. You can find more of Ken's work on his homepage.

For more information or to see Robert's work, check out his homepage or his portfolio.

For more information or to see Jeremy's work, check out his Facebook.

Christopher Woods has published a prose collection, Under a Riverbed Sky, and a book of stage monologues for actors, Heart Speak. He lives in Houston and in Chappell Hill, Texas.

Justin Zanzarella is a mixed media artist who lives in Westchester County, New York.