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AJ Sabatini is Arthur J. Sabatini. He has written extensively on the arts, performance, experimental music and theater. He is a founding member and, presently, Associate Professor of Performance Studies in the Department of Interdisciplinary Arts and Performance at ASU. His play, Certain Explanations: Magical Walking was featured at the Phoenix Fringe Festival in May.

Susan Skrzycki writes about dance from the past-perspective of the rehearsal hall and the stage. She performs occasionally with Phoenix's Scorpius Dance Theatre, but for articles on Hearsight she passes on the view from the wings to take a look at the performance with the rest of the audience.

Kathleen Thomas

Effie Bouras has worked as an intern architect on notable building projects throughout North America, including the Guggenheim and Hermitage Museums in Las Vegas, Nevada. She has also written for and has had design work featured in a number of publications; most recently she has taken part in a group show at the San Antonio International Airport, and has worked as a collaborator on a sound installation, "Dark Space," which was held at the Contemporary Arts Collective in Las Vegas. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Urban Design at the Arizona State University College of Design, while continuing to draw, write and collaborate with designers on building projects. She can be contacted at info@premisestudio.com

Catherine King worked in graphic arts for many years, and has been an art teacher. She and her husband, Jerome du Bois, had a gallery in Phoenix, Art for Our Times, for about a year. Now she writes for their culture blog, The Tears of Things. For the past five years she has been posting her art and photography there.

Richard Dailey is a writer, film maker, and Editor-in -Chief of Afterart News, in Paris, France.

Joe Baker is a painter and curator. For the last five years, Joe was Lloyd Kiva New Curator of Fine Art at the Heard Museum. "Interventions: Making a New Space for Indigenous Art," was too good to let linger in the catalogue of his last exhibition, Remix: New Modernities in a Post-Indian World, so is reprinted here with the kind assistance of the Heard Museum. Baker is currently the Director of Community Engagement at Herberger College of Art at ASU.

Kevin L. Richardson is an illustrator, graphics artist and cartoonist. He is the web designer for Hearsight Magazine. He is the author of the graphic novel, Bitter Pill, and draws other illustrations for Hearsight.

Sloane Burwell, local fashionista and music maven, writes for Phoenix New Times and has been online since 1993. You’ll find her at the Downtown Public Market every Saturday, clutching coffee from Lux, a recyclable shopping bag and wonderful local produce. "Online and all About the Food: The World Wide Web Goes Local" is reprinted here from Edible Phoenix. We just had to see it with hot links.

MIchael David Little is a painter and musician in downtown Phoenix. His documentary video, which will appear two seasons from now on PBS's American Experience, tells his story of living and painting in semi-homeless conditions for four years, to making his own gallery.

Contributing editor Ann Klefstad is a practicing artist and chronic writer. She was a founding editor of mnartists.org, a project of The McKnight Foundation and Walker Art Center, and is currently the arts and entertainment writer on the Duluth News-Tribune.

Scott Andrews is the editor of Hearsight Magazine and an arts writer who covers the Valley's climatic changes. He can be reached at edit@hearsight.com

Grisel Pujalá was born in Cuba. She studied at Marymount College and Hunter College, CUNY in New York City, obtaining her doctoral degree from the University of Miami
She has taught Philosophy, Humanities and Spanish literature and language at Miami Dade College, State University of New York at Buffalo, Mt Holyoke and Amherst Colleges in Massachussets.

She has published several critical essays in academic journals. Among others: Revista hispánica moderna, (Columbia University, NYC); Nueva revista de filología hispánica, (Colegio de Mexico, Mexico); Anales de la literatura española, (Universidad de Alicante, Spain); and Perspectiva docentes, (Universidad de Tabasco, Mexico).

She has lectured extensively in Avant-Garde Cuban Art, and women in the Arts, Philosophy, and Spirituality. She has two books published: Four Essays on Cuban Poetry, Miami: Torre de Papel, 1993 and Seven Essays on the Poetry of Amando Fernandez, Miami: La Torre de Papel, 1996. She also has one book forthcoming from Ed. Mellen Press: The Idea of American in Spanish Postmodern Thought. At the present time, she teaches at Arizona State University West in Phoenix, Arizona.

Kathleen Thomas

Kade L. Twist is an installation artist, poet, and sound artist. His recent multi-media installation, Just As I Am, is currently featured in New American City: Artists Look Forward presented by the ASU Art Museum. A new multimedia installation, The Way The Sun Rises Over Rivers Is No Different Than The Way The Sun Sets Over Oceans, will be included in Remix: New Modernities in a Post-Indian World co-presented by the Heard Museum and the National Museum of the American Indian in the fall of 2007. His poems have been published in the anthology Pine Meoquane by Digitalis Publications, and literary journals such as South Dakota Review, Tempus, Windmill, April, as well as numerous arts and literature zines. Twist has read his poetry at the Heard Museum in Phoenix, Hirshhorn Museum in Washington D.C., and at many art galleries and universities.

Twist’s works address urban Indian experiences of isolation, familial and clan displacement, economic and political disenfranchisement, substance abuse, and the pervasive hope of returning "home."

Twist also performs with experimental noise bands Kavigre in Phoenix and Unola in Washington D.C.

Being a top-flight sommelier was not an option, Dave Johnson was born into it. Dave's ancestral origins trace back to the Johnston's of Annandale in Scotland (who derived from the Frankish Crusading Joinvilles of Champagne).

Since 1734, as vintners, shippers, and negogotiants, Nathaniel Johnston et Fils, have supplied wines to Emperors, Aristocrats, and even our own Founding Father, Thomas Jefferson. Although, missing the "t" in Johnson's original surname, he is a Johnston to the core. While working for Master Wine Maker, Jean Marie Johnston, Dave assiduously attacked the UK Market and carefully honed his craft and palate. Within two years he was the "enfant terrible" of the stodgy British Wine Market elite.

Dave worked his way across the Atlantic where he has expertly chosen wine for restaurants with impressive pedigrees that are known for their wine programs. From restaurants as varied as Churrascarias to Vietnamese, Rustic New American to modern Mexicano, Dave is never at a loss to be able to pair exciting food with the appropriate and engaging wine.

Dave is currently the Wine Director at Sol y Sombra, in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Ken LaFave has written about dance and music for many publications, including Dance Magazine, Phoenix Magazine, and The Arizona Republic and Kansas City Star newspapers. His article "Composing Grief" gives us an insider's look at music making with a preview of the Phoenix Bach Choir's performance of LaFave's composition "Spires" and Chris Scinto's "Voices from the Aftermath: A New York Requiem." His weekly radio show about the arts, "Two on the Aisle," is aired every Sunday at 7 pm on
KPHX 1480 AM, Air America Phoenix

Ken LaFave

Lara Taubman is an art critic and independent curator. "Holy Land," a
psycho- geographical portrait of the desert, was co-curated by Taubman and Joe Baker and was on exhibit at the Heard Museum last year. "Phoenix: The Land of Somewhere," organized by Taubman at Modified Arts with new works and performance made for the exhibit by Angela Ellsworth and Tania Katan, Denis Gillingwater, Carrie Marill, Jen Urso and Steve Weiss and Leslie Barton. Lara Taubman writes for many reviews including Art Forum and artnet.com.

Kathleen Thomas did the groundwork for her review of three painters at Perihelion Arts last month while shepherding Phoenix Art Museum's Contemporary Forum to the First Friday artwalk in Downtown Phoenix. Before working for the museum, Thomas was a gallerist in Phoenix and Scottsdale.

Kathleen Thomas

Leslie Barton is particularly informed about Theatre in My Basement. As director of Modified Arts, she is responsible for presenting many of the group's performances. As a musician, Barton brings a performer's sensibility to her writing.

Leslie Barton

Steve Weiss runs No Festival Required, a micro-cinema showing at the Phoenix Art Museum and Modified Arts. When not on the phone with other indie filmmakers, Weiss is a location scout for the majors and a photographer.

The article about the group exhibit at ASU Art Museum, "New American City: Artists Look Forward," was written by freelancer Oriana Parker. A prolific writer, her words have appeared in many forms, from travel stories to industrial ad copy. Her writing on the arts has appeared in The New Yorker, Phoenix Magazine and Artbook of the West.