As an artist/photographer, I work with light. Photography is about light and photosensitive materials. The process itself is magical. The landscapes in the photographs are visual metaphors for the artist’s transformative process and journey of reclaiming a sense of self and connection to the world/community. Stevens has exhibited her work nationally and internationally including the Los Angeles Photography Center; Galeria Tonalli, Mexico City; University of Arizona, Tucson; Alexandria Museum of Art, Alexandria, Louisiana; Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky; and Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, Texas.

Chiyeko Yuki is an ARC affiliate member living in Niigata, Japan. Her oil paintings have enjoyed great success in many international exhibitions, combining modern expressionistic process and painting techniques with Japanese sensibilities. Yuki applies layers and layers of colors on canvas through a labyrinth of slurs, scumbles, scratches , scrubs, scraps and her own calligraphy. Yuki’s every moment and movement on can­vas is fluid and spontaneous as she captures the fleeting moment of life: joy, hope, suffering, sorrow, agony, conflict, peace, and serenity.

Amy Zucker is a Chicago artist whose installations confront and challenge our cultural notions of what happens to us when we grow old and what it is like to be old.  This body of work is informed by a nursing practice with older adults.  Amy worked as a registered nurse on an inpatient geriatric psychiatry unit for sixteen years and most recently for four years as a geriatric case manager in the community.  The art work integrates patient care experiences with the incongruous one dimensional picture that our culture paints when describing the elderly.  It is the absurdities of these ideas that fuel the art work.