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Deaf Cartoonist and Painter based in the Bay Area. She has successfully self-published two standalone comics, and has a short story featured in Prism Comics’ Alphabet anthology
Currently, Bex is working on a graphic novel about the psychogeography of a fictional city. Bex has previously worked as a prop/set fabrication intern for the Emmy award-winning series Robot Chicken and as an artist’s assistant. She holds a BFA from California College of the Arts and a MFA from CCA’s MFA in Comics Program. For information on Bex please check out her website http://bexfreund.com/
Power Boothe is currently Professor of Painting at the Hartford Art School, University of Hartford. He was Dean of the Hartford Art School from 2001 to 2010, Director of the School of Art at Ohio University from 1998 to 2001, and Co-Director of the Mt. Royal Graduate Program at the Maryland Institute College of Art from 1994 to 1998.
He grew up in Northern California and moved to New York City in 1967 where, as an artist he had eighteen one-person exhibitions and also taught at Princton University from 1988 to 1995 and the School of Visual Arts from 1977 to 1988.
His artwork is included in many private, as well as public collections, including the Guggenheim Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, CT. He has also been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for Painting, a National Endowment Individual Artist's Fellowship, and a Pollock/Krasner Fellowship. He has received honorary degrees from Colorado College and the Institute for Doctoral studies in the Viuals Arts.
He is represented exclusively by the Fred Giampietro Gallery, New Haven, CT. For more information on Power please visit his website http://www.powerboothe.com/bio-cv
Brenda Scherta was born Deaf to a Deaf family in Brooklyn, New York and attended the Lexington School for the Deaf in Queens, NY and graduated from a public mainstreamed high school in Brooklyn. She studied at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID) and earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Art Institute of Boston. She completed her Master's Degree in Sign Language Education at Gallaudet.
Ms. Schertz was a director of the Family Sign Language Program of the Massachusetts State Association of the Deaf. She was also an Information Specialist with the Massachusetts Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, and the Adult Continuing Education Coordinator at DEAF, Inc, an independent living agency serving the deaf and hard of hearing population of Greater Boston.
Ms. Schertz is current a full time ASL lecturer at the University of Rochester. She has also worked as an American Sign Language instructor at Northeastern University, Emerson, Northern Essex Community College, University of Southern Maine (USM) and most recently at NTID.
Past accomplishments include: organizing a year-long, seven-city National Touring Exhibit of Deaf Culture Art; teaching an ASL Mentorship workshop funded through Maine Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf; serving as a museum educator at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and teaching a week-long summer intensive Certified Deaf Interpreter Written Exam Preparation Workshops at USM and NTID. She coordinated USM's annual Maine Deaf Film Festival for 12 years and is currently planning Rochester's next Deaf Film Festival in march 2017. Ms. Schertz serves on the board of the American Sign Language Teacher Association as the Chapters Chair. Her current website is http://www.asl.rochester.edu/people/schertz_brenda/index.html.
