Joan Kantor’s poetry focuses on nature, the human condition and the visual arts. Her work has been widely published and has taken first place for poetry in The Hackney Literary Awards Contest as well as The Writer’s Digest Self-Published Book Awards Contest.

Since we are visibly different and our faces reveal our soul, I paint portraits. I treasure honoring nature. Something magical happens as a subject's inner spirit emerges onto a canvas.

Viewing a portrait painting can be an opportunity to slow down, open our social and emotional walls, to know and feel a subject's essence and experience a genuine connection with them.

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Creating has always been a part of who Susan is—ever since childhood, she’s had a pencil, pen, or brush in hand. A lifelong lover of books, art, libraries, and museums, she later discovered glass art, founded an art school, authored a bestselling how-to book now in its fourth edition and sold worldwide. Today, Susan is combining her love of writing and art into a coffee table book—a true reflection of her life’s passion.

I am involved in using a mixed - media approach in my paintings. I usually work on Yupo, a plastic manmade paper and have currently returned to working on canvas. My paintings incorporate collage techniques, acrylics, dyes, oil pastels and stamping. Whimsical animals are my favorite subject to paint, although currently, I have been working with layering techniques that use geometric forms. An emphasis is on color and movement.

“Mark Making is a term used to describe the different lines, patterns, and textures we create in a piece of art. Ellen Mason’s work deals with the landscape, organic forms, and the surrounding environment.“

Although not site specific, her paintings and drawings deal with the physical process of actually making the mark, resulting in tension and, layering that result in either bold or delicate statements.

Award winning fiction author, published poet, playwright, novelist, short story writer, essayist and editor Ronni is a Book Midwife helping writers birth their books and Founder and Director of Write It Out® since 1992 facilitating writing workshops in the US, Italy and Bermuda.

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SANDRA MOULIN has been lecturing and performing her one-woman show for seven years. She dresses in costume and plays the role of the muse of famous composers and tells their stories through the eyes of the “other woman.” She plays piano selections from the composers most well-loved pieces and involves the audience in her shows. She teaches at Osher Lifelong Learning at Ringling and at the Education Center at Temple Beth Israel on Longboat Key, and has been teaching and performing for over 50 years.

Find the beauty.” I have always been a keen observer. If you know me now, it’s hard to believe I barely spoke as a child. But, I watched. I vividly remember taking in everything around me from a very young age, the sights, the sounds, the energy of life everywhere. As an artist today, I do the same, experiencing, exploring and imagining, until WHAM, I am stopped in my tracks by... something, an image, a moment in time. It might be the way the light just hit those rocks, or the glitter of colors dancing on the water, the intricate textures of someone’s hair or the intimate tilt of two heads engaged in conversation. It’s not really about the subject matter itself. I look for the beauty in the moment that makes me catch my breath. And, then, I paint it.