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Skye Gilkerson

Skye Gilkerson is an interdisciplinary artist creating poignant conceptual projects across a range of media, including sculpture, installation, film, collage, and poetry. With a sense of wonder, tenderness, and humor, her work engages the tension between time and timelessness, place and placelessness, and the human and universal scale. 
 
Skye has walked the distance to outer space and back, made drawings from the ash remains of burning newspapers on each new moon, and keeps a reference library of failed apocalypses.

Tim Van Laar

Tim van Laar is a Detroit visual artist and writer who exhibits his artwork nationally and internationally, including solo exhibitions in Germany, the UK, and The Netherlands. He has written numerous reviews and essays and co-authored four books, including Artworld Prestige: Arguing Cultural Value (Oxford), and Shiny Things: Reflective Surfaces and Their Mixed Meanings (Intellect). His creative activities have been supported by institutions such as Fulbright, Yaddo, The Pew Charitable Trusts, and The Henry Luce Foundation. He received his MFA from Wayne State University and is Professor of Art Emeritus at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

David Greenwood

David Greenwood's stories have appeared in Electric Literature, Fence, Tin House online, and elsewhere. His debut novel, The Cloud Intern, will be published on May 27th. He has a BA in computer science from Boston University, and an MFA in creative writing from Brooklyn College. His ongoing micro-novels project, The Bubble Cannon, can be found on Substack, his literary fitness videos on YouTube. 
 
The Cloud Intern: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-cloud-intern/eafaf17d3a5f88c6?ean=9798991122009
 
The Bubble Cannon: https://davidgreenwood.substack.com
 
Literary Fitness: https://www.youtube.com/@Book-Built

Letha Wilson

Letha Wilson is a visual artist based in New York (Craryville and Brooklyn) who was born in Honolulu, HI and raised in Greeley, Colorado. She is known for her synthesis of mediums, expanding the visual and physical dimensions of photography and sculpture.  By combining industrial materials such as Corten steel, aluminum, vinyl and photography, Wilson has developed unique fabrication processes.  She prints images depicting the beauty of natural landscapes onto her sculptures, embeds them in the surface of her works, and manipulates them in various unexpected compositions.   
 

Rob Westerholm

Robert Westerholm, Ph.D. is an NYC-based clinical psychologist who specializes in cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) for the treatment of anxiety and mood disorders across the lifespan.  Dr. Westerholm and his wife, fashion designer Monica Wesley, are avid art collectors who have been building their contemporary art collection over the last 15 years.

Ajahn Kovilo

Ajahn Kovilo is an Ohio-born Theravāda forest monk. Having been introduced to meditation, the five precepts, and the Pāli Canon through the Goenka tradition, Ajahn Kovilo’s growing interest in Dhamma led him to enter the monastery in 2006 in hopes of devoting his life to practice. Ajahn Kovilo received full ordination from Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro at Abhayagiri Buddhist Monastery in California in 2010, and spent the next decade training at monasteries and with teachers of the Ajahn Chah tradition in America and Thailand.

Paul Mogensen

Paul Mogensen became known for his single-color many paneled paintings utilizing mathematical ratios, which were first shown at the Bykert Gallery in New York City in 1966. Throughout his career, he continued to use mathematical principles in conjunction with basic designs and color to distill painting to its most essential nature, while infusing his work with a tension that exists as a result of inherently opposing qualities. 

Lysha Smith

Lysha Smith is a Senior Assistant Teacher and the Administrator at the Vipassana Meditation Center in Shelburne Falls, MA.  Lysha also has a background in Sound Art and Design, and teaches Music Technology at Greenfield (MA) Community College.  While Lysha centers and anchors his life around his meditation practice and Dhamma service to others, teaching and engaging with sound and music practice remains an integral balancing force in his life.

Aidan Hart

Aidan Hart was born in England in 1957 and grew up in New Zealand.  He has been a professional liturgical artist for over forty years, with commissioned works in over twenty-five countries.  From 1988 to 2000 he tested his vocation as a monk, including spending a total of two years on Mount Athos and six as a hermit in Shropshire, UK.  This life dedicated to prayer has had a profound impact on his work.

Joe Holtz

Joe Holtz is the general manager of the Park Slope Food Coop in Brooklyn, NY.  After helping to start the coop in 1973, he became the first staff member in 1975.  Joe has announced he will retire in 2025 after 50 years at the PSFC.