Art by Guilherme Bergamini
The Trip of my Dreams
Forest
Beiradão
Amazon River
Izquierda Latino Americana
Femicide
Visual artist and photographic reporter, Guilherme Bergamini, is Brazilian and graduated with a degree in journalism. For more than two decades, he has developed projects with photography and the various narrative possibilities that art offers. The works of the artist dialogue between memory and social-political criticism. He believes in photography as the aesthetic potential and transforming agent of society. Awarded in national and international competitions, Guilherme Bergamini participated in collective exhibitions in fifty-four countries.
Yellow Dog by Pia Quintano
Pia Quintano is a New York based writer painter who attended Mills College and resided in the Bay Area for many years. Fascinated by the narrative in paintings and the visual worlds in fiction. Paintings were sold at the Frank Miele Folk Art Gallery in NYC until it ultimately, after many years, closed.
Art by Shane Watt
Christiania
Amazon
Ancu Fields
Shane Watt embarked upon a career as an artist in the early 2000s that has since seen his work exhibited internationally, including in Montreal, Lagos, Miami, and London. He also exhibited in New York City with the Ricco Maresca gallery at the 2023 Outsider Art Fair. He has completed several art residencies, including in Barcelona as part of a 2015 urban residency at Jiwar and in 2023 in Copenhagen at the Christiania Researcher in Residence program. His work has appeared in several publications including El Pais, Muzzle Magazine, and The Guardian, which described his map, “Shutterbug,” as “a ‘mash-up map,’ inspired by a long-distance relationship. . . . it includes features from Montesquieu in south-west France, Athens, Washington, DC, and Philadelphia.”
Art by J. C. Chen Henderson
Father Memories
Innocence
JC Chen Henderson publishes fiction, poetry, and visual art in literary reviews and poetry magazines. Her work appears in journals such as Fourteen Hills, Poetry East, Sunspot Literary Journal, Freshwater Review, The Pointed Circle, The Clackamas Review, and SLANT, to name a few. Henderson strives to express spirituality and sexuality in her work. She has sold hundreds of her paintings.
Art by Barbara Martin
Uphill Both Ways
Barbara Martin is an award winning artist who grew up on three continents—and has lived coast to coast. She earned an MBA, is a certified creativity coach and teaches art. Her work is contemporary in style and leans toward the abstract and sometimes surreal or visionary.
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