Lucinda Abra has two muses she serves, Writing and Art, believing the two to be intrinsically tied together. Art is a process that is never complete in its expression; it is a hint, a suggestion leaving the viewers to surmise on their own. Writing takes a deeper delve into a story, where the reader uses their own inner eye to see the images that form through the written word. She has been pursuing these crafts since childhood.

Abra reads her stories and poems at story slams and other written word occasions and has contributed to the National Association of Women Artists newsletter, NAWA NOW as well as Hudson Valley’s Chronogram Magazine. A working artist, her employment is as a sculpting assistant and fabricator. Her previous employment included the Erotic Art Gallery in NYC and the Tallix Foundry in Beacon, N.Y. She has worked on pieces by Koons, Schnabel, Stella, Nancy Graves, and many others. She was an assistant to Mary Frank and Al Held. Abra’s art has been featured in zines and c.d. Covers.

Her artwork can be found in collections across the U.S. and Europe.

While Abra has lived in Manhattan and Brooklyn, her home is now in the Hudson Valley. She lives in an old creamery first built in the mid-1800s. Her studio was also once a social hall and the neighborhood polling location.

My narrative paintings spring from a love for the overgrown fields, woods, wetlands and lakes of the Adirondacks where I grew up hiking and exploring. Currently I have an off- the -grid cabin on the edge of a field in the North Country. I create painted narratives that reflect my concern with climate change in both the landscape and native populations of birds and amphibians.

I earned a BFA in Fashion Design from Parsons School of Design, an A.A.S. in Textiles from Rochester Institute of Technology, and studied painting at Marylhurst University in Portland, Oregon.

I have exhibited my work in numerous group and solo shows including Cheryl McGinnis Gallery (New York, NY); Stone Ridge Center for the Arts (Stone Ridge, NY); Jane Street Gallery (Saugerties, NY); Studio 89, (Highland NY); Brick Gallery, (Catskill NY); Kingston Museum of Contemporary Art, (Kingston, NY); Bard College, (Annandale on Hudson, NY).

Residencies include Vermont Studio Center, Johnson Vermont, Jentel in Sheridan, Wyoming and the Platte Clove A.I.R. in Arkville, New York.

An extensive career in the fashion industry primarily as an apparel designer at Nike in Portland, Oregon was followed by creating and directing a fashion design degree program at SUNY Ulster Community College.

Jennifer Hicks was born in Lawrenceville, NJ, to an artist/opera singer mother and artist/EMT/“mad scientist” father. She received her MFA in Contemporary Performance from Naropa University (2006), her Degree in Fine Arts from The School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston (1996), and BFA from Tufts University (1984). Additionally, Ms. Hicks won the prestigious Traveling Scholars Fellowship from the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and Tufts University (1996).

She has exhibited and performed widely in such prominent settings as The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Tsai Performance Center, Mobius, The School of The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, The Bromfield Gallery Boston, CRASHarts Boston, CAVE NYC, The Boulder Fringe Festival, The Boulder Butoh Festival, The San Francisco Butoh Festival, New Orleans Fringe Festival, Artisterium Tbilisi, Movement Research at Judson Church, Club Helsinki, The Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Oberon, Naropa University, and participated in collaborations with Liars & Believers, a Cambridge-based theater company. She was a long-time member of Mobius (1996-2006), the longest-running performance art collective in the US, based in Boston. Ms. Hicks is also an alumna of Franklin Furnace, a nonprofit organization that annually awards grants to early-career artists.

Carmen Lizardo is a mixed-media artist using photography, alternative photographic processes, printmaking, and drawing. She has received multiple awards, including Women Studio Workshop book production, a Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts in Photography, The Academy of Arts and Letters award, an Enfoco Fellowship in photography, a Hudson Valley Empowering Artist award, and a Sustainable Arts Foundation award, among others. Lizardo was one of five American Artists to receive an international travel and art production grant from the U.S. Department of Cultural Affairs. Her outreach extends to public art projects commissioned by the Metropolitan Transit Authority at 181st Street Station in New York City. Lizardo’s career also includes the development of community-centered and collaboratively creative projects. Her work and creative processes have been published in academic publications, such as “Gum Printing: A Step-by-Step Manual Highlighting Artists and Their Creative Practice” (published by Focal Press) and “The Book of Alternative Photographic Processes” (published by Cengage Learning). Lizardo is a former tenured faculty member for the State University of New York at New Paltz. She lives in the Hudson Valley, NY.

Wayne’s awards and honors include the Awagami Artist-in-Residence Program at Awagami Paper Factory in Tokushima, Japan; NYFA MARK ’09; Two Full Fellowship Awards for residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT; Two Residencies at the Frans Masereel Zentrum voor Grafiek, Kasterlee, Belgium; John Michael Kohler Foundation Arts/Industry Artist-in-Residence, Sheboygan, WI; Women’s Studio Workshop Artists’ Fellowship; and an Artists At Work: New York State Council on the Arts.

Michael Pope is an award-winning, self-taught filmmaker/video artist born and raised in New York City.

An early pioneer of “transmedia” storytelling-as-art form, Pope fuses traditional filmmaking, with live musical performance, tableau vivant, monology and site-specific installation. His work has been hailed as “An unforgettable sensory experience. A must see event” (Boston Globe), “Surrealistic Lyricism” (Metalopolis) and “Nothing less than cataclysmic” (The Dig). He won a Tanne Award for Outstanding Achievement (2000) for his Living Film Event: Neovoxer (2000-2006)

Pope has received film and installation commissions from The Boston Pops and Hard Rock Cafe International and residencies with Jane Street Art Center (2019), The Experimental Television Center (2003), and Mobius Artist’s Group (2002). As music video director, Pope has work appearing in international rotation including MTV, LOGO and RAGE with premieres on People, Spin, Jezebel and Pitchfork websites.

He made his first Super8 film when he was 7 years old.