Her teaching career includes work as an artist/teacher in New York City museums, Carleton College, California State University Long Beach, Goddard College, Hampshire College, and the Institute for Social Ecology. She has guest lectured and led workshops all over North America and in Europe. Beverly has co-created a program, Arts in Community, with a focus on art for social change for the University of Washington, Tacoma. She lives in the middle of the woods on Vashon Island with her husband and son. visit her website

She loves the process of making a sculpture, but the result is still more important to her. Mostly she creates portraits of people she knows, but also portraits from her imagination, which gives her more of a feeling of her own creation: "I can give more character and power or sensitivity in a sculpture when it comes from my mind...I feel more free."

Unfortunately, due to her Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia, she is currently not producing any works.

She is an artist, painting life-size images of archetypal and mythological women: the sacred landscape in human form. Her paintings are exhibited within installations that celebrate the deep magic and integrity of the ancestral land. Her most recent exhibition THE NORTHERN SISTERHOOD OF DRUMS, drew closely on her journeys during several winters into the European Arctic landscape, combining a life-size council of ancestral grandmothers with ceremonial drums and other totemic items gathered around a traditional northern winter house. Carolyn writes powerful mythic stories that explain and expand on the symbolism in her paintings and songs. see her work

Continually deferring and referring back to the language of nature, the artist explores her natural affinity for fabric design and ornamentation using traditionally decorative and natural elements such as trees, flowers, cells, stripes and alien or marine-like forms. Highly detailed in oil and gold leaf, these elements function as visual building blocks of elaborate, dreamy, yet earth-bound realities, familiar places of dynamic confluence and resolve, where the consciousness can dwell and find new perspective.

In haiku I like Basho, Buson, Issa...others as well, and some of Kerouac's haiku I like very much, including those he wrote while doing a retreat in the Sierras...

He was also the creator and MC of Sharp Petals Poetry Series at the Palmyra Tea Room, as well as the poetry series at Java Market.

His poetry has been published in the Newark Literary Review, Mixed Media, Bergen Record, MetroWest Jewish News, and Maultrommel.

(from her album Songs from a Porcelain Trailer)

Some of her notable private performances include playing for Vice President Bush's inauguration and at many prestigious Hollywood gatherings. You can hear Kim on various commercials and on albums by The String Band, Dave Essig, Tony Kosinec (with Paul Schaffer), Dan Hill and her own band Lila. She wrote with hit songwriters for The Doobie Brothers, Paula Abdul, Sheena Easton and Natalie Cole as well as musicians for Peter Gabriel, Celine Dion, Sara McLachlan, Tori Amos, Joni Mitchell, John Hiatt, Daniel Lanois, Robbie Robertson, Toni Childs, Crowded House, Sam Phillips, Laura Brannigan, Sister Sledge, Rick Springfield, and Tina Turner.

Kim has several albums out and was a one woman band, producing music from her specially made porcelain environment due to her chemical hypersensitivities.

I have a great respect for what makes people different, as well as what makes us similar. Earth-centered religions, such as Wicca and Paganism, believe that everything and everyone are connected and contain their own beauty, and art is a perfect medium to portray these ideas. I also enjoy diversity in the materials I utilize, and for each piece I create, I select the media that best exemplifies the symbols I’ve chosen to work with. Each piece of art becomes it’s own myth-story.

Unlike the agricultural images, my subjects are familiar objects and environments, often around my home and garden, and include schools, restaurants, movie theaters, airplanes, organic farms, and the nearby Rio Grande where pesticides settle by routine spraying or drift. I show what the demonstration implies for those of us who are not farmworkers but are exposed daily to the same chemicals used in agriculture.

Leesa overcame her physical limitations and eventually filled the promise of a blank page with the beauty her soul never stopped observing in the world around her. She has lived with MCS for more than seven years. Leesa, a Bijoutier since 1989, also designs for La Bijoux, her accessory line specializing in custom formal and wedding accessories. She lives in Atlanta, GA where she continues to design, write, and encourage others. For more information visit Leesa’s website at www.HealthyHighway.org.

I like to work on several pieces at the same time for a few reasons. My interests change frequently and I need to be deeply connected to what I am working on. This pertains to mediums and sizes as well. Some days I am drawn to oils, other days when I have less energy I will work in watercolor. I love the freedom of moving from one to another with music as a constant inspiration. The music helps me stay connected to my feelings, which can then be more easily passed onto the canvas or paper.

Now an artist in her own right, she spent some time in Vancouver Island, Canada and then Thailand, where she worked on digital photography projects while detoxing from modern life. Her latest foray to Sri Lanka has culminated with the opening of Akka Allia Watta - 'older sister elephant garden' - a retreat for those with chemical sensitivities on 2.5 acres bordering the oldest wild park in the world.

She may be reached at her website www.phyllis-chesler.com which has drawn more than 3 million visitors in the past 3 years. Click here for a more detailed bio.

I draw inspiration from everyone. Picasso, Groucho Marx, Bob Dylan, Ingmar Bergman, John Steinbeck, Cy Twombly, Richard Hell, Daffy Duck...

I was working with the metaphors of metamorphosis and the transformational journey long before I got sick. Part way through the journey, the metaphors seemed irrelevant, agitating even, thin compared to the suffering I was experiencing. Now they ring true again. Perhaps tomorrow they won’t."

I have continued with my creative works in whatever forms I could. When I could not tolerate electric guitars, I played acoustic instead. When I could not work with art materials, I made collages out of stick-on stars. My creativity is one of the most rewarding, important and healing aspects of my life.

A long time environmental activist, Treesha founded and directed an MCS support group for 8 years in PA, worked in AZ on the Dispossessed Outreach Project to create MCS housing, was elected to the town council in the town where she resides, and is currently the chair of the town’s Environmental Advisory Committee. Her work focuses on the town’s environment and public health and she is working on the cleanup of an old mining site there. She writes the research profiles for Our Toxic Times, the monthly publication of the Chemical Injury Information Network.

Treesha's comic collections, MCS Olympics and Laugh Where it Usually Hurts featuring Kemmick Lee Sensatif are available for purchase for $5.00. Send to: Harry deFrance, 12814 Paint Brush Drive, Sun City West, AZ 85375

Traveling throughout the U.S., Wendy's commercial art career would range from copyrighted drawings and designs, catalogues, ads and instructional materials, to the bill boards of Ocean City (MD). Her continued vision to balance her commercial art with her fine art lead her to open Windy Hill Studio, LLC in Alexandria (VA) in 1999. Since 1997, the various techniques and images of the years have melded into the gouache and rice paper images that characterize her work today. visit my website