Beth S. Gersh-Nesic is an art historian who specializes in modern art.  She teaches undergraduate art history courses at Purchase College and contributes to About.com Art History http://arthistory.about.com./.   Information about her work on Andre Salmon (French poet, critic and member of Picasso's Gang) can be found on the official Andre Salmon website: www.andresalmon.org  
Books: The Early Criticism of Andre Salmon: A Study of his Thoughts on Cubism (Garland Publishing, 1991); Andre Salmon on French Modern Art (Cambridge University Press, 2005); The Demoiselles Revisited (Francis Naumann Fine Art, 2007).

Paul Werner holds a PhD in Art History, an MA in Art Criticism and a DSFS (Danger to the Security of the French State) in Troublemaking. Educated at the prestigious Lycée Henri IV in Paris, he lectured nine years at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. His memoir of that time, Museum, Inc: Inside the Global Art World, has also been translated in French and in Italian. He is the editor of WOID: a journal of visual language and publisher of the Orange Press.

Masako Inkyo is a master  of Shodo (Japanese calligraphy)..  She studied with Kojo Uemura at the Wakaba Shodo School and won several golden awards in numerous competitions. She also studied under Master Masao Inoue, Chairman of the Shodo Education Association, at the Yasude Women's College, which offers an exclusive Shodo program.  Ms. Inkyo has exhibited with Onishi Gallery in Chelsea, Sumi NY Gallery in Soho, and, most recently at the Korean Culture Services, where we see her here standing next to Purple Cloud.  Ms Inkyo teaches Shodo at Japan Society and offers private workshops through the New York Arts Exchange: nyarts.exchange@verizon.net.    Please visit her website at: www.masako-inkyo.com.  

Susan Courtney     is an Equity Actress, Director, and Playwright. She has written a full length play about the American Impressionist Mary Cassatt called "Girl In Blue Armchair."  This play was developed at the Actors Studio Playwright/Directors Workshop.   She holds an MA in Theater from NYU and is a Theater Professor at Westchester Community College.  She has lectured and read from her play through the New York Arts Exchange, and she has recounted her adventures in "Looking for Mary," Fine Art Connoisseur, May/June 2007.
Public Readings:  February 2008- Tubac Arts Center, Tubac, Arizona-Organized by Pam Parkinson October 2007-Medicine Show Theatre, Manhattan – Directed by Robert Haufrecht June 2007- Opera House, Stonington, Maine- Directed by Judith Jerome April 2006- Larchmont Library-Directed by the author. October 2004-Chappaqua Library- Directed by the author.