CJ Heyliger grew up on the Colorado Front Range and received a BFA from the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University in 2006. His work has been exhibited at Bodega in Philadelphia, PA and Panopticon Gallery in Waltham, MA. He is a founding member of Sun System Press, a publishing collaborative he shares with Cole Caswell and Bryan Graf. He currently lives and works in Somerville, Massachusetts.

Charles Norris is a print maker, photographer, architect and waterfront planner who lives and works in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Popham Beach, Maine. His photography and watercolor painting began in design school and explore the built and natural environment of his work and travels. In recent years he has created woodblock prints that derive from his photographic compositions, and often focus on waterfront and marine subjects. His photography and woodcuts have been exhibited for the past three years at the Off the Wall/Community of Artists juried shows at the Danforth Museum in Framingham (2010-2012), at the 2012 Small Works show at the Maud Morgan Arts Center in Cambridge and in a two person show with his wife Diane in 2013 at Half Crown Design, also in Cambridge.

James Weinberg is a designer and artist based out of Somerville, Massachusetts. His inspiration comes from natural history, folk-art, printed ephemera, op-art and typography. Using these elements he creates layered silkscreens art prints and posters that collage discarded printed matter with patterns and original drawings.

Stephanie is a multi disciplinarian born and raised in Boston. She received her BFA in Photography from Massachusetts College of Art in 2004. Since then Stephanie has continued her work within photography. She is a Digital Imaging Specialist at Boston’s pro lab, Colortek of Boston, and also freelances for various clients in retouching. Stephanie is also the Managing Director for local artist collective Rifrákt.

Stephanie’s photographs materialize mainly out of happenstance, decisively wandering while looking to capture and connect the mind’s dots. These narrative works portray repetitious themes of time, home, and growth. Recently, she extended her interests to roles of the self, producing scenes both synthesized and naturally occurring, challenging the viewer’s notions of self placement.
Stephanie’s work within Rifrákt has been exhibited at numerous local venues such as Voltage Coffee & Art, Boston City Hall, Lincoln Arts Project, Bloc11 and The Hallway Gallery. She has exhibited her works solo and amongst group exhibitions at Bromfield Gallery, Brooklyn Art Library, The Griffin Museum of Photography, Tufts University Art Gallery, Thomas Young Fine Art, Atlantic Works, and former SOWA gallery, BF Annex. She is represented by TurningArt.com.

As a psychologist I have always been interested in the struggles of people’s past and how this affects their ongoing lives… the relationship between personal memory and universal humanity. I work in a number of media (clay, wood, metal, found objects, tchotchkes) to explore these connections. The resulting sculptures and constructions are attempts to express passionate and painful memories/yearnings for the past (Pothos – a longing for love which can be both sentimental and maudlin) and the tragic sense of life unfulfilled in the present. A dose of the court jester/iconoclast is often part of my work.

Patricia Palmer is an artist and arts educator exploring a personal vocabulary of abstract imagery through mixed media including printmaking, painting, drawing and encaustic.

McKey Berkman is a bookbinder and book conservator working in the Bindery at 11 Miller Street. She is a 2011 graduate of the North Bennet Street School bookbinding program, and does binding and conservation/repair work for both private and institutional clients.

I began my studies in glass with Patrick Reyntiens in 1973 at Burleighfield House in England and apprenticed to other glass artists in the U.K., Canada and Germany. With a BFA in painting from Massachusetts College of Art, I continued studies at the Museum School in Boston. Since 1978 I have maintained a glass studio in Cambridge, MA and more recently in Somerville, MA.

My work, in which I apply a painter’s methods to handblown
stained and flashed glass, has appeared in several solo exhibitions in the U.S. and the U.K. as well as in group exhibitions in the U.S., Germany, Wales, Iceland, Ireland, Austria, France, Canada and Japan. My work has also appeared in several books on International work in glass and numerous other publications.

For the last decade my work has been focused on public art, creating unique site-specific works for civic buildings, hospitals, universities and transportation systems. My ongoing work
includes glass paintings, most of which are now in public and private collections in the U.K., Europe and Japan. One of the main goals of my work in glass is to apply a human touch to an architectural scale.

Janeann Dill’s films have screened widely in numerous international film festivals, on public television, and in theatrical and museum environments. Her art work has been exhibited throughout Europe, South Africa, the Middle East and the USA; and her published writings as a Ph.D. in Media Philosophy have been translated into Spanish, Korean, and Arabic. Dill is working towards the completion of an historically pertinent documentary film that positions Jules Engel and the impact of experimental animation within the time line of art history, Visualizing Art History: Experimental Animation and Its Mentor, Jules Engel (1909-2003). Dr. Dill is presently a Visiting Faculty at Lesley University (AIB’s Animation and Motion Media Department) and the School of Museum of Fine Arts (Film and Animation Department).

“Philosophically, I am an interdisciplinary artist interested in experimental thinking as the fine art of all disciplines. Especially but not only, my creativity focuses on the in-between spaces that traverse disciplinary boundaries. This point of view pervades not only my personal art making but, as well, the institute I founded in 2008, Institute for Interdisciplinary Art and Creative Intelligence (ThinkTank). IIACI (pronounced ee-ah’-chee) encourages innovative research, praxis, and critical studies in the fields of experimental animation, installation art, the performance arts, the literary arts, electronic arts, drawing, painting, film, music and technologies.”

Chris “Horse” Hartelius received his BFA in Film/Animation/Video from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2004. Since 2005, he has been an Animator and Technical Artist at Harmonix Music Systems in Cambridge, MA, where he has worked on video games such as Guitar Hero, Rock Band, and Dance Central. Chris is also the founder of True American Dog (www.trueamericandog.com), a Photoshop based web comic, and has been updating this site with fellow artist Frank Grecco since 2008. Now, after 10 years in the digital entertainment business, Chris explores more traditional mediums within the True American Dog universe.