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Aurelio Madrid
Aurelio Madrid is an observer and fan of art theory and history, whose intellectual and artistic enthusiasms ignite through experimentation with art’s contradictory possibilities across multiple genres. He is an autodidact who discovered his talent early on. Madrid prodigiously creates art, while he continues to question its mysteries and ideas all the same.
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Carmelita Caruana
I love cooking and art. And architecture, photography, poetry, and design - graphic, object and interiors. Before setting up my Bologna based cooking school, I worked in teaching adults and educational administration, and then managed cultural/educational organizations. I also love travel and have lived at least 3 years in each of Malta, Lisbon, Cairo, London and Barcelona. I'm @cookitaly on Twitter
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Christopher Aris
Christopher Aris is an artist, born New Year’s Day, 1978. He has an affinity for art and music. After living in Spain and being inspired, he returned to his home town, Austin, Texas, to study fine arts at St. Edward's University. Much of his art includes drawing and mixed media. Currently, Christopher lives in Austin, teaching drawing and painting.
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David Maclagan
David Maclagan is a writer, artist, lecturer and retired art therapist, living in W Yorks. He has published numerous articles on Outsider Art, art and imagination and psychological aesthetics (the title of a book published in 2001 by Jessica Kingsley). His latest book Outsider Art: from the margins to the marketplace has just been published by Reaktion Books.
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Gretta Barclay
Gretta Barclay is a passionate reader, writer, and lover of art in all its forms. She writes essays, short stories, poems, and novels. Her first novel, “To See a Sundog”, is an adventure story that takes place in a small Midwest town. She is in the process of writing her second novel.
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John Holt
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John Ladd
John Ladd is a writer, poetry student, and confirmed geek living in Alexandria, VA. The most notable objects of his geekery include formal poems, postmodern plays, crossword puzzles, the Internet, and dead languages. He is the author of Paradise Tossed, a blog that talks about what happens when poetry and technology collide.
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Julie Andrijeski
Julie Andrijeski recently completed her first novel, an urban fantasy, and is in progress on two more. She has worked on a number of short independent films and is in progress on a graphic novel, in addition to work as a freelance journalist. She currently lives in Portland, Oregon with a disgruntled rabbit named Hazel, and a bird named Philemon who runs the joint.
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Kate Sherrod
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Kathleen Kirk
Kathleen is the author of three poetry chapbooks: Selected Roles (Moon Journal Press, 2006), Broken Sonnets (Finishing Line Press, 2009), and Living on the Earth (Finishing Line Press, 2010, New Women’s Voices Series No. 74). Her work appears in numerous print and online journals, including Apparatus, Ekphrasis, Greensboro Review, Leveler, Poems & Plays, Spoon River Poetry Review, and Willow Review.
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Klaus-Dieter Knoll
Klaus-Dieter Knoll, born in 1963, living in Berlin, Germany. Professional printer, he is a self-employed graphic-designer and web-designer, now. Being always interested in arts and writing, he combined the two and writes for the German online art-magazine Art&Events as art-critic and art-journalist. In his own blog he mainly writes about graphic-design and social-media marketing.
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Laura Lawson
Laura Lawson paints when writer's block strikes and writes when painter's block strikes. She has studied fine art at LCAD and is pursuing a degree in journalism. Recently diagnosed with the degenerative eye disease retinitis pigmentosa, she strives to bring hope to those without vision through her blog. She is currently working on her first book about coping with vision loss.
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Lara Cory
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Chris Al-Aswad
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Lou Freshwater
Lou Freshwater loves literature, existential philosophy, spicy food, and the Delta Blues. She considers herself to be a life-long student of these and other things. She has written a screenplay, and she writes poetry and fiction at her blog and at Fictionaut. Her creative work has been published in numerous journals and her critical work will appear in the forthcoming issue of The Arthur Miller Journal.
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Luke Grundy
Luke Grundy is a fervent assimilator of media living amid the bright lights of London, England. If he’s not watching films or listening to music, he’s probably asleep, eating or dead. An aspiring writer, journalist and musician, he is the creator of movie/music blog Odessa & Tucson and lives for epistemology.
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Linnea West
Linnea West writes about contemporary art, culture, and travel--all subjects she feels passionately about. She lives in New York City--except for those times when wanderlust gets the better of her. This happens often. Fortunately her laptop travels well. She is finishing her first novel.
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Mandy Al-Aswad
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Marc Nash
Londoner. 20 years working within the music counter-culture, currently working within the freedom of expression NGO world. Autodidact writer, interrogator of language. Live performer. Debut novelist. Three others completed, further one in progress. Ex-playwright. Kids soccer team manager.
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Morris Berman
Morris Berman is well known as an innovative cultural historian and social critic. He is the author of a trilogy on the evolution of human consciousness–The Reenchantment of the World (1981), Coming to Our Senses (1989), and Wandering God: A Study in Nomadic Spirituality (2000)–and in 2000 his Twilight of American Culture was named a “Notable Book” by the New York Times Book Review.
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Mark Kerstetter
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Reinaert de V.
Reinaert is an enthusiastic amateur artist and seriously addicted to culture. His interest for anything cultural reaches far and deep, ranging from Japanese cult movies to religion and comedy. He loves the ancients and classics, but is open to innovation, the exotic, and modern experimentation in art. He studied philosophy specializing in art philosophy, but also holds a bachelor in cultural anthropology.
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Scott Rothstein
Scott Rothstein is an artist who writes primarily about self-taught art and artists informed by traditional culture. His own work can been seen in several American museums, including the Art Institute of Chicago; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Rothstein has lived in Philadelphia, New York City, New Delhi, and Tokyo. He is currently based in Bangkok.
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Simon Kartar
Simon Kartar writes short, flash and novel-length fiction about the spaces between us. An anthropology graduate, Samba drummer (he plays Timba), and accidental endurance athlete, he also runs, cycles and kayaks through these spaces. He lives in southern England with his fabulous, energising family.
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Stephen Pain
Stephen Pain was born in London in 1956. He studied art at Herefordshire College, later went to UEA and studied literature. He worked abroad then came back to do a law degree. He has had poetry published in New Poetry, Snakeskin, Dada, Pif etc. Currently a researcher in zoosemiotics based in Denmark.
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Teia Pearson
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Tony Thomas
Tony Thomas was born in England in 1939, and is a retired bureaucrat living in Brisbane, Australia. He has an Australian wife, two adult daughters, a dog and a cat. He holds a degree in economics from the University of Queensland. His interests are catholic, and include: philosophy, writing fiction, poetry, and blogging political diatribes.
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Aurelio Madrid
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Carmelita Caruana
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Christopher Aris
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David Maclagan
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Gretta Barclay
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John Holt
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John Ladd
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Julie Andrijeski
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Kate Sherrod
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Kathleen Kirk
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Klaus-Dieter Knoll
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Laura Lawson
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Lara Cory
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Chris Al-Aswad
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Lou Freshwater
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Luke Grundy
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Linnea West
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Mandy Al-Aswad
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Marc Nash
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Morris Berman
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Mark Kerstetter
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Reinaert de V.
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Scott Rothstein
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Simon Kartar
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Stephen Pain
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Teia Pearson
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Tony Thomas
Patricia van Lubeck is a self-taught artist. In recent years her visually dynamic, pattern-oriented works show landscapes and weird plant species which she calls her psychedelic gardens.
David Maisel’s large-scaled, otherworldly photographs chronicle the complex relationships between natural systems and human intervention, piecing together the fractured logic that informs them both.