Visual Art

Facing It Together Series (1)

Bordnick’s interest are to create artistic, meaningful works of art that can be enjoyed by all peoples and cultures. Being a designer and sculptor, has allowed him to share his professional experiences, in a beneficial way for both business and community projects of this nature. He has been a successful designer and have over twenty years experience in design, fabrication and installation of numerous and diverse projects of this nature. An Industrial designer/Sculptor graduate of Pratt Institute in New York, where he has had his own professional design business and been a design director for numerous companies and local government projects. They included a major children's museum, for the city of New York and Board of Education. Being a designer and sculptor living here in New Mexico, has allowed him to have a deep understanding of our culture and environment, that has influenced his artistic interpretation and creative solutions to design projects. This is what he enjoys sharing with all peoples. Website: jackbordnickstudio.com Email: jackbordstudio@gmail.com

The Instant

Sophia Lenartovych was born in Kharkiv, Ukraine, in 2001 and studies at the Institute of Architecture at Lviv Polytechnic National University. She had a scholarship in fine arts from the City Council of Ternopil, 2017/2018. She had an experience of working as a journalist for the 5th Art Festival ′′ Yi ′′, Nazar Voitovich Art Residence, different Internet-articles and public organizations, 2017. Sophia was an editor at Valeriya Tarasenko’s art-project ‘The Mystery of Left Fountains’, 2017.  Sophia took part in recording audio poetry and fairy tales for blind children at MediaLab Ternopil, 2017. Sophia and her friends created a platform for young artists "Neskazane" ("Unspoken"), 2018. Artist had a scholarship in literature and poetry from the City Council of Ternopil, 2016/2017. Sophia’s poetry film ‘Pislia/After’ was selected for the international festivals, such as ‘REELpoetry/HoustonTX’ in Houston, Texas, and the 9th International Video Poetry Festival in Athens, Greece, 2021. Contact Sophia by email sofiagolovecka@gmail.com and follow her on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/s.lenartovych/ or Facebook https://www.facebook.com/sophia.holovetska.7/ 

Blessed are the Poor in Spirit

Steven Ostrowski is a poet, fiction writer and painter. His written work appears widely in literary places. He co-authored, with his son Ben, a book of poems called Penultimate Human Constellation, which was published in 2018 by Tolsun Books. His chapbook, After the Tate Modern, won the 2017 Atlantic Road Prize and was published by Island Verse Editions. His paintings have been published in about a dozen literary journals and his paintings have been used for the cover art of the inaugural issue of Lily Poetry Review and on a recent issue of Stone Boat. Steven teaches in the English Department at Central Connecticut State University.

Forest Fire Smoke Over the High Sierras

Lawrence Bridges is best known for work in the film and literary world. His poetry has appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, and The Tampa Review. He has published three volumes of poetry: Horses on Drums, Flip Days, and Brownwood. As a filmmaker, he created a series of literary documentaries for the NEA’s “Big Read” initiative, which include profiles of Ray Bradbury, Amy Tan, Tobias Wolff, and Cynthia Ozick.

Wax City

Anna Smetanenko is a multidisciplinary artist from Zhytomyr, Ukraine, researching concepts such as consciousness, nihilism, AI and spirituality.  Her prose was published in Rising for Freedom and Democracy in Ukraine book by Brine Books Publishing, Canada. Artworks were exhibited in international galleries and festivals, including Night of art and science in Groningen, The Netherlands and published in various international online and print magazines. Find out more on Anna’s website: https://nihilonechoanists.wixsite.com/artworks Or on social media: @anna_smetanenko