Tara McPherson is an artist based out of New York City. Creating art about people and their odd ways, her characters seem to exude an idealized innocence with a glimpse of hard earned wisdom in their eyes. Recalling many issues from childhood and good old life experience, she creates images that are thought provoking and seductive. People and their relationships are a central theme throughout her work.

Tofusquirrel (Elizabeth Siegel) is a professional illustrator residing in the city of Boston. She has made art for New England Comics, MC Chris, The Eclectic Collective, Slick Rick, Hellmets.org, Bad Ash, Harry and the Potters, Math the Band, and more.

Tofusquirrel has been published in LA Weekly, Taste Makers Magazine, Urban Velo Magazine, the FAT CHUNK collaborative comic book, a Tokyo Pop graphic novel, and featured in the Best of Boston 2008 issue of the Boston Phoenix newspaper. Her art has been displayed on illustration websites such as Juxtapoz, The Little Chimp Society, and Illustration Friday.

Georgette Pressler (DeviousG) is a West Palm Beach, Florida native and the artist/proprietor of Devious Body Art. A graduate of FAU, Georgette focused her BFA first in painting, then finally in sculpture. Though skilled in many mediums, art in a fully 3 dimensional realm is what truly inspires her. Focusing on the adoration and mystique of the female form, Georgette creates sculptures and live body art that celebrates powerful femininity. As a skilled body painter and makeup artist, she redefines the planes of the female form into a warm breathing canvas. Much of this work is done for live events, night clubs, private photo sessions and live art galleries.

Amy Botello grew up in Los Angeles in a family of creative and eccentric people. As a very shy child, she spent most of her time creating and drawing imaginary worlds and critters. As long as she can remember, she’s been an artist. Her serious studies began at the L.A. County High School for the Arts. For college, she went on to study life drawing and painting under the best instructors in Los Angeles at Associates in Art. She has been working for the film industry as an illustrator, sketch artist, storyboard artist and graphic designer for the past 10 years. Her clients have included Disney, Dreamworks, Sony, Universal, Paramount and Fox. Now, she has returned to her true love - fine art. She hopes you enjoy her paintings as much as she enjoyed creating them.

Born on December 5th, 1977 in Michigan, Aunia Kahn was raised in an explosive and unpredictable home environment and sought refuge through creativity and the arts. In 2003 she found herself immersed in a very intimate series to help advance herself through the healing process of child abuse, but never expected to share her work publically until she was encouraged to do so. In December 2005 her career officially launched with her first exhibition which garnered immediate interest in fine art gallery showings across the United States and internationally. Her work has been shared publically in hundreds of showings to date.

Jessica Sardas has lived in Boston, Ohio, Dallas, Tucson and Denver and has never exactly had a home base of operations. Moving around a lot as a child was not only extremely inspiring for her creations, but also allowed her to experience many different landscapes and environments. Jessica’s true passions have always been in art and as soon as she graduated college with a psych degree she started selling her work at galleries in many cities across the US. She began hosting her own shows and events and helped many artists sell their work. Having been distracted by the business side of the art world, her personal creations took a backseat for a couple of years. After a very personal life-changing event, she stopped doing shows all together and decided to refocus her career on her true calling, illustration.

Rudy Fig is a Minneapolis based artist and toy enthusiast. With toy designers for parents, she grew up in a very creative environment. After flunking out of art college, she ended up working at a bakery where she found lots of inspiration. Rudy's Paintings feature babes, toys, and candy coated madness in macabre, whimsical worlds. Today, at 20, her paintings are shown in galleries across the Us. Rudy has also worked in printmaking, plastics, found objects, dead fish, food and custom toys.

Tara Hauck, of Tara Inc. Fine Arts Photography, is an inspired and originative South Florida photographer. Many who see her work describe her as an eclectic fine artist. She is an artist who knows what she wants in an image. Fresh details, masterful colors and unique perspectives. It's this mindset and style that make her work instantly identifiable.

Tara's love of the fine arts, as well as her background there, helps her to create a photograph more complex than a typical image. If one looks closely, sublte, creative nuances surely will draw the viewer deeper into the story within the subject. Tara astonishingly captures the perfect emotions. Her style is fresh. Her colors are vibrant and her images are clean.

Natalie Shau is an artist and photographer from Lithuania (Vilnius), currently living in Greece (Athens), where she has a workshop and photo studio. She works mainly in digital media and Natalie’s works are mixture of her photography, digital painting and 3D elements. She enjoys creating surreal and strange creatures, fragile and powerful at the same time. Natalie’s style was influenced a lot by religious imagery, fairytales, illustrations and Russian classical literature such as Fyodor Dostoevsky, Nikolai Gogol, etc.

Molly Crabapple is an award-winning artist, author and entrepreneur.  She has been called “One of New York’s coolest denizens” by the NY Post, “a downtown phenomenon” by the New York Times, and “THE artist of our time” by comedian Margaret Cho.  Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Marvel Comics, and she is the co-creator of the acclaimed graphic novel Scarlett Takes Manhattan.  Molly calls New York her home, but travels internationally speaking, exhibiting art, and spreading the Sketchy’s gospel.

Edith Lebeau grew up in Beloeil, a little town of Quebec, Canada. As a young girl, her artistic development was influenced by a fascination with popular culture, Greek, Roman, and Celtic mythology, movies and fairytales – influences that continue to be seen in her work today. Lebeau mostly paints female figures, portraying them as superheroes, villains, goddesses, and nymphs, their look being the most important thing in her work: they tell their own story through their expressions and emotions. A certain ambiguity is intentional – Lebeau often blurs the story to encourage the audience to make it their own, letting the character question the viewer.
 
Edith Lebeau holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts at l'Université du Québec à Montreal.

Arabella Proffer-Vendetta is a painter, designer, and co-founder of the indie label Elephant Stone Records. Her loose narrative themes revolve around a fascination with punk rock, aristocrats, Renaissance fashions, aging socialites, pre-code cinema, gothic divas and rock 'n’ roll groupies. She attended Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA before receiving her BFA from California Institute of the Arts, and has participated in solo and group exhibitions throughout North America and Europe. Born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, she has taken up residence in many cities including Laguna Beach, Los Angeles, and Boston. She currently lives in Cleveland, Ohio, with her husband and an evil white cat named Milkshake.

Ashleigh Fedo was born and raised in Florida where she spent a lifetime drawing to escape reality. In late 2007 she began experimenting with paints and decided to commit to being a professional artist. Ashleigh's ideas and concepts are inspired by a combination of an outside source and how it plays a part in her life. She relies heavily on music, her own dreams and nightmares, shock value, believing in love, and the observation of relationships to portray her own personal emotions. Her style is constantly maturing and evolving but there still lies within a bittersweet taste of childlike optimism and imagination forced to face the trials of adult life. Although she works out of a private studio her work has been seen around the world. Ashleigh is also a student at Berklee Academy of Music where she studies artist management.

Sara Antoinette Martin’s female subjects are icons and deities, glorifying the anxiety and complexity of just being. Her work is a conversation of emotions and reflections of how she sees herself in this world and how the world sees her. Sara filters through her influences from traditional tattoo art, vintage swimsuits, Masonic symbolism, fins, gills and flowers, to create a unique visual language. More fascinated by the occult and religious imagery than believing in it, Sara is more interested in playing with the meaning of symbols then using them as they are historically intended.

Kelly McKernan is an artist and illustrator from Atlanta, Georgia who has, since her youth, possessed the ambition to be a full time creator. She recently received her Bachelor of Fine Arts with a concentration in drawing and painting from Kennesaw State University. However, her focus has been in mixed media, specifically in combining film photography and advanced darkroom techniques with aqueous media painting. Over the last year, Kelly has received local, national, and international recognition for her unique work, has been printed in a number of major publications, and is currently showing with several notable galleries.

Noir Nouar graduated from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California.

Her work draws largely from early to mid-century animation, illustration, food and advertisement art. Her paintings are frequently pluralistic, elements of humor and horror are often seen intermixed with happy food mascots romping through her highly stylized pieces.

LostFish (Elodie is her real name), was born in 1983 in the south of France. Self-taught, she began her creative development as a freelance character designer, but quickly turns to an artistic universe, creating digital paintings.

Her influences are mostly classical, inspired by the Flemish painters and the art of the 19th century, both in painting and photography, she draws mostly strange and sometimes disturbing girls, half woman and half child.

Megan Frauenhoffer is an MFA student at Minneapolis College of Art and Design with my studio emphasis in Print, Paper, and Book and Illustration. I love printmaking, mix-media, book-making, digital work, and occasionally collage. I blame this mostly on boredom, but usually tell others I like to experiment instead (Teachers tend to respect that more than the boredom response). My first year was tough, soul crushing, beyond stressful– most of this documented through the blog.

However, I’ve been slowing working to gain notoriety and proving some success. I’m currently beginning the second half of the Master’s program. I hope to rise above the previous challenges and prove my worth to the art community.

Christen Kojnok is an artist currently living in the New England area. I am a mostly self skilled artist and having been making serious digital art for a few years now. I graduated from College with a Graphics design degree. I am continuously learning new skills and I have taught myself a lot of what I know with determination, studying, and resources. Currently I am teaching myself more traditional mediums and my destination for my art is to be preserved in art history as an artist of this time.

Ritzy Periwinkle, aka Marisa Estrada is a Los Angeles artist and designer with deep roots in urban art and music culture. The name Ritzy Periwinkle, a pseudonym that started among her and her crew, stems from “Maritza” (the way her birth name was originally supposed to be spelled) and the Crayola color, “Periwinkle”. The tight beats and poetic lyrics of Hip Hop fuel her artistic creativity. Graduating from California State University Long Beach with a fine art degree with an emphasis in graphic design, Ritzy has created designs and artwork for Dilated Peoples, Aterciopelados, Sonic Youth, Calle 13, “I Am Legend”, Slick Rick, Arcade Fire and many more. With art exhibitions in art and music hubs such as Los Angeles, Detroit and New York, Ritzy communicates a beautiful energy and respect for her community of women and people of color.

Zoe Lacchei grew up in a small town near Rome, kind of a quiet place far from the chaos of the city , where her bashful and introvert character probably originates and made her an atypical human being.

Being isolated has given her a great abstraction and escapism ability, two characteristics which form the basis of her work as an adult. After high school, rather than attending regular academic courses, she focused on the subjects she loved the most, such as human anatomy and Japanese culture. This last one has affected her enormously: she simply adores Japan, with its contradictions and oddities, with its great sense for the art of image, in a traditional and at the same time modern way, given by Manga, Anime and videogames. If she hadn’t come in contact with this world her artistic production would have been very different.

Kazilla aka Cassie Williams is a soon to be graduate of the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale.  She is a young artist who's style bounds between the street arts and fine arts. Originally from Santa Fe, NM she currently exhibits the breadth of her work in Miami, FL. After moving to the east coast her work has transcended the street arts and combined her two styles of fine art and graffiti to create an edgy, colorful clash of two very different worlds. The feminine figures, surreal landscapes and vibrant colors create a daunting visual feast for all audiences. She also works as a live artist, designer, muralist, photographer, producer, lyricist, singer and musician.