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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.   

Paul Lee

Paul Lee (b. 1974, London) is a sculptor, collagist, and video artist who creates assemblages by manipulating found domestic and everyday objects, including dyed terry cloth towels, tambourines, and empty soda cans. Lee’s evolving visual language exploits universally understood relationships between use and form. By transforming familiar materials into colorful abstractions, Lee subverts their function and draws out their implicit connection to the human body.

Michael Santi Keezing

Former monk (bhikkhu) Santi trained in the Thai forest tradition, a meditation-centered branch of Theravada Buddhism. He disrobed after eight years, and now teaches and writes on Buddhist, post-Buddhist, and other spiritual and practice-related themes. His website is findingsanti.org.
 

Leah Guadagnoli

Leah Guadagnoli is an artist, chef, homesteader, and founder of the creative dinner series Fancy Feast Supper Club. Her thematic meals and culinary work are a direct extension of her art practice and reflect a genuine joy and passion for cooking for others. 

Peter Shear

Peter Shear is an artist who lives and works in Bloomington, Indiana.  His small-scale paintings can be found someplace between abstraction and representation.  He is represented by BLUM.