Birds’ Head Haggadah, Chaim Bezalel
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Robert Alan Franczek (RenO) is a painter and sculptor working on the South Side of Chicago. He has worked in healthcare for over twenty years, and creates art as a means of therapy. His art has taken several paths over the years and is constantly evolving.
Ana Jovanovska has an MFA in graphic art. Ana works in all media; the idea determines the medium of the work at hand. She has has had nine independent and more than 150 group exhibitions in Macedonia, Serbia, Montenegro, Greece, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, Romania, Czech Republic, Poland, Russia, Italy, France, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, India, the UK, the US and other countries.
Pamela Viggiani is a mixed-media artist and art educator in Canandaigua, NY. A native of the Finger Lakes region, Pamela received a BS and MS from Nazareth College of Rochester. Pamela has taught art since 1986.
Chaim Bezalel is an artist, writer, and musician. He was born in New York City in 1949, attended Northwestern University, and for ten years worked as a stockbroker. In 1988, he moved to Israel. He was drafted into the Israeli army reserves, the subject of his first book of photography, poetry, and essays. He and his wife have a publishing company and have published several cross-genre art books under the Dekel Press imprint. They maintain homes and studios at Stanwood House, an art center in Washington State, and in Ashkelon, Israel.
Carol Radsprecher’s images combine figurative and abstract elements. She earned her MFA in painting from Hunter College, CUNY. A longtime painter, she discovered the wonders of digital image-making and found that media well-suited to her need to make a succession of rapidly-evolving narrative images based on distorted representations of the human body, especially the female body. Her work has appeared in several solo shows and numerous group shows, and has been published in print and online publications.
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