Lisa Leitner is a digital collage artist who has won multiple recognitions including a scholarship and Creative Vision Award from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) as well as several artistic awards from St. Andrew's Episcopal School in Potomac, Maryland. Her practice can be described as conveying: “ Natural objects such as plants and landmarks…[which carry] the essence of particular environments and moments in time. Through the merging and separation of media, I i

Timothy Hall is a digital photographer with a background in corporate photography and videography. He describes his process as the following: “ I began using long exposures and motion…as I wanted the camera to ‘make’ the picture, not simply ‘take’ the picture…Then I apply different blending algorithms, which are just mathematical formulas, not all different from the chemistry in analogue photography. Every piece I create uses the full frame of the camera, with no other manipu

George McConnell is a theatre director, curator, and performer who has extensively directed national, international, local, juried, and academic performances. Recent venues which have hosted his performances include Texas A&M University, INVERSE National Performance Art Festival in Arkansas, Center for Performance Research and Panoply Performance Lab in Brooklyn as well as the International Fringe Festivals in Tampa and Denver, which granted him a Venue Tech Award and the #Fr

Van O (Ivan Isaev) is a conceptual photographer with a background in theatre (as an actor) and biology who has exhibited across Europe and in the United States. Recent exhibitions include Museum Kesselhaus in Berlin, MORA Museum of International Art in Jersey City, RevArt Gallery in Mountain View, California, Olympic Building in New York, Аnnenkirche and the Erarta Contemporary Art Museum in St. Petersburg, Gallery of Classic Photography in Moscow, Museum of Actual Realism in

Clara Fortis is an installation artist and experimental sculptor who has exhibited in major cities including Paris and New York as well as in Switzerland. Notable exhibitions include Galerie Au Roi, Vie Projects, Gallery 45, and Gallery D in Paris, Thompson Gallery in Zug, Switzerland, and 25 East Gallery in New York. She has been published by Dépaysants magazine, Dawn newspaper, Merde Magazine, and The New School. Clara has also participated in a residency at Ateliers Sculpt

For this particular essay, we will be discussing Star Smart’s experimental photography series referred to as The Flowers: Overcoming & Healing . These photographs were taken with a cell phone and digitally altered with an obsolete phone application which no longer exists. The series depicts sets of piles of mediation pills formed into a circle with their colors altered to appear hallucinogenic, full of bright neon tones. The other part of the series of the Healing contains sm

Star Smart is a mixed media and assemblage artist who has exhibited around the world in many countries across Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and North America. To date, she has participated in over 100 exhibitions including about two dozen museums and has won prestigious awards such as the Robert Rauschenberg Grant. Recent solo features include Worldwide Art Movement Gallery in Kochi, India and Elsa Victorios Gallery in Pembroke Pines, Florida and notable collective exhibitio

Jaina Cipriano is a photographer, filmmaker, actor, writer, and set designer who owns her own set design company, Finding Bright Studios, and is also the owner of the Arlington Film Festival. She has been published over 200 times in various independent and established publications such as The Boston Globe. She has exhibited mostly in the Boston metropolitan area as well as across the United States and in Europe. In Jaina's photography and films, all the props and sets are bui

Nastas'ya Kydryashova is a filmmaker, photographer, writer, theatre director, Art Director of the Chevle Charity Festival, and former Gallery Director of Nehudozhnik Gallery. Her activities and research on the Chuvash people was featured at a conference at Princeton University. Nastas'ya’s recent achievements include her film SÂMAX  receiving accreditation at the Cannes Film Festival and was included in the long list of the Short Art Films nomination, serving as the art direc

Leah Oates is a fluxus analogue photographer who has exhibited extensively in the United States and Canada, particularly in the New York and Toronto metropolitan areas, as well as in Europe. Notable solo exhibitions in New York include the Brooklyn Public Library, Susan Eley Fine Art, Arsenal Gallery, Center for Book Arts, Sarah Nightingale Gallery, A Taste of Art Gallery, A4L Gallery, and AIR Gallery. Museums Leah has exhibited at include fine institutions such as the Rhode