Maggie Nowinski is an interdisciplinary artist and teaching artist based in Western Massachusetts. Her work is rooted in drawing, though her artworks usually take the format of installation and combine both traditional and unusual media such as printmaking, found objects, sound, audio, and performative processes. Her work investigates somatic responses to environment, social dynamics and human emotion through imagined specimen drawings that appear as abject human-botanical entities or specimens. Nowinski’s practice is embodied by an awareness of the conceptual and political inevitability of art making and an adoration for repetition, daily mark-making and long walks. She often collaborates on projects with other visual artists, dancers, sounds artists and poets.

Nowinski received her BFA in painting from the State University of New York at New Paltz and her MFA in Visual Art from Vermont College of Fine Arts. She is currently full time faculty for the drawing program at Manchester Community College in CT and a Visiting Lecturer at Smith College. She frequently exhibits throughout the Northeast though her work has been in numerous exhibitions nationally and has been collected internationally. Nowinski is the recipient of multiple awards and grants and has been featured in many interviews and articles. She was recently featured in an artist spotlight called “Drawing (un)limited” in Art Spiel. To learn more about her recent work, please visit her website at www.maggienowinksi.org and find works in progress @maggienow. You can hear her speak about her recent installation A Whole Recollection here and other works in (413)Art.

Jenni makes prints, books, drawings and all kinds of work on and of paper in her backyard studio (and sometimes on her couch). For most of her career, her work has depicted various forms found in nature. She continues to be inspired by this subject matter and more recently has found she is also drawn to pattern, color, sweets and treats. The mood and rhythm of her work has shifted from a quiet mediation to a playful bounce.

In addition to making her own work, Jenni is always a huge fan of supporting other artists on their journeys. She has worked as a Professor, Printer, Picture Framer, Admissions Director, Education Director and is currently working as an Assistant to Artist Amy Genser. West Hartford has been her home for 15 years and she resides there with her hubby, child and pup.

Power Boothe is a painter whose work is represented in numerous public collections, including the Guggenheim Museum, the Museum of Modern art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, as well as other national and international institutions. In Connecticut, his paintings are in the collections of the Wadsworth Atheneum, New Britain Museum of American Art, and the Florence Griswold Museum. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship for Painting, an Individual Artist’s NEA Fellowship, and a Pollock/Krasner Grant, as well as an Asian Council Grant to travel in Japan. He is currently a professor and Chair of the Fine Arts Area at the Hartford Art School, University of Hartford.