The future of art

Originally from Long Island, Christopher Volpe is an artist, writer, and teacher working and living in New Hampshire. His paintings in tar and gold leaf reference mortality, mysticism, and concern for the fate of a world buying and spending its way toward uninhabitability.

His work is collected internationally and held in the permanent collections of the New Bedford Whaling Museum, the Whistler House Museum, Smith College, Ege University (Turkey) and the University of New Hampshire. Grants and awards include the Saint Botolph...

Born in Mexico, Duarte’s work is rooted in history both collective and personal, his own, he intertwines experiences of modern life with collective ones rooted in myth and history through the lens of his own Mexican culture. Despite the seemingly cultural specific themes he touches on, the experiences he brings are universal because he sees Mexican history, no different than Roman or Japanese - it belongs to all of us and within each story, each culturally specific narrative, we find the collective experience that binds us all. The narratives we tell ourselves across the world, whether it’s...

Frank Oscar Lind III was born in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, and grew up in the adjoining town of Cumberland. The eldest of eight children, he watched the fields and farms of his home town change to suburbs and city. He was able to make a studio in the basement of his childhood home, and early inspirations ranged from Michelangelo to science fiction illustration.

Lind attended Georgetown University in Washington DC, receiving a BA in Fine Arts in 1970. He moved to New York City in...